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Tbh, I don't think that West Brom team could cut through butter like butter.

We did what we had to do. Back four all played very well. Onyeka's exactly what we needed, and whilst he didn't have any real sighters on goal, I thought Wright played very well with his back to goal; some excellent hold-up play and lay offs.

Second half was less ridiculous, but the first half was a baffling performance.

Get in. Did what we had to do in that half, no drama.

Tbf, the MvE and Thomas bookings were tghe right decisions. Both professional fouls to prevent a break. Saka's wasn't soft, it was an unfathomable case of mistaken identity. There's no question at all that Onyeka deserved a yellow.

Professional. Just have to avoid doing anything stupid. Comical performance from the referee. Onyeka definitely deserved a yellow, but Saka didn't. At the end he was waiting for them to take a shot. You don't do that, ref; it's not rugby, you don't have to wait until the phase of play is over.

Much backstabbing at the Hawthorns to come.

Indeed! Forgot Allen. His mum was very heavily pregnant with him. The bag of essentials had probably been packed in anticipation by that point.

Only Bidwell and Wilson would have been. Grimes' mum would have been pregnant with him.

88-89. Killer actually missed the pen against their makeshift goalie.

I thought that was Drury, tbh. It's all bombastic nonsense as far as I am concerned. He was the subject of great Squires cartoon, though.

We completely dominated the first half. Second half, they were only the better team if you take the better team as being the one that dominates possession. That was a deliberate ploy; as you rightly state, the high intensity and aggression of the first half was not sustainable, hence the...

Tbf, the squad they came up with was for the most part an above average League 1 squad, so they needed players they knew could perform at this level. That's their modus operandi; spunk loads on a new squad whenever they need one, because they don't have to think about cash turnover. It's...

Tbf, War and Peace is about familial relationships in Tsarist Russia and how they're affected by the Napoleonic wars, and I bet it would be less revered if it were about you needing to give a new signing more time.

Christ, are these terrible puns ova now?

No, nothing clear cut, but a couple they could have made more of. They obviously had the shot off the post, and there was one quite late on where it seemed to open up on the edge of the box for one of their forwards, but he hit it straight at Rushworth. Based on chances / half chances across...

That just reads like sulky fans whose team have just lost a big game. No biggy. If someone's got abuse walking back to their car, though, then you can understand why they're pissed off. Can't stand that shit. Morons.

I never know how serious people are with belief in these things. Our Middlesbrough supporting friend seems fairly convinced; he may just be enjoying how annoyed it makes me, though. It does stretch back a long time; in fact, in the league, to the very dawn of time itself. From the Big Bang and...

Because we've been tactically more astute, more clinical, showed more desire, and just generally been better than you in those games. We haven't had '20 years of hurt' against Norwich. Most of that time we weren't in the same division, and for a lot of the time that we were, they just had a...

It isn't. There's clearly some psychology going on there, but in recent years, it's mostly been that they play a brand of physical football that our teams have generally struggled against. This year, we just let them off the hook, and it was extremely frustrating. It's really boring that we...