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WHAT A PERFORMANCE!! in all seriousness we scored the equivalent of 30% of all goals Boro have conceded this season..... El Ghazi was pretty decent also, and on top of that he even tracked back and helped defend etc, really impressed With him and the whole team! We absolutely schooled them....

Very good first half we mostly bosses them. But we need to stop dropping back at times, and we are only one up for all that possession and forward play. Good overall but we prob shod have been 2 up by now and taken a bit of pressure off.

OMG NYLAND!!!!!!

good cross by El Ghazi ans literally no-one in the box......

we are losing our sh*t currently, we need to calm down and just do what we were doing before!!!

omg lol at El Ghazi, what a bit of skill it deserved a goal

ok we are arent playing the same since the goal, we need to stop sitting back and just continue doing what we were doing b4 we scored.

we deserved that goal, we have totally schooled them for the first 20 minutes, lets hope we keep it going.

So currently we sit 10th. A win will take us back up to 8th and 3 points off the playoffs. A draw will take us 9th and 5 points 0ff the playoffs. A loss will keep us 10th and 6 points off the playoffs.

Bolasie and El Ghazi start, interesting.

Personally I think Elmo should be RB and Hutton left back (drop Taylor to bench), when all 3 are fit and not suspended etc.

Personally my current first 11 would be: ---a goalkeeper --- Elmo ---- Tuanzebe ---- Chester ---- Hutton Grealish ---- Bjarnason ---- Mcginn Bolasie ---- Abraham ---- Adomah With jedinak, El Ghazi and Kodjia to switch in and out dependant on the opposition. El Ghazi to possibly replace Adomah in the first 11 dependant on whether he can show real ability and that he deserves a start.

Isnt Hutton banned this Saturday vs Boro? (5 yellows)

just watched the goals, seriously, the 4th and 5th goals that Nyland conceded were seriously terrible. I literally dont understand what he was doing for the 4th......like.....seriously what the hell was he doing? The 5th, should never have conceded that at his near post, never ever ever ever. the first 3, not sure he can be blamed specifically. Also....we need to sign Lolley, he's a very good little player.

/me puts positive hat and rose tinted spectacles on.... Nyland obviously did us a great service tonight, by deciding to allow 5 goals in, he had consciously decided to force our forwards to give us the fans a spectacle of our attacking prowess, i have no doubt as Nyland conceded his 3rd, he thought, "there is more to come from our forward line, we need to concede a 4th to ensure the fans get their money's worth ", and in good faith and for the good of entertainment decided to ship the 4th and then the 5th, thus forcing the wider team to copious displays of attacking play. Thus....ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY NYLAND< MAN OF THE MATCH for ensuring we had our hearts in our mouth and were entertained......."ARE YOU ENTERTAINED!?!?!". /me serious WTH Nyland ARRRRGHHHH.

well, we didnt lose, should have won, but we showed some fight to get back in it from 0-2 down, then went 5-4 up, and threw it away, lol whats going on Fair play to AV, we are scoring goals, isnt that FOURTEEN goals in the last 4 games???? Chester.......urgh i really dont rate him tbh, Nyland ........urgh, and Hourihane, not keen on him in the DM role, yes he can pass a bit, but the last 3 or more games all i see him doing when he should be tackling/closing down is throwing his hands up, not getting in there or just shirking defensive stuff, i really dont see Hourihane working in that role. I honestly think if we replace Nyland and Chester, get a new LB and a proper DM who can place a pass AND defend, we will be a force.

im sure there are going to be some negative ppl, but 3 points off top 6 currently. Great attacking display, but wtf happened to the defence?!?!

My word he could have stuck a hand out and saved that what the hell was he doing....

Lol gotta love the narrative

So would you blame Fulham (whoever sanctions and buys players) or the manaher for their issues then? Pity a progressive manager paid the price for a club wide mistake.....or at least what looked like a wider club mistake.

Weren't Brentford also on a 4 or 5 winless streak for DS's last 5 games in charge or somethin???

I really hope we learn our lessons and dont implode on DS if/when we have a bad run, i mean look at Fulham, nice footballing team last year and a bad run in the PL and they sack their manager. I agree totally that DS is the right man to develop the team/club/style, i just hope we dont forget that in 6/12/18/24 months, and knee jerk like so many clubs (inc us), have done in the past, we need to learn some of our own lessons, and i do think DS being recruited is us realizing some historic mistakes and finally starting to fix them.

Well the fact that we literally don't have another left back means we do need a left back in Jan, whether that's as a replacement or an understudy, we need one regardless.

Doesn't his contract run out at the end of this season?, didn't Bruce tell him he wasn't going to get another contract? U think he will get an extension? Edit: my bad seems it runs out in 2020.

I would bet closer to 100 - 130k? Jedinak 40ish? Whelan 30ish? Lansbury 40ish? Then add Richard's and McCormack on 50-80k between them???, the amount of weekly wages on tripe astonishes and boggles the mind imagine if we could free all those wages up and spend it on decent players... wouldn't be surprised if we spend close to 250k a week on players who we don't really want ....