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Pretty good defensive line there, hope we can maintain it.

Emil "if you can't beat em, beat em" Krafth

Gemmilltastic: MATCH THREAD "Well yes this is once again a selection of players by the manager that he believes to be the best for this match." "The players are making the right decision always out there, I assume, because each and every one of them is a better footballer than I." END THREAD

Answer the question

To counter the hate I'm going to go with Daniel Craig.

Who's hating? Are you suggesting that this is the lineup we should have started with?

Darlow time wasting already.

Wise choice. Graeme Jones reminds me of a cross between Mr Bean and someone else whom I haven't quite yet figured out.

I mean we barely had 20% of the ball in a match that we absolutely bullshitted a point from and here we are with the same team. Meanwhile Chelsea on the back of a 7-0 win make three changes

Last week he said Krafth and Fraser trained well, which is one thing, but did he not see our last match? No reason for either to be in the side.

Krafth and Fraser still in there after poor performances last start. Fraser is a poor defender from what I've seen and doesn't cover much ground, Krafth is just not up to much. Going to watch anyway but this is shaping to be a very dire affair.

Despite his many failings we had some really enjoyable games under the self appointed king. Mind you we had some quality players as well; Ba, Cisse, HBA, Cabaye, Wijnaldum, Colo, Jonas, Shane Ferguson and an untold number of substitute left backs.

I don't have a shred of compassion for him, he was told by those close to him not to take the job and yet did anyway, and then went on to get the results and the reaction that was expected only to have a public strop about it. In fact he actually exceeded the expectations of just how poor he would be. Embarrassing really, he's clearly out of touch. If he had any footballing intelligence and/or connection with reality he should have apologised to the fans for not performing as manager of the team, for taking us backwards and for leaving the team a right mess. On some level he's obviously a nice guy, but it's no excuse when he takes a job he shouldn't have and then performs miserably at it. Anyone that defends his record either has not watched a sustained number of our games playing under Bruce or is severely mentally deficient. I include amongst those journalists and the 'fans' that think he was doing a good job and unfairly copping criticism. Supporters of other teams you can forgive because they're not likely to have seen us on the pitch and will only have heard the drivel from the aforementioned journalists.

When he came on he actually had an impact making a few good passes. Shocking I know. Probably says more about how poorly our players on the pitch were doing.

I think you'll find I did.

Wonder what our potential new managers thought of the performance last night.

It was a clear and obvious foul, Vieira should be confronting two people, whichever player of his was pulling the shirt, and Benteke for not already finishing the game off.

Will take that point for sure. Almiron should have started instead of any number of lazy plodders we had out. Great finish Wilson.

If we get a point here it should definitely be chalked up in the shithousing it column.

Ahah wey hey VAR to the rescue. Was rightly a foul too.

Yeah probably not a good idea to actually mark Benteke.

Ah well.

Ooh shithousing is back on Wilson!!!

There shall be no shithousing. Clark didn't even jump for it...

They PC'd themselves by trying to ban cultural dress.