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Well yeah, because even with omissions and fallacies you’re completely validating my point.

Our set pieces are abject, especially given the height we have. Doing everything possible for a Maddison type is a must.

One who is fully fit half the time and another brand new to the league? Team’s with a realistic (and probably rare chance) of getting CL football don’t do that.

I don’t think it’s ungrateful to question why we have 2 strikers in the squad - I like both but neither can be relied upon for different reasons. In CM we have 3 players genuinely up to it at this level. We’ve done this to ourselves.

I said immediately after the window closed that it was negligent. My opinion hasn’t changed, and why would it?

Reaping exactly what we deserve for the last window.

Which would be fine if we weren’t struggling to score even against relegation candidates atm.

That midfield.

There’s no hatred. Just haven’t seen a player remotely close to the level required. More a criticism of the club than him.

Anderson ffs. As if we let Shelvey go for a few hundred thousand when that’s our cover.

I despised Pardew but I have to admit looking back he did OK at times given some of the shit he had to play. A lot of the players we had genuinely played the best football of their careers here in that short stretch. Poor to average manager. Bruce was just shit. Shit manager, shit person.

Thing is, if I was Sven Botman or Bruno and at a club ‘owa the moon’ to finish 8th given the utter shit club likely to finish 5th, 6th or 7th in that scenario, I’d probably be on the phone to my agent the Monday after the final fixture. We won’t keep players with that level of ambition unless we’re fulfilling it or genuinely look like doing so.

I’ve got to be honest, I just don’t see it. We simply don’t have enough goals in the team, and up front with Isak still acclimatising and Wilson perennially injured or carrying a knock, we are woefully short. I mean woefully. We will need the final third of the season to be very special to get to the points required. Sorry to be negative.

Have a word, it’s a fkin football strip.

The draws are papering over the cracks a bit but 3 goals in 6 games in the league is really shit. I’m not sure what the answer is but the front 3 needs a serious evaluation.

If we’re not winning the midfield battle we need a striker who can receive, keep, lay it off then attack the ball in. It’s not him, or Wilson for that matter.

What the fuck was he doing at the end there? Likeable guy but one of a few who need to be warming the bench, not being relied upon.

Terrible performance that, mind. Just no one who consistently makes things happen and the sheer amount of wasted possession in their final third really needs looking at. The positives obviously still far outweigh the negatives but we’re trending downwards. Elliott Anderson getting Premier League minutes man. Fucking hell.

Only place for him. We’re badly lacking Bruno mind. Too many players in that side who need one touch too much.

A lot like his football.

Finish my jobson? Filth.

We missed a target up front today. I’m not suggesting going route 1 but we could with do that as an option sometimes. Would really help us condense the play when we can’t dominate the midfield pivot.

Oh, and him and Bruno linking up = expected goals.

I think he’ll soon be a nailed on starter for at least the remainder of this season. Can see straight off why Howe wanted him. Quick and direct, always loving to move / receive, will chase down everything and looks like he has enough between his ears to make the *right* pass. Howe player all the way.

Big difference between being ungrateful for how much we’ve improved and recognising the sliding doors potential of grabbing top 4 (or not) this season. I think folk, myself included, are just aware we were only a couple of signings away from nailing that on, and yet we’ve had a pretty complacent transfer window. That and the fact we’re no longer scoring goals.