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Oh aye, by ASAP I mean as soon as the knackers in front of him have been replaced.

I'll always love Dubs for his first two years here, but he looks a shadow of his former self at the moment. I don't think he's ever recovered his confidence from that shambles in the Euros. He'll make some incredible saves, but that's pointless if he's dropping clangers like the two mistakes he made in the first 5 minutes today. It's sad to say, but I think we need an upgrade ASAP.

It's like a Ronnie Gill clickbait tweet.

He's got three men around him when Lascelles decides to play it to him, mind. They're both thick as pig shit and I won't miss them when they're gone.

Our options are absolutely minging, like.

I think I'd rather watch another 90 minutes of that shite than carry on reading this thread, like.

That fucking music, man. Freaks.

Schär is so frustrating, man. He's capable of some great stuff on the ball, but doesn't half love to drop his team in it while we're open at the back.

That was some horseshite defending.

Howe needs to give them a right good talking to at half-time, like. The lack of urgency towards the end of the half from those on the ball was incredibly frustrating.

It was a shocking ball from Lascelles in the first place, there were two men on Shelvey.

Fucking HELL!

It's been less than 2 weeks since the last dusting down.

Hi, 90s kid here. The lopsidedness of SJP is part of its wonder in my opinion. It looms over the city and creates that whole cathedral on the hill thing. It still leaves me in awe when approaching the city. I love the history of the place, and the different iterations that we've gone through over the years, but I can't fathom why some of our (seemingly older) fans hold no attachment to the current version. Clean it up, (re)modernise it, and bring it right up to spec and I'd be absolutely over the moon. Once that's done let's look at what's next, but I hope that whatever we do, we build on what's already there.

I used to sit behind the goal in the Leazes, we'd often get in early enough to watch the warm-ups. He was playing for Man City and nearing the end, but he was at peak ponytail. Someone in the stands was giving him some stick about it so he flipped him the bird.

I hope they don't say a thing about it. Let him and his tat market drift away into obscurity.

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.