About as stonewall as you’ll get. Remarkable it wasn’t given on pitch.

We tried to buy him from Charlton for a reason! Quality player. Not sure he’s under the radar as an England regular though. Always been better than Mings.

From a Brighton fan at the game, he played well enough. Konsa’s cover was invaluable though - every time Mitoma had him Konsa was there, great reading of the game. It’s an incredibly strong right defensive pairing.

Don’t need to I guess. No one is fooled by Brady et al’s arguments that they can manage themselves. Too much lived experience of objectively good owners (Ashley and Levy for ex) being clearly bad for football. Their arguments ring hollow and don’t line up with fans’ experiences.

Man of the match for me John (though that’s extremely harsh on the exceptional Rutter). Left Chelsea looking toothless.

A leak says we are getting a release on 31 March 2025 so it depends how keen you are to play. If you play on PC (rather than Mac) it may be worth doing a 14 day gamepass trial as FM24 is included in that until the release of FM25

We are 9th ffs. What are you on about? Bloom didn’t sack Hyppia ffs, he’s not going to sack Hurzeler for being 6 points off a European place.

Shite so far today but isn’t the real issue that we spent £70m on midfielders in the summer and only have one fit academy graduate available?

I’ve been told the club voted for replays to stay (alongside Brentford and Bournemouth) at a PL meeting on it, despite PBOBE’s open reservations.

On PC it’s incredibly easy, we played weekly in lockdown. Zoom call, share screen, bingo.

In my mind at least!

In all seriousness, he’s been considerably improved in the last three but still not up to speed of the PL imo. A long way of Gilmour’s quality so far. Think we are really missing him.

He had an okay game John but I’d be hesitant to say he’s had a game that’s justified the outlay so far. Really low quality watch today. Glad to take a point in the end.

Cheers James. The Premier League is the best league in the world because 15 of the teams believe that they’re good enough to finish in the top 8.

Be in the mix with ten games to go and you’ve got a chance!

I can’t see a top 5 finish (and I couldn’t at the start of the year). Too many big teams having poor starts that won’t continue (see Chelsea last year - UTD and Spurs this year).

Ultimately it’s a season of transition and we’re doing brilliantly to be where we are after so much change in the summer