Ronaldo

Our ambition is top 4/5 and we lost at home to West fucking Ham because we missed Dan Burn and a 34 year old Kieran Trippier. Surely even you must cringe when you come out with stuff like that in *defence* of the manager.

Why can’t he figure this stuff out after 18 months? A top level manager doesn’t take this long to figure out how Sandro Tonali can give more to the team than Sean Longstaff.

It means very little to me that. We were abject in the second half. Our style of play is one dimensional and completely reliant on winning by attrition and taking advantage of winning the ball deep in the opponents area. We have a player on the bench that would start for the vast majority of CL teams but the manager can’t figure out a way to integrate him in our style. All of it just comes back to a lack of flexibility.

Your opinion is always valid. It’s just usually wrong with admirable intentions.

We’re 10th. At what point would you be critical of Howe? Behind Ipswich maybe?

Did we have a shot on target or meaningful chance at all in the second half? This is his team, his approach.

He signed on a free from Bournemouth. He was never going to be starting material.

You come out with this every time though. We were all in agreement we needed to start this season very well. We’ve had pretty much the easiest start possible and we’re 10th. Something is intrinsically missing despite one player missing from the starting Xl.

We’re 10th. That’s what’s you judge our progress on. Pretty obvious which way this going.

We’ve been figured out. He doesn’t have the answers.

I think I’m just about done to be fair. That was the definition of a manager who paints by numbers. Clueless.

Awful performance and result.

How can Tonali not get in this team when the midfield are consistently so poor on the ball? How?

Yeah, very in keeping with a lot of the home games in 95-96, absolutely irrepressible wing play and someone on the end of everything directing it top or bottom corner. Weirdly we played the same West Ham side a few weeks before that at Upton Park and they battered us. Bizarre.

Great night that. He was brilliant too. Turned around after just about every save and posed for the fans. Then gave the Gallowgate an ovation on FT.

A 0-0, 1-1, 0-1 or 1-0 against Everton at OT.

Man U were absolutely awful there. Like really really bad and fortunate to be up against an abject side.

Osula is years away at best from being a viable starting option for a club with our ambitions. He wasn’t bought for the here and now.

In your world, yes.

Got to that point. That’s been the case for years.

Surely that Ireland side is mostly made up names?

Yeah. I think there’s a few in denial about this.

Depends where but down south there’s far more for a millionaire footballer to do.

Not good this mind. There’s already a comparative lack of incentive to live in NE without compounding it with safety issues. Was this the Albanians again?

Remind me.