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Just now, Joelinton7 said:

Eddie’s shithouse Mags are back

 

https://x.com/jordancronin_/status/1776662921948344368?s=46&t=DcLbGwd6hoDY9gGMy-ZgEw

I thought it was obvious and was wondering what the sign was for Dubs to go down.

4 minutes ago, Holmesy said:

Wasn’t the whole criticism of Howe that he didn’t put Burn at CB? He kept Livra at RB, put Krafth at CB (and we conceded immediately) Burn at LB and only changed it when Livra got injured.

No, some people were criticizing Howe for not putting Krafth at CB (??). Tino LB, Burn LCB, Schär RCB, Krafth RB was the backline after the Lascelles injury.

Are you commenting on a match you didn't see?

6 minutes ago, Holmesy said:

When you’re conceding 3 goals per game, something is badly wrong. We’re weaker at RB, the keeper is the same, one of the CBs is the same. What else has changed?

Burn has been much better at LCB in this short stint than Botman had been since his return from the injury. That's honestly the main change for these couple of games.

2 minutes ago, Holmesy said:

I’m not sure I follow - Burn played LB for most of that game didn’t he?! 

17 minutes and the match was 1-0 to us when he moved to CB.

Just now, Holmesy said:

The stats just don’t back that up at all. And we can’t really be more solid defensively than not conceding. 

But I’m at risk of sounding like a broken record so let’s just agree to disagree. 
 

The stats are from a two game sample size that conveniently cuts out the three goals conceded against West Ham ffs.

I would guarantee we would be even more solid if we had BDB at LB and BDB at LCB simultaneously. Putting any improvement down to not having him at LB is disrespecting him badly. 

Very happy that he's done so well at CB though, makes things a lot simpler in the summer window.

He's been fine at LB too despite the mass hysteria. Had a poor 10 minutes against fresh Bailey and then poor games against Luton and Nottingham but that's pretty much it.

If he was injured when he stole the ball and got kicked, it definitely only looked like a knock and hopefully nothing more serious. He's searching for his form but we simply need every player possible to just be available for this stretch. 

12 minutes ago, Begbie said:

Great to get the 3 points, but that was a shit show.

 

What I notice is that some of the players arent listening to the instructions from Howe. Ie. Often this season you can see Howe screaming to Gordon and try to get him to track back but he looks like not responding. Gordon has been one of our best players this season, imo before xmas he was tracking more back. The way Howe wants us to play(like we played last season) everyone has to be on board and work for each other, is he starting to loose some players? I cant see Bruno and Isak wanting to stay if we in the future play like we have done for most of this season. 

Hard-fought 1-0 away win with half the squad missing and you are speculating if Howe has lost the players? Fucking desperate to have a whinge.

10 minutes ago, Shak said:

What's the directive for refs when they're sent to the monitor? Feels they almost have to agree with the VAR?

It's a garbage system, think the on-field ref has gone against VAR only once or twice in the PL after going to the monitor. Baffles my mind why the ref can't be called there (or go there by himself as he's not sure about his decision) and make a decision based on what he sees from the replays. 

You could tell the ref today wasn't keen about disallowing that goal but went with the easy decision ie. follow the protocol.

Just now, Kid Icarus said:

Maybe I need a rematch, my first reaction was that he had some blunders, poor balls, and was losing runners. I thought Burn was the imperious one of the two.

Aye. He was class after the injury but definitely below his usual standards and gifted them their best chance from absolutely nothing.

5 minutes ago, Ronaldo said:

Great win. Schar and Bruno absolutely imperious. We lack so much quality in the final ball but eff all can be done until summer about that.

Schär was imperious despite the massive Bramble moment?

Thought Burn was imperious, especially after some posters said he can't play CB at all.

GTFI!!!!!!!

Looked even less like a foul from the other angle, never enough to chalk off a goal.

Never a foul

Fuck off

Murphy has been a legit 1/10 today, 1 for arriving at the right stadium. 

9 minutes ago, Mikky said:

Doubt he’ll do anything - not got the balls 

Based on...?

What could he even do apart from bringing Barnes on?

Krafth did well there, accidentally or not. Burn and Schär with poor communication.

Fab with a shocking mistake, Fulham really fucked that up.

Gordon close, better couple of minutes now.

Lovely ball from Longstaff and Isak somehow failed to handle it.

Murphy should wake up soon.

Brilliant from the ref in Norwich-Ipswich. Not so brilliant from Sargent.

He's worth the money Bruno is on right now, Bruno is still underpaid though.