Decky

To be fair our struggles are coming in the Premier League and Champions League. This lot are getting hammered at home to Coventry. We'll have far too much quality for them.

If we have a bad January and lose to the mackems I can see a substantial section of the fanbase turning against Howe. It would be a real shame for it to happen but football fans are fickle. Given how difficult January looks we have to beat Forest in a few days, a bad result there will only make it way worse.

Fucking dreading us going to Anfield Monday week.

Does anyone have an actual idea of where we stand with regards FFP and what we can spend in January? Something that isn't speculation.

Dunno about that, we're a club on the up as well just as much as they are. I'd have us down as having a lot more potential for success in the future. Villa could end up winning the Conference League this season but we'd probably do the same if it was us in it.

Id be playing him at right wing against Forest if Almiron is knackered.

Aye he was poor today. Passing was terrible and what the fuck was that shot towards the end of the game?

Its hard to say no chance with so many games left because a run of wins can change everything. We'll know more in February because January is difficult and we could be too far behind if it goes bad for us.

We can probably write Liverpool off but thankfully the schedule is a lot better from there onwards so we can get back to a bit of normality.

He really needs to sort the away form out fast. Its not even just about fatigue because its been poor all season. Being away to Liverpool and Villa in the next two away games won't help.

Why is Howe not making any further changes here? Surely there's room for at least Tino somewhere out there?

Did anyone else's stream show the VAR room too? Mine did, don't think I've seen that before.

This drawing lines nonsense the PL do man, just use the system UEFA use.

The mackems are also losing at home right now btw, before people start predicting them to thump us again.

Yeah no chance. Its insane, we have players running on empty and options on the bench for them but we keep persisting. Almiron is completely gassed, we could easily have started Tino there.

Tino and Hall on for Gordon and Almiron at half time please.

This really is a woeful performance. This lot had 9 points before today ffs.

Of course we're fucking losing. We're a complete disgrace on the road this season. Wake the fuck up lads.

Can hardly see whats going on in the box with this shit low camera. We've had some small clubs in the league but this lot are as tinpot as it comes. Can't believe this is a Premier League ground.

We seem to deal with it a lot better at home, plus we've options on the bench that could start that game. I'm more worried about fatigue creeping in away to Liverpool on New Years Day. Could be a proper humping there with tired legs.

We've been utter shit so far.

Need to go at these hard from the start and get a couple ahead before we tire out later in the game. The intensity won’t be as high as other recent opponents but if we’re not winning or only winning by one late in the game I’ll not be overly confident.

Its an absolute shambles the schedule. And more CL games next season too with some midweek fixtures in January now as well for the new look group stage.

Timo is more than capable of covering for a few games. If Tripps needs a break we should be giving him it, it'll be killing him making these big mistakes and if his issues are mental at the moment then that's the last thing he needs.

No midweek games after Christmas until the end of Jan, then none again for ages after that. We'll be able to take a bit of pressure off of the squad and get players back to being 100%.