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Joe crocked

How many chances do we need??

Trippier pass showing his class

ASM giving the ball away far too much today

How did that not go in??

The difference is movement off the ball is night and day to us, they're finding so much space.

Big Joe down

I get that but they're no good if he's stumbling over the ball and caving like a wet paper bag under any pressure and also has goal anxiety.

Willock is just an aimless oaf

This is as depressing as I had hoped

Saaave

Ffs Willock just hit it!

Something has to click at some point surely, hopefully its tomorrow and we can go into the break with some hope. Next time we play the window will be shut so this game is massively important for a few reasons.

Draw would have been the best result but that was the second best result we could have had. Still worrying how Nowich put 3 past them when we struggled so hard last week.

Another score draw if we go ahead, if we go behind then a loss, no chance of a 0-0.

On the contrary, I think the argument should be Joe shouldn't be anywhere near the box, he's powder puff in front of goal.

It's the little dink over the defenders foot before he takes the shot that makes it for me, how do you do that at that pace??

Still plenty of points to play for, not cut adrift but what we're seeing on the pitch is worrying, we're circling the drain. Can't really put a number on it until we see what players we're working with in February anything now is reactionary.

I said this a couple of weeks ago, he has a philosophy and the players are the extension of that, that's why their weaknesses are so glaringly obvious. He's too rigid in his ways to his detriment, Rafa (I know, I know) knew how to utilise the strengths of these players while covering their weaknesses, it wasn't pretty but it was functional, people want pretty you get this though.

Bully turns victim turns bully again and now he'll be crying victim again from any backlash he gets. Like the boy that prods the hornets nest with a stick and cries when he gets stung. Prick.

I really want him to succeed, you can see what he's trying to do and with the right players it could be really entertaining to watch. But early signs have been disappointing, that's not entirely his fault but he needs to shoulder some of the blame.

I'm hoping we get, at the very minimum, a CD and a CM before Leeds, we simply cannot go into that game with the same squad.

Proper victim mentality, at no point does he intimate or suggest anyone should be unhappy with Howe.

The miasma of despair has had 14 years to settle over this club, in varying amounts and with the odd beam of sunlight flickering through. However the last 2 years really finished off the last glimmers of hope, don't forget Bruce had over £100m in new players that gave us a bounce until the stench of the place permeated them too. Let's not forget how this season started with Bruce, worse performances and worse results. Howe might not have flipped the script but subtle changes are there, these just aren't the players he needs for how he wants us to play, plain and simple. It's OK to question why he hasn't been able to get a tune out of these players, why he's not managed to fortify their moral to see a game out but also be willing to see the change and give him a chance with his own players. He's turned losses into draws but he needs to turn draws into wins. We have to be ruthless in these next 2 weeks, give him the players to build an identity and then we can judge him.