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Sir Eddie doesn’t believe in playing possession football for possession’s sake. I think that’s where he has to adapt going forward. Well coached possession football reduces the amount of high intensity reactive running a team has to do. It means matches are played at our intensity and not the opposition’s intensity. If games are played at your intensity, and you train for that intensity, you’re less likely to suffer injuries. it’s like in rugby where teams play France trying to keep the ball on the park to tire their massive forwards. Their forwards don’t train for high ball in time play, so they get tired and need replacing or risk getting injured. We need to control games so they’re played on our terms. Then we can conserve energy against minnows rather than go toe-to-toe to the death with Luton and the likes!

The worst thing for me about losing to Man Scott is not the difference in quality but core body strength. Whenever there’s duels for the ball or a battle to get it under they always our strength us and come out with it. Watching Dan Burn running with Foden and struggling to knock him over shoulder to shoulder, or watching Bruno lose out to Kovacic or Willock lose out to Silva. I can take teams having more technical quality than us. But not team should be physically stronger than us. We should be bossing duels.

I think this season will be the absolute making of Eddie Howe and of us. He’ll have gone into the season believing in his methods but with question marks about whether they would work actually at the top level. He’s now been fully tested and will have learnt loss about where he needs to improve and what the team needs to succeed. I’ve no doubt he’ll learn his lessons and implement them over the summer. I expect next year we’ll be comfortably top 6, the style will have developed a little, as will his use of the squad, and our squad composition will be almost bomb proof. i just feel sorry for his wife and kids who absolutely won’t see him for the holidays!

Jimmy Anderson! (Broken back in first 2 years, ever-present the rest)

I agree overall, but I don’t see us as weaker than Manure’s lot.

I just want to finish above Manure for one season in my life! Let’s just break that duck at least as a consolation

Hasn’t won anywhere near the number of free kicks or bandana-fans ASM would’ve though!

Gordon can drill a corner fair play! I’d pay good money to see one of his corners met by Sir Les. The power on that header could kill a man!

Surely we can coax Al-Ittifaq or another Saudi team to bid £25m for Ashworth? Push the price up for Manure!

Plenty tried to defend Wood on this Forum 2 years ago but got battered!

At least it’ll reduce wages if Dummett & Ritchie share the same contract

You mean, in your view it happens everywhere? Or is that a fact?

This board and indeed our club is blessed to have someone so skilled in the art of Jinx as you, good Doctor. Thank you for subtlety ensuring Tripps stays with us for another 2 years

Unbelievable this season. Only 2:17 seconds in scouting our proposed new signing and he gets an injury!

I still can’t believe we let Shelvey go without a replacement…

Would be longer than Lord of the rings extended edition!

Tell us what dap your nephew is and his fighting credentials and we can properly asses whether you’ll defend yourself or get decked by him!

The way we setup, we’re designed for Trippier to get the assists Almiron should. If there was a stat for the pass before the assist Almiron (and Longstaff) would be quite high up I think. Solano never had to rely on Aaron Hughes/Griffin overlapping to play the final ball as he had a wand of a foot and operated on the correct side for winger-assists. I’m not entirely defending Almiron just want to add fair context for him

[Chef cooks up a Michelin-starred meal. The owner comes to see chef]… “You cooked the good food, but why you not clean kitchen sinks and cupboards as well?!?!” Wilson’s doing his job just fine. Leave off him

If he takes King Eddie with him i'll have a personal vendetta

Sometimes (I appreciated it!)

We’re a genuinely excellent team. We regularly steamroll premier league opposition. We beat these no problem. 0-4. Exhibition ball retention for the last 5 minutes. Easy

“You’ve seen Wor Bruno, now f*^k off home! You’ve been Wor Bruno’d, now f*^k off home!”

Isak’s at his most dangerous outside of the box, after we have scored a goal. He literally starts beating the sh*t out of our players when celebrating he has me worried as anything! Watch what he does to Lascelles, Joelinton, etc. He could’ve done Miley a right injury needs to get off the hype train

I think he wishes he could be like the genuinely hilarious wacko who promotes Adam Armstrong-Aguero over Gordon, but hasn’t got enough smarts to be funny