Heron

Anyone Howe Out is a melt. Sorry bro.

Absolute fucking diamond. Dan Burn to NUFC is Maximus Decimus Meridius to Gladiator. Are you not entertained?! I am. Dan Burn is the resurrection and he is the light.

Anyone doubting Howe get in the fucking bin twice over. NUFCs greatest ever manager.

Long live the king.

If only the club weren't such pussies

I'd love to do these bastards tbh.

Elanga 1 - 0.

Same thing.

Paqueta on loan for the remainder of the season.

It's probably because Ginola and Robert never did the dirty work despite being fantastic attacking players. Ben Arfa tended to play more of a 10 role iirc and was free to roam. It's not a cursed position at all. It's just that folk can see obvious flaws in Gordon's game and the stats back it up. So when they see and hear him talking about manifesting and how he's playing well and this whole spiel about being confident, and then when he's raging at his team mates for making mistakes when he makes many every game without the same attitude back - folk naturally get their backs up. Not sure you've seen or heard the audible gasps around St James' as Elanga takes the field, or when Murphy misplaces one pass, but they are very regular occurrences and have been for some time. Gordon got away with mediocre (at best) performances unscathed for a long time and only when he got sent off versus Brighton did folk start calling out the performances. My big question is whether Howe is asking him to cut inside as much as he does, if he is then Howe is hanging him out to dry cause he's not very good at it. If he isn't, then Howe should be dropping him for his inability to stick to the wing. That is also on Howe. However, Gordon needs to give himself a reality check too.

If we're saying beating a man is enough for a forward to be doing is enough then Elanga is doing that too. Or at least yesterday he did. I'm being somewhat facetious mind (for clarity)... It's about time Gordon went on the right for me (has been for a while) think he might get more joy there...

Barnes. Simple.

Agree. One step of Gordon if that's the case mind. At least his balls go in the box

Been an absolute beast in recent weeks since he last came back. Love when he's giving it large like - its not always for the best but it's like a roaring lion would love a photo of when he left tow of them on the deck...was that even worth the booking btw? Or were they just shithousing daftkernts?

Elanga had one of his better games today for us. That's not to say he was great. It's two different things. People are willing him to do well cause his confidence is clearly shot and he is trying his best. Cannot blame him for his fee.

Would love to know if he's telling the wingers to come inside as often as they do, or at least Gordon.

Not for me like. In most of our decent performances recently it's been the likes of Miley, Joelinton, Barnes and Bruno. Gordon has been 7 out of 10s at his absolute best and even then that is only half a time and in my opinion being generous. In all games presently for everything great thing he does he also does something equally shite. Frankly, I'm starting to bore myself nowadays with how much I complain about him. Lads and lasses at the match must hate me, including my own mates in the bar post match - I just cannot see for the life of me why people incessantly back him and berate the likes of your Murphy's etc at the drop of a hat. Drives me crazy. We all said Miggy had a purple patch and we sold him, folk did and still say that of Murphy - no doubt people will be saying that of Barnes before long - yet Gordon seems to be this superstar in some eyes despite having a similar "purple patch" for us. Don't get it at all.

All so fantastic in their own right.

We've got Bruno on the subs bench. We know exactly what he needs. A little bit of rest, to remain at his best, and return this week in the champions league.

Medium-rare?

Aye. Load of guff

Fair - but then look at Barnes and the last two seasons for Murphy...

Okay so what input has Howe had into making him perform worse? What do you explicitly know that Howe has done to reduce Gordon's output? The fact that 95% of the playing squad that exists at NUFC and has existed at NUFC under Howe have all improved as players and Gordon hasn't suggests that Howe is not the problem, in my eyes. Of course - If Howe is telling him to stay down at 5 minutes a time every time he's fouled, to run inside every time we have the ball, and to deliberately hit the opposition keeper or place the ball in the stands when in the final third then I'll gladly criticise Howe. Thankfully, Gordon has been doing the latter less recently.

He has been better at this recently, and effective when staying wide, which is only 50% of the time.