Lush Vlad

He just needs to be more purposeful, IMO. Too often he slows it down then it all sort of fizzles out. He runs into a defender, he cuts back and never gets the angle for the shot, he plays a low percentage pass into traffic to a man back to goal etc. I feel like I’m giving him shit all the while. But we know how great he can be and I’m not seeing it this season.

He’s mobile, fast for a CM, even. Followed up Saturday’s performance with arguably an even better one. The 6 (4) position is his to lose now.

They just punished our first real mistakes in the game with their elite quality. Made 3 big mistakes second half. They score two and should score another. That dragged them back into the game. Should have been out of sight before all of that. So it is frustrating. Brilliant game and performance. Very frustrating in some ways.

Great performance. It somehow feels like a bad result for both. But a fair one. We were ahead twice and the better side at the time. They’ve come back into it and then battered us for 10-15. Mistake at the end let’s us back in. Funny old game. At least we are scoring again.

Love Howe’s subs. Team’s been dead on their feet for 10 mins. Make 3 subs when the game’s beyond us. Hard to be annoyed in some ways. We have played really well for the most part. Just some atrocious mistakes and soft goals to concede. Which is becoming a bit of a theme.

Surely a pen, VVD on Gordon? Gordon’s safe finishing and pass appreciation still fuck me off no end. But that is a brilliant half. They’ve been excellent to a man.

Last time everyone got a bit annoyed at a bit of a less fashionable, workhorse type starting a game. Was when Longstaff started against Arsenal. So fingers crossed this works and we can get a result.

Ha. He does talk a bit like the Jonathan Ross off Bo Selecta. “wibble wobble wibble *shoehorn in a long word for no reason* wibbly wobble woblov.”

I’ll lowkey be over the fucking moon.

Also, that article FFS. References PSR and the need to be clever. Yet we’re getting linked with two players where we’d be buying high whilst also paying the Premier League premium.

All this talk of how much better Gordon is, so perhaps he is surplus to requirements or we should cash on on one of our sellable assets to improve other areas. Based on last season, rightly so. Based on this season and other spells in the Prem, I’m not so sure that’s right. I know they’re different ages and played for different sides. So not ideal to compare. But Gordon has one season of great numbers. Then what? He has been dreadful for most of this season IMO and I don’t actually think technically as a footballer, he is that great. Barnes has never got a fair crack at starting regularly and seemingly never will under Howe. So it becomes even harder to compare. I can totally see the argument that Gordon is much more of a Howe player in this system. But he’s hardly shown that this season and without that workrate and tenacity. I don’t particularly rate him. As controversial as that may sound.

If we do build on it. Then fine. But we’ve shown time and again we can play against teams that give us space to run into and tend to raise it for the big boys when we’re on TV. What happens tonight is almost irrelevant, to me (I’m sure I’ll be sayinf this later ) It’s a bit of a free hit and I also think there will be large chunks of the game where we look decent. The next 3 games after this will tell us more about the season and if Howe can start to get a tune out of the current squad. As it’s been more of a David Guetta Kiss FM remix sort of tune this season, as opposed to a Beethoven symphony.

One bloke wrote a message on a rainbow armband. Another bloke didn’t want to wear one at all. Someone thought the earth was flat. There was an argument about science.

That was like an Obafemi special. Fuck placing it. Laces through it and into the stanchion

Nah. They’re still blaming the defeat on the ref for not giving Joelinton 6 yellow cards

Against the run of play or not. We lost to these jellied eel munching cunts. They’ve hardly followed it up and built on it since we made them look so good.

I do think it’s a bit of both. I do think certain players do really turn up for the big TV fixtures against the better sides. As well as it suiting us that the other team want the ball and we can find some space. Not even really a complaint or gripe, as such. I think it is true of all teams to some degree. Players up their game for the more important games or against the bigger sides. Sort of human nature for a lot of players, I guess.

Still just the below, for me:

Nah. Not at all. Always either straight bats the question or he’s a bit cryptic or misleading. Often mentions about how they’ve not trained or need to get through training that day, late check on them, unsure they’ll play but it’s not long term, might be available for the weekend (actually out for 6 weeks) etc. Journos have even referenced it. I’ve seen social media accounts saying how bad it is for their FPL team. It’s a running joke amongst the online fan base on social media. I remember when Tindall tried similar in Howe’s absence and everyone laughed as he was blatantly just lying about Isak’s chances of being available

I’m actually half interested in this TBH. More so than the actual main discussion. Perhaps because Guehi is an England international and higher profile? As surely if you take issue with what Guehi has done. Then refusing to wear it is ‘worse’ in this instance? It would be nice to know why one might face an FA charge and the other is seemingly fine to say ‘sod off, I’m not wearing it.’ I don’t actually care, either way. But if no explanation is given. Then it won’t be long until the EDL/Tommy Robinson types will be saying that it’s anti-Christian and the media don’t dare speak out against Islam. I’m sure they’ve already arrived at that conclusion, TBH.

Get the owners to discuss their views on gays with him. He’ll sign there and then.

I know lines can get blurred with stuff like this. But you do know who our owners are, right?…….

Geet up. Always did like Mark Hughes and Big Dion.