I respectfully disagree - he had a fabulous game against us. If he played that well during Burnley's previous matches, I very much doubt they would have lost so many.
Or where we might have been without Estupinan, Enciso, March, Webster, Welbeck Fati, Lamptey injured, Veltman unavailable, no actually fullbacks fit so Gross, Hinch or Milner having to play there or we just have to change our tactics, and not to bring on youngsters or start them where their development is now through necessity not choice of giving them minutes.
I know, we should all take a leaf out the Athens fan I stood near
As Del Boy would say, I thought he was gonna have a Connery 
Spot on.
What I meant was that there's no such thing as a bogey team, just arbitrary statistical anomalies. Some people actually think that past results have an impact on current/future likelihood. If there's no causal relationship, it's just random and just as easily change as stay the same. The law of averages says that any two teams of roughly similar ability (same division) playing each other fairly regularly over a period will have a spread of results. Well, except that the home side and/or the form team will have a statistically better chance. However the law of averages also says that another pair of teams will exhibit a different pattern, and one that proves the general rule. So all things being equal, if Burnley, say, had not been beaten by Brighton in 20 meetings, that gives no extra likelihood that Brighton won't win on the 21st meeting. You can flip a coin 20 times.and come up with heads every time. The 21st go will still be 50:50. The only exceptions might be if you believe in hexes or black magic. Or if the players are so superstitious that they start quaking with fear before the game and play much worse as a result.
The 'reality' is that we should be beating relegation sides at home. I can excuse a blip, and I totally understand the injury situation of course. But to slip up against Burnley, Sheff Utd and Fulham is poor, I'm afraid. I'll say again that I'm a pretty positive person but the Burnley result just got to me. I'll shut up about it now.
The reality is that we are now a team where relegation teams go to park the bus.
We are all waiting to see what we want/we're going to do about it!
It wasn't Lallana’s best day yesterday, but to lump the two of them together like this is a nonsense.
Time for a reality check. Stop and consider the age and experience of our youngsters, and also how much this side has been assembled for.
But it's a physical game , lalana can't run and can't tackle Milner can. We got away with Lalana when Mac and Caicedo did all the heavy work but their replacements don't do that. Lalana also slows the play. Much prefer Gross to be the orchestrator who also is slow but not as slow, can score and creates more incisive chances. All about opinions....
Couldn’t disagree more about Lallana, can’t run and can’t tackle.. well that’s not really his job is it? We had Baleba and Dahoud who should be doing the running and tackling, Lallana was finding pockets and some of our players couldn’t pass the parcel in the first half yesterday let alone the ball, he thrives when we play technical quick football, in the first half yesterday we did the opposite of that, it was like watching slow motion football at times.
It's all about opinions. The problem is Baleba and Dahoud aren't good enough , the latter being more of a concern. As regards whose job well that's not how it works in a RDZ team is it , all players have to contribute the system and that includes running back and defending. Agree he can pick a god pass but so can Gross & Gilmour and the former can score.
I'm not lumping them in together necessarily.
I remember beating West Ham away and their fans and players for that matter saying exactly the same thing about us. It’s a ridiculous thing to say as it’s all about context not just looking at the league table.
