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A season bettered only by those under Keegan, Robson and Howe himself, but aye alright.

I think you might be exaggerating a tad. The criticism has been pretty relentless the season (some of which I've contributed to) and I don't think I've constantly been in here jabbing pointy sticks at any Howe attackers. I'll admit that I've always prickled at criticism which I think is undeserved or doesn't afford enough consideration of context. If I'm generally more forgiving then it's because of the things I place value in and a lasting weariness of hating everything about the club. But I haven't dismissed anyone's views when I've not been in a position to actually defend my own, which is what you said in the first place. Glad this gave you and a few others the opportunity to discharge their irritations about my takes in the form of a Like, like!

Fair comment re availability but re the bit in bold; we spent fuck all this year which totally undermines earlier investment.

I'm sure if one of the others takes your view then they won't hesitate.

Eh? When have I done that?

People signing up exclusively to revel in negativity is tedious as fuck, agreed. Twitter shields us most of the time from that, thankfully. Not sure there's any wummery here though...

Didn't see today (or Wednesday) but if it was as abject as West Ham then you do fear for him a bit. Two performances in such quick succession where we've completely lost the plot indicates a pretty serious problem. Personally hope he's afforded a length of time uncharacteristic to the modern game in order to get it right.

Use the report function.

I'd take another point here. This season's going to be a slog, crucial that we stop losing to teams we have aspirations of finishing well above.

Was also limited (by choice? We'll never know) to extended highlights. Isak looked absolutely stupid in that first half. Goal of the season for me. The strike was as good as Barnes', arguably better, but the build up was lovely too. And you can't beat a strike that just keeps rising. Only regret is that it didn't go in off the bar.

There goes my boner.

Can't believe he's chucked Murphy back in in an attempt to solve our attacking woes.

Great post.

Some absolutely incredible ties here, like.

Is this actually happening at 7 or can I take the dog for a walk?

If you want to argue that Osula should be at CF ahead of a square peg, I wouldn't argue, but if you're arguing that a lack of playtime is stunting his development, then Lewis Hall is an incredibly recent counter-argument to that. Or has this ropey start to the season eradicated Howe's track record for developing players as well?

Highlights a manager using a player out of position moreso than it does anything about the squad building. Gordon was identified as a backup CF when he signed anyway.

Suggesting literally all of last season was full of poor and disjointed performances is just nonsense, sorry man. There was a few stinkers and a couple of ropey spells, but we won far more than we lost, showed amazing staying power given all of the setbacks and scored 400 goals. Even pur apocalyptic away form wrought several wins and otherwise meaningful results. This season has been very mediocre so far but pointing to trends based on retconning last season is totally unfair.

Why do people keep coming out with shite like this? 18 months ago incudes literally all of last season, where we were often excellent and, at worst, the 7th best team in the league. Massively degrades the whole conversation.

No. Still idiotic to suggest saying "Yes" would be some mental opinion belonging only to the crazy minority.

It's three points away.

We haven't at all. W6 D2 L2 with 2.6 goals per game since (and including) the West Ham Barnes game. We weren't really shit at all last season, we finished 7th with a huge points haul relative to our modern history. This season is a different story. We got problems with less (not zero) mitigation.

Didn't see a bit of today; this all on him then?

Lost in the Delle Alpi. Inter was 1-4.