James

Although Krafth might be back soon he wasn’t registered for the Champions League, so he is out. Gillespie, Ritchie, Alex Murphy, and Diallo are also unregistered so there will be significant changes to our subs bench required.

I look nicer in blue

had a shower earlier thanks

I don’t like to blow my own trumpet however I have recorded a few stats of my playing career to date (see below) and must reflect and say ‘not bad’

Sometimes we have to fail, learn and move on. Even with a lower than expected league position (if that is what happens), there have been clear and obvious challenges this season and yet we’ve already had some memorable wins and will surely get some more, so it’s still going to be a positive season. Having said that, we do need to make sure we are learning and there is some reflecting to be done, for Howe, for Ashworth, and the owners: Stand Up to the PL Cartel I feel that we are a bit passive when it seems like for a second time the PL are prepared to change rules mid season, directly targeted at ourselves. Start showing some backbone. Injuries There is some bad luck this year, but let’s face it, we’ve been bad for decades particularly when in Europe, and also Howe had a bad record for this at Bournemouth. We need an investigation and action plan. Tonali This is a shambles and negatively affects our squad building plan and I’m still really angry about this and we should be taking any options available to us to recoup finance. Strikers Having our only fit winger leading the line is ridiculous, in the short term we should move Joelinton here. in actuality though we are in the same position we were in in January 2022 when we signed Chris Wood. Eyebrows were rightly raised when I said we should have kept Wood, but if we got rid we had to replace him, yet we hadn’t. Even a Daryl Murphy type of signing would have done the trick. Bruno we need to work out why we can’t win without Bruno

Chris Wood…

Who is the Sibierski of 2023?

We made a mistake selling Wood in my view. as we have goals all over the team we don’t need striker 3 to be be superb, just a body either with top league experience or with great potential.

Im in favour of having a good go at Europa, I think our group of death has been a big problem in how it has restricted us in rotating the squad and to stop this happening in future seasons we need to build up our coefficient.

Still the right call to ease him in after his ACL

Don’t understand how we have two player out with a lower back stress fracture

didn’t Ritchie just start our demolition of Man Utd. add in the ex-club facto and he’d be fine for Bournemouth.

Dont ever remember him defending Mike Ashley. Plus there have been many accounts of him protecting some of the younger players from the worst of Steve Bruce.

the Athletic explained this. We can only dock six weeks of wages. Beyond that the provisions in his contract would allow us to sack him, but we aren’t allowed to hold his registration and suspend his pay.

this type of contract provision has effectively been banned by the unions. Maximum fine is six weeks wages

United forever Whatever the weather Less than a hundred percent? Never!

Wish people would stop calling him a left back out of position at centre back. his whole career he has clearly been a centre back playing out of position at left back

Andy Cole you’re Outstanding

Actually I think we’ve done well to have this many players out but still be able to deliver a strong first XI. My main concern is up front as with game intensive periods there is too much to ask from one striker if the other is injured. I don’t think it is ideal to potentially now have to play Gordon or Joelinton up top, not a great fit and further weakens our depleted midfield. I think we will regret selling Wood more than we regretted selling ASM. We need a cheap workhorse as our third choice striker.

Glandular fever is so unpredictable so Miley could be back next week, or he could be out for the season

One of the weakest subs bench’s I have ever seen us with. completely inadvertent, but still…

Yikes

Anderson is trapped in the Phantom Zone Worrying

It is a common misconception that he won’t get paid. as pointed out by the Athletic, Toney continues to receive full salary, and even if he is banned for three years, the maximum pay the club can deduct is six weeks as per current playing contract regulations.

So Tonali brought U21 players into an illegal underworld of loan sharks threatening to break their legs, and we want to continue to allow him to be near Lewis Miley???