Kilcline

Tough watch that, the most frustrating thing is it's probably just an extra 5-10% of intensity with the ball that would make the difference, but been saying that after most away games this year

Been thinking for a while Chelsea look short of depth at CB

He's an absolute cunt isn't he. Years ago when he used to bang on about Arsenal in particular and thinly veiled references to cheating forrins, his Burnley side were one of the biggest pack of diving cheating bastards I've ever seen at our place

Must win. Will win. Howay the lads

"Get Yeerrrrrrgen back before he signs for Real Madrid la" or another preference, if any, for his replacement?

Never realised we had some extra Neaves at the club to go with the two Mileys

Those cheating cunts will probably "sell" Savinho back to Girona before he's then recycled off to Tottenham or a Serie A side

Smart by Leeds, Calvert-Lewin just won Player of the Month so his legs will probably fall off tomorrow

Faks sake

They'd take liquidation if they could say they won the last one

Eddie Howe doesn't involve light bulbs in his team talks so far as I'm aware, so given Gordon's interest in content of that ilk I could see why he might feel a bit more motivated by Lego Cunt

Fak news

Not sure about now but when they first brought it in you used to have to walk Man City and Man Utd put on a luxury minibus of sorts or a nice car for you I believe for their offsites, not like-for-like as they're not in the city centre but howay man, imagine having your bait and a few drinks and then having to walk 10 minutes up to the ground in the pissing rain after you've paid north of £400 for the pleasure

Alan Smith there: "forrins don't understand you can't ask for a booking" It's in the laws of the game not an England-only thing you muppet

Pathetic defending

I assume because the 5cm is related to the semi-automated and the reason it took so long is because it wasn't working

Smash these shit accent, no away fans allowed in the boozers, shithole of a place, cunts. Please.

I saw some incredible mental gymnastics from that lot during the last one, a R&W mate said to me something like "If it's alright for the Saudis to own you it's alright for Qatar to host the World Cup and for us to watch it" or some old shite like that

Aye, I've a mate who has a season ticket there, he stopped going for a bit because of how shite/plastic he was finding it, ironically ended up going back during their dodgy run last season because a lot of the fairweathers stopped going and it felt "real" again and what atmosphere they sometimes have started reappearing

Suppose on the flip side it'd be more of a surprise if the home atmosphere was decent at their place

This is a great point and definitely a factor, some of the takes I've heard in the last few years if a game's been a bit stodgy or we've not been playing well have been wild. "This is the worst we've ever fucking played we're totally shit" or something like that coming from a younger bunch when we beat Brentford 1-0 a few years ago just before we played Milan away still sticks out in my mind. I know emotions run high etc but come on

I've always liked the look of him when I've seen him either live or on TV for England U21's, but he'd be a risk in terms of whether he'd step up at PL level I think. He's a classic case of we probably can't take the risk, but might end up at a Palace or Brentford and look half decent to the point where someone else might blow us out the water if we then fancied him anyway

My big takeaway from that list is I'm amazed more of them haven't played for West Ham

The biggest problem with offside is all the daft subjectivity that has been brought in through the years. Is he interfering with play? Is he active in this phase? Is he blocking the keeper/a defender. Blah blah blah. Every fucking player is active/interfering with play if the ball is in play! If anyone is in an offside position at all then it should be offside. Offside is a factual point and with the current technology there would (or should) be no debate. It's a fucking simple game being overcomplicated by bollocks.

The issue for me tactically is as Wissa and Woltemade aren't (or at least at this moment in time don't appear to be) killers, we need to get people closer to them so we can link up and cause more of a goal threat. The first half on Saturday looked good just without that final bit. The problem there is that we're stuck between a rock and a hard place in terms of our squad make-up and injuries at the minute. Solutions would be to continue with 4-3-3 but make the wingers proper "inside forwards," play 4-2-3-1 with the 3 pretty narrow or at least with the opposite "winger" moving narrow when we build up on the opposite side, or play 3-5-2. But that would then cause a problem as in each of those scenarios the full backs are the threat from out wide, and with Livramento already out and Hall already being flogged to death albeit playing brilliantly, we'd look a similar version of what we did earlier in the season when Hall and Tino were missing/not playing together. And even if they were both fit we'd need to be able to rotate them/sub them like we do with our wingers, but the step down from those two would be significant without spending daft money. I think with everyone fit 3-5-2, as has been mentioned by a few people on here, would be worth a go, but to do it long-term we'd need significant squad upheaval to avoid it falling apart if a few are injured at the same time. I do think we have the flexibility in the squad to do something different with the players we have though. TL;DR/alternative solution - Find the next Isak and we're laughing Turned into a bit of a ramble/head dump that. Sorry