jackyboy

I could never understand why Spurs sold him

My 78th birthday today, what a gift this will be when it's completed

Leeds have had 20 shots at goal

No thanks to Berkley. Started off okay when he went to Villa then went downhill and lost his place. Seems to be par for the course for him so I hope it doesn't happen

Lukaku would be handy until the end of the season

I hadn't realised that Howe signed him when he was manager of Burnley. He's a player I've always rated and hope we get him

I'm surprised that the PL don't say that players signed in the new window are ineligible to play in previously postponed matches. They will try to damage us as much as possible

Everton had their game called off because they were decimated by injuries, plus, Covid. The PL have cocked up by not making it Covid cases only so if you can't beat them, join them

Sorry ,1 point behind Burnley but played 3 more games. 3 behind Watford having played 2 more. Either way it's looking grim

I think that Shearer hit the nail on the head, we need 6 players. 3 points behind Burnley who have played less games. 6 points behind Watford who have played less games and both have better goal difference. I'm hopeful but it will be a miracle if we stay up

I just hope the rumours connecting us with Martial of Man U are way off the mark. He's got to be one of the laziest players in the PL

He is a natural defender and I'd like to see him at CB in place of Clark or at LB

You can't expect Howe to set the team up for Bruce ball one week then Howe ball the next. He's coaching a system into them that we need to play every week for the players to benefit and get used to it. Given time we'll reap the rewards. If we go down on the way, and I hope we don't, then so be it. He was dealt a lousy hand and so was Amanda but at least they are here and we now have hope

Difficult to improve defensively when you have no proper defenders. Willock has been a total disaster this season and on current showing we paid £19 million too much for him. The set up is much better organised under Howe and 2/3 decent players would make a massive difference. We don't need world beaters at the moment just decent footballers

I think by rotate he meant look the other way

For two years we have just packed our penalty box, desperately defending and when we got a chance we just hoofed it upfield to ASM in the hope that he could get something out of nothing and sometimes he did. That was his only responsibility, hanging about the half way line waiting and hoping. It's going to take time to get this out of his, and some of the other players systems.

It's all about the alternatives and at the moment we don't have any

And guess what, it's with the same players that Bruce assembled

2 months ago people on here would have been forecasting that we lose 5/6 nil against a Leicester side expecting to be fighting for a top 4 place. Howe comes in and has to try and get a different tune our of the same poor players. He's doing as much as he can and the idiots on here are criticising him for not picking the team they want etc. From now until January when we hopefully get a couple of players in, every point is a bonus. Get behind the manager FFS

It's just great to have a manager who cares once again and someone with some integrity. Winning trophies doesn't matter for now I'm just enjoying the ride

I think it was Rafa that got Amanda interested initially

Need Lascelles against Burnley

A win would give us a massive lift and a bit of belief that we desperately need. Never easy against Burnley though, you know how they'll play and it will be physical

Yeah, really disappointed that no players were thrown under the bus

I remember reading something about Mitro where he told Rafa that he didn't want to use his energy up defending and wanted to use it for attacking. Didn't go down well with Rafa and I think that saw him out the door. Problem is that when you have a side with so many mediocre players the only way you can try to offset that is by work rate and organisation. If we dropped everybody that people on here want dropped we wouldn't be able to get a team out