Richards done well, not an easy place to go and win . Respect the point .

All this talk about playing Franca suggests that posters on here see him train week in, week out, and also have experience of competing in top flight football.

I've only seen Franca once personally, at Selhurst, and he was a f***ing random generator, tilted towards doing more harm than good.

Hopefully he'll be a cracking player in time, but a point at West ham with the injuries we've got isn't to be sniffed at, and the idea that Roy should roll the dice because we are bored is f***ing mind blowing. He'll play when the manager, who wants to win far more than any of us by the way, thinks he's more likely to be helpful than not.

Spot on, as always, Southnorwood. Remember that Roy has managed in Italy. He'd rather win 1-0 than 5-0,

Think he made a crucial save in overtime which saved the point.

I thought Hughes was poor today ,Richards is extremely one paced and is never a midfielder, Ayew put in a good shift , the central defence was rock solid , and Olise had a few moments but my MOTM was Lerma , who i thought had his best match so far for us. I also thought if we had two out of Schlup, Eze or Dacoure available we would have won

I have only seen brief cameos by him. I recall he came on for the last bit of the Spurs game and looked somewhat wayward - perhaps trying too hard to impress.

But we did pay somewhere around 20 million for him and naturally supporters take from this that he wasn't bought to play for the under 21s, and was considered a near future starter for the first team rather than a long term project.