mrmojorisin75

sure but we know all this, the £40m has been paid and there's nothing we can do about it now so surely the best solution would be if our coach did something to get an end product out of the lad because he's not going anywhere and we're very unlikely to go and spend another £40m on a striker that can play up top on his own

well lets say he can't play as a lone striker then, standing 20-30 yards from his nearest teammate and having 60 yard balls launched at him ain't his thing i'd play the same system as yesterday with him, ASM, Almiron behind Gayle until the end of the season to see if they can find an understanding, but i suppose that would presume bruce knows what the fuck he's doing

Just the full season demonstrates that it wouldn’t be better,. The amount of times he is nowhere near the penalty box is criminal He has been guilty of misses just as bad as Gayle also on numerous occasions. Just don’t get this thing some have about Joelinton, when ex players like Shearer, McDonald and Quinn are questioning his ability, it tells you something as all 3 certainly knew the striker role. I wouldn’t have either in the team currently but at a push I’d have Gayle as he certainly offers more. nobody is saying he should be playing central striker are they? quite the opposite for me bit in bold is important like, it's a clear problem but i do wonder what gets worked on with him during coaching because that IS the kind of thing coaching can improve yet he's actually getting worse in this area imo he's not lazy, again imo, but is possibly the type of player that needs strict instructions and coaching that's why managers and coaches exist of course, to improve the performance of players - PFMs like shearer and macdonald aren't worth listening to man, it's always the players fault with them never the manager until the moment the manager gets sacked

i was kind of gutted when we scored, was fucking hilarious watching us contrive ways not to score the moment he was sent off

lascelles offside goal was after the sending off, only thing i can recall before the sending off was the triple save it's semantics anyway, they created fuck all completely agree but i thought they looked a better outfit than us which is fairly standard they'd have beat us without the red, no doubt in my mind

it was very even, but they were marginally better than us until the sending off i'm afraid

Get the fuck in. Another season of Bruce/Ashley/mediocrity beckons. What a fucking time to be a fan of NUFC i was getting worried for Big Mike for a while there tbph, he could have lost another year of the gravy train scary times

we all know he's the best passer of the ball at the club, but it's what his presence does to the overall shape and position of the team that turns people like me off him controls the tempo? yeah from inside our own 3rd of the pitch for the majority of the time looking for hollywood balls over the top that said i'll actually agree that while bacon is our manager he might as well be first choice because the cunt can't coach a passing game through midfield, so why bother trying

We were playing better and creating chances before the sending off we created one chance before the sending off didn't we? the triple save thing, southampton were the better team until the sending off (marginally)

we paid <£20m no? i think someone will gamble on him this summer for about £40m tbh

Yeah let's not forget that. Think both are true fwiw, Gayle clearly a more natural central striker in terms of his positioning but Joelinton has been hung out to dry the whole season up top all alone.

if steve bacon manages to reproduce the masterstroke of having the other team get a man sent off and then make a total fuck up on the edge of their own box to gift us a goal in every game we could be going places lads

new 3 year contract COMING UP!

That rules out NUFC then goes without saying

don't worry i'm sure he'll just be backup when we sign that 40m CM from france in the summer, we'll def be in for him and go and spend that money

he's already been replaced by krafth, lets not kid ourselves

get him developed there to the max, then first opportunity get him off to a proper club HTT

absolute fucking joke decision, totally expected

they've not done their research with our fans then, they'll lap that shit up with a biscuit...need more stories about ASM wearing gloves like a soft foreign shite and how snowflakes want to ban matt ritchie from kicking corner flags now that'll do it

said this would happen (& shelvey) in the squad thread weeks ago and we all knew it - far cheaper to retain average to poor plodders like these two than actually buy credible PL standard replacements bullshit club

We'll get bummed into oblivion. not sure it'll be that bad but it'll be a comfortable win i reckon

presume he's just got divorced or summit?

it's not about either of those things really, it's about knackers writing off a 22 year old 8 months into a career in a new country playing in one of the worst NUFC setups any of us have ever seen he may be shite in the end, probably average at best, but i've seen enough over the years to know how much of an impact being fucked over like he has been can have on a player

didn't really like that bruce clip, i mean ok fight back or whatever but he's deliberately chosen a fight he can win because he knows there's no chance hope can reveal who told him and exactly what they told him so put on a big man show and look good for the knackers basically