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Inconceivable (performance today)

Always find commentary on pens hilarious. Was a terrible pen, and then Clive or whoever it was, was like “he’s stroked it in with aplomb” or similar nonsense. When in fact, he gave the keeper every chance to save it

possibly the funniest post today, I’ll give you that

I’ve already made a bunch of comments. The idea that you’ll never see him as a top manager again made me laugh. He’s been forced in the last month to play almost exclusively the same lineup until the last couple of games when he has been able to make slight alterations. I agree that things look very poor at the moment, the team is very disjointed and we’re leaking goals. What that says about Howe is very little, I’d be worried if we’d been this poor with our best line up or even if it was half of our best line up. However, Miggy is fucked, Gordon is fucked, Isak has been playing with an injury until he looked like himself today. Burn has just come back from an injury. Joelinton’s been in and out of the team with injuries. No one knows exactly what’s going on with Trippier but whatever it is, he’s been fucked mentally. Longstaff always plays poorly for a run of games after coming back from an injury. These are all reasons why we look so incoherent and shite. Howe’s job is to come up with a plan B but coming up with different tactics when players are half match fit or exhausted isn’t easy

Have people’s brains melted? Going on about how he’s a dead man walking and he’ll definitely have to go if we lose to Sunderland. It’s a complete and utter joke and says a huge amount about how reactionary our fans are (and many fans are). This is the first period of pressure and bad spell that Howe’s had here. Pathetic that people are desperate to see him gone after what he’s achieved here and the pride he’s reinstalled in the club. Really pity anyone who wants him gone as they clearly haven’t enjoyed any of the time he’s been here if they’re that desperate to see him go

This is embarrassing stuff

One thing I’d like to see more of is us breaking at pace. Too often we get stuck in moving the ball back across our midfield from side to side. That would be fine if we were a passing side that kills the opposition that way but that’s not us with this squad of players

Show some respect like, most of the players have played very well for two years or the period they’ve been here since Howe came in. Yes, it was very poor today and it’s been poor for several games but players don’t turn to shit in the space of 4-6 weeks. Also, they’ve mostly been run into the ground or are recovering from injury

Genuinely thought it was going to the weirdest own goal id ever seen but he’d just managed to knock it wide of the post. Could have easily ricocheted off the man and gone in off a deflection rather than rebounding out though. Has anyone seen a clearance like that before? I’ve seen people do it past the goal when there’s an attacker looming but never ever towards the goal itself

Also, our crossing into the box is so poor generally. Our best way to create goals is by getting in behind the opposing team and then cutting the ball back to a player running onto it. We’re just very laboured in our build up play and are making lazy crosses or passes when in good positions. Miley played the best pass of the day across to Gordon and he took a second too long to take the shot. Was just such a flat performance. We didn’t look up for it which is concerning

I’d say it’s as bad as the score line suggests, and not worse than that. However, the scoreline against Forest at home on Boxing Day when they have every right to be less up for it than us was awful. We were flat for most of the game even though we were the stronger side in the first half. The second half was utterly abysmal and the worst half we’ve had at home since Howe came in

Got made to look very poor today. Fair play to start him if Tino was carrying a knock but it doesn’t quite add up with Tino coming on early

A performance that was completely unacceptable. Only Miley had a good game, Isak had some lovely moments and looked fit again. However, Howe has to sort the defence out. It’s shambolic at the moment. Going forward, we are incredibly wasteful. The players’ confidence levels look shot. I fully trust him to turn it around but the fixtures he’s got coming up are rough.

Completely indisciplined, terrible decision making in the final third and penalty area and very poor defensive shape and individual errors. Awful awful performance

Howay man

Defence has been an abomination

Utter disgrace this

What the fuck is going on man

Much better Sean

Longstaff’s had a very poor game alongside Miggy and Burn. Bizarre

Burn needs to come off, he’s getting beat every time

I’ve been very vocal with my support of Howe as he’s class but dropping Tino makes absolutely zero sense. Doesn’t even work with his plan of only replacing people if they’ve had a poor run as Tino has been faultless

Disgusting that. We should have buried these in this half. They’re utter shit. I love Miggy but he’s played very poorly today so far