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I love watching ASM play but it’s apparent that he doesn’t really suit the style of play and his body isn’t capable of high intensity play over a prolonged period of time. Ideally we’d keep him around but FFP is what it is. It’s a shame as he’s clearly always wanted to play in the CL and single handedly made us watchable for a couple of years. The only surprise is that we have outgrown him quicker than he outgrew us

Nah pretty sure it was HTT as I wasn’t on Toon Chat. Could have been cross posted like, a few people were on everything with Toontastic also existing

I doubt it, I can’t remember exactly what happened as it was about 2005 but the HTT forum disappeared never to return which led to the birth of N-O

Ha yes it was on the old forum. A surreal picture of Bramble sat up in bed as if it was all very normal

This is an odd request but I don’t suppose anybody has this pack of Corinthian figures they’d be interested in selling on? Not fussed about it being boxed or anything. Got the boy hooked on them and “we” are trying to complete a collection.

Watched a random 97/98 MOTD the other night and it had us beating Southampton at home. Barnes was like prime Sir Les, an absolute beast in the air inexplicably.

Thank you. I didn’t think it would be that obvious seeing as the Sporting Minute account was also on Twitter but here we are, fooled again

As a middle aged idiot, what is “bird app”?

Think it’s Tindall on the main Wor Flags display

No Mac Allister for them

It’s true and is why if we make the top 4 this or any season people need to cheer the fuck up and enjoy it. It can disappear very quickly and who knows what could happen in the future

Don’t want to sound like Klopp but how slow was the pitch? Felt like our passes were getting stuck and making everything very stodgy

You can enjoy Pixar John Anderson. Just 18 months since Murphy missed the “JUST PUT IT IN THE NET” chance at Watford to laughing along to his every goal.

I think it’s got cagey 0-0 written all over it. Neither team are great but decent defensively

It’s a perfect storm really. Teams working us out, probably a bit of fatigue, one eye on the cup final…I guess you could add Bruno’s absence to that but he was in the team for some of this lacklustre run. The thing is we haven’t been an irresistible attacking force in many games, we are usually good front runners where if we get ahead and teams keep attacking (Villa, Brentford) then we’ll pick them off. Obviously it’s all built on a solid defence and keeper. Teams seem to have realised our left channel is a bit slow and teams can turn us around by playing over the top into that area. Burn is a tremendous defender but during this time without Bruno we need all the outlets we can get and he’s looked every bit a centre half playing full back. It’s something else that contributes to us being quite easy to stop. It’s easy with hindsight but I think we’ve had a bad January window. We are short in central midfield and up front although I do understand why Shelvey and Wood left, neither have really been replaced. Gordon looks decent and I think we needed a new wide option regardless but with Wilson’s injury record it’s a huge risk to only have him and Isak. It was evident tonight how much better Wilson’s all round game is than Isak’s, his hold up play in particular was missed tonight. Isak is obviously very talented though but needs time to adapt fully. We’ll see how bad the injuries are from tonight but I had been very confident of beating Liverpool to now not being sure at all. They won’t sit back which should suit us but we are going to have more than one eye on the final I’m sure

The guy on Twitter who gets the Leicester team news says Maddison not starting. Praet in instead.

Just ignore the one he missed at Newport! The highlights are so desperate they even included Burn’s header…the offside flag was up so it was totally irrelevant

Relieved to get through, that really wasn’t a good watch. We still struggle against teams who come for a draw but thankfully not many teams are well organised enough to do it. Too many rusty players tonight and basically zero cohesion. Obviously got better when the subs came on. We got through and that’s all that matters. I’m off to dream about us bobbling passes about in the midfield

Willock is there. Surely if he was ill he wouldn’t be?

Read interviews/books from anybody who Gullit managed with us and they all say the same thing. He was arrogant and nowhere near as good as he thought he was. At least with hindsight he has realised the error of his ways. Dalglish I have a degree of sympathy, behind the scenes the club was a bit of a state. The books needed balancing and he was obviously very unlucky with the Shearer/Ferdinand timing. Keegan had abolished the reserves so that was less than ideal too. Tomasson went on to have a fantastic career but again suffered from the lack of Shearer (or Les). I wish he hadn’t disbanded the entertainers but I can at least see what he was trying to do.

Problem with dropping Longstaff is it means Bruno plays that position. I think we are better off with him further forward. Two games in 3 days probably gives us license to rotate a few anyway

Seen it a few times now that after an International break Howe picks players he’s been working with for the 2 weeks. Not exclusively obviously but with Almiron and Fraser having been away it would make sense to see Anderson play.

Fairly sure Lamptey now represents Ghana...

I’m fairly certain Pearson is just a character someone has created. He can’t be a real person.