The Doctor

i mean, you been to Bournemouth? Not much else to do there.

god, remember how we wanted to give Jack Harrison 100k a week? mans a fraud and a half

any football team names after a bunch of animals like it's an American league deserves to get relegated tbh

the way their fans have banged on about us sacking Cooper like he's the second coming of Christ I want them to implode and go back to league one. worst fanbase in football

Not convinced, Faes was still not particularly good.

what about the random ones?

if the new manager changes the systems and implements better ideas, yes. Because it's regression to the mean where it supposedly occurs because you can split manager departures into two groups: sacked after a run of under performance which rights itself (new manager bounce), sacked because the team generally aren't good enough (no manager bounce)

it's a huge part of the concept of a new manager bounce, typically managers leave after sustained under performance vs stats and unless the team is genuinely woeful, that tends to right itself

your underlying stats are an indicator of your performance. very few sides can keep consistently over performing and so they tend to catch up on you. they would change under a new manager because they're typically reflective of the managers ideas and systems

this is the problem with so many midweek games tbh, bring back the football specials. doesn't help those travelling from afar but certainly should have later trains going out to stops in the county

I mean, for all his moaning about the refs, had the refs given the obvious foul by Fatawu at Ipswich and Ayews WWE audition at Southampton moments before our penalty for the equalizer, we would have been stranded at the bottom.

****ing hell Bednar is a blast from the past. West Brom trying to offload him due to investigations about him buying coke and cannabis, man played like he was in a permanent K-hole.

Andy Townsend is a clown, in other news water is wet, and the pope shits in the woods

good assist but honestly he got muscled out of the game 90% of the time.

man is class when he wants to be but has never applied himself consistently. if Ruud can get him playing like the second half on a regular basis then him, skipp/winks, BEK and Buonanotte gives us a fantastic 2-2 in that midfield

nah, it was a foul. Soucek looks for where Mads is, makes no attempt to play the ball and leans in. if he even jumps to challenge it's a different story but as is it's clear he's just gone to impede mads

rode our luck massively but given 2 days with the team all he could do was introduce was desire and we had more of that than in any of Cooper's games. there's the hints of a tactical plan there as well, just needs time to implement it given he's not had a preseason

oh that looked nasty from Antonio

wilf motm? BEK had it in the bag surely?

of course he'd never scored for them before.

Still as leaky as a church roof from set pieces then.

Patson Ruud is the greatest coach of all time.

Soumare actually looking decent, Daka puts himself about but needs attention from Ruud to get that polish. Rode our luck a lot but this is miles better than Chelsea.

given Facundo nodded the ball back in to stop the throw earlier, don't think we should be throwing those stones.