Andy

Mad that even after Howe has shown him up as a fraud, the footballing world still believes that our dislike of Steve Bruce was born of anything other than his disastrous performance as a manager.

Mixed bag of results today. Bad if we're looking over shoulder, but good if we're looking upwards, which we should be.

And we haven't lost a game since then. Calm down.

Don't think it can be overstated just how good a job he's doing like. The improvement in our organisation is incredible, you'd think he'd had a full preseason with them.

It's getting to the point where it's an actual shock when he loses a 50/50 or gives away possession cheaply. Think it's safe to say this isn't a purple patch, he's just very good in the role.

Immeasurable improvement from him in the last few weeks like, top performance today.

Probably would've stood to be fair, someone would've been ridiculously out of position and playing him a yard on.

Played an intelligent pass in the build up to the goal.

Sometimes looks okay, as he did in the second half today for the most part, but he makes some really poor decisions both on the ball and off it and has an unfortunate habit of being punished for them. Hopefully Manquillo is fit next week.

Absolutely thick from Kraft like, the lad is a complete liability unfortunately.

Murphy has looked more dangerous in recent weeks and was unlucky not to score against Man Utd and Everton, I don't think him coming in for ASM leaves us completely blunt. I think we can knick something today if the defence hold out.

We've won three games on the spin, it's no mystery why he's reluctant to change the spine of the team.

Makes sense to put a winger in for ASM rather than causing further upheaval by changing the midfield three.

Does seem poorly organised, like. The winds haven't exactly come as a surprise.

I don't think that's the case, like. Even without Trippier, the momentum we've already got takes a lot of pressure off the lads coming in.

He's shite in the box, but the rest of that post is way off the mark in my opinion, like. His breakup play is excellent and he rarely gives the ball away in midfield, usually passing the ball forward too. He probably won't be part of the long term future of the club, but he's been exactly what we've needed in recent months. He's canny far down the list of first team players I'd be looking to replace.

They've been listless, but our organisation (to this point) has been fantastic.

People said the same about Leeds and Everton. Similar to when Rafa was here and we frequently made teams look shit even without playing particularly well ourselves.

Howe's hesitancy to make tactical subs will end up costing him sooner or later like, our midfield have been non-existent this half, it's clear we need a switch.

Harsh as fuck that offside like major warning sign, would get Bruno on asap to get some structure back.

Bit of pressure taken off tomorrow, not sure if that's a good thing or not. I think we'll be okay now, like, injuries permitting. Over the last 10 games our form is 12th best in the league, and the level of improvement under Howe is only increasing by the match. Just can't see the three teams beneath us keeping pace.

People thought that about Matt Ritchie too, to be fair.

23 goals/assists in 48 starts isn't to be sniffed at, like. Max is still nowhere near that level of end product.

Thought he had another good game, desperate to see him hammer in one of these chances like, but fuck me, his composure is non existent He's getting into the right positions in the box from midfield more often than he was when he was up front though, funnily enough. I think he'll start chipping in a few once he bags his next one.

Fair play like, I thought he'd dropped a bollock tonight but it turns out I know fuck all