Dr Jinx

What the f*** I agree with the rest of the post. Aye what the fuck was all that about ? His age is a reason why he might stay. Once he gets to 25/26 he’ll want to be making that big move, cannot blame him either. He deserves to be playing the Champions League

New father he is! Congrats to big Joe

That it’s otherwise been very quiet for a few weeks since Ashley hired this legal team makes me feel way more positive about it.

We have enough to be safe-ish by January. If the takeover happens by then I’m sure they will have their own plans. Letting Bruce clog up with the squad with plodders on long term contracts probably isn’t the thing to be doing. The longer Covid is going on though it surely starts putting everything in jeopardy?

He had a few decent ones but was never consistent. And overall I preferred Ginola but Robert’s end product can’t be questioned. If he had the pace and dribbling ability of ASM or Ben Arfa I think you’d be looking at the complete forward player.

Saint-Maximin is more likeable. Ben Arfa the more skilled, both had/have insane pace. Neither cross the ball particularly well given how strong they are in other areas and neither like tracking back. Laurent Robert had more end product than both put together.

For entertainment the premier league has been brilliant this season so far. Such a shame fans won’t be in to see it.

Wilson scoring, again.... ? he wasn’t in the game much in fairness. Did better second half. His goal return so far is good though considering we’ve been so shit.

Wilson has been anonymous, again..

Odin’s latest trolling.

The midfield we have being overrun in every match and basically with hit and hope service to the forward players is it any wonder he’s looked poor? Look at Wilson in the last 2 games, totally anonymous. That’s not his fault. He’s clearly a decent player, just in the same way Joelinton is a decent player. He’s just getting zero help from his team. Until the club can manage to fix the midfield issues, the defence will be under constant pressure and the forwards and going to look isolated and inept.

Shelvey again like a statue in the middle as he let the player run on goal and have a shot. And the back line.. fuck me. It’s always a second season where the manager gets his ideas across. This is a Steve Bruce side for sure.

This club is a graveyard for developing talent. This kid is up against it.

Tiote was what the club had been missing for years. Hard to replace but then we’ve never tried to. There used to be a video knocking around of him owning Rooney in the game we beat them at SJP. Cabaye also a rare one. There’s an alternate universe where the club might have shown ambition and he would have stayed a few more years. Fantastic footballer.

He needs dropping. Go with Longstaff and give him a chance, whether he makes the grade or whether he’s not good enough will figure out in time. We know now what Shelvey can do and what he can’t do. Perhaps we should sell him before the rest of the league figures it out.

We deserved nothing from the game but you could tell the last 5-10 mins that we thought there might be a sniff of a result for us. They didn’t look comfortable with Carroll at all and got nervous. They also were far less of a threat going forward without Son It was clearly a penalty. He raised his arms which blocked the ball. That’s on them for being stupid enough to give us the chance of stealing a point.

He looks exactly like Bobby from King of the Hill would look like if he grew up to be a total cunt

He’s heading in the right direction and to be honest one of the only positives we can really take from the game aside from Darlow having his best game for us.

Debating line ups or formations is a waste of time. The point is that we have some half decent players and we are just devoid of confidence. We haven’t a notion what we’re supposed to do to either stop them coming at us, or what to do when we have the ball. It’s totally irrelevant who we’re playing to be honest. 80% of premier league teams are decent, some better than others. The manager just hasn’t a a clue.

I think there lies the problem, Steve Bruce hasn’t a clue what his best 11 is or his best formation. It’s pick and hope for the best. We can agree that the squad is better than what Rafa ever had, yet if he was still here he’d have the whole thing analysed. Down to a tee. What Rafa also knows which pisses many of us off is that the team might be better without one or two of our so called best players in the starting 11. For example, ASM would have huge problems keeping his place. I don’t think any of us have a clue what the best 11 is as we’ll probably never see it while he perseveres with certain players.

I’m not overly concerned about Lamptey, Chelsea couldn’t cope with him either and were lucky to get a result in that game.. highly flattering score line. Am definitely more concerned about the midfield and the defence. Lascelles needs to be doing better and lead by example.

The midfield is a huge problem. Hayden is the only one who can say he has a clear job to do which he actually does. Not sure what Hendrick is supposed to be or where he’s supposed to play. So far he’s played on the left and the right wing! The Longstaffs are broken.. And Shelvey.. well the bronze statue comment sums him up perfectly. There’s no option or combination there that’s not riddles with problems.

Trying to pick up positives from the game, which is difficult.. Might bring about team selection changes that otherwise might have taken an extra few weeks for the penny to drop? That’s about it really..

Absolute garbage today. I’m glad Mike Ashley is watching in person. Like man for man we should be competing with these but we’re a million miles off them in tactics and organisation. Clearly a management/coaching issue. If we pick up enough points to survive this season it will be only because there are 3 or 4 teams worse than us.