Kid Icarus

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It's mad how the average stagnates in Jan-Feb, then massively shoots up between March and April.

Watching the first half back when I'm not up a height and ASM wasn't even that bad tbh. He didn't play well in the way that Anderson did when he came on, or Murphy did, but in terms of actually doing things wrong he lost the ball in the middle of the pitch on 36 minutes and that was it. The rest of his performance was a mix of successful through balls, square passes, winning a free kick, one time when he dribbles on the right then plays it to Murphy who plays through Longstaff, then a nice one-two and a through ball to Willock for our goal. Hardly 'shocking'. Imo he was too safe and not ASM enough, playing easy passes, keeping his position and not taking players on enough. As I said at the time during the match, in that first half for me only Trippier and Murphy played really well. The rest weren't at the races a lot of the time, including Isak up until his goal. If you were going to single out players for playing badly in that first half, the really obvious candidates were Botman and Schar. That's why it seems so obviously weird when ASM gets singled out within that context, and why this idea that he doesn't take his chances and it's the end of him at Newcastle is weird when it's in the context of one under par half in a run of 3 or 4 good performances. It's undeniable imo that he's overly scritinised more than any other player in the squad.

I very much doubt that it'll actually be hard hitting like.

Wrong!

As has been said before, Casemiro should have even more reds than he's had, it's not everyone else's fault that he's a cabbage patch faced thug.

Good to know that whether we'd gone with Emery or Howe that we'd have been sound. Villa look good.

Class seeing David Brooks back.

Has he? Genuinely asking, because if he has been then I agree with you like.

I would be absolutely all over bringing Mount in, in the right system he's absolutely class. Very intelligent player.

Canny rare that I enjoy an Everton goal like, but fuck Chelsea and that naive mug Potter.

It's quite rare that we have a striker who isn't just absolutely class, but that's right up my street. The last time we had one was Remy. This lad is fucking lush like, whatever 'it' is, he's got it.

Will be interesting to see how Conte's rant goes down. Personally I think it's probably more likely to galvanise them than it is to make them shrink even more.

Pedro Porro looks like he works on commission

Break Ayling's fucking leg tonight

Of course, the once in a blue moon where a ref stands by his decision to allow a goal when it's clearly the wrong decision. Yet another terrible weekend for referees and VAR. Wolves have had it bad the last couple of weeks, Johnny's red notwithstanding

What a fabulous weekend of FA Premier League football

Newcastle in Europe is better

Get the fuck on Southampton! Sticking Spurs in the fucking mud where they belong.

It doesn't matter what form we're in, I always fancy us against Man United at home. Brilliant chance for us to make our mark in this, hopefully we don't pick up any more injuries

What do you think is the main difference in his performances now vs earlier in the season? He hasn't always been great, but I think he has been just as good as he is now in other spells this season. The only difference to me seems to be that now he's rightly getting widespread acclaim. So just trying to work out what I'm missing.

I knew you knew

I'm up for changing it but only to the extent that it's cleaned up and modernised slightly (see below - I'd be delighted if we adopted Ash Willerton's design). I don't like the old badges at all bar the original city crest-looking one. https://www.instagram.com/p/CbiWY6isPov/?igshid=OGY3MTdmODg=

This is a real guttner. Hopefully Murphy can continue his form