Ronaldo

Longstaff in the Shelvey role? Really?

Physicality is a massive part of quality though.

I meant more the quality will never match that of the men's game. It's a pointless conversation really.

It's a nice idea, but it'll never happen.

Hard drugs.

He guessed it was going down the middle. Should be blatantly obvious.

None of those are suits, mind. Graeme Souness looked great in a suit actually. Kudos to him, looking back.

Anderson’s mam had obviously started on the booze when she dressed him. What the fuck?

If Chris Wood ever becomes a ‘very valuable player’ to us our general plight will basically have to be worse than ever before in our recent history.

It's almost as if the Gods are trying to expose the disparity in quality between our very best players and the crap that nearly sent us down.

I meant officially, tbh.

Really feel bad for them if he’s their talisman. He’ll be a League One player in 2 years.

IF we finish around 10th or lower this season and have a poor start next season he’ll be gone. I don’t think it’ll happen, because I’ve got faith. But make no mistake, a lot of money has been spent on a team that have finished 12th and 11th last couple of seasons and if there’s no tangible return on that investment they’ll just look elsewhere. Mediocrity won’t be accepted.

I think he’ll be back as permanent IF it all goes tits up with Howe roughly this time next season.

He’s 30. It’s his weakness. He’s a very good goalkeeper otherwise.

Good job it’s not even a remote possibility then. Absurd hypothesis.

True though. Hope he doesn’t relapse.

You could certainly argue the fans created a lot of negativity prior to and after his appointment. Hardly what the club needed overall. The Liverpool connection was obviously a factor, so why shouldn’t he mention it?

Agree with him. He needs to be partnered with a (proper) DM and a playmaker to see him thrive, long term.

I don’t think there’s much of a defence for playing Burn over Botman against Bournemouth mind.

Either that, or we need to get better at breaking teams down. I know which is easier to achieve. Bottom line, we need a goal at home to beat a side who blatantly will go down and we have Longstaff, Wood and Murphy to bring on. It’s absolutely embarrassing and needs to be addressed in the next window.

Burn was fine, but Botman is obviously a better partner for Schar - who’s currently by a bit of a distance our best CB.

I’ve always hated the idea of wide players who ‘work hard’ - and we’ve spent 15+ years accumulating that type of rubbish with two notable exceptions. Unpredictability is everything and, as you say, we need another like ASM.

Yeah I don't get that either. Odd one.

Booing is too much but spending over £200m on improvements to literally look like a Championship outfit is baffling. The Almirons, Joelintons, Frasers etc just can't be relied upon in any context to produce when we need them to. And that's before you even look at the embarrassing dross that came off the bench.