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Great play by Winks, Sess & Doherty for their goal.

No doubt about that. He was one of the key figures to our success under SBR and was a great player, but he was quite inconsistent.

Been waiting for this match since the final whistle against West Ham. Games can't come quick enough for me these days.

Loved Robert, but he had some absolutely infuriating games as well where he simply could not hit a single corner kick past the first man, took a shot at goal every time he was within 30m of goal to the visible disgust of his team mates, misplaced easy passes and hardly broke a sweat. His lows were as low as his highs were high, and I think a lot of the reputation he got outside of NUFC was formed by his quite frequent shockers.

Luckily Howe doesn't rely on match winners unlike your Pardew's and Bruce's, but on the team being well drilled and prepared for their next opponent. It's not only about having played with the team before, but being aware of and having worked on tactical adjustments and instructions specific to Brentford.

Seems a very Bruce-esque approach to me, but ok.

I'm a bit unclear on when he travelled to France, but if he hasn't been part of the team preparations for Brentford he has no place in the starting line-up.

Wouldn't want ASM starting even if fit if he hasn't been able to prepare for the game together with the rest of the team. He would be a great option to have on the bench though against tired Brentford legs.

Seems like Levy is hitting the panic button with every manager appointment & every transfer window in order to please Kane & Son. Maybe better for them in the long term to sell both, and try to rebuild their squad under an up and coming manager under lower expectations rather than trying to patch something that seems inherently broken? Not really paid much attention to Spurs the last few years so that is just based on a very high level viewing from the outside looking in.

From that final 3 years ago, only Kane, Son & Lloris played today.

Should be the first player out the door in the current squad. It's not even remotely a contest. Maybe he can join up with Mike Williamson to get some lessons in how he can improve his technique.

You can take the boy out of Newcastle, but you can't take the Newcastle out of the boy.

I was about to say "good player, but very injury prone", but it seems he's been fit all season, only that he hasn't played any and not even made the bench for a lot of games. Norwich last game was his first full 90 since 15th September. Did his last long term injury break him or something? He looked pretty fucking good to me before he got an injury year or two ago and Matip cemented the second CB spot for himself.

I think Burn will smother him.

It's not good, but saying it like that makes it sounds a lot worse than it is. The last competitive game he won was at the end of May, then a month and a half without any matches. He won 3 friendlies in July & August. Between middle of October and beginning of February he was without a job. While in management (discounting friendlies & summer period) he has not won a competitive football game in 3 months.

If we maintain the same form next season - getting through a whole season without losses & qualifying for the CL (on current form we're 4th in last 5 matches) we can sign and bench pretty much anyone for all I care tbh

Weird take. They bring something unique to the league, have a good fan base and rich history. The league would be much poorer without them....provided it isn't at the expense of us going down of course.

Great play by Leeds.

I can't remember the reasoning behind it, but in the Norwegian studio yesterday Burn got a big part of the blame for West Hams goal as he dropped the defensive line much earlier than anyone else in the team which somehow resulted in Dawson getting the free header.

Is that even possible to tell this early?

I'd love that too, but seeing as he wanted to move when Villa signed Digne, I can't see him wanting to have the role he left Villa for here.

Not knocking his performance today, but it's very meh the passes stat when the opposition has 10 players in their own half, with Burn and Schar and occasionally Dubravka/Targett/Krafth/Shelvey playing monkey in the middle with Antonio for large parts of the game.

Why would any club give him potentially crippling amount of funds to buy players when they know he'll fuck off in 2 years anyway.