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Does Palace's keeper never fancy trying to save shots or something?

Fixed my post.

If Palace beat City here it sorta makes our game against them a free hit. And also a chance to cement our position.

McCoist seems to think defenders should be laying out the red carpet for strikers if he's claiming that's a penalty.

They should have added -5 minutes to this.

Why am I still watching this.

Didn't even realise he's a director of football.

Fernandes must be so frustrated playing with all these crap players.

Good lord Man Utd are shite up front.

Jesus Christ that goal. Has to be intentional right? What else was that if not a shot?

Was touch and go for a minute though.

Everton had the ball in the net from a slight offside and now hit the post.

Is Isak good again?

We cashing in on Isak in the summer then?

That's a red card I think. Surprised VAR aren't at least suggesting another look whilst the guy is down injured.

Obviously your Isak's and Tonali's are naturally gifted footballers but if there's any question of "can Eddie Howe get the most out of world class players" then he's well and truly answered it. Especially if we get CL football next season it's a huge selling point when we are recruiting in the summer.

When Mccoist said he'd put Maguire up front I said out loud "and this is why you're commentating not managing Ally". More fool me I guess.

I remember add the time all the speculation of would he stay with us. All of my mates said no chance. I never had any doubt. I just knew he was in it for the long term with us.

Something I've been meaning to ask... That dressing room looked to be decorated in NUFC colours. Is that just the default colour scheme or do they modify it to suit who's in there?

Any reason given? Following his performance in the final and the fact Walker was seemingly the best we could come up with it seems a really odd decision. As 54 says though good for us so no complaints on that front.

I can see Liverpool being more in the pack next season. If we make CL and are able to improve this summer then in terms of English teams I'd say only City would be measurably ahead of us in "chances to win trophies" and they've got Haaland. So apart from your Real Madrid's and the like I don't think we've got much to worry about at all.

Eddie Howe quite rightly scores an A leaving us with grades of: A Howe Isak A- Tonali Guimaraes B+ Burn B Botman Gordon Hall C+ Joelinton C Barnes Livramento Miley C- Trippier Schar Pope D+ Dubravka Murphy Willock D Targett Krafth Longstaff D- Osula E+ Lascelle E Wilson Thank you all for taking part. The purpose of the exercise was to gain overall consensus on quantifying where our squad is at. My takeaway is that we have a good, albeit somewhat inbalanced, spine to the team but the drop off when it comes to strength in depth is quite noticeable. Something I think we mostly all would have agreed on before hand but nice to see it Scientifically Proven. Still not sure about Burn at B+ mind

Lewis Miley is the last of our player rankings and scores a solid C. But we ain't done quite yet! We will finish with the one and only Eddie Howe. In terms of the grades themselves they translate nicely enough to management: A - World Class B - One of the best but not quite at the elite level C - Have a word with yourself D - Forum ban E - Lifetime forum ban for you and any relations

Him and Osula I decided are in and around the first team enough to be included compared to others. Any grades will have an asterix next to them and aren't set in stone for the future of course

Our captain scores an A-! And so we come to the last player we are going to grade: Lewis Miley!