HaydnNUFC

Howe can make a difference, we saw it against Brentford. We deserved to win and Darlow being a spacka was what only prevented us from doing so. Yesterday is a fixture I'm not going to judge Howe on, his first game in the dugout after not being at any of the training sessions running up to the game. Not an ideal scenario. Rafa would sort our defence out which is what we need tbf. But Everton look absolutely dreadful, Rondon looks finished and he's constantly playing him and plodders like Iwobi. Not that I'm judging Rafa on this stint at Everton alone, he certainly is terrible at choosing jobs. Should never have taken this one.

Letting it bounce there, schoolboy stuff from Jorginho.

I can't see the ball in the Leicester game. Either my stream quality is shit or that ball is shit.

Scratch that, 2-1 Leicester.

Watford 1-1.

That's incredibly harsh imo. Since he's signed he's only made 25 appearances, all under Bruce. At Norwich he was seen as one of their batch of good young players along with Buendia, Cantwell, Aarons and Godfrey. Liverpool were strongly linked at the time we signed him. All 4 played huge chunks of their relegation season in 19-20, if that's a barometer for some reason. Lewis is one of those who has massively suffered from the quality of coaching under the Steves. There was an article in the Athletic back in late July or early August about him and a quote from it that stuck in my mind which underpinned how much players like him suffered under Bruce was 'there was feeling at the club that Lewis would've benefitted from 1v1 defending drills in training but his education regarding 1v1s came during matches'. That is fucking appalling, especially given that it was an area of his game that needed massive improvement. There's still a player in there imo. He's 23, and has had the tutelage of Steve Bruce to cope with. But he needs gametime as he won't get any better sitting on the bench. And given how useless we've been defensively and things coming down Ritchie's side he cannot be any worse, and he'll only improve now that he'll actually get decent coaching under Howe and his backroom team.

Games until January. Can't see Brentford getting dragged too far into the shit given those fixtures. This 3 fixture window coming up for us is huge, Norwich, Burnley, Leicester. We can make ground up on Watford, Burnley and Norwich if we pick up at the very least 7 points. 9 would be superb and doable. It's also worth mentioning that our 3 games in January are Southampton (a), Watford (h) and Leeds (a).

He'll go with the 3-4-3 that played v Brentford I think. Lewis and Fernández in hopefully.

Saw plenty v Brentford. 2, arguably 3 errors from Darlow cost us their goals. We deserved to win the game and that cost us. Arsenal away is not a fixture I'd judge Howe's credentials for keeping us up on.

Worst bit about that shite justification was 'Wilson is off balance'. Aye, he was off balance because a cunt come in and full pelt barged into him.

Simply just have to win.

Yeah. Has to be 6 points to give us a chance.

We were at least 2 Darlow errors away from deservedly beating Brentford. Dubravka back is good, and we'll be more attacking at home in games like that. Where we looked good.

Simply have to beat Norwich and Burnley. We were never getting anything today.

Look at the @.

It's a fucking wind up ya clown.

Where's this from?

Aye. Especially that Man City have tweeted about it despite their ownership.

Burnsie's such a fucking weirdo man. Nasty piece of work too. Keeps on making account after account so he's inescapable. Urgh.

Chuffed we've been able to shithouse Eddie back. siuuuu Also

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