Dr Jinx

Excellent shithousery by Palace at the end. Wasted a good 90 seconds with that whole Joelinton scuffle at the end.

Wood would have scored that ?

Tripps has been a little off the boil the last few weeks

I literally just tuned in at that very moment, did he say we have no world class players in our back line?

Does anyone know if he’s trained? Typically Howe doesn’t include anyone who wasn’t in the preparation for the game. if he is fit I’d give him the first half so we get our business done early in the match. Then begin resting who we need.

Told yis

He just said their home fans are shite ?

Pep is such a prickly cunt

Spurs could score again, City are shocking at the back.

Good result for us this, this result is an anomaly for Spurs, they’ll be back to losing next match. Then it gets us right up again if we can win at the weekend.

Thread running the risk of being a bit of a premature ? ?

Based on his instagram posts over the last few years. He’s an immature clown.

No there were plenty on here who didn't think he was the right sort of character we wanted/needed in the dressing room.

I like how we’re sort of in touching distance of this “title race”, the way I see it, European fixtures will start up in a few weeks and that will have a knock on effect on the results of those around or above us. I don’t for a minute think we’re in a title race but the longer we’re in that conversation the more likely it’ll be that a top 4 place could happen by end of season.

I was brought over to a match when I was about 13/14 years old, away playing Aston Villa, (94/95 season) first PL game (in the Villa section) and we won 2 or 3 nil, Andy Cole scored and that was it pretty much. I was bitten.

A loan with an obligation to buy, at just say 18m or so would be very good business.

The revisionism is mental regarding Chris Wood. We were a side who couldn’t keep the ball out of our own box, nothing was sticking further up the pitch. We also had a major injury to Wilson (v Man Utd iirc). He gave us a focal point to get further up and pitch and get the results needed to reach safety, whether it was the few goals he scored or just general link up play leading to an assist. Just keep in mind that the hard work was done by the time Wilson returned. Just because he’s been exposed as a weak link in how we’re playing now, does not dismiss his contribution. His fee was/is irrelevant because without him coming in we could be playing in the Championship right now. It’s that simple.

Are you ok? Wanna talk about it?

Am surprised nobody is in for Declan Rice, I’d imagine their better players would jump at a chance to leave right now.

I thought it was a very well rounded performance, previously in certain situations (ie every time he got the ball) he’d just put the head down and try and beat 5 players, lose it somewhere in the middle of his efforts and we’d be suddenly defending. Today he had the head up and was looking for the simple pass, he took on players when the time was right and maybe should have had a goal. What I’m impressed with is that he’s obviously been listening to our manager in terms of what he wants and he’s showing he wants to be back in the first 11.

There’s a reason Eddie Howe has him as one of the first names on the team sheet. He’s a work horse and he’s regaining his confidence by the week, a couple of goals will do wonders for him. He’s one of those players who’s easy to dismiss as someone who’s easily replaceable/upgradable, but that work rate would be missed in any team.

If it was bad he’d have been off straight away, he went over on his ankle and it had that sort of reaction where there’s a bit of weakness/numbness where it leaves you sort of shaky when walking running, we’ve all done it at some point.. it’ll be fine in a few days, but unfortunately it won’t resolve itself for the second half.

Bruno Willock Longstaff is an ok midfield to put out. Isak, Wilson and Almiron up front. Joelinton isn’t a bad option to bring on if needed, but then also, we may not need so in that case Howe will just leave him sitting.

So is mine ?

Well, recently in terms of actually losing a game and all the debate about the squad, big Joe and his brush with Johnny Law and all these other fucking minor grievances, that just a few years ago we were in some sort of deranged coordinated fashion, going after celebrities on twitter who Keith Bishop represented and hassling any companies associated with him or Mike Ashley by leaving salty reviews on Trustpilot. A little perspective can go a long way.