TheBrownBottle

Yes!

I was at Highbury for the LC QF in 1996. I’ll hate Lee Dixon until my dying day

The only thing Pearce is banging on about is how poor we’ve been. ‘I don’t recollect seeing a worse passing performance from Newcastle United’ was the latest one.

The international feed is great. Jonathan Pearce hasn’t really mentioned the handball after the goal

They haven’t dealt with everything - not even close to it. Fulham has been shite in dangerous positions, but they’ve had plenty of openings

In terms of the midfield question, I thought Hall could play there too? Or is he so unbelievably shite that he isn’t good enough for what must be on current form the worst midfield in the top division?

Bruno has been as poor as the rest of the midfield in fairness, though we definitely need either a different midfield or a different formation

I thought Botman & Schar had poor halves too tbh - Schar particularly

Feels weird to say given we’re a goal up at HT in a cup tie, but that was a really poor performance. Fulham’s profligacy has as much to do with the scoreline as owt else. Hopefully a better second half performance and a nice cup tie win

Looked off mind

Dixon is one of the great ‘common sense’ exponents of football punditry. And as we all know, ‘common sense’ as applied by an ex-pro overrules the laws of the game.

Maybe that will wake us up

No chance that should be chalked off

Yes!

Yep, thought as much. Bruno played a lackadaisical ball and played him into trouble, Burn gets the flak

I bet Burn will get pelters but that was half fucking arsed by Bruno

Yep. He’s a hate sponge. Bruno and Longstaff have been embarrassing thus far

The midfield is really poor which is the heart of the problem. Hopefully we win today, but we’ll lose more games than we win every time that midfield starts

Christ is Bruno on drugs?

Ridiculous booking

Murphy needs to bury that

More than likely

Let’s get past this difficult tie and hope that somehow the cup gods finally give us an easy home tie in the next round. I feel like we could build some momentum with a cup run

That’s an unimpressive and half-witted defence of Barton’s position right there.

That doesn’t make for evidence that he can do it at the top level. He might, but it’s hardly nailed-on.