Pilko

It'll be Burn in for Kelly and otherwise same again Saturday, unless there's an injury. Convinced of it.

You can't put any blame on Tonali for tonight, surely? Overlooked in favour of Longstaff yet again and then expected to get us out of the clarts in a midfield two with a vaguely shaped shower of shit around him and Bruno on one leg when he's finally introduced.

Can see his point. We tend to really up it for the bigger sides and then play like a bunch of limp dicks against the rest of the league when we're favourites.

Hopefully the scouts from Man City were in tonight because we'll have a much better chance of keeping him on showings like that.

Yeah, if Isak and Gordon had taken half of the big chances they've missed this season we'd probably be 2nd in the table. You've got to think that they'll start taking them at some point soon. Then again, the second half performance was a worry I thought, it turned into a confusing, scatty mess that created absolutely nothing other than a possible penalty shout. I do think Eddie's been hung out to dry with the standstill of a summer window and that has probably played a part in how stale and predictable we look at times. The good news for him, and us, is that the league is canny shit this season and it's still wide open for 3rd to 11th. All to play for if we can get a bit of consistency.

Pick of the bunch although he didn't have a lot to compete with tonight.

Of course Isak reverts to early season dickhead mode soon as I captain him. Fucking sick.

That wasn't great, at all. Can't put it all on Eddie of course but it turned into an absolute muddle after about 50 minutes and was still very much salvageable even at 0-2, but it was a proper mess. Created nowt of note other than the pen shout in the second half, not enough quality or goal threat at all. A shit show of a second half, so many passes over or under hit. In a display with hardly any quality from us whatsoever, centre half and right wing looked absolutely minging in particular and just highlighted our pathetic summer window not for the first time this season. Doesn't help himself by holding back Tonali, like. Corners and set pieces routinely awful from an attacking perspective yet again. Whatever work is being done on these through the week isn't effective enough. Free transfer or not, if Lloyd Kelly is Howe's man it only strengths the argument that he shouldn't have the keys to the kingdom and needs to work in the structure we're setting up. We can't afford to fuck up too many more of these home games after this and Brighton. You'll get the odd result like this or shitty draw but if we start losing to the non-top-6 teams too often we'll be looking at another lower midtable finish again. Hopefully one to forget about quickly and a reality check we can use to propel us into the next few games, but it was really shit and Eddie should rightly be fuming with some aspects of it, and take some of the flak for it also.

Really impressive party piece we have of finding the area of the box with no black and white shirts in it every time we put a corner in.

This is a shapeless mess bereft of any quality. A real bollock dropped after such a good little pre-international run.

This is absolutely horrible.

Another load of nowt tonight. Effort is there but total lack of quality.

Good of us to pay his wages for a year whilst he was unavailable and keep him fit so he can play full nineties for Italy and 25 min cameos for us, like.

Fuck off Gordon. Hopeless ball

Our right midfield and centre half positions looking absolutely exposed as fuck tonight, good thing we sat on our hands all summer eh.

Fucking shit. Nae wonder he was on a free.

Fuck off man.

You'd be upset with that kind of ponderous marking in a Sunday morning game. Absolutely shite.

Fucking play him man.

So many under hit or over hit passes at key moments, largely piss poor deliveries into the box and frustrating nearly moments there. Feel like if we get the equaliser with a bit of time to go we'll win but it's got Brighton (h) MKII written all over it too.

How the fuck did he miss. This is so frustrating

If Gordon could finish we'd be about 2nd in the league.

How didn't we score there FFS.

We need Bruno to exert a bit more influence on this.

So many passes from us slightly over or under hit so far.