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I did, yeh. Did you?

The idiot in the room is an idiot.

Nope, not arguing with myself at all. I’ve been consistent in my analysis: we were shit. My point is that the excuses you give don’t justify a performance that poor. I think they justify looking below par and a bit knackered; not being unable to pass the ball to your own teammates or having no identifiable offensive strategy.

Yes - I’m agreeing with you. My point is that the reasons and excuses are meh for me. We played poorly against a poor side.

All valid. We were still shit. That’s all I’m saying: today, we were shit. We are of course allowed some off days, but I’m allowed to call them such.

No go on - try me, please!

Sure; but still shit.

This NO CRITICISM ALLOWED!!1!111!!! argument is my beef. We deserve much criticism today, we were shit. That’s all most are saying.

Totally see the big picture. To be clear: we are having a great season. I am very impressed with all involved. However, today’s performance was shit. I’m not saying it invalidates everything, but today’s performance was undoubtedly not a good performance. It’s brain-rot to disagree. We passed the ball to the other side over and over again.

Cool - care to meet the argument with an actual argument as opposed to cliche after cliche? I suspect you don’t have one.

That’s not what I’m arguing. I’m arguing it’s a needless gamble. Sounds like we agree, really!

Difference for me is we played well in those games. We didn’t today. Nobody is saying we expect a win every match, some are just saying we didn’t play well today. Round and round and round and round….

And the reaction by others has been too casual and anti-factual.

Boring. I’m very disappointed with our performance today. Howe said he was too - should he “give his head a shake”? Get out of the echo chamber.

Disingenuous argument; he’s been injured most of the season. He’d have come on today and would get minutes over the next month in my view. None of our midfielders outside Bruno can play a through ball; he can. Stupid gamble.

Sure, but you did refer to fans as “fickle and entitled arseholes”. Nothing fickle or entitled about massive disappointment at today’s wretched performance.

Would you mind explaining how insisting a player sticks to his contract would demotivate the squad? He wanted to leave for money and job security, but we don’t have depth. I’d rather protect our interests than his.

And I think that was a mistake. A firm but polite no would have been my move. We don’t have a deep enough squad.

Fine - sell in summer. Need a squad and he’s more than capable as a squad player.

Think people are concerned and it’s fair enough. We’re not playing well, and today was a very poor performance.

Calling people entitled for saying today was shit?! No it doesn’t. That was a bad performance. You’re thick if you think otherwise.

What’s really dull about the entitlement brigade is that they won’t acknowledge what they just saw: that was a very poor performance. Leeds draw we battered them, arsenal draw was very creditable, Palace draw we battered them without creating, West Ham we edged it. All of those draws are fine and I take no issue with them. But today we looked like we’d met each other for the first time and couldn’t do the basics. That was just a bad show, stop pretending otherwise.

Such a shit take. We played badly today, it’s anti-factual to suggest otherwise. Folk are rightly miffed. They’re championship bound, have a mediocre squad and a sub-mediocre manager in literally his first job. It’s fine to be held by a team that plays well but today we held them, just. Worst performance of the season. Hate the “well it’s a point” argument. Fuck that, we were rubbish.

Mediocre again. We really need to have a rethink about how we attack.

I mean do whatever you need to do to maintain a great season and address the the fact that we’re clearly running out of steam.