And there’s no way West Ham are getting 9 from the next 12

We’ll beat Sunderland and Manure, a point at Newcastle but Liverpool will just have too much for us.

I’m sure it was around the 12th or 13th minute of injury time

Kalvin Phillips equaliser against Boro a few years back was later. The game where Jack Clarke had a funny turn.

Hmm, you’d like to think he might have realised that before the season started, but like you say, he got there in the end.

No I agree (not with the curing cancer thing 😂). The changes that have come about rely far more on luck than judgement. Had we gone in 0-0 HT at City we would be bottom three now. Anyway he seems to have found the basic formula and to be fair to him, he got it absolutely bang on last night.

That was tongue in cheek. My take on it is similar to yours I imagine. HT at Citeh was a last throw of the dice following a stubborn refusal to accept the obvious. The evidence of that second half was too much to ignore so here we are.

Either way, he has forced himself back into a job that I, for one, was desperate for him to lose. Long may this current version of Farke continue.

We all saw the non-performances against Brighton and Burnley and a manager who seemed devoid of any idea of how to change things. Has he been forced to compromise his principles for BBB (Big Bastards Ball) or was this the plan all along?

What a load of bollocks, the bloke works his socks off

Neil Aspin

Thanks for the smile advice, and I agree 17th place would be great. The fact remains that Brentford had key players out, and regardless of their home record, were shit. Willy on at HT or on 60 mins and we win that game. A decent coach sees that.

It’s not bollocks. Before the game I’d have probably taken a point but they were dire and we should have been brave enough to make earlier changes. There won’t be many away games where we dominate and we should have got Gnonto on and gone at them. Their full backs were poor.

No pressure on us then though was there

Just excuses. They’ve got 19 points, they’re one the poorest sides in the league.

Give over, these are exactly the games where we have to get something and confidence should be high after last week.