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Just now, cubaricho said:

 

And yet they all have bigger squads?

And players well accustomed to it. And, to emphasise, they haven’t had to do it with half their squad missing. 

The players do look broken physically, emotionally and psychologically. I feel really sad for them, it’s just a horrible, horrible confluence of circumstances.

That’s as obviously wrong as the mbappe pen. It’s not feeling like coincidence anymore, it’s ridiculous.

That’s inexplicably poor

It’s concerning how consistently second best in every aspect of the game we are in every match. I can’t find anything positive to say about us.

I reckon they got that to make up for joelinton not getting one. Inconceivably bad call otherwise 

1 hour ago, Dokko said:

Narrow defeat with no injuries and possibly a few mins for a few players returning is about the best result we can hope for. 

A win is the best result we can hope for.

Victim of his own success and I think people are ignoring or downplaying the physical and emotional fatigue. The players obviously look tired because they’re not running as much or as effectively and they’re losing control / skying chances where they wouldn’t normally. I remain of the opinion that I’m not sure what else he was supposed to do bar train and play less intensely prior to the injury madness, but a good number of the injuries dont seem to be caused by physical intensity.

I’ve seen managers sacked for less in this insane industry, but to bin off Howe now would be to delegitimise the ownership. 
 

I hope he’ll be fine and think he still benefits from massive caveats. 

Absolute freak show of a season. All the statistical anomalies happening every match against us. Of course Wood scored. Of fucking course Wood scored.

Wood will score. It’s been that kind of season.

We’ll end up beating Liverpool and villa away and twatting Sunderland. I’m high on the confidence of multiple pigs in blankets rn 

Just now, Hanshithispantz said:

If the opposition are fitter they can close down space more effectively making passing opportunities harder. We've done it ourselves brilliantly for 2 years.

This is fair. I’d have thought our players being more talented might have counted for more today. 

1 minute ago, Hanshithispantz said:

I mean in hindsight we maybe could have tried to implement a more passive playstyle but I doubt he's going to do it at Christmas.

 

In spite of having about 15 fit players we've hardly 'disgraced' ourselves outside of a handful of games (Everton, Bournemouth, Tottenham). The Milan performance was mostly great and we were massively unlucky agai st Chelsea despite being dead on our feet. Today wasn't even that bad, Luton were good and have been for a little while now, we did enough to earn a point.

In my view we disgraced ourselves today. We were not at the required level to win a match, we were outfought and outthought. I consider that to be a disgrace.

I’m sorry but I consider it unprofessional if a football team persistently can’t pass to each other. We weren’t executing basics - that’s why I said unprofessional. It also did look a bit lazy to me, we didn’t seem to really push for anything. Second to most loose balls.

6 minutes ago, Hanshithispantz said:

"We're a highly physical side who have a severely depleted squad, who have been playing in the most conjested point of the season in 2 extra competitions" Eddie Howe probably.

 

 

 

Is it fair to ask whether he’s considered having to adapt and play a different way? It looks like we’re trying to but not succeeding. I’m not going over the top in my opinion, that was a poor performance and we’ve not looked competitive in quite a few matches in a row.

Good teams find a way to get results. We are not finding that way too often to claim to be a good team right now. Questions to answer for manager, squad and club in January. Petrified of the mackems match now.

Simply put that wasn’t good enough. The manager and players need to sit down and discuss what they think is going wrong, and then the manager needs to have a similar conversation with the board with a view to righting the ship in January. The season is in serious danger of skidding off course. I’m not letting them have “fatigue” for that - that was uninterested, lacking in heart, lazy, unprofessional and incompetent.

Wow, Bruno. 

Just now, SiLvOR said:

Think there's genuine questions about our away form that goes beyond "everyone's fucking knackered." Howe really needs to adapt us to be more threatening. We've hardly had a shot on target against a newly promoted team. That's just shit.

Yes, hence a bit of credit being used up 

They’re not going to sack him but i would imagine a bit of credit in the bank has been used up. Not much, but a bit. 

Just now, prefabtoon said:

Howe has never won a thing in football and this is what happens when you take second best. 

Unai Emery was Our main target but when he declined we just panicked and went for howe.

You can all moan as much as you like. But this is my opinion.

 

Sure, but my opinion is that your opinion has no basis in fact and could only really be reached by an imbecile.

There is a simple inability to execute the basics of football today. Just desperate for a break, can’t believe how quickly things are unravelling for us.

2 minutes ago, prefabtoon said:

Continue supporting a manager who is out of his depth.

But to be clear you think Mourinho would be in his depth?

Just now, prefabtoon said:

Bring in Mourinho Howe has lost the plot.

Continue jogging 

The performance is getting worse. We’ve been bullied and have taken it without much of a fight.