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I think Tielemans is a confidence player brilliant in a good team but a liability when things aren’t going the team’s way. He can lift a good team to the next level. I doubt we’d have won the FA Cup without him or been in Europe so much. But blimey he’s bad when the team’s in a bad way. Let’s not forget we also signed him from a Monaco side he was nearly relegated playing for and whose fans were desperate to get rid.

And I’m sure along the Black Sea coast in Ukraine too like Gaza. I don’t know why people are surprised though. This was always going to happen. He’s not really made a secret of being friendly with Putin and was always going to side with them. Biden made some efforts after the election as he knew. Hopefully the European leaders have already been working on a plan on Trump siding with the enemy. Im interested to see how the right in this country play it all. Normally they just go along with whatever Trump says.

Spot on. The prediction comes through only a few hours later.

If you win four, that means ourselves and Ipswich would have to win five at least, so about 40 per cent of the remaining games. Probably closer to 50 per cent if you take out games against Liverpool and Man City for us.

That illustrates my point Joachim was blooded into a mostly winning promotion chasing second tier side. Heskey played one game in the middle of the 94/95 season, then didn’t get a single minute (I don’t think) after that until he was blooded in a promotion chasing team the year after.

Was gutted when Ipswich signed an improvement on Muric. Looks like Alex Palmer was the man of the match on his debut.

A lot aren’t going to like it, but game changed when we brought Ayew off for Mavididi. No-one else in the position is there? Presumably JJ out for a while.

The worst thing is, it’s probably the best performance of the season. Definitely defensively. A low bar, I know.

Yeah. Unfortunately this.

Oh Jamie.

You reckon we’d do better next season with near enough the same players?

I think I read yesterday it’s 19, 4 more than any other keeper.

Genuinely one of, if not the worst, decisions I’ve ever seen. Why wouldn’t VAR intervene?

I haven’t seen any of this series, not even the highlights, but are the batters the whole problem? I saw a stat earlier that, if you took Rashid out, England’s other bowlers combined had a bowling average of 107.

The classic shinned-chip finish.

I mean, possibly, but who do you think is most likely to get the better and worry about the other? An Argentine international with a fair few seasons of first team Prem football behind him or a 15-year-old debutant?

Yeah, sadly there’s definitely an element of us going away from signing young, hungry up and coming players in a way that doomed Stoke and Sunderland before us.

Will you have Jordan or Ayew as your first child’s name?

He wasn’t responsible for the loss. The point is that just throwing them in can destroy their confidence and stall development. Slot presumably felt he had enough on the pitch to win the game so blooded a few youngsters. There’s virtually no games where you can say this season we’ll have enough on the pitch to win and comfortably be able to do that. It’ll probably only happen when we’re mathematically down. For example, there seemed to be a few on the match thread upset that Monga didn’t come on when Mcateer did. He’d have had to spend much of the game tracking back on Garnacho who’s substitution turned the game their way. Slinging on a 15-year-old and telling him to concentrate most on making sure he’s tracking back on their best player on his pro debut would have been a dreadful thing to do to the lad.

Ha. Are you saying he’s the same level as them despite what they’ve achieved?

This post aged like milk. They lost and he got took off at half time. In an ideal world it would be great to have youngsters come in and they be automatically up to the level required. This isn’t an ideal world. You could destroy their confidence if you put them into a struggling side too early.

This, and you’re going to be doing that physical exertion against at least one absolute beast of a man trying to get the better of you for that time as well.

I thought you were insane when you posted that earlier!

Another big thing about this is we won’t have to hear the ‘word’/abomination ‘threepeat’ again for years.

Just run the ball is what the Eagles are going to do now probably. They should really take the piss and put their back up QB in.