HaydnNUFC

He's bang on. Alex was starved today of anything really. Well taken pen, mind.

Have full faith in him, been incredibly unlucky with VAR etc but today was pretty fucking shit. Don't think it's that outlandish to say that. We'll have just as bad performances as we will good ones this season which is par for the course given this squad's depth, not Howe's fault in the slightest. But that today was wank.

We were and are severely lacking creativity and width. Felt that our game plan was just Trippier and inshallah. Simply just not good enough if we want to get into Europe. He's shite. Not good enough and never will be; I've tried to keep faith longer than quite a few but if he's showing fuck all against a side that will finish either 20th or 19th, when will he ever come good? His 'final ball' has been lacking since he signed for us: 3 and a half years ago. That position was an issue that we didn't address in the summer and we'll suffer as a result.

1 goal involvement in 38 appearances.

That as well but when people have a go at Man City for shite home atmospheres it's no wonder when the vast majority of their games are like ours today, only they actually create stuff and score goals and have been for >5 years

We were at home to a team we were expecting to beat, had over 70% possession, put in a shite performance and created fuck all from open play during a 3pm kick off. It's no wonder the atmosphere was as flat as a witch's tit.

He runs out wide, puts his foot on the ball, turns and passes backwards. Every time. He's not good enough, RW was a gaping squad issue that we didn't address in the window. Joelinton (whom on here I was told was good enough on the ball for us to get into the top 6 in the coming years yesterday) was shite, Schar was shocking in possession, Fraser wasteful and Isak starved of anything. Bruno and Willock would have the ball in front of the Bournemouth box frequently in the second half with no one actually in the box besides Isak, and people are blaming Willock for that! Who's he meant to aim for? Milburn's ghost? We were rank, the result was a disgrace and probably a few, myself included, need to rethink our chances of getting 7th. 6 points dropped at Wolves away, Palace and Bournemouth at home. Shit.

Absolutely fucking vile result. Almost everyone predicted them to finish either 20th or 19th and we couldn't beat them or create an open play chance against them at home. Rancid.

FWIW I'm glad to be moving past this after tomorrow. Given the Brentford game is near enough a year to the day since the takeover I can't wait to see what yous have planned for then and we can get back to the main matter of the absolutely amazing work this group does in SJP and has been doing for ~6 years now. @Heron

A group who are regularly ridiculed still today and have been oppressed throughout history purely because of who they like shagging are indeed far less important to commemorate/made to feel welcome than an unelected monarch sitting in palaces whilst many in this country go cold and starving. There's a good, true and proper patriot. Had your vaccine yet?

Agree. He has a niche where he's good at what he does which certainly isn't here. And that's okay. Whey, Dyche isn't fat and calling the football he plays percentage football is a bit of an insult to him imo. If you look into his coaching and tactical insight he definitely isn't in the classic PFM mould. All because he said that Bruce is decent to have a drink with once every year? Bit of a reach.

Well he didn't have much of a choice tbf. Bruce had at the time the biggest net spend in this club's history hence why he's fucking abysmal, Dyche kept Burnley up for 5 seasons on very limited resources.

Not much to talk about tbf. Can't blame him. Did laugh when a throw in went out for a goal kick and he just went incredibly miserably "this game's been awful"

Would rather the group disbanded or club folded tbh.

Fewmin. She wouldn't have gave a shit.

Even the goal was like the game. Scrappy as fuck and totally shit.

State of this. Going to be trying me hardest not to whitey tomorrow.

Cricket at Trent Bridge in Nottingham tomorrow I think. Villa game because of Sky.

Pfft, shag him then.

He's struggled without Bruno. In a couple years time we need players that don't struggle no matter who's out injured.

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The pages of discussion whether it's a bad idea or not (I think it's a terrible idea) should be indicative of exactly why this shouldn't happen.

I love him too but is he good enough on the ball to be in a midfield that regularly pushes and gets into the top 6? It's a medium term issue anyway, for the time being beg jow is fine for smashing into opposition players and getting into fights.

Midfield, too. Think 3 of or maybe even all of Joelinton, Willock, Shelvey and Longstaff will get nowhere near a league starting lineup from next season due to being phased out by just generally better footballers.