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Last season. West Brom.

Christ.

Chris Wood to score a header tomorrow is 7/1 on Sky Bet.

First bit of football Palace have played in the whole game and they score proper shithouse

Palace doing their best impression of our performance at Brighton under Jones, here. With some of the attacking players they have that's shocking.

Is the keeper having 2 hands on the ball in the laws? If so that can't stand.

Saved. Fair play.

Brighton getting a pen for that (it is a pen btw) but us not getting one for the exact same fucking thing on Schar away at Arsenal at 0-0.

Christ, Steve Parish's voice makes him sound like a geet wanker.

From .com: Langley isn't in the U23 squad tonight.

Be doing a mini pub crawl in town before heading to the ground for this. Need a few to settle the nerves. Feel fucking sick already

Love Chris Hughton. First manager I remember being wholly conscious of and remember the day he was sacked, was gutted. Had some awesome days under him. Probably going off on a tangent here but we dished out a few thrashings in 2010-11 at SJP, 6-0 v Villa, 5-1 v Mackems, 5-0 v West Ham, 4-1 v Wolves. Scored loads of goals at home that season.

Agree 100%. You can look at the end of 17/18, 18/19, perhaps 19/20 to all kick on from. But I've always had the view that all this crap has stemmed from relegation in 2016. Rafa would've certainly stayed and we had become a good side towards the end of that campaign despite it being too late to save ourselves due to the incompetence and joke that was McClaren's belated sacking. But would Townsend, Wijnaldum, Sissoko et al all left had we stayed up, with Benitez in charge? The reconstruction in the summer 2016 window would've been with higher quality players due to being a PL Benitez managed Newcastle. The only sticking point here is Ashley, as (I've gotten this from Mark Douglas' book) the policy after relegation in the summer window was 'whatever Rafa wants, Rafa gets' then once promotion was achieved or looked likely Ashley proceeded to revert to type. Alas, January 2017 and all the windows that followed. After relegation, Wijnaldum, Sissoko, Janmaat and Townsend all left as players of their (at the time) quality would've done. We then underwent Benitez' policy of players whom had Championship experience within the previous 5 years and were affordable or had low release clauses (hence the bids for Knockeart, Forestieri et cetera). Most of the players bought within that policy are still here now and have been here for far too long.

The players signed under Bruce though, whether they were his doing or not, were mostly okay. Or were received okay. Joelinton ASM Krafth (no) Carroll ( ) Willems Bentaleb Lazaro Rose Wilson Lewis Fraser Willock The sale of Lejeune to play Clark more is unforgivable, mind. And it's a big part of the reason why we've been so bad defensively since the restart of football in June 2020. Selling Yedlin was brainless for me, too. We never truly hated Bruce's signings, we actually used them to show people how bad we were or how much we regressed in comparison to the net spend of his predecessor. It's a completely pointless argument to make. Like I said above, these coming out with that tripe are doing so because they think Wood is a bad signing which he may turn out to be. Or they're doing it because we're not lapping up the narrative of demanding world class players like Mbappe and Haaland et al because of the takeover. We're fucking 19th lads ffs, with 1 win and no fit strikers at the club prior to Wood signing. Fuck me.

We never really gave stick to Bruce for his signings. Bar Joelinton (which wasn't him) who has come good recently, selling Lejeune without replacing him and replacing Yedlin with Krafth they were all okay buys. Bruce got abuse because he was a shit manager, a shit coach, talked down the club and often patronised the fans. The whole 'if Bruce signed Wood' implies that they think it's a bad signing (it may be or may be superb, time will tell) or they really want us to pander to a narrative that we simply don't pander to.

Kamara or Fofana sure as hell would be imo. This lad seems good given the reports on this season and links to top clubs but he's currently away at the AFCON, would €40m not be a tad steep? Especially when we could buy Kamara or Fofana for potentially cheaper than that?

Don't know a thing about him.

I'd probably go for exactly the same bar Willock in for Longstaff. The pair of them have been as bad as each other but I'd rather see Willock in, lesser of two evils. Sign Kamara or Fofana please, fucking hell.

Aye. This squad needs demolition, not surgery, whatever league we're in next season. Darlow, Lascelles, Clark, Dummett, Shelvey, Hayden, Ritchie and Gayle: all played a huge part in the promotion season 2016-17 five fucking years ago and they still, Gayle aside and maybe Dummett due to injuries, have prominently featured and will continue to do so this season. Good servants to the club, don't get me wrong, but fuck me.

Good to see. Was really improving before his injury. Will only improve under Howe, given he'll be getting some actual coaching.

Be very happy if he starts.

Kamara would transform our midfield.

Man City have oft flown out to Abu Dhabi for warm weather training so I expect this to be a regular thing.

I 100% agree btw, but... (this miss in the highlight after )

Sound enough view from this Burnley fan, one that went to the Norwich 4-3.