OTF

Weekend at Joe's

I'm a fool because I honestly thought we would at least have tried in a game like this.

3-0.

Look at the tracking back from Brighton at 2-0 up, epitomises how much bettwr they are and why we fully deserve to be heading to the championship.

Stick the fork in.

Have got to say that I think this has been the most passive, heartless performance I have ever seen in such an important fixture. Embarrassing.

Nothing less than we deserve.

Sorry I was wrong, this was the last thing we needed.

Last thing we needed was an injury to Hayden.

Ryan Fraser is a lazy little prick. Multiple times he's not been bothered to track a player, plainly doesn't give a shit.

Here comes TOT.

Dubravka fatigued. Makes sense, he's been our busiest player.

Some people will try to tell you that football is all about controlling possession, field position and the pace of the game. Not so. We've plainly got a plan to counter attack with efficiency and precision and it's all going according to that plan. We only need to improve on our shooting accuracy and our general shooting (you know, actually having a shot) as well as our transition from defense into attack and our winning of the ball. All of the rest of it we're putting on a masterclass, except the defending aspects.

And it'll still be the best thing he'll have done here, up there with the time that Shane 'Jingle bells' Ferguson nutmegged some one.

Just like the last time we played them we look well and truly second best.

Terrible news, very sorry to hear it. Thinking of you and your family.

I don't know how you did it, but you've salvaged the thread Kithman.

Nobody except you cares enough, and I include Everton fans in that.

Anyone have some petrol and a match? This thread needs to be torched.

Manquillo is a better footballer no doubt, but that said there is no susbstitute for pace. If I was picking between the two of them fully fit in the current team (if Yedlin was still here) it'd be Manquillo every time. It's not that I think he's particularly good, but he's easily the superior defender of the two even considering Yedlin's pace and the benefit that gives to defending counter attacks. Seriously though, the level of players we're forced to have conversations about is a disgrace. We'd be better off having a thinner squad of better players (and actually giving some kids a chance) than the middling lot we have.

Murphy is better than current Ritchie for sure. Keeps his head down too much, and runs himself into bad channels on occassion but isn't prone to stupid challenges or crap set pieces and is more likely to create. Still think he's most effective coming off the bench and Ritchie staying on the bench. If it's a choice of one of these two and Joelinton starting in a wide position it'd be Murphy for sure even though he's defensively suspect and lightweight.

Murphy is a good player to have on the bench. I don't mean that in jest, as a sub coming on his direct play and propensity to run at tiring defenders creates chances. He's also shown on multiple occassions that he's not bad with a dead ball.

Would he actually have been sacked anyway? Highly doubt it. Commentatory actually referred to it accidentally as a "fight against survival" and he couldn't have been more accurate.

TOT!

Geez, so glad I'm watching this.