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Fucking hell

Get the fuck in Burn. Brilliant defending

Can only assume Anderson is exhausted, how Longstaff never gets subbed

How

That's such a gutpunch

Ahahaha yeeeeesssss

2nd will be huge, need to take it away from the realms of getting fucked by an unlucky bounce. We've completely controlled this so far.

I'm really loving Anderson and Hall in this side. Bringing a lot of energy and fight that we've missed

No fucking way man

Ridiculous, that's the best tackle Sean has made in months and it's given as a free kick

Isak is fucking IMMENSE

Literally tripped himself

Nervous as fuck for this. 2 wins on the bounce would be absolutely huge. Crowd will get the boys over the line under the lights

Hall has looked great whenever he's played. Krafth is normally reliable, hopefully his cameo on Saturday was just a blip. Anderson looked great coming on with energy. It's a strong starting 11 imo, not our strongest by any means, but enough to beat these twats

I think that's a fairly strong team tbh. Bench is a nightmare, but definitely feel we can win here

That's absolutely brilliant. Love this club man

Howe isn't beyond criticism btw. Personally I think he's made a mistake with Hall - he's obviously held him back feeling that he's not ready, and maybe that approach will bear fruit, but I think given how bare-bones we've been that policy probably needed relaxing earlier. I also think he's been too reticent to swap out Burn or Longstaff. That said, I'm not looking at those decisions and saying "clearly I'm right and he's wrong, the big idiot". My criticism has to be tempered with the knowledge that he has a lot more information than I do and he's making a judgement based on that. If he's gambled on these decisions and it's not come off, that's just the nature of football management, not every decision is going to go the right way. The difference is I'm confident that he'll get more right than he gets wrong.

Good, I hit post and your post appeared above it so wanted to make sure it wasn't misconstrued

In a long list of tiresome bullshit, I think "negativity = grown-up" might be topping my list these days. (not aimed at 80, posts just lined up that way)

Sure, it doesn't apply to every manager. A Steve Bruce for example, I'd assume he's probably just incompetent. Same with the Tories, but add a little "just evil" into the mix as well. Howe has absolutely done enough to make the default assumption be that he's not an idiot though.

Criticising Howe is fine, genuinely, if it's actually well-reasoned and thought out. I find the concept that so many of our issues are really obvious and easily solved to be complete nonsense though and based on a completely outdated view of football. It's so much more complex now in terms of the sheer amount of data available on players form, fitness, conditioning etc. that the management team will have access to and your man at a keyboard will not, than it even was 10 years ago. The "Howe should just do X, it's so obvious" crowd are living in the past tbh. If it was that simple, we would have done it. Either you think Howe is an idiot who is missing what everyone else can all see, or the decisions are a bit more complex than you appreciate. Any "obvious" decision to fix problem X will have a knock-on effect on Y, but there seems to be zero recognition of that, or of the fact that if the management team aren't making that "obvious" decision there is probably a pretty fucking good reason why not. Almost every decision Howe makes is going to have to be an educated gamble, nothing is certain in football. If the solutions were such sure things then we obviously would've enacted them. If we haven't, it's probably not because Howe is thick, it just might be that there are a million other factors going into that decision which all have a weight.

Access public forum Put shite, ill thought out opinions out into the world Complain that people call their shite, ill thought out opinions shite and ill thought out. Repeat until the heat death of the universe. Exhausting.

That's my YT recommendations fucked for a few weeks

Disagree tbh a better parallel would be the normal bloke/girl questioning every decision the rocket engineer made and not having the humility to appreciate that they might be working with more information.

I don't think that example is the slam dunk you think it is holmes.