Lenny

I’m guessing that today is the day that the reality of his choice sinks in for Wilson

A 25 minute poor performance (whilst likely carrying a knock) is enough to be deemed pathetic, a bottle job, and the entire remainder of his career determined. Laughable

How to obliterate any "good will" you've earned yourself in 7 mins. GG Bruce.

2 up front, yet no one within what might as well be half a pitch of Wilson when he has the ball.

The new whipping boy? They game looks over, they should throw Joelinton on to play his established role and spare poor Lewis Seriously man; if someone warrants criticism, they can be criticised without being considered a "whipping boy". I know. I just find it funny man. I know he's struggled, but have you seen this setup and team though man? I mean, my God That's a different subject, that is admittedly far more worthy of discussion and criticism. However, our tactical setup or lack thereof doesn't give the players a free pass when discussing/assessing their performance.

Embarrassing how off their pace we are.

The new whipping boy? They game looks over, they should throw Joelinton on to play his established role and spare poor Lewis Seriously man; if someone warrants criticism, they can be criticised without being considered a "whipping boy".

We are far worse today than West Ham were last week.

We're definitely getting a red or two, here.

This is tragic.

It's alright, Bruce has said we're going to be more attacking this season, so I'm sure we'll still win.

Playing Carroll today takes away any tactical credibility Bruce might have earned by playing him against "a big West Ham team". Unless of course Brighton are also a big team in his opinion, along with the rest of the division I'm sure.

Kane has always had good passing vision tbf.

£115m-ish on Man Utd's Centre back pairing and they're (rightfully) deemed not good enough to be a title winning pairing.

10 years since HBA scored against Everton?!

And IMO, it goes without saying that people are within their rights to criticise a player that's given up.

Nagelsmann too Ralf Ragnick also I'm guessing pretty much everyone in German football, but Newcastle Online knows best Hope they're queuing up to sign him? I hope they are too, so he could make you all look silly. However the German clubs won't touch him for the wages we have gone on to pay him, as Ragnick himself said about why he couldn't compete with us to sign him for RB Leipzig in the first place. Him moving on and making a success of himself is as much down to his application in his new surroundings as the new surroundings themselves. He may well turn his career around, but that won't change the fact that he's given up here, and it's visible on the pitch.

I feel that the biggest influence on his perceived lack of ability is that he looks like he just doesn't fancy it. He's clearly not putting in much effort and hasn't been for a long time, and whether or not he has the right to feel he was dealt a bad hand by signing for us is irrelevant; it's still down to him to deal with it. Where others would have chosen to play for themselves and put the effort in for the sake of their own career, he's chosen to give up and feel sorry for himself. ASM signed to the same club at the same time, and approached the situation totally differently. There were large portions of the season where he was labelled as having no end product, so he was presented with the same options Joelinton was faced with, i.e. give up or keep going. He chose the latter and he's proved to be one of our most important players. There was a period of play against Blackburn yesterday shortly after ASM had come in which he, at full sprint, chased the ball as it was passed continuously around their backline. At the risk of hyperbole (but you get the point) - he probably covered more ground in that sequence than Joelinton did in the entire half! I suspect Joelinton could go to another club under circumstances he fancies, and we'll see a much improved player, however this is why I have little sympathy for him - he's not helped himself here. If, of course, I am wrong and it's nothing to do with effort, then I can't see any other explanation than that he's just a poor player. The version of Joelinton we have doesn't have any considerable qualities to warrant even a place on the bench.

based on....? And even with this logic, shouldn't Almiron be #1?

Would be nice if Manquillo's delivery improved. Last season he found himself in a crossing position quite frequently and, like Yedlin, his delivery was awful. Hopefully having a striker that makes actual striker runs in the box will help and he can just aim for an area.

Great player

Not that I've seen all that much of him, but never been a fan of Bamford

He improved immeasurably last season, against all odds.

Objectively speaking, I think he'd be a decent signing, or at least one you'd see as a good signing for several other mid table teams. Unfortunately, I can't say I really care.