1 minute ago, timetowaste said:

Omg this is so f**king annoying to watch. How is a team with this amount of talent in it playing like a load of absolute donkeys.

Spoiler: Maresca is a sh*t manager

When you have such a negative manager that refuses to budge on these sh*tty tactics. His ego is going to be his downhill.

2 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Hey guys Garnacho's playing!

Is anyone apart from Sanchez playing?

1 minute ago, chelseablueboy said:

The consolation is we aren't going in losing, but the display has been as bad as Leeds

At least at Leeds we had the excuse it was a second string team

What a pathetically poor half of football. You can't win playing like this, just so passive, just so slow, just so sh*t. Nobody likes this brand of football, and if the players are fine with it, then they have no ambition.

Only VAR + Sanchez (remarkably) have kept it even at HT, inspirational Maresca team talk to set the boys on 🔥 for the second anybody ? 😂

6 minutes ago, Zola_25Fan said:

I would have kept him on the bench for the next few games. Seems like him coming back has disrupted the rhythm.

What rhythm ?

This sh*t football finally coming home to roost.

No more is individuals quality bailing us out like at the start of the season.

This is a delightfully tinpot ground. Capacity is about 10k, you can hear the individual shouts from the coaches and see terraced houses in the gaps between the stands. Sounds like they're even doing a half-time tombola!

So... People actually like watching this?

Spoiler: Maresca is a sh*t manager

What news!!

2 minutes ago, Valerie said:

My big question to keep myself entertained is Do we have white gloves to match the white shirt?

I think there's a white flag somewhere

Dont know what everyone’s moaning about? We were 1-0 down when I flicked on and we’ve battled our way back to a 0-0

Just now, Victor90 said:

So... People actually like watching this?

Apparently the sporting directors and owners do.

Everton 1 point behind us & Palace go above us with a win.

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

What a pathetically poor half of football. You can't win playing like this, just so passive, just so slow, just so sh*t. Nobody likes this brand of football, and if the players are fine with it, then they have no ambition.

We used to create chances for fun before, yeah we would miss 90% of them but you saw something.

These days we barely create anything, so many games we barely get a sniff on goal.

Fofana the only player to come out of that half with some credit. Absolutely not at it as a unit, especially in midfield where we can barely hold the ball. Caicedo FC

Delap dislocated shoulder.

Get well soon and all that, but this was caused because you were too busy fighting players instead of playing football.

Lad is gone next summer at this rate.

Edited December 6, 2025Dec 6 by Sconnie Blue

Easy folks. Maresca the Magician will hypnotise the players into think they're 1970's Brazil. 3-0 win incoming. You heard it here first 🙂

Another typically below par 45 minutes of football by us. Second best all over the park and Bournemouth must be kicking themselves that they don't have a one or two goal lead.

Palmer looks massively rusty as you might expect and Garnacho largely ineffective.

However, once again, the player offering as much to us as Shaq O'Neill did to the world cup draw, is Enzo. He has contributed nothing either defensively or creatively. He is the main reason Bournemouth are strolling through the middle of the park and getting onto our back four.

However he will get his normal 90 minutes. It is pathetic.

We should be dominating the midfield, they are without their best 2 and yet they are cutting through us.

Usual stuff, walking football and too many passes to get from one end to the other. Does Maresca not see that we are too slow and it gives the opposition time to regroup everytime.

We have crossed the ball ONCE in the first half.. shameful for a top team.

7 minutes ago, Cfc91 said:

What is Gusto doing? Defensive liability like I haven’t witnessed since Malang Sarr (except for that one match)

He always looks bang average and yet starts almost every game even though Maresca claims to be rotating. Very strange

This football is an abomination. We're making it look so complicated and almost impossible to even create some decent chances.

Also, Michael Oliver is so sh*t. No challenges that warranted a booking, really? Giving Bournemouth virtually everything.

Hopefully, We have players with exceptional talent that will bail us out. Despite the lack of good management.

Today we need a different game plan. This one is not working. We look to our manager. . .

1 minute ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Delap dislocated shoulder.

Get well soon and all that, but this was caused because you were too busy fighting players instead of playing football.

Lad is gone next summer at this rate.

Told you he and Kittens will be sold in the summer, there are 2 better players coming in, lets hope that Coco the clown follows them out of the door

5 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

This is a delightfully tinpot ground. Capacity is about 10k, you can hear the individual shouts from the coaches and see terraced houses in the gaps between the stands. Sounds like they're even doing a half-time tombola!

I actually like it from long ago visits when it was called Dean Court, it used to be set in a park back then, don't know if it still is mind.