Interpolic

Imagine being this negative at this point in time supporting the club There's glass half full, glass half empty, and help I've headbutted the glass and have shards of glass in me face.

COCK PISS GOLDBRIDGE

Really need this guy back, man. You can't get by with 2 fit wingers as we have been for months, it's the primary position that needs freshened up in-game. Think he'll be class for us as well.

oh my fucking word.

Agree to disagree as suspect we're both getting bored with this, but the narrative of that game is just wrong imo. We hung on second half and they had loads of shots. Before that we did play well, after that we defended magnificently.

Yeah I don't agree with the original comment that PSG didn't threaten in the away game, but you followed up saying we didn't play well that game. We did. ^ We were at least as good as PSG up until Isak's goal. Looked comfortable for the rest of the half too. Unsurprisingly we went more pragmatic after that. PSG didn't batter us, they tried and failed to score a goal for three quarters of the match. If we'd conceded an equaliser 2 minutes after Isak's goal then the above would have looked completely different.

Did you watch the first half? If so I can't say I agree whatsoever. Neither did the pundits at half time who said we'd been the better side. If we dig out the stats I think they'd back that up. Stats-aside we were tidy on the ball and measured off it. We held on second half when protecting a lead and tiring, which is important context.

We were just as good as PSG away first half and put in an outstanding backs-to-the-wall performance second half, which was the right thing to do in the context of the group and the available personnel. No way does that go into the "didn't play well" bracket.

He just hates us and wants to score points. Annoyingly people like him set the narrative which fans of other fans parrot like it's fact.

There's a lot of this like. His excellency doesn't do losing

Yeah we can beat anyone on our day but our day isn't necessarily going to be a cup final or whatever when the opposition have been there and done it many times. We should be aiming to win or overachieving in every competition we're in, there's a difference between that and expecting it though.

Yeah we can't say we need to win something this season considering who we're competing with. The likes of Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool are years ahead of us, and the deck is stacked in their favour for the foreseeable future. We will win something in the next few years but in the meantime need to focus on progressing on and off the pitch, which we're doing.

Yeah it must be Mourinho's agent planting this in the press all the time (that or lazy /mischevious journalism), cos it doesn't sound like our owners and never did.

Yeah I think he would as well as the best players adapt. But he'd need to be a lot fitter, a lot more in tune tactically and his lifestyle back then wouldn't work now. Which is why I'm saying him playing his game 20-30 years ago is much different to what players are having to do now, and him saying player faitgue is a myth doesn't mean much at all.

Think we'll play well tonight and fairly confident we'll win. It'll be the easiest team talk of Howe's season, how this is the kind of moment we fought all last season for. We obviously can't control what happens in the PSG game but have to hope Dortmund are motivated to win the group.

Relative to the time he was, yeah. And put his body on the line with his style. He'd need to make significant changes if playing today though. Sure he could have done it but the demands on players now are different.

The annoying thing about that Shearer soundbite and other similar opinions is that it implies that today's players are workshy or less committed than they used to be. When in fact they're putting in far more yards than Shearer ever did, making way more lifestyle sacrifices, playing far more games. Essentially players commit their lives these days so they are fit to play every 3-7 days, with maybe a couple of weeks off in summer if they're lucky. Yeah we all know they're paid very well for it but it doesn't seem sustainable to me.

Yeah it's not 1995 anymore, lads. If you compared the running stats vs now then they'd be night and day. Really think the authorities need to look at this now with the amount of injuries across lots of clubs and players clearly never getting a break. They seem reluctant to cut down the games, in fact the opposite is happening, so other measures that would help should be looked at. Like increasing the max size of a squad, relaxation of the loan rules etc. Just increasing the amount of games until enough players break to act is not good enough.

Christ, didn't realise he'd said that. We had 2+ good options for every position, and only a handful had shown signs of being injury prone (Wilson, Isak, Targett). Don't think we could have done anymore with the funds we spent in the summer, short of also investing in a crystal ball.

In what sense? Because they don't look similar players at all. Hojlund is a proper centre forward who can hold the ball up and compete physically with centre halves, whereas that's exactly what Tomasson wasn't. And obviously wouldn't have been asked to play as though he was, had Shearer not got injured.

You'd think you'd have picked up some perspective after all the shite you've watched then.

Unreal. Zero gratitude or perspective, cos we've lost a couple of games. We don't need supporters like this.

He's 19 and a very highly rated prospect, not least by Ashworth and Howe. If you think it was a mistake that's dead concerning though aye.