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That's .2 better than I thought. Things are looking up!!

Fastest goal and fastest hatrick. It will be hard to beat either of them. This season is a writeoff. The failure to back Ralph with a decent striker is where this all started. Several managers and seasons later, we are still in the same position.

FFP says no on that one I'm afraid

The world's best manager couldn't get 20 goals from Armstrong, Archer and Tall Paul combined. We are 100% relegated already. Feel free to qupte me on that at the end of the season!

A pontless sacking. Whoever replaces him will be relegated and likely be sacked as well in Summer. Should've saved the money (that we don't have) and waited till Summer.

Even though I think he deserves the sack, I think he would get us promoted and play good football in the Championship next season. We are doomed anyway, we don't have the firepower to stay up. Save the money on sacking Martin now, spend the time making a plan for somebody else and then sack him a day after we win promotion next year.

I expect Martin to dip into the under 21s this weekend to try to find a keeper who can play out of the back.

If they were going to disallow the goal anyway because Armstrong tried to play the ball, why the fuck did they spend 5 mins trying to work out if Archer was offside? Total cunts

Fing disgrace of a VAR. Anybody who has played will tell you that was not a foul. If anything it was a foul by the defender. The Premier League is not football, I'm looking forward to the Championship.

I really want to see that again as well. How high up the leg was the contact?

And at the other end that is a pen and a red card. Raya took out a Bournemouth player 1 on 1. Penalty given but not even a yellow. The justification from the refs were that the penalty was punishment enough. When have you ever seen a player given a red for a shirt pull in the box? The ref was fixed today. VAR is equally suspect. Nothing will be done but the whole thing stinks. If you were going to fix a Prem. game, this would be a great one to do. Leicester weren't favourites so the odds were decent but they could easily win with a bit of help from the ref.

That game was fixed.

Downes was top drawer today. I watched him all second half. He constantly stamped out turnovers in midfield, dominated his opposite number, giving the defence the cover it has needed. On top of that, every pass he made was successful, every single one.

Not at all. VAR run competently (for fouls) is still subjective, you just move the decision to somebody in a box rather than the onfield ref. They'll still be arguing about if a VAR decision was correct on MOTD. VAR for offside has reached the level of pedantry IMHO. If a VAR ref needs more than 30 seconds and requires lines to be drawn on screen, either stick with the onfield decision or give the benefit of the doubt to the striker. VAR has ruined some of enjoyment I get from going to games. It feels like a weight of my shoulders this season tbh. VAR has required stupid changes to the handball rules & offside rules. People sitting on their sofas love it, I bet the majority of fans who go to games would now prefer it to be scrapped.

Never got a fair shake from the manager or fans. He causes panic in the oppo box and is well capable of 15+ goals in this division. Even though it's against our manager's style, the fact is we are desperate for an outlet for a long ball at times, not having that option even on the bench is ridiculous at any level. I'd be happy to have him back.

Nah, that comes from my experience of playing league football at a decent level for nearly 20 years. lol "agenda". Sounds like your agenda is to defend him regardless of the critisism. It's very easy to make personal attacks huh? Shows you haven't got anything else to say.

2 assists yes but missed many more opportunities to put Edozie in. Gave away Norwich's last goal the week before. Manning is slow and steady. Fine if you like that sort of thing.

Shame. Manning is a clear weak link, was hoping Perraud would be back asap.

Can't believe nobody said this yet so I'll say it. Wore a fez. If you were there, it was a great day.

I expect boring football, lots of possession but no end product, much like a lot of last season. I expect he'll be gone by Xmas and by then we'll be looking at a playoff place at best, at worst, hoping we can stay up. The board will then hire a league 1 manager manager because there's an even lower budget due to all the previous fuck ups.

Onachu has 2.5yrs on his contract and probably on a decent wage. It'll cost anybody looking to buy him, could be a turn-off for the level of club that would otherwise be interested

We now have Tall Paul, Adams, Armstrong, Mara and Tella all competing for 1 or 2 places. I'd be surprised if any Championship club can afford to have 3 or 4 strikers sitting on the bench or not even making the squad. 1 or 2 may have to go and unfortunately Adams and Tella the only 2 that anybody would want to buy.

Well, defenders in the Prem are stronger, harder and better at clobbering the oppo and getting away with it, that's true. Players like Sam quickly need to learn to protect themselves, the defenders in the Championship might not be quite as quick but they like a tackle

In my experience of playing Sunday league, there aren't many players who would volunteer to get smashed by opposing defenders and midfielders. Defenders will look to hurt youger players early on in the game to keep them in check and hopefully avoid a yellow card by doing it early. Younger players have to watch out for it and avoid it. The accumulation of those knocks often results in their season petering out and failing to hold a 1st team place after a brilliant start.

2 years ago he couldn't get near the starting 11. He hasn't improved, it is the rest of the squad has got worse. He always gave 100%, can't ask more than that.