Howay

Class.

He does look like a hard nut eh. Aye Gayle offers really good movement which is going to be a massive miss (along with his finishing obviously), I suppose we'll get a chance to see if Ritchie can do a bit more with his crossing since he has a bigger target to aim at now.

Aye, it's a shame when you think Chelsea have one of the best academies in Europe (won the FA youth cup 3 years in a row and Uefa youth cup 2 years in a row) yet players don't really break through into their first team, they have lads like Loftus-Cheek and Solanke who they wont bother loaning out much (they loaned Solanke out to a dutch side and he got 7 in 25 last season). Surely lads from the youth team could be stepping up but I guess it's safer just to take the money and spend it on a finished product, the biggest issue is they hold onto these lads until they're 23-25 so their progress is really hampered.

I think with it being at the knee it's a hard place to heal since the skin stretches there. I think we can manage with Murphy mind as long as we create chances, it's fortunate that he's had game time and goals recently so we're not calling on him without any matches.

Aye especially as teams will know we'll be slightly desperate. We could always look for a loan like Dominic Solanke, recall Armstrong, or just persist with Murphy or Perez up front, at this level if Murphy is given chances he's an ok finisher so with Shelvey back in the side it might not be as bad.

Loftus-Cheek coming on for the last 5 minutes while Chelsea are 3-0 up, it's a good job they aren't going to loan him out to a club he'd play every week as he'd miss vital opportunities like this

They're saying it's hamstring, Mitro is out for at least 3 weeks so we're down to Murphy really.

I'm not worried about getting promotion tbh, I'd just really like to see us win the league. Not that I'm writing off any chance of the teams below catching us for an auto spot but we've rode through a patch of form that will probably prove to be the roughest we'll have all season and have come out 6-7 points clear of 3rd so I'm not overly concerned especially now we have the player our side is built around back. It's good to see Villa still well off the pace as you say, I hope they're down here for yonks.

Sadly not, although it sounded a bit bilge anyway. Chuffed to have Jonjo back mind and hope he's back with a big performance against Rotherham.

Hear then mr pedantic

What do they really expect from Moyes though? They had a bunch of players in purple patches that got them to 17th last season, had fuck all to spend, lost a few of their better performing loanees. They were hardly going to be competing up the table ffs, they're this fucking gopping at this point of the season every season it's just the last few years they've wanked off about beating us. The fact they're 1 point from safety is incredible and shows how fucking flukey they are every bastard year, the shit that won't flush should be on their club badge.

Credit to Rafa for getting a win under very adverse circumstances. Chuffed to see Ayoze put in a performance. The defence is becoming increasingly frightening to listen to, Darlow had another good game. Hopefully the Gayle and Hayden injuries aren't bad. Couldn't give a fuck about Anita, being harsh on the lad but I'm just sick to the back teeth of watching/listening to Colback and Anita play and the club needs to finally replace the pair of utter cart horses.

For fuck sake man we can't do owt easy

Need to grind out some wins to win a title mind, massive disruption in the side with all the injuries. Massive credit to Rafa for getting at least a point from this one and Perez motm.

How a team as shit as them are still only 1 point from safety is staggering.

His best game in a while for us, stepped up when we needed him most. Hopefully gives him confidence.

We're going to need to buy or loan some players after all the injuries in this ffs.

To be sure.

Get in there Murphy, Perez stepping up he assisted both goals didn't he?

We just have absolutely no creative spark in midfield without Shelvey, I've been really disappointed with Ritchie who I expected to step up and take more on after his good start to the season but he's done nowt. Thankfully Jonjo is back after this.

Can't say that news saddens me, the further him and Colback are from the team the better. Sick of them two playing man. If you were Brighton you'd be considering trying to injure Shelvey as without him we're crap really.

He's in panic mode like he is whenever he is under pressure.

There's only one winner in this game now mind. Our defence are like the chuckle brothers. This could have been massive going 1 point above Brighton and playing then with Shelvey back, we have so much shite in this squad.

Fucking hell a Colback Anita mindfield pairing. What a fucking nightmare.

Need to make some changes here mind, Brentford are all over us here and Lascelles is in full on panic mode.