TheBrownBottle

Yep, I thought it was as much to do with poor decision-making and a lack of composure from Fulham. You can’t rely on that being the case every week.

Ah, must be a different commentsry in different regions - the check was mentioned briefly (though they didn’t show the check). They didn’t show the VAR check and only showed the replay a couple of times. Sounds like the UK commentators wouldn’t stop banging on about it

It’s as much of a reason why our form has been so poor of late as fatigue etc. We need players back or it needs to change

Either that or its opening time in the Mackem harem

Ring rusty and a limited player, but despite the poor finish early on and the failure to check his run for the disallowed goal I’m glad he’s back

Robert’s left peg was a wand, mind. He could use his right too (see the goal vs Arsenal)

It may well have been the same commentary in Australia - Jonathan Pearce and Clive Allen basically took a few seconds and said ‘yep, that’s fine’. And never went back to it - it was an uncontroversial call

Weirdly, both are perfectly apt descriptions of what I watched. It was a stroll, and it was laboured. We were poor yet never in real danger of going out.

Don’t want to think about this one just yet. Not a lot of confidence we can get owt

In which case Silva wasn’t doing anything Ryder’s own family wouldn’t do on a daily basis

Not sure he could do much more with the subs available in all honesty - though when we’ve got a squad back I’ll be interested to see if the last few months has changed his thinking. With a full squad, subs seemed to be made to a pre-planned sequence rather than reacting to the game unfolding in front of us I’ll happily back Howe on the Hall situation - he’s the manager, he sees the lad everyday. If he thinks he’s not good enough to play at the moment, then that’s the right call for me. The question mark arises over why he’s here and will he be here next season, but that’s not the same as questioning Howe bringing him on or not

Yep. If we had a Sky Six budget then we could afford the gamble. At the moment we can’t be signing £30m footballers who are at best so raw that they can’t get a kick

It’s well ladge like

I could be misremembering, but I’m sure Howe confirmed in a press conference that it wasn’t related to time on the pitch when he was asked about it

Yeah, Fulham were disastrously poor in the final third. Glad we improved after our second - heads went up, the passing started to come off (though I suspect Fulham’s press basically stopping after the second helped)

Isn’t the rumour that his permanent transfer isn’t related to mins or games played?

I’d rather get through as many rounds as we can

Poor until 2-0, but fuck it, we’re through. Plum home tie please, FA Cup gods

I get the worrying feeling we are, and spunking £35m down the drain

He’s in the away end

Jesus wept what the fuck is Bruno doing there?

Let’s get this one over the line first - twenty odd mins left

Isak’s movement wasn’t the best there tbf to Gordon

Likes scoring against his former clubs does BDB