beatty

You can't just stand with no interest in the ball and put your arms around an opponent and have all your concentration on stopping them from running to the ball. That's rugby.

It is clearly a penalty. He's just stood there and blocked Burn. Arms round him, no intention of going for the ball.

Haha, shambles. At least we did fuck all for 70 minutes.

GET THE FUCK IN Fair fucking play Gordon. And great by Woltemade.

I don't see what good Gordon does. He doesn't score and doesn't assist. Our problems lie with Joelinton not supporting the attack enough and not having a range of passing to make up for it. Then Murphy has been way below par - his deliveries have been diabolical, which is usually his strength. And finally Woltemade has been weak and sloppy (by which I mean he has flicked the ball needlessly to Spurs players multiple times). We don't have a striker who can come on so we are stuck with Woltemade. I'd be tempted to see if Willock can do more than Joelinton. And probably worth giving Elanga a go, despite him continuing to look scared of the ball. But we should leave Barnes on as he's been a consistent goal threat for us.

Please take Murphy off. Having a shocker.

Woltemade has been really sloppy.

We've dominated the ball and territory but created fuck all. So it is not a battering. Spurs have defended us well but been shite on the ball.

Not doing a lot with our dominance of the ball.

Sky will wank themselves silly about his single goal when Woltemade scored an even better finish that was his 5th goal in the league for us.

Spurs should sign Nick Pope. He'd be less of a bombscare.

Yeah, it is a travesty we had to sell Anderson. Miley and Anderson could've been in our squad for 10+ years as home grown heros.

Honestly would already start him over Anderson. And I am still convinced that he is playing well within himself and he could go on a tear-up if given a bit of freedom. His speed of thought and movement is already absolutely elite.

I am surprised we started so well after Everton turned the lights on and off a few times. It was proper intimidating.

Hits the arm so should be disallowed.

Hall and Tino have transformed us. Thiaw is legit top CB in the league?

Miley is fucking boss. He'll take that England starting spot soon enough.

Absolute garbage bit of possession after not seeing the ball for a good ten minutes.

Score a goal -> shit ourselves -> sit deep -> conceded and lose.

Miley for me.

Anderson is over-hyped. He's fine. He wouldn't start for us right now, even with how shit things are going, Miley is going to be twice the player. Would take Anderson back to boost Euro domestic/home-grown numbers and to have a solid squad player. But not too upset he isn't here or we might not get him back.

He gets the ball and his brain has to make a decision: a) pass it out of play b) pass it to an opponent And he struggles with that.

Elanga passing it straight to an opponent is another finisher. Unfair to have 2.

If people are unhappy about the negativity we could either a) play well or b) lock all threads with the potential for negativity a la RAWK or c) pretend everything is great.

Elanga passing it out of play is his finisher.