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I won't knock him for trying i said after the match at the weekend we cant walk it into the net and as it happens Gordon's shot led to it bouncing around and led to Joelintons goal. I dont think hes going to be prolific as a goal scorer the issue is we do need to evolve when we had the rat it was all about get it up the pitch ASAP as you had a deadly goal getter in your no.14 now hes gone and big nick is likely not to be a goal machine (yet) but a goal creator/enabler we need our players to get more goals spread the load. Will be interesting to see if Gordon can step up as the side gets used to one another and adapts.

His willingness sometimes over eagerness to receive the ball and tries to get us moving in an attacking sense cannot be forgotten. Its not all going to work they were a fairly physical side as well and he was sometimes working in tight spaces. Not going to argue with your opinion as you were at the game and I was watching on the tele but thought he was excellent. The treaded ball for osula's first no one else in the side except maybe Murphy in full flow does that.

Agreed my only worry is wissa and big nick playing together when do we rest and rotate them? answer will likely be there is a time and a place for it similarly to when rat and Wilson were on together but in theory if they both started its currently back to Osula being the sub or Gordon up top.

Really pleased he got a couple of goals, badly needs to work on his attacking headers 😅 Some lovely link up with Bruno as you would expect and very selfless giving up the chance for his 3rd to play Bruno in. Hopefully the goals and mins is just what he needed for arsenal.

Hes desperate to do well and impress hence the red vs liverpool and the shots tonight. I could almost feel his frustration from my living room. Hopefully settled run in the side and a goal or two to get him back to his best.. Can never fault the work rate or endeavor.

Immense tonight ran the show everything but score a goal.

I am sure i am going to love him can see where his link up play and number 10 style work make him an asset bringing others into goal scoring positions. Wissa and him together will be interesting to see but we need the rotation so maybe not destined to be a thing that often.

That was my initial thought just wasn't sure. As it had no consequence to the final result I was secretly pleased for Bradford and the travelling support.

I thought he was our weakest link front 3 wise, hoping its still just waiting for the Eddie magic/confidence to kick in. Sometimes I wish he would go for goal himself over always trying to play someone in.

Could he have done any better for their goal? Haven't seen it except the once. Really pleased with his calmness on the ball Not sure if he always has to play it short or if that was a tactical thing. At the very least its nice having a genuine option/alternative to pope will hopefully keep pushing the both of them to perform

Maybe its because he's at the stage of needing minutes in his legs or maybe its to develop the CB pairing/partnership he's 8/9 years younger than Burn we need to rely on him a bit more as we need to be sure about offering his next contract and BDB won't be here forever (sad thinking about the end of the schar/burn era).

I know with such rich owners I just want my cake and eat it sort of thing. They fund the stadium debt free we have the stadium and each stand, official beer, soft drink and anything else you can put a deal against is sponsored and it all going towards shiny new players not offsetting the calculated /speculative risk of the owners putting that level of spend into the club. Being debt free and spending the maximum allowed within the rules always sounds better than a % of any extra new stadium revenue offsetting a 20 year loan that costs say 10/15m a season in interest to fund.

Agreed just would hope any new stadium sponsor would help support our PSR calculations and not offset debt costs.

I dont get it either unless they believe if they can get a good rate it allows them to invest their money elsewhere and not "tie it up" in a long term investment. The money they are both worth surely even 1B is pocket change.

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He will have 12 months left on his deal come the summer its a big season for him to prove he can stay fit and contribute both important if we want to offer him a new deal or help with resale value should we cut our losses.

I am sure i am going to love him can see where his link up play and number 10 style work make him an asset but with us playing 1 up top he's playing very deep for how we normally play. Wissa and him together will be interesting to see but we need the rotation so maybe not destined to be a thing that often.

Plus we play in 3 days time every game is important he can't play every min going and swap or join wissa on the treatment table

Osula isnt ready or ever going to be possibly and we have loads of games before we might get wissa back. Its shit but the lad isn't Howe fit to go again and again push him too much and we back to no fit strikers.

Such a frustrating performance he's got such a good engine and keeps going he's our duracel bunny but he's just not replicating 2 seasons ago. Not sure if what we are getting is more the real him or he needs a settled run in the side. Issue is Barnes and him should be giving the manager a headache who to pick as they both performing. However other than Gordon being on a ban they appear to be trying to play like they dont want to hold on to the "top spot" on the wing. We know he can do better let's hope we eventually see it as the team are going to need him.

If he's an attacking midfielder then I am a swim suit model balls bounce off him or he falls over holding onto the ball just not effective enough for where we want to be.

Typical Murphy performance one min I am shouting at my imaginary friends saying what the fuck you doing the next he's doing that assist he was doing for the rat last season on a plate assist perfectly weighted slight curl perfection. Elanga's setup/ assist attemps first half nearly as effective but not as fondly remembered thanks to shite finishing by Gordon and Barnes.

Agreed despite scoring today we just didn't look like scoring in general half chances , balls in an around the box is back to being recycled over and over again. I assume is was instructional but when Gordon was meant to be up top he just never seemed to be there which is not his fault as its clearly not his natural position and it's a shame we are resorting to shoe horning him there. Hard to knock the lads maximum effort and played some nice stuff in parts hard to judge us as a team when we are up against such experienced and quality opponents. The first half chances definitely cost us in the end but we made a great account of ourselves.

Strong bench with murphy,hall and big nick to come on just have to hope we ain't dead and buried scoreline wise before the subs are made.

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