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How would you identify them from this information?

Loose connections but through someone who works with him and whose kids are at same school.

Saudi-bound in the summer.

58 minutes ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

God forbid we'd try something different.

Right? So fucking unimaginative to just retread the maroon and blue again. At least do it in stripes or something.

A white kit with green as the main alternate colour on it seems weird given that almost the same thing happened last season. 

14 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

There's absolutely no excuse not to have stripes on the back, like. It's a purely commercial choice as it encourages consumers to pay extra for names and numbers. 

 

Makes for an easier paint job on Subbuteo figures mind. 

The most incredibly esoteric silver lining

Well played. Justifying his presence in the team. Actually bringing some things we’ve lacked without Joelinton. 

Got to play Murphy so he can repeat the screamer and whale yawn celebration 

Probably a van full of casino chips and playing cards with sachets of dolmio 

Maybe the van had a crashing addiction? Adrenaline junkie trying to revive the highs of travelling across free borders. 
 

wont somebody please think of the van 

On 29/03/2024 at 19:53, The Butcher said:

Nee cunt gives a fuck about your van. Hundreds of billions care about NUFC, an institution which Tonali betrayed.

 

I care about the van

Pisser that it’s another 12:30. Need the crowd for this one with half the squad dead so more liquid accumulation time would have done us a lot of good.

People have moved onto Longstaff as misery flavour of the month. 

Yup, that’s Howe shown.

Is it not Almiron?

33 minutes ago, Matt1892 said:

You just asked how we keep up the pressing as if it was a reason for us not changing things up, then when it is pointed out to you that we don’t press effectively anymore you claim it shows Howe’s tactical flexibility by stopping us pressing.

No, you fucking dullard. I am saying that he is instructing us to press less because he’s having to adapt tactically to the personnel available and the levels of fatigue / physical possibility. 

It’s grating enough to read your incorrect analysis spouted like a hot take of concrete factual certainty, but you then take it to another level telling people what their points are when you’ve misunderstood in the first place.

Genuinely: you don’t have the brain or knowledge for this. 
 

7 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

Don’t get me wrong I understand the reasoning, just saying I wouldn’t have minded seeing us try out a low block (we did so to some degree at home to Wolves and we looked really solid).

Ah fair enough. Maybe wouldn’t work vs West Ham who weren’t attacking; they invited us to take the initiative and tried to hit us on the counter (doing so effectively a few times). If anything this discussion is further evidence of Howe’s tactical flexibility within a system. 

Yeh tbf pointlessly philosophical argument. I guess at Arsenal he spends a lot of time watching his team in the opposing half. Nonetheless a really weird thing to say.

2 minutes ago, SUPERTOON said:

In fairness, we haven’t pressed that effectively for a while now.

Perhaps because we’re having to be more balanced because of the injuries, totally undermining the already wrong point that he offers no tactical flexibility. 

I can’t help you. Mind how you go.

1 minute ago, worthy said:

The man has said that he has difficulties concentrating for 45 minutes, let alone 90. Not a great thing to say as a goalie

I completely missed that. If that’s accurate then yes, best avoided. Although, being pedantic, does a goalie need to concentrate for a full 90?

Just now, Matt1892 said:

The option would be you drop the defenders back to make more of a low block, then you would look at dropping 2 of the midfielders to slightly deeper so you don’t create a space between them and the defence, then pushing the other midfielder slightly forward to link between them and the attack.

 

It would give you a formation similar to Liverpool and Brighton then and would cut out a lot of the issues with being exposed at the back.

And what about the sacrifice of attacking intent and pressing which that involves? 

If you think Howe is actually inflexible then in my view you’re not watching the games or you don’t understand football beyond surface level. Clearly on Saturday our tactics changed to overloading their right back with hall, Anderson and Barnes and we went all out attack with the fullbacks. One can make tactical changes without fundamentally changing the formation. he sacrificed 2 defensive positions for an offensive overwhelm and he was richly, totally and justly rewarded.

1 minute ago, Matt1892 said:

Players being injured doesn’t mean he can’t change the tactics involving the players he does put out, it is absolutely ridiculous to think we can’t deviate from the standard 4-3-3 with a high line no matter the players we put on the pitch.

 

If you have a keeper that you rely on to sweep allowing you to play a high line, then that keeper is injured and the replacement can’t sweep, you don’t carry on playing that high line, especially when you are shipping a high number of goals in the process.

 

 

You really must write all this to the manager - I’m genuinely concerned he’s not noticed or thought about it.

DCL will score; it’s that season. Hope we just attack them constantly with no let up as long as we physically can.

4 minutes ago, ShootShoot said:

Its called being a realist 

I profoundly disagree with you. It’s being miserable and unduly focused on negatives. 
 

Either way, as you’ve so eloquently said, your opinion is yours and you’re entitled to it. Have fun with it.