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You said 'any game under Ralph' - I just picked one for you.

What, like when we beat Spurs away?

If he's broken the rules then Starmer should resign. Whilst being infinitely better than Corbyn he is a bit of a dour personality and very wooden in front of the camera. Labour could benefit from having a new leader (depending on who they replace him with) and set an example of what a leader with any integrity should do.

This. The whole system is just out of date and not fit for purpose. Any system that gives us a choice between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the country is just fucked.

Maybe. But whoever he chose would not have been as good as the Palace striker who got the winner. I expect Ivan Toney will be better than whoever he picks on Saturday. No Premier League manager WANTS to pick Shane Long. I expect he started because Ralph thought Armstong is out of his depth and Broja obviously can't be arsed because he will be back at Chelsea soon.

Maybe. Or maybe they are all not good enough.

It obviously depends on what sort of financial backing he gets from the new owners doesn't it. I don't think our squad is a good as many seem to think. Saturday we started with a striker that couldn't even get into Bournemouth's team last year - maybe Ralph is doing a decent job with shit resources?

Makes sense. There is a whole load of shite in our squad that is just not good enough, it needs a right shake up, especially in attack. We are obviously going to lose Broja, plus Walcott, Long, Djenepo and Redmond are all dead wood.

Has to be worth a punt at those odds. It's still very unlikely to happen but history has shown that under Ralph anything is possible and given that we have Liverpool to play we effectively only have two games left.

Hope Bournemouth do it, can’t stand Forest.

Which means it helped pay for the tanks and missiles currently killing Ukrainians.

That’s not underperforming for our squad IMO.

It's almost as if he's free to choose what job he takes.

That's just not true though is it. When Howe left Bournemouth for Burnley they were one point behind us in 4th place in League 1. The following season they finished 11th and when he took over for Groves the season after they were near the bottom in October and Howe got them promoted that season.

Not sure why you expect us to keep getting better and better when there is little or no investment - where in the league should we be then?

What a load of bollocks. The season before he joined we stayed up by the skin of our teeth, when Hughes left we were 18th. Ralph has kept us safely mid-table despite spending relatively little, we've had some decent cup runs, played some great football and had the odd win against the big boys. I think the style we play and the players we have mean we're going to have the odd shocking result, it's not ideal but certainly not worth sacking him over.

I thought it was a pen but as others have said, his dive in the first half probably made the ref reluctant to give it.

Think that says it all.

Leeds are looking vulnerable now, after they play Palace they have City, Arsenal and Chelsea.

I disagree, Russia will obviously try and spin it however they want but if we just let Russia compete as normal they will just spin that as the whole world being behind them. It’s tough on the competitors effected but the more pressure applied the better, even if it only prompts a few people to try and look beyond the propaganda for the truth.

Because at the moment the Russian people are being fed a whole load of bullshit propaganda about the war, this is one way of maybe getting the message across that the rest of the world thinks what their government is doing is wrong.

Yep, Broja was shite, has been for a while. Send him back to Chelsea.

Well that was fucking garbage. 3 at the back obviously wasn’t working yet we persisted with it the whole game, fucking useless.

Just because people speak Russian doesn’t mean they want to be part of Russia, it just happens to be their native tongue. I would have thought this was obvious after watching towns a stones throw from the border putting up such a fight.

Embarrassing thick as fuck Legend?