Geordie_once_removed

Yeah not a fan of that. Just seems to have loads of random aspects that don't work together at all. It also looks really cheap. Hey ho, I only buy kits occasionally these days so I'm not overly fussed.

I don't follow these things that closely but what are the 5? The normal one, the winners 25 one and now this one (which is turboshite in my humble opinion).

Injuries also knocked a few million of Anderson's price tag.

I know we've not sold great but we've been really unlucky with injuries in this respect. He probably only stayed this season due to injuries now this harms his chances of being moved on for money in the summer again. Same could be said of Lascelles, Wilson and perhaps Willock.

When he came on I wasn't hopeful as it seemed like a game that wasn't suited to his attributes, pace and running aren't that useful against a team camped in their own third. So I was very pleasantly surprised to see him score. Excited to see him next season bring the footballing equivalent of the Drunken Master to games.

I see him or Longstaff being sold. I'd rather Longstaff as I feel Miley is a more natural and potentially significantly superior replacement. Willock's issue is he needs games to show his best but he doesn't make our best starting lineup. I'd keep him as he will get more games next season with European football and while he is a bit of a square peg in our current system he could be a really useful player in a slightly different one and we really need to add rotation of players and systems to our game to move up to the next level, which I really believe we're on the verge of doing. As others have said yesterday was a game that was really ill suited to his main assets which are fast transitions and stretching play. Imagine next year he gets 75 minutes in Europe midweek, so he's not rusty like now, then on the weekend with us drawing or even losing he comes on in a game that is getting stretched (or visa versa). He could be really valuable. Also that assist, he can have magic in his boots.

Why? I don't get this on any level. I've no desire to see City in another FA Cup final and I'd rather Forest were distracted by a final than City as I see them more likely to be a risk to a the Champions League place as based on City's run in and general quality I see them taking one for sure.

How was that not a yellow? Brutal cropping.

I was trying to work out how I feel about DCL then I settled on this thought experiment. Imagine it's the 70th minute and we're losing by a goal against Chelsea. Isak is having one of those games he can have and looks a bit done in. Up comes the substitute board and DCL is coming on. How do you feel? Is he likely to get the goal we need? For me I'd feel exactly like I would if i saw that a 2025 version of Wilson was coming on. Plus he'd have a contract for at least 3 seasons. He represents false economy for me.

Jonah Lomu Rugby on the OG Playstation! What a game.

I just fired up Fifa 23 after not playing it in an age. The commentator has really gone hard in a Steve McClaren way to pronounce none UK names "correctly". His De Bruyne was painful.

He was key to your goal and most of your good attacks in the first half but how Tino glided past him for Barnes' first was very poor defensively.

Baffling. I posted about this in the dullard punditry thread, how can you be so wrong. Barnes is literally a winger who specialises in finishing.

Is it Hot Shots where they are crunching each others balls and one guy ends up spitting his out his mouth with squeaking "You win". Anyway, that was us to Scum United today.

Barnes, Tonali and Tino all fantastic today.