Gallowgate Toon

It's just really boring at the minute, to sum it up. You know it's largely going to be absolutely shite to watch while also not really being very solid. Everything is in front of teams, there's nothing going on to stretch sides consistently. We can't build attacks, the technical output of the side is absolutely shambolic at the minute, even/especially from our technical players. Absolutely basic passes simply not being made, crap (and often selfish) decision-making, we never seem to be anywhere near second balls, and despite being full of giants we're not dominant in boxes.

We had isolation issues with our last striker, it can't continue. Having technical players basically competing for chucked passes and little else is no good. The team needs to progress in these games, we should be looking to pin teams back and using his touches in the final third. He needs support and movement. He can of course also improve as well, especially physically, but we're not currently at all set up to get him on the ball in the areas he really wants. The less we attempt to get him into games, the less he's going to fight for daft balls.

It'd be good to spend time on the team's attacking rather than training to kick the ball out of play from KO. What are we doing, man?

His plan for the side ultimately feels confused, to me. What is his vision for the team for the next year? What are we supposed to be evolving into?

The quotes coming out of last weekend worried me. All talk about mentality and nastiness. I was hoping it was lip service but it's proving not to be.

Watched his 23/24 highlights back - what a menace he was.

Absolutely delicious cameo last night, he's such a good footballer. He had the look of someone who had missed playing and wasn't afraid to push his body a bit. Great signs.

I love his passes into midfield but great to see some longer passing come out last night. When they were pressing us well in the first half, it was almost like we forgot we could go long in those situations rather than trying to continually play through. They seemed much more hesitant to press once we started doing this more, but it could've just been that they were knackered.

We just need some more training time with him, really. I feel he's doing what's most natural to get into games now which is dropping into deeper pockets to get involved & generally help the team. What I don't think has been worked on much yet is the patterns and coordinated movements to get him into better shooting positions. He scored a variety of finishes in the box for Stuttgart.

Good, solid win after a rough few days. Still loads more to come from us but we can't complain about this CL campaign, we've been very professional so far.

As soon as Barnes was on the left, we had a runner willing to hit the line when we were being pressed. Made an immediate difference.

It's just more of the same. He needs to be managed with genuine competition, he's proven he can't motivate himself well enough. He's meant to be a star forward but he's contributed nothing directly for half a season in the league, that should be setting alarm bells right off, man. The blind spot/faith can't continue.

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His comments post-game were very honest which is always good, but they don't actually reflect well on his decisions from half-time onwards. The game needed energy but it was also going to be a completely different second half - this is Nuno, his teams almost always happily concede the ball when there's a lead to create breaks. Taking off the player most suited to this type of situation was bizarre, especially when Will Osula is the other option. He's got to make some big calls. No point in talking about genuine competition for places if Joelinton, who has been poor all season, keeps starting. Same goes for Gordon in the league.

He's been treated far too nicely for the last year. Let us down in the FA Cup then immediately walked back into the side which coincided with our dip in form towards the end of the season. Bizarrely, he's at his best when he has a chip on his shoulder, but we don't want to use that.

I wonder if he visualised playing fucking shite?

Needs taking out of the side.

Some of his 100s need changing. Joelinton has been shit all season which is exacerbated with having Burn LB and league Gordon too. That side is looking tragic and in need of a right kick up the arse.

Absolutely abysmal today. The only right call was hooking Gordon at halftime.

Absolutely bizarre decision to take the only player we've had score consistently in the league this season rather than try and change the game in his favour when we're a goal down.

Jogging about like a prick. Effectively had a week off, should be bolting about the place.

A genuinely unprofessional performance.

Pathetic attempt to track back from Gordon. Very lucky.

Using his bench very well. We've got a great squad but tricky injury bursts require managing regardless.

Tough game for him due to the reffing. Seemed they were allowed to get away with just anything in terms of holding, from my perspective in the ground. Some lovely play still.