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Lovely. That was always coming with them insisting on playing it out in these conditions.

Great goal. Murphy deserves that. He's been our best so far. Nice play by Gordon too. Found the right pass.

Brilliant ball by Murphy again. Isak needs to score.

Gordon is one of the worst headers of a ball that you'll ever see.

We've started well. Need to keep it going.

I stand corrected. Get in. Another assist for Murphy. Brilliant start.

Looks offside. Very close. Shame. Great finish from Isak.

Rogers is a great player. What a bargain.

Guten morgen @Zoidberg von der Land runter unter! Willkommen! Welcome to my favourite place on the internet. It's a low bar.

Not another one! Looks like the scousewashed virus has claimed Klopp, Slot and, some time in the 1980s, poor poor Renton.

I feel like the version of Toonpack from last week is underappreciated tbh. *posts chart showing Toonpack as fourth best poster in the category of user with "toon" in his username.* They can't all be blue chip players.

Well by the established metric here his underappreciation would amount to seeing Murphy as a worse option than Almiron. Toonpack arguing with himself from a week ago. His only worthy adversary.

To be fair, if we removed the last 2 games he'd still be 4th for minutes per goal because he's basically only competing with about four and a half other players who's job it is to score goals. But seriously to the general discussion we don't have natural goalscoring 8s (Willock maybe but he's injured more often than not). We don't play a 10. We don't have a backup striker who isn't either a crock or a kid. We need big goal numbers from our wingers. I love Murphy. He offers a lot to the team and squad in terms of effort and attitude. But he has 5 PL goals in the last season and this season combined. His first goals of the season were this last match. As a winger playing in our system he probably needs to produce around minimum 10 goals per season from that position to warrant being the permanent solution. He's nowhere near that, obviously, with 5 goals in a season and a half. I would love for Murphy to stay at the club and be an impact sub in the future behind a player of Gordon's quality (or better) on the RW. I think Murph is comparable to Barnes on the other wing in terms of value to the team. Barnes offers more goals. But Murphy offers more everywhere else. Gordon, by comparison, when on form, can do better than both of them what they do best respectively. That's what we need in a RW to keep progressing.

Knee-jerk reactions. ✅

Highlight of Murphs performance for mine was when he got booked. He stole the mitt from the glove-wearing nonce on Leicester's team and sneakily put it on himself before running away from him and the ref. Incredibly subtle. Not sure how long it took the Leicester player to get his glove back. Hope his fingers didn't freeze off in the meantime. Murph is one of my favourite players in the squad for all the reasons mentioned above. But I have to admit I have been frustrated by his performances at times this season. It's not like he's alone in that but perhaps he suffers unfairly in a relative sense from playing in a position that almost everyone had hoped would be upgraded in the summer. His poor performances are potentially a reminder of the failures of the summer transfer window. That's not fair on him, of course, but it's maybe an explanation.