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Nah

I think, looking back at his club interview after the game, he feels like the team is low on confidence, and he’s trying to reduce the amount of negativity surrounding them. Difficult to do when you are losing, but you’ve got a bit more of a license when you win. I think it’s probably fair enough to rail back against the language that Ryder used (probably unintentionally in fairness, he just isn’t particularly eloquent) to try and make sure that Burnley game doesn’t end up being framed as ‘lucky’, when on the whole it was an even game with good periods for both sides, that we’ve done enough to win.

A blow for their ‘Most Respected Throughout Football’ cup hopes.

Kick on the knee I think Eddie said at some point.

Token gesture of giving Palace a bit longer as they had to play last night.

That’s what I mean. You can think ‘it’s Burnley’, so therefore we shouldn’t be under that much pressure. Not sure I fully agree with that, but I definitely understand it. But as a result, we end up thinking we’ve been under more pressure than we actually were, because it was more than we thought it would be. It’s a bit like boxing. If there’s a close fight between a strong favourite and an underdog that goes to points, everyone kinda feels the underdog should get the decision, even if the favourite was probably the (close) winner, just because they did better than was expected.

I think our perceptions of whatever opposition we’re playing definitely impacts our view of how a game actually went. If we’d been playing one of the better teams the other night, I don’t think anyone would have viewed that second half as an ‘onslaught’. Of course, it’s fair to expect us to have more of the play when we’re playing a team at the bottom as opposed to the top, but it shouldn’t influence our view on what actually happened.

Yes. But in a slightly jovial manner, and ended with a smile, as opposed to Bruce-style ‘you calling me a liar’ and being on the verge of offering him out.

I’m guessing: Three goals Wissa header Barnes 1v1 Gordon blaze over Murphy open(ish) goal miss

By no means am I saying that we they didn’t cause us big problems at times, and that on another day they couldn’t easily have scored at least one more. But as I said the morning after, look at the actual numbers for the second half, which was viewed by some as the ‘onslaught’ period: When I was at the game I remember thinking in that first 15-20 mins of that second half, ‘I really don’t like the way this is going’. The game was mad frenetic, and they were getting the better of it as we were turning the ball over far too much before we’d even got to the final third. However, there was a point where we managed to get a couple of minutes of controlled possession (can’t recall exactly when, 65, maybe even as late as 70 mins) and I thought ‘this is a lot better’. From that point on I was a lot less concerned about conceding again, other than the fact we’ve just been conceding out of nothing this season, but it no longer felt like it ‘was coming’. I also think we (including myself in this) probably underestimated Burnley. For all the negative pre-match score predictions based on our away form, I think deep-down most expected us to win. But as Eddie pointed out, no one has really gone there so far this season and won ‘easily’. Maybe Arsenal. Unfortunately we’re probably going to have the same issue going into Wolves in a couple of weeks, as they’re nowhere near as bad as their pathetic points total would suggest.

15/20 mins at the most. And he partly acknowledged that. But he’s right to fight back against the narrative that it was a game where we went ahead early then desperately clung on after. If anything, we were the team that subsequently created the better chances.

He does, but one of the best things about him is his ability to do it a manner, that whilst still unequivocally gets his point across, isn’t overly aggressive, and likely to cause aggro (see his predecessor). So Ryder will go away from that having been slapped down, but not hell bent on doing a hatchet piece as vengeance.

Absolutely rinsed Ryder in his presser for claiming it was an onslaught from Burnley for the rest of the match after we went 2-0 up.

I’d imagine the cost would be fairly prohibitive

Won the Champo with Leicester, maybe they’re future-proofing for the 115 charge outcome…

Win the next 7, lose 1-0 to a 98th min PSG pen after Gordon’s hair flicks Dembele in the face. See the ‘Yes’ vote go up by 10.

Indeed. If there’s one team who seem to benefit from sacking managers willy-nilly, it’s them

No, and I doubt whoever made the original comment was suggesting he was. If they were interested, it would probably be in a year or two’s time, when he might well be. Although, if that were the case, I’d be expect us to be pricing him prohibitively, in the same way Palace seem to be doing with Wharton.

Fair on the nationality. But I very much doubt they have anyone in their academy that is currently better than Miley. Could they have some with the potential to be, which would be a reason they wouldn’t need to sign him? Possibly, but they’d have to be very, very good. He’s 19 and he’s got almost 50 appearances in the PL. That’s very rare, and speaks volumes to his ability.

Why don’t they get picked ahead of him in the England youth set-up then?

Not sure I have the patience…

I actually think so. I did see that overhead, and some will prefer that. But I love a thunderbastard. Oberfemi Martins at WHL is one of my all time favourite Newcastle goals. This wasn’t quite that good, but it was still quality.

This is it. Massively prevalent in football/sport, but also society in general, be it politics, or whatever.

Could end up putting half a team out away to PSG if we beat PSV, but can’t realistically make the top 8.

Unbelievable hit by Nsue to pull one back for Equatorial Guinea against Algeria. Haven’t seen that much of AFCON but that has to be goal of the tournament.