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Our defence is always a bomb scare. It regularly concedes 3 or 4 goals in one half. They're s**t. They're not just going to magically get better. But now our midfield is actually trying to protect them. But at the expense of attacking. Which means boring football. But it's better than shipping on average 2 goals a game like they were.

We've all complained that our defence is our weakest link and we need to shore it up. In this game we are. You have games like this - or games where you score 3 in one half and let in 4 in the other. Sometimes you need games like this.

This isn't great, but we're not getting ripped open like we were a few weeks ago. We're a lot more compact. If we play like this and get a moment of individual brilliance from Fatawu or Mukasa I'll take it.

One good thing about Winks is he will run back there and get the ball off Okoli to help him. He also goes back there and you can see him screaming at him telling him what to do with the ball. One of Okoli's and Nelson's biggest weakness' is they don't communicate with each other. I don't think I've ever seen either of them actually talking when the camera is zoomed in on them. Which for CB's is bad.

This is definitely true. I have relatives who are hardcore Republicans. Anything to do with Russia/Ukraine or a conflict which might actually come back on them they run from. As soon as they think it's a war with Afghan/Vietnamese 'farmers', etc or someone far away with no real power. They're all for it. They're very propagandised. They don't have anything like the BBC. There's a reason why up until 2009 the media were banned from documenting soldier's caskets returning. Even Hollywood films lie. Films like Zero Dark Thirty, Lone Surviver, or American Sniper all distort the reality, or flat out lie. Talking about 9/11. I remember visiting USA pre and post in 9/11. A lot of Americans were terrified, even months after. They were genuinely scared, for the first time in most of their lives they felt vulnerable. It's funny, if you go there now; 'apparently' many of them didn't really approve, or had concerns with the Iraq/Afghan war. Which is a lie; it just didn't go how they thought it would. I will say though. USA are going after all China's allies and showing that China won't have your back if it kicks off.

It's not all that surprising we haven't chucked on an unproven 20 year old attacker given we've been trying to close out the last 2 games.

Don't think I've ever seen a bigger case of a players legs going. He just can't run. Can't believe he had the audacity to ask for the number 9 shirt at the start of this season. Has there ever been a bigger downgrade.

The only player you can drop is Winks. Which is a shame now he's decided he's bothered. Skipp is the only midfielder who will read the game defensively. He makes blocks and covers defenders when they're out of position. Obviously we can't drop Mukasa.

People will only remember the pass that Okoli made leading to the goal. But he made some really important blocks from cut backs in the first half. And scored. It wasn't all bad.

The team defended and attacked as a unit. Work rate and organisation was much better. It's very encouraging. We seem to have a manager who demands standards. Skipp has to start every game. He's the only midfielder who offers anything defensively. He bailed them out a few times tonight covering.

Skipp has saved us there. He's the only midfielder who has any defensive intuition. He has to play every game. The defence needs it.

People slag off Thomas' throws but they're not that bad. We've just assembled a bunch of short fannies who can't fight to get on the end of them.

F**kin hell. We've normally given up by now. I've forgotten how stressful this is.

That's so frustrating Okoli was playing really well. He shouldn't be allowed to pass. He should just hoof it every time. Still, I'm encouraged. Our work rate and organisation is so much better.

Every player is playing well. We're not carrying anyone currently. We're attacking and defending as cohesive units. When one full back goes the other stays, etc. It's been nearly over a year since we've seen this. It's almost like we have a manager who demands standards. I'm so fed up of poundshop Pep ball I'd give Rowett a 3 year contract at half time.

We are playing really well. This is encouraging.

I take Whelan out of this, cause she was an employee and we don't really know how stuff worked behind the scenes. But I think we'd be a lot better off if Vichai was still here. And I say that as someone who thinks he gets too much credit for our league win. What Vichai might not have known about football, he did know about running a business and leadership. He'd have made decisions a lot quicker. He wouldn't have allowed things like Brendan Rodgers' self-serving, buck-passing, snivelling press conferences. Ones where he talked down the club and the players. It's terrible leadership. He might not have sacked him, but I bet he'd have had a word with him; and I bet that weasel Rodgers' would have listened. I still remember when he refused to sit in West Ham's directors box because Karen Brady had written about him buying wine after sacking Ranieri in her paper column - he still wouldn't sell them Slimani even after they'd apologised. He cared about and knew the importance of things like that.

I do wonder if Spurs will look back and regret sacking Frank. Their squad really is pretty weak. It finished 17th last year. Frank went from working with a forward line of Wissa - Thiago - Mbuemo at Brentford to this. His Brentford forward line walks into this Spurs team easily. It's a massive downgrade. It's almost like Spurs fans struggle to accept how bad their squad is. Just like a lot of our fans did last year and at the start of this year.

It's this. They both come out of this looking bad. Neither of them seems to communicate, organise or be very vocal. They both get pulled out of position too often. For all JV's and Faes faults, at least they try to communicate and organise. Hopefully Lascelles will be back soon, he seems vocal.

I thought he played okay today. Even quite well. The team played a lot better after he came on. Yeah he missed the header, but he could have had an assist if Mukasa had finished that volley. I don't blame him for the goal, he can't mark two players. Nelson and Okoli are marking the same player and Mavididi just let's his man run. They're all culpable. I'd hate to be a full back in this team. Our centre backs don't seem to communicate or organise; they constantly get pulled out of position. Our wingers don't track back or mark their man. So our full backs are always exposed and we expect them to run up and down the pitch all game.

That wasn't Thomas's fault. He had two men there. It's just a lack of organisation. He's played quite well today.

Our marking is just so bad. No one is organising at all.

Aribo looks slow as f**k, but it's nice to see someone with some physical presence that can't just be pushed off the ball.

Aribo can't be any worse than Winks. I'd like to see him given ago.

At this point I just want us to set up in a 4-4-2 or 4-4-1-1. We are such a short, physically weak team. We need to stop crosses be compact. 4-2-3-1 does nothing to help us. Even more so without Fatawu. This is what we are without Fatawu. It's crazy people saying he should be dropped or we wouldn't miss him. He's the only quality we have.