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I love Rafa and would've had him back in a heartbeat right up until we appointed Howe, but after that first press conference ended it all changed. Rafa was the right man at the wrong time, while Howe feels like a perfect fit for the here and now.

Reeks of GE/Burnsie, that account.

Or Brereton Díaz as he's now known.

Some of his dallying on the ball in the first half was terrifying. No idea what him and Schär were playing at.

It's a good job you're not giving the team talk. We'll win today.

If you're double-jabbed a PCR test is just advised, rather than mandatory.

The state of this camerawork on the BBC match.

I'm all for it as long as it's written into his contract that he can't do that stupid fucking celebration.

It's not that surprising when you consider we haven't reinforced the defence in any meaningful way since 2018. The defenders we once thought of as solid, dependable footballers under Rafa are three years older and have spent the majority of that time listening to the Steves/on holiday.

This is class.

He's always looked gassed early on whenever I've seen him play on telly, like.

You can barely contain your excitement.

It was a mess all round. The defending was absolutely shocking.

Christ!

I just assumed it was Norwich fans unhappy with something. It was actually our lot? Unless they were booing Clark specifically they can all fuck right off. Weapons.

Howe's three games in. Three. Yes he'll have watched every minute of each of our games but he's also seen them on the training pitch for the best part of three weeks. He's not to blame here, and he's still finding his feet with this shithouse of a squad. It'll come good against Burnley. It has to.

Souness won 9 on the bounce or something before that as well didn't he?

He grew into that first half mind. Had a couple of really good runs towards the end. Hopefully he keeps it going early doors in the second.

Fucking Clark, man. The joker would've been out the door 3 years ago at most other PL clubs. Howe literally can't catch a break. I still think we look dangerous and I'd back us to score. Just got to hope they don't.

Gutted not to be there tonight. Was just stood outside the ground waiting for a bus and it took all my might not to nip over to the box office and take one of the last remaining seats.

Stop giving them attention. Please.

Dragging Howe into it earlier on though? Howay He's been locked in his hotel room all week and we're playing a fairly competent side with an infinitely better squad than ours. We are shite, and that's not in doubt. Can we be less shite than Norwich on Tuesday? That's all that matters at the moment.

You're sounding like a right entitled so and so today mind.

The ref and his monkey pals in their little TV room have been terrible.