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Excellent performance tonight. Unbelievable that there was criticism on here at half time. You'd have been mistaken for thinking we were up against an injury hit St Mirren with Ralph Milne up front. 
 
Fully deserved win. Well organised. No poor performances (ok Ziyech still a bit iffy). Pretty much a perfect performance. 

Mount for me. Given his early booking it would have been easy for a young player to panic and go into his shell but he did the opposite. Kept his performance high bit played with a discipline that you wouldn't expect from a player of his age. 

Mount for me. Given his early booking it would have been easy for a young player to panic and go into his shell but he did the opposite. Kept his performance high bit played with a discipline that you wouldn't expect from a player of his age. 

Mount for me. Given his early booking it would have been easy for a young player to panic and go into his shell but he did the opposite. Kept his performance high bit played with a discipline that you wouldn't expect from a player of his age. 

Excellent performance tonight. Unbelievable that there was criticism on here at half time. You'd have been mistaken for thinking we were up against an injury hit St Mirren with Ralph Milne up front. 
 
Fully deserved win. Well organised. No poor performances (ok Ziyech still a bit iffy). Pretty much a perfect performance. 

Excellent performance tonight. Unbelievable that there was criticism on here at half time. You'd have been mistaken for thinking we were up against an injury hit St Mirren with Ralph Milne up front. 
 
Fully deserved win. Well organised. No poor performances (ok Ziyech still a bit iffy). Pretty much a perfect performance. 

Mount for me. Given his early booking it would have been easy for a young player to panic and go into his shell but he did the opposite. Kept his performance high bit played with a discipline that you wouldn't expect from a player of his age. 

Mount for me. Given his early booking it would have been easy for a young player to panic and go into his shell but he did the opposite. Kept his performance high bit played with a discipline that you wouldn't expect from a player of his age. 

Mount for me. Given his early booking it would have been easy for a young player to panic and go into his shell but he did the opposite. Kept his performance high bit played with a discipline that you wouldn't expect from a player of his age. 

Mount for me. Given his early booking it would have been easy for a young player to panic and go into his shell but he did the opposite. Kept his performance high bit played with a discipline that you wouldn't expect from a player of his age. 

Mount for me. Given his early booking it would have been easy for a young player to panic and go into his shell but he did the opposite. Kept his performance high bit played with a discipline that you wouldn't expect from a player of his age. 

Excellent performance tonight. Unbelievable that there was criticism on here at half time. You'd have been mistaken for thinking we were up against an injury hit St Mirren with Ralph Milne up front. 
 
Fully deserved win. Well organised. No poor performances (ok Ziyech still a bit iffy). Pretty much a perfect performance. 

Excellent performance tonight. Unbelievable that there was criticism on here at half time. You'd have been mistaken for thinking we were up against an injury hit St Mirren with Ralph Milne up front. 
 
Fully deserved win. Well organised. No poor performances (ok Ziyech still a bit iffy). Pretty much a perfect performance. 

Excellent performance tonight. Unbelievable that there was criticism on here at half time. You'd have been mistaken for thinking we were up against an injury hit St Mirren with Ralph Milne up front. 
 
Fully deserved win. Well organised. No poor performances (ok Ziyech still a bit iffy). Pretty much a perfect performance. 

Excellent performance tonight. Unbelievable that there was criticism on here at half time. You'd have been mistaken for thinking we were up against an injury hit St Mirren with Ralph Milne up front. 
 
Fully deserved win. Well organised. No poor performances (ok Ziyech still a bit iffy). Pretty much a perfect performance. 

Excellent performance tonight. Unbelievable that there was criticism on here at half time. You'd have been mistaken for thinking we were up against an injury hit St Mirren with Ralph Milne up front. 
 
Fully deserved win. Well organised. No poor performances (ok Ziyech still a bit iffy). Pretty much a perfect performance. 

Excellent performance tonight. Unbelievable that there was criticism on here at half time. You'd have been mistaken for thinking we were up against an injury hit St Mirren with Ralph Milne up front. 
 
Fully deserved win. Well organised. No poor performances (ok Ziyech still a bit iffy). Pretty much a perfect performance. 

Excellent performance tonight. Unbelievable that there was criticism on here at half time. You'd have been mistaken for thinking we were up against an injury hit St Mirren with Ralph Milne up front. 
 
Fully deserved win. Well organised. No poor performances (ok Ziyech still a bit iffy). Pretty much a perfect performance. 

Of course we are.
 
We need to be realistic about expectations whoever the manager is.
Consider our starting eleven today. Only players in it who would be considered as possible starters for a title challenging side are Mount and Kante.
You would never consider Mendy, any of that back five (Azpilicueta obviously was when in his prime), Kovacic, Abraham, or Werner (in this form) as real title challenging players. They are a level below that. Top four is a reasonable challenge with this squad. Definitely achievable but not a foregone conclusion. 

I think there are small signs that we are. In first half today we were moving the ball more crisply than we have for a long time. Mount is playing further forward than he did under Lampard which is to be welcomed and occasionally, only occasionally I'll accept, we are getting the ball from back to front more quickly. 
But yes the big concern is how ineffective we are at turning possession into clear chances. Werner is hideously lacking  in confidence. Odoi believes some fictitious hype, Ziyech appears to have surrendered already, Pulisic is a shadow of the player he has very occasionally looked like being, Kovacic puts in one good performance every 8 weeks and Jorginho can point you towards the nearest post office with great aplomb. 
That all said Tuchel, on a short space of time, has stopped us losing which we were beginning  to look like doing every week so these are steps in the right direction. 
 
 

Like Val, I miss your brother. 

I think there are small signs that we are. In first half today we were moving the ball more crisply than we have for a long time. Mount is playing further forward than he did under Lampard which is to be welcomed and occasionally, only occasionally I'll accept, we are getting the ball from back to front more quickly. 
But yes the big concern is how ineffective we are at turning possession into clear chances. Werner is hideously lacking  in confidence. Odoi believes some fictitious hype, Ziyech appears to have surrendered already, Pulisic is a shadow of the player he has very occasionally looked like being, Kovacic puts in one good performance every 8 weeks and Jorginho can point you towards the nearest post office with great aplomb. 
That all said Tuchel, on a short space of time, has stopped us losing which we were beginning  to look like doing every week so these are steps in the right direction. 
 
 

I think there are small signs that we are. In first half today we were moving the ball more crisply than we have for a long time. Mount is playing further forward than he did under Lampard which is to be welcomed and occasionally, only occasionally I'll accept, we are getting the ball from back to front more quickly. 
But yes the big concern is how ineffective we are at turning possession into clear chances. Werner is hideously lacking  in confidence. Odoi believes some fictitious hype, Ziyech appears to have surrendered already, Pulisic is a shadow of the player he has very occasionally looked like being, Kovacic puts in one good performance every 8 weeks and Jorginho can point you towards the nearest post office with great aplomb. 
That all said Tuchel, on a short space of time, has stopped us losing which we were beginning  to look like doing every week so these are steps in the right direction. 
 
 

I'm not remotely fussed about what he did to Odoi today. My biggest beef with Odoi when I was willing to let him go to Bayern was his attitude and of effort when he got game time. He struck me as someone who thought he was entitled by default. 
That seemed to have gone in the past month or so with Tuchel putting faith in him but it was back with a bang today. He coasted after coming on and once again needs a kick in the arse. Obviously didn't help that Ziyech came on and was equally sh*t.

I'm not remotely fussed about what he did to Odoi today. My biggest beef with Odoi when I was willing to let him go to Bayern was his attitude and of effort when he got game time. He struck me as someone who thought he was entitled by default. 
That seemed to have gone in the past month or so with Tuchel putting faith in him but it was back with a bang today. He coasted after coming on and once again needs a kick in the arse. Obviously didn't help that Ziyech came on and was equally sh*t.