Lush Vlad

I thought there were a few dodgy moments. The Sarr/Munoz chance was down to slack defending from both him and Burn. But they made amends. He’s been brilliant this season. For the most part, he was great again today.

Not really a massive issue. Callum Wilson has just returned to full fitness.

Brilliant performance. Pretty much the only player to come out with any credit. Hall was good for most of the game. But some of his defending was criminal. I guess Tino was solid enough and Barnes was ok on the right. Proper straw clutching here, mind.

Can’t grumble too much. As he got us our undeserved goal. But in the words of the late, great Ray Wilkins ‘MY WORD’ he was shite (again).

I’m an unashamed Pope fan boy. Personally think a keeper as good as him will be disappointed with that. I think he should have saved it. However. It is poor defending and I don’t automatically assume getting beat at your near post is always keeper error. I feel him for a bit. As he was quality otherwise……

It actually hurts me to say it. But I’m now similar to this.

Not even sure what you’re on about here. You’re generalising, as none of this shite appplies to me. The same as your comments about the prediction league (that I don’t play in). Like that should have any bearing on the result and how we played. So because a depressed bunch of fans predicted a draw or a loss off the back of a shit result against West Ham. That means it’s an ok/decent result? We can’t factor in anything else? Like the fact that we played like a League Two team that have been on the piss all week. The fact that without great last ditch defending, solid goalkeeping (until the end) and shit finishing from them. They would have been out of sight before we scored off our only chance all game. Go on with your myopic views all you want about this being a ‘decent’ result. Maybe that would ring true if we hadn’t just been beaten 2-0 at home by a dreadful West Ham side and we’d put up something close to a performance today and not the utter AIDS we served up. You’re just playing Devil’s advocate at this point. That performance was indefensible. I love Howe and it is not all on him. Certain players need a good hard look in the mirror IMO. EDIT: I was pissed last night may have went a bit OTT. Sorry. But the general point still stands.

West Ham are playing well

We won’t get much Wednesday. Then the two games against Brentford and Leicester are massive. I don’t think he is under much pressure from above or match going fans just yet. But the second half against West Ham followed up by that isn’t really acceptable. Not like the bad, toothless performances have been rare this season, either. I hope we can turn it around. But an injury to Isak in a team already lacking goals and creativity means I have my doubts.

Yeah. What a ridiculously reductive view. If we drew in an even game and there was a response from Monday. The reaction would be totally different. As it is. We’ve scored from one shot all game, none on target and we were atrocious for pretty much the whole game. I wonder why people are fucked off. It’s not like a one off after loads of impressive, high scoring performances is it?

Like I said first half. As a response to Monday. That is fucking rancid.

Deserved fuck all. Shit from Joelinton and Pope. 0 for them -1 for us would have been fair.

Some set piece trickery. You love to see it.

Competitive field. But that is the worst half I’ve seen from us this season. Not had a shot and some of the usual slack defending. The worry to me is that in a lot of games this season. The players don’t seem like themselves. Not playing with energy and aggression. I’m not suggesting Howe’s lost the dressing room. But something is amiss. Just looks a bit flat and stale. Which is half expected after the last two transfer windows.

The stop/start nature hasn’t helped things. But as a response to Monday. This is horrendous so far. Tonali and Hall (as usual) the only positives.

Yep. Much better in the build up. Same old shit when we get near their box. Absolutely clueless.

Well the good news is it can’t get much worse.

Lovely play from back to front a while back for that Barnes cross/cutback. Hall and Tonali setting it off. More of that. Less passing straight to their back 3 please

Half the team are fucked here what a shambles.

The Isak/Wilson boom/bust cycle continues only one can be fully fit at the same time.

Targeting Isak then. That’s the second heavy challenge on him. Gordon been so wasteful again.

Surely Fulham fans?

I think it is because it’s been mentioned before about him leaving Chelsea because he was homesick. Might have a different outlook nowadays, of course.