Billy Warthog

Pure pish from Brighton. Watch them turn it on against us... ?

Ok, joke's over now. ?

And the Prem's Unflushable Turd Award 2023 goes to...

Get in. Also bollocks.

When we lost against Liverpool and Man City, we won our next 5. When we lost against Villa, we won our next 3, scoring 13 in the process. Time to turn on that form again, right to the end of the season. Fat Sam should never be an issue for us ever again.

If we're going to be up this end of the table for the foreseeable future, rather than the other end as in the past, we're going to have to expect a level of pressure. But it's a different sort of pressure. At least if we do fall short, we're not being relegated. It'll be deflating, but II won't be that upset if we don't make top 4 after all, I've said before that we're not the finished article yet. We'll know when we are. In the meantime I'll just enjoy the bucketload of excellent moments this season has given, and will continue to give. And I also still think we will make top 4 and all that comes with it!

It's just not our day. Arsenal have been better. Four games to go yet, this is life at the top echelons of the league. It's tough and it'll bite you sometimes. We have everything in place to go on from here in the long term. Just enjoy the ride!

We're not the finished article. In a couple of seasons we'll be giving this lot a much tougher test.

Oh it's 'game management' now?

So we lose this, it's still in our hands. Lots still to play for.

Could be better, could be so much worse. We need to come out flying. They're smothering the game otherwise.

Looks very much like a game plan in operation... don't play along with it!

As long as we get to half time without conceding another, there's still every chance.

Not for the want of trying at least.

Ok, we're getting crowded out here...

Very fucking annoying, but we can still do this.

Holy shit we look up for this... COME ON!!!!

5-0 by half time then?

Let's see how quickly the stadium empties this time.

I was largely referring to the below-par performance of most of our players. If you look at my posts, they've been pretty positive about the team.

Well, that's slightly mitigated today's car crash. No such luxury next week though...

This game was a blip. We're not at our ceiling yet. It's been deflating today, for sure. But let's not over-analyse things. Who knows? We may go on another winning run from next week onwards. Teams around us may drop points today. Eddie & co will pick the bones out of today's no-show and prepare the lads for next week. Teams thrive on positivity. Let's stay that way for as long as it takes. The future is unwritten. There's only just over a month of this season left - and then we'll know where we are and what we've got to do over the summer.

Right, that's me down the offy. Work for the whole team to do next week. But it's NOT a disaster. Villa well deserved the win, and it should have been more than 3.

Every team has a shit day now and again. Put this one to bed and move on, dammit. Think of the long game... we're ahead of schedule this season. Howe's had a lesson today, what does he do with it?

Lights out. Shall we dust worsel's doon?