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He's fucking always in that same area in the box, you'd think he be semi-decent at finishing from there.

They're playing with the freedom of a team relegated. You'd have to hope we have the quality to overcome that over 90 minutes, reminding them why they're heading back to the championship. Strangely we're also playing with an ill-founded freedom that doesn't bode well with our defensive record.

They've been electric thus far.

Brereton Diaz may have slimmed down a bit but he's still a big faking fanny.

He's not shit, but he has been playing exceptionally shit for a long time now.

Of course he could have stayed on his feet, the only tackles where you can't are brutal and almost never occur in the box. You have to go down in a scenerio like that to rightfully get the penalty. Usually anyway. He was right to go down but he has to be the least convincing player when going down under contact and it's reflected in how rarely he wins free kicks. I believe it's because he's fundamentally slow, so falling over always seems delayed. We need to get Jonas in to teach him, he was the best I've seen at Newcastle at winning free-kicks.

On the replay it also looked like VAR would overturn it.

Palace were very good.

A few weeks ago you'd have put your house on Liverpool beating Everton.

He has looked decent amonst our shower of shite.

We really need to "protect him" by wrapping him in cotton wool and keeping him safe on the bench.

What a shocking pass that was Longstaff. We've been absolutely shite here.

To create controversy seemingly.

Yep, that level of contact is fine if both players are going for the ball or if there was already contact. That has to have been such a simple decision as the palace player has reached across the body of Longstaff for no reason other than to slow his run. Diabolical. Let's get Nottingham Forest's social media on the case.

That's surely not going to be given by VAR, it's like they've been asked to make the wrong decision of late.

Has to be a pen that. If it's anyone else it's given on the spot. That's ridiculous honestly.

We subbed off our fairweather fans.

They're definitely getting the rub of the green, but can't say they don't deserve their lead.

Great movement and passing and then a shit pass Longstaff.

We've got no answer to skilled pacy attacking players, particularly through the middle. Burn and Schär would have to be amongst the slowest defensive pairings in the league and we've not got a shielding midfielder to help them.

Good tackle Gordon, shit refereeing, but Gordon shouldn't have reacted for that long, obviously frustrated from the rest of the game.

Can't say it hadn't been coming, but poor defending with Burn doubling up instead of marking the open man.

Very forgettable first half for us.

Maybe that's the measure; if you can't prove the onfield decision wrong in 10 seconds then it's not a clear and obvious error and the game goes on. Minimal disruption to the flow of the game and anything that's actually clear and obvious is addressed. Drop the charade of the ref going over the the screen, just have the VAR announce the correct decision and have the audio able to be heard in the stadium and by TV audience. Simple. Effective.