Matt1892

His fault was that he should have taken the centre of the goal after the punch, but unless he called then there would have been an expectancy that one of Burn, Thiaw or Woltemade should have cleared it, as all 3 of them looked in distance to clear it.

Must be autocorrect as my son has a friend called Bert.

Put more money down and go for Bert Verbruggen from Brighton.

Beautiful that.

Pickford.

It was one of those decisions that if the Ref didn’t give it then VAR wouldn’t have got involved.

That was quality from Adams.

He only joined in the summer to replace Dango.

Great atmosphere too to be fair to them.

The performance wasn’t that bad tonight to be fair. I know it is frustrating with it being more points dropped on the road but if we had been in a good run of form going in to that performance we would think we were unlucky, and that individual mistakes had cost us.

Should never have been offside there when looking across the line.

Great finish to be fair to him.

Great result today and hopefully we can build off the back of it, but this is the sort of game that we raise our performance for and play it like a cup final, we play the role of underdog very well. It is the games where we are not the underdog that we struggle with, but hopefully we have turned the corner and can put a run together.

Great result and it wasn’t as if City had an off day either as they probably edged it, they just didn’t take their chances like we did.

Wilson’s second goal was a great finish. Smash and grab first half for West Ham that, Bournemouth having by far the better of the play but can’t get in behind because West Ham are so deep, they have no threat from distance with Semenyo and Kluivert out and any crosses in to the box are carried off by the wind. Alex Scott is developing in to a quality midfielder there, needs to add goals to his game though.

I voted no as we are only 6 points off the European spots and he deserves the chance to turn it around. If it gets to 12-15 points off then that opinion will likely change.

Rightly or wrongly it goes with the territory, expectations are raised by both what he has achieved and the money spent by the club during that time.

The squad is decent, people are only playing it down to take pressure off the manager.

I don’t think anyone is disputing we needed that depth, more that we cant complain about the quality when the manager decided to spend £45 million on him a few months ago. I am not writing Ramsey off by the way and I don’t think he is match sharp, but if the line is it is the clubs fault for backing the manager by signing the player that he wants, as a way of defending that manager is a strange line to go with.

These are all players that the manager wanted, unless the argument is that the club is to blame for backing the manager with the players he wanted? People couldn’t believe it when he wanted Elanga the previous summer. I am not convinced they are the back up fullbacks either.

It doesn’t say anything about the squad, as Bruno and Tonali would be starters at Villa. All it does tell us is that the manager decided to spend £45 million in the summer on a player who was a back up at Villa, to seemingly be a back up player here.

I do. I also think that if he can’t get us a spot in Europe at the end of the season then he will be sacked, and he won’t have any complaints.

Depends who the manager is but I think Howe could have us there too if he didn’t persist with tactics that are not suited to the striker we have available.

If we don’t win any of our remaining games in November then I think there is a good chance he gets moved on. We could be 10 points off the European places by then.