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cupsforcockups said:
Could the Lewis 2nd yellow been a pen for us
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Not for me, it's not a foul either way.

If Chalobah hadn't just cleared it, then absolutely.
Rico is second into the challenge, and is trying to block it if anything. He's not horribly late, as some have suggested online.

Having said that it isn't a foul by Chalobah, for the challenge, the guy can get right in the sea.

The ref is put in a position where he can't use VAR, but Chalobah has acted like his Achilles is hanging off... I'm sick of this "feel any contact - act like your leg's been blown off" mentality. Jack and Savinho are guilty of it, but with the circumstances of the challenge, Chalobah's taken it to an egregious extreme there. Unforgivable.
 
wolviedinho said:
My issue is with the club. They have completely taken their eye off the ball.

Lot of mistakes currently being made. They wanted a world class club on a shoe string due to pep. We should all be pissed mate.
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I’d just love to know the truth of this.

Of course, Mansour hasn’t done this out of the kindness of his heart. He may have grown to love us, but initially it was a business decision and to some extent our investment on squad improvement still is.

Are we squeezing pennies?

Our recent transfer activity and ticket pricing suggests we are. But there are possible explanations, like awaiting the results of our hearing.

I’d absolutely hate to think they were taking advantage of Pep’s genius in this way.
 
MillsyTheMosher said:
What about Savinho ? He’s been beyond bad since we signed him.
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Was he beyond bad at the start of the season when he came into the side with no pre-season and instantly looked brilliant?

He's been poor when the rest of the team has been poor. He's 20 years old and it's his first season - give the kid a break.
 
Chak19 said:
No at the Forest game we had Ake fit which helped our defence big time, Grealish in midfield also helped, then all of a sudden Ake is out again and Grealish "feels unwell" whatever the fuck that means, and Akanji out too means we have to play both Walker and Lewis, you can't have any consistency when you constantly have to change your defence which gets zero protection from the non existent midfield anyway.
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You're giving examples of individuals covering up the fundamental structural problems of our side. Missing Ake's 1v1 defending ability shouldn't see the whole structure crumble. If it does then the foundations aren't sound.
 
robbieh said:
Absolutely. Other clubs do it. In fact Barca make a habit of it. The game where Wright, McAatee and O'Reilly all played was one of our better performances during this poor run.
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Agree mate we hear how good are youth team is and how clubs try snapping are players up well let's give them a try
 
Back down to earth we go. Could smell it with the Ake and akanji injuries.

Fuck me, juve next.
 
bluemoon32 said:
We beat a shit Forest side and some on here were giddy that we were back, well we're not, we still have the same problems but we will be back, it might just take us some time.
Relax, it's not the end of the world
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Forest are far better than Palace, we beat them because we got a few players back and changed the midfield a bit with Grealish there, so of course we lose two defenders and Grealish feels unwell and it's back to the same shit again, these injuries need to stop somehow or we'll struggle to get top 4, unless we sign several players in January and that rarely happens, the injuries are killing us.
 
Mr Partridge said:
If you think Lewis is "getting away with it" you haven't read a single post about him on here, ever.
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I do thnk he is getting away with it as he is constantly being picked and making the same mistakes/giving the ball away in a team that relies on possession.
 
I was really hoping we could go on a run after forest but it’s the hope that kills isn’t it ?. A very disappointing result against another team that always seems to raise the game against us. I guess reality is we’re in a battle for top four place and sadly the title is way beyond us.
 
paulchapo said:
The result against Forest was great but we all saw the three great chances they should have scored against us too. Teams used to dread playing us, now they're licking their lips.
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Once opposing sides stop fearing you, things change very quickly.
Remember when sides going to OT shit themselves and handed games to Utd before they even started, it turned very quickly into even sides in the lower region of the PL going there and attacking them
 
blue by birth said:
Because he's the scapegoat mate..keep up lol
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I'm a fan of Rico, I think he's having a tough time of it lately, Very hard for him obviously as he's not surrounded by Rodri in particular and numerous other first team players to guide and help him in games.

I've got to be honest he was poor for the first goal, He got caught ball watching and the ball got played in behind him, He had a couple of glances over his shoulder a few times before the ball was played and he got caught out, Unfortunately his captain did him no favours either.
 
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