Polarboy

Fair play to Gillespie for making up for his howler. As for the match, yet more proof that Bruce is the luckiest cunt alive.

Chance of a quarter final by beating league 2 opposition and this is the shite they serve up.

Fucking hell, Ryder is trying to bum up Bruce for telling Carroll to give the penalty to Wilson to take. Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel for an upside.

He's like the shitist version possible of Dennis Pennis.

The sad state of affairs is that if Wolves hammer West Ham later it will cheer me up because I have three Wolves players in my FF team. I don't want to find cheer in football primarily from FF instead of my team, but that's where Ashley has taken us to.

Fucking hell, Carragher was right, this rule is ruining games. For Christmas I want the new year to bring an end to this stupid rule, VAR, fans back in stadiums, and Fatley and Cabbage head to fuck off. Shape of Fatley rubbing his hands at the end like the completely devoid of honour shitbag that he is.

Three games, but still shite.

Carragher with the stat. 100% conversion rate from our shots on target this season, those two goals against West Ham.

True, would be a slight bit of trek for him. Edit. To get a shot at a premier league job so quickly would surely be tempting though.

Would people on here take Eddie Howe if Bruce actually gets hoyed out by Fatley? Ex-manager of a team that's just been relegated, but given his availability, being unlikely to turn it down, his connection to Fraser and Wilson, although maybe there's still bad blood with Fraser, the fact that it will be slim pickings for us, and the fact that there's no way he could be worse than Bruce, would you be happy to have him?

Spurs might be so complacent, and still a bit shit at the back, we might actually scrape something here. They should be four up. It would rank as one of the worst fuck ups from a team if we did.

If we continue like this, and I really can't see a win in the next seven at least on this, last weeks showings, and the second half of last season, the sad fact is that Ashley is so stubborn he likely won't pull the trigger on cabbage heed until it's far too late. The only hope we have that he'll move faster is if he's actually 100% committed to flogging us, and acts more quickly because of that.

He didn't really get backed though. Ashley and his minions bought players with likely little to no input from Bruce, and also likely on the basis that whatever crock analytics that have told them someone like Joelinton could only increase in value to be sold later on.

If Rafa had been given the money that's been spent since he's left to spend on who he wanted, we'd have cemented a place in the lower half of the top ten this season. Of that I have no doubt.

So Lewis hasn't trained all week, Bruce doesn't want to take a chance with him, but he's still on the bench? That's some Cabbage heed logic if I've ever heard it. And there goes the inevitable goal. Thought we might squeak nil, nil at half time, but no big shock obviously.

A corner for us

Darlow earning his wages their for sure. In fairness shot stopping has probably always been his strong suit as a keeper.

He just made another howler apparently.

Highlights on Quest at 22:30 if you can find the channel

Rob Green on bumming us up on BBC live reporting saying these performances have given Bruce something to think about for the weekend. It's fucking Morecambe, get a hold of yourself.

Exactly. A pundit actually seeming like they are excited to be there, and about football in general, is half the battle as far as I'm concerned. Richard's comments about the unfair questioning, and some direct abuse no doubt, online of why he was hired proved how committed and passionate he is about his job. Either that or he's a damn fine actor.

Scott is very good, for a woman In all seriousness though the bar was so low with the clapped out ex-players that people like Scott, Evra and Richards are a breath of fresh air. They don't smell like betting shops and despair in any case. I wouldn't make it a policy or anything, but I personally don't think you are relevant as a pundit if you are over the age of 55, I was going to say 50 but I don't want Big Al to pack it in yet There's some exceptions to that rule such as players, coaches and managers who have stayed up to date with current players, tactics, training methods etc, and of course there are some who've never had a clue and never will. The people who actively try to keep themselves up to date are few and far between though. Wenger would be a good example of someone who's in his 70's who's no doubt kept up to date even in semi-retirement. On the other end of the scale Bruce is still working but hasn't got a clue.

In fairness Jota can play through the middle as well, and I assume his versatility is a big part of the reason Klopp bought him. On a entirely unrelated subject I saw Micah Richards on talking quite eloquently after the match, about him and Alex Scott, presumably Evra as well, getting a bit of online abuse because certain people believe that they are diversity hires because Sky let Le Tiss, Thompson and Nicholas go, or fired them to be more precise. Shite for them given that they are all more than qualified, most certainly when in comparison to the aforementioned. Evra is mental though, the Moyes daughter comment was hilarious. Scott probably has it even worse given she's also replacing Sue Barker on A Question of Sport, and Barker made it clear she was sacked and didn't retire. I rarely watch it but from shallow perspective it will be nice to not have to look at the Crypt Keeper It really is shit on them, because they are diversity hires in part because that is just corporate policy now whether you agree with that or not, or are strictly for purely meritocratic hiring, but again they are also qualified. It leaves them in a position where ignorant people and dishonest actors can try to use it against them.

Were we total shite, badly set up to deal with Brighton and Lamptey, and was Bruce too slow to change things? Yes. But Brighton and Lamptey were also extremely good and if we shouldn't have gotten carried away by last weeks win, we shouldn't get carried away by one defeat from, again, a very good Brighton side. Of course I do worry about Bruce's ability to anticipate, plan, and then modify his tactics should he need to on the day. Fingers crossed for the court case once again