Kid Icarus

This is it for me mind, the lack of signings and especially the whole Guehi debacle put us on the back foot from the off because the vibes were fucked and haven't really recovered.

I've seen them batter us twice since Howe came in, we've also beaten them twice and drawn three times. Even then, Spurs batter Man City regularly and that sort of thing happens more often than you'd think. Brighton aren't better than us, look at the league positions.

Brighton and Forest aren't suddenly better than us because of the current positions in the league like. It seems like that's the premise this is all based on.

If we can't put him in our own actual 11 surely he can't be put in a combined one.

Wilson is imo the best striker we had in the Ashley-era. A genuinely brilliant striker at his best, but even then always susceptable to injury. The problem now is that the injuries have gone beyond the point of it still being worth keeping him and since he's been back after this most recent layoff he's looked a shadow of the player he was, with a real lack of pace. At his best, with no injury woes he'd have been a B, he was a brilliant striker.

At best he's a glass hammer. Very good player when he's up to speed but with a lower immunity to injury than the boy in the wicker chair in The Secret Garden. Can only be an E at this point unfortunately.

Brighton: 9th, 6th, 11th with Chelsea as their piggy bank Forest: Championship, 16th, 17th while getting a points deduction for breaching PSR. Us: 11th, 4th, 7th Stacks up pretty well imo.

I know you're trying to apply logic and reason here, but we're talking about an online fanbase that I'm criticising in part for its lack of either. It's short-termist to write off a player not being at their best despite only having started a few times, plenty of other players looking worse, and the abundance of pie still being wiped from faces from previous occasions of hastily writing players off. Just my opinion.

Since his most recent injury he's started 4 matches. Birmingham away, Man City away, Forest home, Liverpool away. A tough set of matches, but 2 goals vs Birmingham, an assist vs Forest, and by no means someone to single out for blame vs Man City and Liverpool. Find it mad how quickly folk will turn on our players like. If they don't immediately perform after coming back from injury they're on the chopping block with some

Subjectively terrible yes. I'd say those opinions are way over the top though, as is so often the case due to the short-termist outlook on here.

He's had limited game time and hasn't had a really good game (Birmingham aside) so naturally some people have decided he's been terrible and that he's finished.

Terrible my arse. Schär can't say anything like, he was the worst culprit today by quite some distance

Some people use this place instead of counselling like, I'm convinced

Keiran Maguire, all of the local journalists. We just had to sell to meet a deadline that's now passed. Selling our best players is not moving forward unless it's a daft fee, which it won't be in the current market.

It's looking a lot like the 'I'm a nice guy' memes.