Dr Venkman

His passing makes such a difference. There was a moment in the last game where he pinged it out to the right. Only a 30ish yard pass along the ground, but Burn is never making that pass directly, it would go via the other centre half and a loss of momentum with it. Sven’s passing quickens the whole team and makes life much more difficult for the opposition.

Crowd absolutely pathetic. Embarrassed for them.

I never want to see Wilson play for us ever again, but…Eddie seems to prioritise a players ability to fit in to the system over everything else. If he doesn’t trust them to play their part in all phases, they’re not getting on. I think he successfully uses it to get players to buy in.

Roy Keane regularly lost it and was an all time absolutely mint captain. People aren’t perfect.

Great. We can worry about us qualifying for CL and worry about Juventus qualifying for something as well!

You are fear personified.

Disagree. We’d need another RB anyway as we’re going to have plenty of games. One more season with roughly 15-20 starts across all comps IMO. His leadership and on field coaching is massive.

Nah. We ‘need’ to not lose by a margin big enough to dent our GD. Draw would be a very good result, win would be fantastic.

The separation he gets via the step over is impressive like, buys him about 2 yards every time.

Bollocks. Roids has us sussed, guys.

I wasn’t moaning, Ian, I was making a decisive intervention.

Aye, fine. I’m sick to death of the moaning about it though Ian.

You make some reasonable points but this just isn’t worth engaging with seriously.

Useful, at worst.

Look, if Eddie wants DCL, he’ll come here and he’ll be useful, at worst. I fail to understand how any of you can have observed what Eddie’s done here and not come to the same conclusion. It’s a free signing to fill a quite unique gap in the squad. It’ll be fine. The limitations you see in DCL’s game so far will not apply once he’s had a bit of time with our coaches. Stop fucking moaning about it

If only there were some examples we could point to that show Howe can get the best out of previously uninspiring players.

No.

Now would be a really good time for this lad to find some fitness/form. He’s capable of making all of the CL permutations seem like inconsequential anxiety if he gets going.

Agreed. That’s the most important factor.