Ayatollah Hermione

We’re signing off with a battering here, like. Crowd will be bouncing, players will want to sign off to the fans in style, an early goal and they’ll collapse inward.

And it’s only going to get worse for them from here on in

Howe’s celebration after the fourth was quality. Arm round one of the coaches, massive grin, he knows we’re there now

Aye, there were some nerves from the fans but it never seemed to translate down to the pitch as it would in previous years. These lads are made of stern minerals

Our right side was tremendous, like. Trippier didn’t give Mitoma a kick and Almiron was like the Almiron of earlier in the season. There’s no way that we don’t start in a similar fashion against Leicester IMO. If they’re even the slightest bit fragile and we’re the slightest bit clinical, it could get messy for them

Eddie Howe has balls steelier than his baby blue eyes. I’d have had the subs on after an hour

The game completely turned in 10 minutes because we can’t finish our tea, the defence has shit the bed and Willock’s fucked. Only up here

Whatever voodoo curse is laid on us has reared it’s head again

Helps that they’ve got a 5 foot 5 midfielder marking our resident giant

Cheers to Caicedo and Gilmour for giving us plenty of time on that free kick. Can we see them smiling now please?

That’s never a booking

That’s the best header we’ve scored from a corner all season

I’m assuming it’s Isak central until we see who is actually at right back for them

That lot resting some of their best players has given me the fear. What are you thinking up behind that mid-2000s haircut, you fucker?

Good way to get rid of the shit lager before we get new stuff in next season as well

Palace at home was even worse. That would see us on 68 points and well and truly in the driving seat. It’s why they need to stamp out the complete incompetence of the refs as actual seasons are being defined off the back of their decisions. Their actions could have already had dire consequences at the bottom

The nerves are kicking in now but this is what it’s all about really. I’d take this over being lumbered in 14th every season with nowt to play for

Wouldn’t surprise me if the owners have had their man lined up for next season and this is just striking when the iron is hot. And the fewm is strong

It definitely seems like Howe is wanting players who are PL-ready, like. Nickson seems to have his eyes abroad but, like Alex says, it doesn’t seem to make much sense going for players for our rivals in this country. I can understand if you’re picking from those below us ala Maddison and they’re making the step up and there’s value but, unless Howe is absolutely adamant that Tierney is the only player for him, then I’d be knocking that on the head

Ah god, they’re going to get a “highly rated” young coach from abroad and do it all wrong, aren’t they? Please say yes

Won both of our games with him this season so there’s some straw clutching

Lovely stuff. They had some knacker from Roker Report on the radio yesterday saying things like “it’s unbelievable, I’ve never seen us play football this good, it’s incredible” and I thought “you scraped into 6th and you have a bit of a pace on the counter attack” The standards are so low and you just have to look at what happened last night when faced with a strong, athletic side. Makes me think that they might not beat us after all

Tierney is class, especially going forward but if his body can’t hold up to Arsenal’s style, he’ll be bollocked having to belt up and down the wing for 90 minutes up here

Fish playing Almiron as part of a midfield 3 in a 5-3-2 like Steve Bruce did. An astonishing suggestion

Nailed on that Hurst is trying to break into YouTube punditry and radio “personality” work