Dr Jinx

He’s definitely improved but he’s also playing with better players and he benefits massively from the leadership Trippier has on the pitch. One thing to note was that midweek, Pope had zero confidence to play it short to either Lascelles or Dummett.. they just kept passing us into trouble. At the weekend Schär sort of covered over that as Lascelles would just play it sideways but overall our play from the back becomes more predictable. With Schär and Botman, it’s options and calmness from both sides, that’s why Lascelles can’t get into the team. We build up play much better and are far more comfortable keeping possession with our first choice. For heading he’s as good as anyone at the club, he’s also far from slow. But the things he lacks are sadly things Eddie Howe can’t coach into a player at that age.

It’s really a shame Maxi isn’t part of the squad for this one. He’d have been well up for it.

Good timing before PSG to give the whole squad a lift.

You still need Tripps for the leadership, influence on the pitch but there’s definitely a scenario where both start. Both taking turns going forward and the other covering.

Not the best of debuts. He looks like he’ll need to be eased into things gradually but definitely showed flashes of potential. Howe will know what to do with him.

He’ll never have to work as hard defensively against any other team. It wasn’t his fault, it was just one way traffic. Did his job and we didn’t concede. You can point to Bruno coming on but Gordon for Hall was the bigger upgrade.

We might not see an in form Joe Willock until next season. He’s had no pre season. We should take it that there’ll be 5 in competition for the first team. Bruno, Longstaff, Tonali, Anderson and Joelinton which should be enough to cover most if our games. If we start picking up injuries there may be trouble.

Excellent yesterday but against wank opposition. When he starts performing like that against more competitive teams he’ll definitely have earned his place. But all the right signs. He deserves to be kept in for next game at least. Big Joe coming back will give some selection problems.

Not over the line but a handball. Accidental or not, it directly led to a goal scoring chance so by the rules as I understand them, that shouldn’t have stood.

I’d be fuming if that was against us

Having a squad to cope with these pressures is why we need to start using them. I suspect Tripps and Tino are both going to end up in first team by end of season, with the latter playing more advanced.

The release clause is fairly standard in most other countries so not too worried, does seem a bit low though. I just don’t know why the info would leak quite so easily though.

I'd like to see him as the focal point in attack.. he's rapid enough to get onto some of the balls that he's providing for Isak or Wilson

i noticed a few times where he was open for a pass and it was the pass to make, only for Bruno to sort of do that slow down stand on the ball thing and decide to go down the right side. The team are not involving him enough.. it's obvious he's got passing range and is creative.

A few of our signings under Howe have looked like square pegs. Gordon and Tonali being the obvious ones. The issue is balance. We had a very well balanced side last season and anyone coming from the bench slotted in just fine as well. Trippier, Bruno, Botman and Isak just came in and instantly made us better. It was obvious. I understand we’re not going to do that each time with a transfer but we now have a few Joelinton situations we’re going to be debating these players for a year or more before they come good, or not.

Great point and very hard fought. Both sides were absolutely shot by the end of that. They had the bulk of chances but we probably had the best strike on goal. IMHO if that falls to Barnes or Wilson it goes in. Theyll be hurting in the next league match but a slog like this will do us good for fitness levels. Slight concern about Bruno limping.. the whole midfield aside from Longstaff looked like were running in treacle for the last 15 mins. Thought Isak was a bit off it tonight. Gordon did well again, I think Howe is getting closer as how best to use him.

We got better as half went on but we were overall quite poor. They’re now on a few yellows, they can’t be quite as aggressive in second half. But something seems to be missing. Not quite sure why Wilson and Isak can’t be on pitch at same time.

He’ll be on bench maybe for weekend game and then back for Milan.

His ticketing system worked because there was fuck all demand. We could sell another 20k seats easily now

A tit with gnashers giving you a blowjob and you’d be happy to make eye contact with the owner while it happened?

Then you’d have to make eye contact.. that’s a no for me

It's decent alright but the sight of a relatively unknown Emily Ratajkowski upstaging 2 other beauts is something else altogether. It was a total shitshow to release that right at the start of the MeToo movement but that makes me like it all the more. Said model/actress was quick to slag it off despite it launching her career.. there’s definitely a level of hypocrisy around the whole thing.

Best music video ever made ?

I’m comfortable with the ownership structure, I don’t think they’ll be around forever though. Maybe that’s why. My lasting thought is that no matter what happens, or how long they stay, there’s no turning back for us to the Mike Ashley days.. soon we’ll be a club valued similar to Spurs or Arsenal with a better infrastructure than both. We’re never going back to those dark days.

I don’t think anyone who posts on here is sympathetic to what Saudi do. We know the score like. The question of sportswashing is a murkier topic. I certainly don’t see a vanity project with our club in the same way as the boxing has been or say wrestling events. That shit is fairly blatant. Yet they seem to get way more of a pass than our club has gotten. For as much as people are correct when it comes to Saudi, there’s an equal share of double standards and hypocrisy. Where are these people when Iraq was being invaded, or scientists being murdered.. or how about a cover up of why dozens of people burned alive in a tower block. You’d swear every other country apart from Saudi is squeaky clean.