Away Toon

Ruthless is a word that is appearing in lots of posts and Eddie has to start being exactly that. Not only with some of the players but also with the ownership because unless they find the money to strengthen significantly the team and squad, we are staying where we are and that’s between 7th and somewhere right in the middle. I know we need a squad, but there shouldn’t be contract extensions to any player who isn’t improving us and taking us forward. Play some of the youngsters some of them might surprise us. There are no surprises from Dummett, Krafth, Lascelles, Ritchie, Murphy, Almiron, Dubravka, Longstaff etc. except how often they remind us that they are not good enough. Eddie should be having a word with the likes of Longstaff and Willock and telling them these kinds of aimless half assed performances will result in them not playing and being sold. It’s time to get brutal because if we hope to improve and god forbid actually win something it’s no time to show loyalty or to keep persisting with at least half of the current squad.

We've been hanging on the whole of the second half

Everton deserve that

True, haven't seen him beat his man for yonks.

You'd rather one of these two boring bastards did?

Hopefully Liverpool will win the league, at least they are watchable.

Absolutely stinking game to watch.

If Bruno doesn't stop Paqueta we are going to lose as he'll continue to cut open our slow footed, dimwitted defense.

Fit or not he’s way down the list to play for the Netherlands. Far too slow for a start.

I'm sure the Italian investigation was going on for months before he was charged and eventually banned. The key question is did Tonali, Milan or NUFC know he was being investigated?

Trippier

Surely the new UEFA regulations will supersede anything the premier league or the government come up with, unless our clubs are not planning on playing in UEFA competitions?

Shearer seems convinced he will be here next season......

What? We are not competing at all, it's a complete mismatch, we are shit and have been for most of the season. Keep picking Burn, expect Willock to help him, select Longstaff every week, it doesn't work.

That wasn't a deflection it was a very cute header by Botman.

I think we will likely sell Bruno who if City are serious about buying will want to go there anyhow. We should also consider selling Isak if we get a good enough offer especially if we have doubts about his ability to stay fit.

Sleep walking towards a Jose Mourinho future for fucks sake.

A mid table clash between two sides having disappointing seasons.....

I suspect Hall’s biggest problem is that he isn’t Dan Burn, he’s small and he is probably relatively weak. Compared to DB he always will be.

Can understand why people don't like it. Nepotism is among the greatest evils out there.

watching his highlights I saw him look up before crossing and use his right foot so he's well ahead of Miggy already.

If I was Hall I'd be looking at making sure he's not with us next season. He's not been treated very well at all. If he can't get a game this season there is even less chance of him getting on the pitch going forward.

what isn't in doubt is that we were absolutely appalling against Blackburn with a strong team and a reasonable bench. We were abject.

I think that's the worst I've seen us play under Howe last night, there wasn't one thing we did well as a team . There are less and less mitigating circumstances. We do not look like a well coached team.

A fit, motivated playing well player like Phillips is exactly what we need.