Kid Icarus

Still reserving judgement until I think he looks like he's recovered from his injury. If that's got nothing to do with how he's playing then it's a big worry.

I do worry if we're 'letting perfect be the enemy of better' a bit with our search for signings. I'd be playing 5 at the back until Miley's back now, tbh. Trippier's been a fantastic footballer and on the ball he's still good, but in defence and when teams break on us we're so vulnerable on that side.

Agree that a lot of the squad has run it's course, which is why I think it's clear we're in a transition season as well as having all these extra games. You can definitely interpret this season as the beginning of a downward spiral but it would be the last conclusion I'd come to when you look at all the mitigating factors and Howe's record until now personally.

Not just being a pedant/contrarian here, but that's never been relegation battle status like. Most teams survive on 36 points after 38 games, last two seasons you would survive on 26 and 27 points.

No, it's an easy one to answer (why is Trippier playing so much?)

33 points, with a 10 point gap and 13 games to go isn't a relegation battle.

Give over

Pretty easy one tbf - Livramento, Miley, and Krafth are all injured.

4th, 7th, 5th, and a cup win followed by this season would suggest that by definition it's a blip in the record. Plenty of mitigating factors beyond "every problem must mean change the manager" as well

The problem for me is that one of the main issues I see won't end until March.

They should give me a go.

Horrible week. Desperate to have less football tbh, I'm really sick of it.

I know it might be hard to imagine someone worse than Trippier but there is like. Do you even know anything about the players you want to come in?

Not if they're not good enough and make mistakes leading to goals, which is very likely at this level.

This has the feeling of not ending until we're out of the Champions league like.

Yes, absolutely.

Why would they man Have you actually seen them?

You can't be blaming Pope for that man, our shape all over was an absolute joke there.

So sick of the same fucking story

FML man

Nothing fills me with more dread than us scoring goals. What a fucking weird feeling

You don't get a red unless it's deliberate I think.

Soft like, but it's a pen.

Just talking about our general play tbh, the capitulation from leading thing seems to have everything influencing it considering how often it's happened.

The same argument was made the further we got into 23/24. Not saying it's the sole reason but it's exactly what we look like right now and it looks clear to me that it's playing a big part in why we're not improving.