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The fuck is the ref doing there the stupid cunt?

That was absolutely outrageous The ball on the volley from Bruno, the takedown with his head from Almiron, then the finish. Ridiculous.

Thats a hard angle tbf, still a poor effort lime.

Probably because stuff like "X player isn't Y" is pretty archaic, and Willock has looked good down the wings this season, he specifically played there last night and won us the game, but playing on the right of a 3 earlier in the season he would often run down the channels. He's quick, can go past players, is clever on and off the ball and can score goals. Not really sure why anyone would claim he isn't or cannot be a winger.

Willock can probably play anywhere across the front line or in a midfield 3 so it shouldn't be hard to fit him in.

Rogers is a really good manager like, but like Potter he doesn't have the personel really. City will pass you to death but will pretty much always create chances as their squad is on another level, you cannot do the same with upper-mid tier squads like Leicester and Brighton, both would probably be better with a more direct approach.

Willock's so underrated like, good to see him being played in different areas of the pitch. Needs to be starting again.

Aye. Sa overcommitted and lunged in. Not sure why Wood is expected to not take advantage of it? Stone wall pemalty and always has been.

He's not even close to 6ft I would be surprised if he was a few mil over 5'10

Even if there's no contact it's a penalty like, always has been. Keepers cannot slide in like that, same as any other player.

Nonce

Almoron actually looks on the same wavelength as Bruno, I think Willock would be great in there with him somewhere as he's a clever player.

Aye like him giving us shape and our players essentially winning games through off the ball effort doesn't seem to be working anymore. I'd even rather we just stick Willock or something up top at this point. I cannot think of much worse than persisting with Wood.

Teams will only put 2-3 men on ASM when he's in possession, or we're set up to get it to him. They don't literally have 3 men man marking him. And we'd still need to work the ball to Raphinha.

Both Fraser and ASM have contributed to us getting out of the drop zone like. Fraser arguably more so. I'm still unsure on ASM going into next season, I really love watching him and hope it works out but there's a reason why 'overly' skillful players tend to be overshadowed eventually. There's only really Ronaldinho in recent years I can think of who actually benefited from it, and that was probably debateable in the end. We've seen plenty of top managers simplify the game of players like ASM, or just flat out prefer 'grafters' in the side.

It happened pretty much as everyone was saying pre match like. If we play a low block Spurs will struggle to break us down, if we push up they will massacre us on the counter Doesn't really matter now like, but we just need to accept that we're diabolical in the final third and no change in approach will sort it out. Stick to frustrating teams until the summer.

It's a bit of a meh game and the players are probably thinking the same at the minute. It's going to be hard to replicate the form that pretty much got us safe when we have nothing to play for anymore. Just a long wait until the summer.

Bentankur lucky to be on there like.

I'd have said that was a freekick personally like.

Might not have been City or the leg break tbh. I cannot find the post I did on here but I remember looking through a 3 month period or so at the time of Pardew refusing to play him, despite him being great in the short stints he got.

I never said he didn't have bad games. I specifically said, that like any other forward, he would inevitably go missing. Weird as fuck EDIT: Pretty sure im talking about Pardew in that 10 year old quote anyway. Not even sure what point you're making.

I cannot remember which injury it was (might have been the leg break) but Pardew completely fucked his return from it. I remember him being good against City then being dropped, him saying he was fit (he looked very sharp) and Pardew saying he wasn't. Was like a month or 2 before he forced himself into the side by completely demolishing some poor sods (possibly Stoke?). There was a lot of shit like that going on, obviously HBA has himself to blame for a lot, but it really aggravating to see.

He very rarely had a poor game, atleast no more than any other attacking player will go missing from time to time. Again, there's a reason he's so fondly remembered here, it isn't just pulled out of thin air, and it's not just because he had 'potential'. He was consistently great when he played, even coming back from injury.

Ah reet he was just widely loved for no reason then

HBA was a far better all round footballer. He was obviously a nightmare off the pitch but he was consistently great on it for us.