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Only conceded due to a keeping howler and a Zidane volley too, as opposed to every single cross that came into the box.

Griezmann has atleast put a bit of effort into it tbf to him like

I don't see how Xhaka would look class if he played for us like. I don't think any great player other than a keeper or a striker who do things alone would look great for us.

:lol:

I only really watch our games now so my World Best XI is probably an amalgamation of Man Utd and Watford

Been a while since I've seen a player thrown to the floor as much as he was today Positive stuff from him though.

Wilshere hit it straight at him. Rob Elliot can make some very good saves like, he's shown that in the past. Not sure why we'd elevate that save above anything other than something every keeper in the top 7 divisions of English football should be making though.

I've not really been at Elliot's throat recently as it's like criticising Perez for being a shite AM when we have no-one else, but he literally nearly gifted them a goal in the same circumstances as Darlow did against Everton in the second half He was massively fortunate. I get that you have your internet rivalries and you really want to put them in their place but there's probably better topics to do that on than trying to pretend Rob Elliot isn't an appallingly shite keeper.

We're on a 9 game winless run, losing 8 of them. I said this about 5 games ago and it still applies, I think as a fanbase we've been remarkably calm

Pardew's squads were legitimately good Premiership sides with sometimes 1 or 2 square pegs in round holes.

Brighton and Huddersfield had a set budget. We told Rafa he needed to sell to buy meaning he never had any idea of what he would have and at what time. You cannot build a squad when you don't know what you have to spend, that's mental.

Even last season in the Championship we were clearly a lot worse on the ball than the teams around us despite picking up more points. We're pretty much awful to a man. You're not wrong either, we were often second best for possession. The amount of games where we'd look sloppy as fuck was frightening. I'm not saying we never had the best squad in the league, we arguably did, but we never could have played like Huddersfield, Fulham and at times Shef Wed did. The lack of any kind of quality on the ball is killing us now. We're just drab.

Even last season in the Championship we were clearly a lot worse on the ball than the teams around us despite picking up more points. We're pretty much awful to a man.

we weren't shite beyond the pale which I think the important thing to take from it.

Fairly typical us before we lost Lascelles and started shipping 3 a game. Pretty solid whilst never looking like we'll score.

She's obviously some kind of flagrant sadomasochist

Rooney's was last game too. Somehow we're the ones who finished one of these games with 10 men

The fuck was pretty much our entire team doing there? Just standing in our fucking box as Elliott had the ball.

Merino has been really good too.

Elliott and Darlow are literally the same person.

Why give the ball back there? We had it when the whistle was blown.

"Absolute rubbish" in response to an honest question. Howay man

Aye the first I've seen him was against us, he was everywhere.

Even then I think that's more down to the dynamic of the game shifting rather than him being better because he's fitter. It happens with all of our players - look at the first half yesterday and against Bournemouth for example. It's not necessarily tired opponents, just opponents who either aren't in the game or have dropped out of it. When they're organised like Everton were in the 2nd half we pretty much can never score or even look close to scoring other than from a set piece or individual error. I don't think any player we have changes that coming on at 60 minutes.

I suppose what I'm saying is (and this isn't directed at you Santoon as I don't think you've said out wrong) we can look to individual players and point out positives and flaws but it ultimately means nothing until we actually have a proper squad. We pretty much went a season with people calling Cabaye shite. We went like 4 year with people calling Ben Arfa shite (Shelvey isn't anywhere near as good as either).