If (and I appreciate it's an if) we win against West Ham then they will only be two points ahead of us. I'm not ready to throw the towel in yet. Watching West Ham last night they have a lot of quality individuals but I can't see them sitting as deep or being as disciplined as Newcastle. They let a fairly average Brighton team take them apart on the break and defensively they look weak. Plus they have Joe Hart in goal.

The big question will be does Roy stick with the same team again?

Normal service resumed. Usual 1-0 hapless defeat. We all knew it.

Correct. It was a total shambles in which van Aanholt was particularly implicated. Given the sitters that he missed it's time he got dropped.

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No (to it being a free header). JM headed the ball against their players head at close range. It was very unlucky as it made the ball go pretty quickly and loop towards the goal.

Edited by johnno42000 (21 Oct 2017 5.38pm)

'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'

What cost us today is lack of a striker and lack of gk. Two things that everybody knew we needed in July...but on the last day of the transfer window we decided to spunk all our money on another centre back giving us 5 or 6 players competing for 2 places. At that point our fate was already sealed. All we are seeing now is the evidence of what catastrophically stupid decisions were made.

Unless Brighton, Bournemouth and Huddersfield drop points 40 points might not even be safe this season.

We were poor last season and we just got lucky to stay up under BFS. Our main striker under performed and now got injured - perhaps one Frazier Campbell is better than none. The management should have improved the squad and prepared us for the current season but they didn't. With 21 points lost since the start of season and no striker probably till Jan could we catch up ?