Gav you don't half talk some rubbish. You've lumped me in with some people you've identified apparently arguing that things aren't better than last season Who" Straw man? My comments after the game were overwhelmingly positive:
"Hard to take that result. We were clearly the better side. We had a big period of domination mid-first half but couldn't make it count. I was feeling very uneasy just before they scored as they had a 10 minutes of possession in our half for just about the first time in the game. And a real scrappy, ugly goal was the outcome.
We didn't create many clear chances tbh for all our possession and Armstrong scuffed just about all of them.
Gallagher is a tremendous worker but what a poor first touch.
Our man of the match for me was Rothwell, he's going to be some player. Elliott showed sublime skills, Liverpool have a lot to look forward to there.
Defence had them in their pocket.
Just one of those games I'm afraid.Like Bournemouth again."
You might remember that post Gav----you "liked' it after all!
What you've done is to take some later posts out of context. I was aiming at those blaming the defence for the defeat, I though they played pretty well but one slip or favourable bounce happens in any game. When it happened to us it shouldn't have changed the result because we had dominated them from start to almost finish.
Finally I stand by my comments that we created no clear chances ie where I leaped up and shouted "Gosh he should have put that one away. What a pity" (or words to that effect"!
That includes Ayala's routine header from a routine corner. Hardly a piece of creation Gav.