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I appreciate why people would want to hold onto him and give him a chance, but this guy isn't it for me. If you want someone to make a good highlight reel of cutting away before the end product bit he's your man, but in terms of kicking on we need wingers on both sides who regularly contribute goals and assists. His form is patchy and he's injured a fair bit (though not so much this season) Not an immediate priority but similar to to Dubravka, we should be looking to upgrade down the line.

The last thing they have to console themselves is that apparently they have a higher moral standing based on the made up fact that we all love the Saudis and they would protest and boycott if they were taken over by similar owners. Which of course we all know is grade A bollocks.

You may well be right, I'm not a massive lover of the idea tbh, just really want to see things freshened up in the final third, is Gayle too far gone to be given a chance? I don't rate him but he offers something a bit different to Wood.

Hes done exceptionally well in this new role under Howe, and one of the big reasons we managed to do so well on that unbeaten run, but would people honestly like to see him play in CM long term, like starting for the next 2-3 seasons?

Just want to see something different, not buying that Wood is such an important player and that we couldn't possibly manage without him, his goal presence is laughable, lets give something else a try. I feel a lot of the defence of Wood comes from the fact that none of us want to admit that 25 million for him was an absolutely shocking piece of business.

They don't realize that by kicking off at every little bit of fun poked at them, they just make themselves open to even more of it. Imagine a tame comment from a rival teams player triggering you so much that you would start kicking off about Newcastle flags at a gig in Newcastle of a lad who supports NUFC and then start trying to measure cocks by talking about what gigs we've had vs them, nobody cares man

Get Wood out of the side play ASM up front, get Fraser back on the left, get Willock dropped as hes fucking shite, have Bruno, Shelvey and J7 as the midfield 3 and bring Krafth back in for Manquillo as he is the more solid defender of the two.

Appalling second half, better team the first half but not sure what the plan was for the second, surprised to see us out fought for every ball in the second. Thought Willock in particular was appalling throughout and very very lazy, Wood, Almiron, Schar and Krafth also very disappointing. We've saved Everton and Pickford's season, a massive kick in the teeth and all of a sudden we've lost two in a row and are back to conceding late goals. We are probably safe but with the games we have left it's not a certainty.

Would look to move him on in the summer. Not the sort of character and attitude we want and is vastly over rated.

2-1 loss, the run has to end at some time and no shame in losing to these who are a very good side, we are capable of getting something though. Would keep the team the same but would probably take out Shelvey for Bruno and give the lad his first start, and of course take out Murphy who I think is genuinely awful for Maxi.

Sorry to interrupt the serious chat. Was just wondering if anyone knows if becoming a member gives you priority access to tickets at the same time as season ticket holders or if season ticket holders get time before members? Strictly talking home tickets as I know away tickets obviously go to season ticket holders as a first priority but the site isn't clear on home tickets. A bit embarrassed that I don't know this

I don't really understand this one, unless they've had a think and realise they've lost Van De Beek and Greenwood and realise they are a bit light?

I think that's it now, some good signings made but its a massive gamble for us not to bring in at least one new attacking option. Basically relying on Chris Wood to score the goals that keep us up.

Happy with the window generally but this would really give me some major hope if we could get it done.

I'm fully erect. What a great first signing, inside the first week too! But we really need to get moving on the next ones ASAP.

How is the cherry picker floating

I'm not sure people get the magnitude of the position we are in, we are 6 points a drift we can't hang on against Norwich at home and we have a very bleak December on the horizon, we are finished.

Its not getting on the new managers back too early to suggest that he may need to man up and drop his mates pretty sharpish is it?

Rafa appears to have lost his touch.

I have full confidence that whoever plays in his absence will be an improvement. I really do hope Ritchie playing isn't just a case of jobs for the boys.

Started two wing backs who can't defend, started a CM passenger in Willock, those are my biggest annoyances. Ultimately though we were always losing this but I expected us to get after them a bit more, this is a replica of what would have happened under Bruce really. Early days, and things will likely improve but I fear its too late, Norwich game is absolutely massive and I can see us falling short again.

Interesting to see the amount that would have Willock in their lineups for Saturday, I thought he was very poor against Brentford, looks totally unsuited to being a CM.

Dubravka has made a few mistakes very similar to Darlows first goal cock up but is generally an all round better keeper and commander of the back line, he absolutely has to come back into the starting lineup.

This guy has been this seasons Kenedy, he's offered nothing all season and was hopeless yesterday. Certainly doesn't strike me as a CM though, didn't look comfortable at all, not writing him off completely but he's been extremely disappointing, hopefully EH has a plan for him.

Nobody has ever stayed up from this position after 12 games and tbh I cant see this team being the first. Yesterday was an improvement no doubt, the effort, passion, everything was much better and we looked dangerous going forward, but with that defence and Howes history of bad defences I cant see us having the time to get the points we need on the board. The attack is good but its not good enough to outscore enough of the teams we have left to play. My bet would be on us playing championship football next season, I just hope we can bounce straight back if that does happen.