Rayvin

Howe with his 'excuses' again... think he's spot on really.

I make Pope our second best player after Tonali, and he was pretty dire Genuinely a team performance this one.

Howe hasn't lost the dressing room, it's far more likely that certain players are in danger of losing Howe. This feels like it's a transitional season for us in the end.

I really think the fullback issue is hurting us. We had central defenders playing out wide, no overlapping runs or any of the stuff that Gordon or Murphy/Elanga might be able to use. We have no pace as a consequence of it and we keep getting targeted down those flanks so it hits us both in attack and defense. Right back in January should be a priority with Trips ageing out anyway.

You do yes, but I just think it's unlikely to be the case that two people engage in a mass stabbing without a political motive. I've noticed a lot of right leaning people calling it terrorism either way, which I think is quite a worrying statement as it sort of packages up the idea that for people who are non-white, if they commit any act of violence, it is automatically political. I do want to be clear that I am not saying it is terrorism, I'm just struggling to imagine from this scenario why else anyone would start stabbing as a duo on a train. Other than the possible idea that it was an argument that got out of hand..

I'm struggling to think what this would be if it's not terrorism, mind. One person can just be a psychotic episode. 2 people together is to my mind downright weird. Maybe an argument that boiled over..? EDIT just seen people saying similar elsewhere, in which case yeah I agree.

Spence is a weapon. He was playing down SJP prior to our game and clearly thinks this new Spurs team is a lot better than they are. Another Londoner with undeserved arrogance.

I quite like Martinez when he's getting sent off and handing us CL qualification. Less so when he's laying up assists to Salah when the whole country is enjoying Liverpool's losses.

Martinez... absolute fucking bellend.

How are Spurs so high up the table? Godawful.

I use it deliberately for that association tbf. West Ham is just a stupid name.

We can and should beat Wham. Would be nice to think we could do it comfortably but I'm not sure if we're quite there yet. Still lots of chances going begging.

The TT equivalent is more likely to be doxxing followed by all their posts being edited with pictures of Denise Welch

RAWK is the worst I've seen. It's parish council levels of delusions of grandeur and self importance. They all take themselves so fucking seriously and 'police' the forum against wrongthink. They have a thread for all the newspapers you aren't allowed to quote, the community being told to 'shut the fuck up, the lot of you' in the match thread, and yeah this thing about banning people for expressing a view.

I genuinely cannot think of a better midfielder in the entire league. Maybe that's bias, maybe it's indifference to other teams, but he looks absolutely world class.

Why in fuck are people getting on anyone's back at all, how does that help? Mind you I wonder if that's a continuation of this booing taking the knee nonsense. It's going to get really tedious very quickly if so.

Spurs must fucking hate us

Agree on Frank, most likeable PL manager outside of Howe.

That commentary on Ramsey.. They're talking as if we have a static midfield that will never change despite the 50-60 games we have this season. He doesn't have to break into it by forcing Tonali, Joe or Bruno out.. he just needs to be good enough to rotate in without us losing a lot of quality. He'll get loads of games this season.

I felt this was a pretty good assessment of why things are shit. Time stamped the relevant bit, Run to about 8.20, not suggesting you watch the whole thing. It's a speech at the attempt to get Your Party going. A real pity the sensible voices are so hapless.

Find it weird to be in the same camp as CT here, and I'll say it's through total ignorance on my part so I'm not advocating for anything... but pretty much everything he's saying is how i operate I've barely had breakfast since I was young and am on a fasting diet at the moment that has lost me a stone so far. Gemmill's points about water retention very interesting too though, going to look into that.

When Frankfurt came in and offered £30m for him I thought it was an amazing deal for us. Now I'm starting to see why the price was that high - there's more to come from him for sure, if he can compose himself better. Would join those who would be reluctant to let him go now.

I really do think a lot of them would prefer to see us lose than their team win. In fact based on RTG I'm convinced that we're the only reason some of them even follow the sport at all.

What the fuck has gone on there

I am probably in this to some extent. A couple of years ago was the first time it had crossed my mind at all, and I was sat there for a while thinking to myself how am I meant to ask my dad what plans he's made for this? I've still not managed to voice it. How are you meant to have that conversation, it's beyond me. I feel like I shouldn't need it, so asking is a shameful thing, like I'm waiting for him to die - exactly as you put it. I'm not at all, I hope he's there forever, but I feel like to some extent I have to know what's happening to be able to plan appropriately. As it is, I tell myself not to expect anything at all - he remarried a woman quite a lot younger than him. I'm fine with that really because I don't feel like I should expect it from him anyway, but it just adds to the sense that I really need to fix everything as soon as possible in the rest of my life. There's a constant urgency now.