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If we're to go by what the club publicly says, I don't think he is. Sacking Hughton to bring in Potter, signing Lallana and Welbeck, all to accept being relegated? Take this article when Welbeck signed, published on the club website, headline "I can help Albion reach the top ten, says Welbeck"...

I like Neal and was delighted that he scored today. However, he did that at least twice today. Towards the beginning of the game Welbeck had beaten his man, needed support, and Maupay was merely jogging into the box. It was like he didn't actually want to get in a goal-scoring situation. Solly...

In normal circumstances a point away against almost any PL team is a good result. However, if we can't win at home and can't beat either Fulham, Burnley, West Brom, Sheffield or West Ham, who are we actually going to beat this season? That's what worries me.

Agree with all this. I’d certainly be against the death penalty being reintroduced. However, threads like these make me chuckle as it’d be interesting to see comments on the next thread about a serial child rapist/killer. I’m sure there’d be plenty of instinctive “hang him” comments, even from...

Though damning on many fronts, the most startling regression for me are the goals conceded since our first season in the Prem.

Don't worry, even in our current situation, if we can't laugh at Palace, what's the point anymore?

That’s my point entirely though: are fans increasingly feeling a sense of entitlement/expectation because the club PR department (not Potter) are fuelling it? Are they actually making his job harder by artificially increasing our expectations as fans? Take this, in the same month as those...

Since Sunday's disappointment I've been reflecting on why there's a growing divide between those who are increasingly frustrated by the way the season is panning out, and those who acknowledge this but argue "where do you expect a club like us to be?" (For the record on this theme I was talking...

Bloody nora where can you get one of those bad boys from?! :eek:

Merry Christmas everybody! :xmas:

Not disputing some of the things you claim will occur in Scotland, but today's deal doesn't make Scotland leaving the UK more likely, does it? I'm not Scottish, but if anything it'd make it marginally less likely I imagine as no-deal would have emboldened people in Scotland further to seek...

I agree. Struggling team selling their best, most dynamic midfielder halfway through a season? That would be awful business in my eyes, unless Yves is getting very itchy feet and it becomes a Pogba-type situation.

I voted Remain, but that's pretty reductionist and demeaning to 52% of the voters, don't you think? And you don't reckon many a Remain voter was brainwashed with "better together" and "leavers are robbing our kids of their future", when in reality very few Brits (especially low-income workers)...

Let's hope it'll be more Zamora than Locadia. :lolol: In all seriousness, get in Boris, well done! Great news to end the year on and chuckled at his sprouts quip. :bowdown:

:lolol: Nothing FRENCH that's for sure.

I'm inclined to agree with much of this. I just rewatched his opportunity at the end of the game and it wasn't quite as clearcut as it felt at the time. Ramsdale makes himself big and Ali J isn't quite tall enough to get over the top of it. If it had fallen to Welbeck it probably would have gone...

I can see what the OP means, however because teams inevitably change following post-seasons, this perspective is sadly a more helpful indicator to see where we are in comparison this season.

I really don't know what's different, seeing as I can instantly recall at least 2 times we scored from corners last season (Arsenal away, Spurs away).

I used to like some of Potter's unconventionality and the fact we didn't quite know who'd be not he team sheet was a pleasant breath of fresh air after CH's tenure (and I loved Chris). However, this season we go from some games finishing with 5 (yes FIVE) natural CBs on the pitch at once (Dunk...

Eddie Howe.