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Ritchie can’t run. We’d be down to 10 men from the off.

I’m behind Eddie all the way, I just hope one of the conclusions he comes to is that we need to look at finding someone to link midfield with attack, even if it means altering the way we play slightly. If there’s one criticism of this season, there’s been too many spells of 30-45 mins where we’ve been a nonentity going forward. Obviously we’ve scored a lot of goals in the league through intensity alone but there’s limits to who that works against.

Callum is always on the verge of a muscle injury. Nowt remotely surprising and probably nothing to worry about too much.

Bang on, as per.

Or put Trippier at LB after the international break. No too fussed but Liv has earned his chance.

Yeah he’s running on empty and needs a 2 1/2 week break.

I can’t fathom why we run Trippier into the ground to this extent when we’ve got him.

They know exactly what they’re doing, to be fair. Every medium - long range pass is aimed right between our defence and midfield and they got a lot of joy from it first half hour. You need a bit of luck or extra quality against teams like this and without Isak up top that leaves good fortune.

He’s playing far too much football atm. Not his fault. Same for Wilson.

I know you were. It’s just tedious.

I really wish people would stop with this kind of thing.

He will contribute nothing in midfield or out wide. He can’t run. We have Joelinton, Willock, Longstaff for midfield and Gordon, Wilson and Almiron front 3. Lewis Hall should be way ahead of him in the pecking order wherever he has to be put.

They’re both good players - that’s the difference, Trippier has played LB for England more than once. Liv is RB and obviously very capable there. You don’t put our best CB in midfield to accommodate Paul fucking Dummett.

You can’t seriously be advocating Matt Ritchie start a PL game for us?

To be fair I never want to see Burn at CB again anyway. Dummett either, in fairness.

Based on what I’ve seen and basic common sense. I realise Lascelles is a radgies favourite but Botman makes our defence better, with the ball and without it.

I think he’s done very well overall. That said we’re clearly better with Botman and I think Trippier would agree. Pipe down going over the top.

Has Callum ever scored a cup goal for us?

I can’t stand PM for the most part but this is absolute nonsense.

I can’t believe he got booked. Outrageous. Like the referee can’t exercise some common sense and allow him to be (rightly) angry. Schar then got booked in response to that booking which to be fair was pretty funny.

Agree with this part.

He hasn’t been a capable footballer at the level required for quite some time. I get that Howe likes him, but I can’t look past his listless performances from 2018 to 2021 while occasionally putting in a spirited defence of Mike Ashley. I wish him absolutely no ill will but let’s not pretend he’s been this great servant to the club.

Last 11. Really impressive.

Our points total so far equates to 69 over a full 38 games; 2 points less than last season. It’s actually reasonably impressive given the tough start, but unfortunately 3 key teams had better summer windows than us and have really cracked on. We will need 75 points to make top 4.

You’re a good dude but I think you’ve taken a class on how to be oversensitive recently. Two hands on his back - who cares?