Andy

We're a bizarre team to watch like. Somehow managed to strike a perfect balance between looking quite good going forward but looking like we'll never score.

Sorry, but you can’t blame anyone else for missing those howling sitters. You have to finish one on ones when you have that much time through on goal. Finishing was fucking shite and he will need to work on it. If he was a competent finisher he'd be playing for a top club tbh. Those one on ones are why he's here. Again hes 22 and as much as I hate this club at the moment, the whole "if he was good he would be playing elsewhere", arguement is tiresome. That suggests there are no good players outside of the top 4/6 or whatever. Besides which, if he adds goals and assists, people will start saying, "we wont hold onto him for long." :lol: This club is depressing AF. They are either shite or good but about be flogged. True mind. He's technically excellent, lightening quick, strong, direct and full of confidence running at defenders - it's not some tired cliché to say if he'd displayed with some competency that he could finish with composure as well at the age of 22, he would most certainly have been snapped up by a top club; especially in the current market where players like him are bought "just in case" they happen to turn good.

Sorry, but you can’t blame anyone else for missing those howling sitters. You have to finish one on ones when you have that much time through on goal. Finishing was fucking shite and he will need to work on it. If he was a competent finisher he'd be playing for a top club tbh. Those one on ones are why he's here.

Saint Maximin is quality mind; there's a lot to dislike about this club but I can't help but enjoy watching him. He's genuinely an end product away from having all the tools to become borderline world class. At times he looks unplayable.

If ASM had end product he'd be a great player. Love how direct he is.

It’s the sort of tackle you make where you don’t want to hurt yourself. Easy to use going for the ball as an excuse. I don't agree with that like. You could see by his face that he wasn't expecting to make contact in that way, he grimaced as soon as he did it.

Red card, but calling it a coward's tackle is a bit daft like his studs are high but it clearly wasn't malicious, just clumsy.

Too slow for the premier league IMO. Wants more time on the ball than he has and needs to be vastly more decisive.

Aye, it'll be played up as a brave, battling one-nil defeat, but we've had absolutely no attacking game plan whatsoever.

Aye, Sunderland are a vastly bigger club than Millwall like, by pretty much any metric you could think of other than "league they currently play in".

Never mind laughing you little prick, what's all that about eh?

Thanks for your contribution. You're entirely right, not once in this board's 15 years of existence has a fan posting on here supported the team. We literally created the forum to breed and fester contempt within the community - that contempt is obviously nothing to do with the way the club is ran, but rather a reflection of the way the forum is ran. Based on the astute nature of your first and last post, I'm confident that you'll be a miss and a credit to skunkers or wherever you end up.

His decision making surprised me yesterday like, especially in the build up to the goal. Expected him to be an Obertan type, head down and run, but his forward passing in general looked surprisingly incisive.

If both stay fit I think Almiron will benefit from having Saint Maximin in the team in the same way that Perez benefited from having Almiron in the team.

Even ignoring the goal, he was very good today tbf. Good range of passing and a lot of energy in the middle. Certainly seems to be able to strike the ball too.

So he can take some credit if he flukes a win. If we win with Rafa's system he knows he's getting none.

Aye, Spurs will rightly get pelted for conceding 7 at home, but this was the best I've seen Bayern look for a good while. They'd have torn most teams apart playing like that.

They're just fishing for calls man, not worth getting wound up over. Or listening to, for that matter.

Only just read this bit. Shouldn't laugh, but this paragraph just buckled me definitely wouldn't be taking the HTT stuff too personally on the back of this

Might as well keep a hold of him for next year then

It's all about that word count

I have to admit, he's actually surprised me with how quickly he's turned us into a calamity, I thought Benitez's drilling would at least endure until Christmas. Even under McClaren I don't remember feeling like we were as much of a mess as we were today.

The bloke's thick as a post man, not even worth reading his opinions.

Should've been Lascelles closing down for the first like, he abandoned his position following Vardy into Schar's space.

When was the last time we conceded 5 in the league without scoring? Pardew era?