Dr Jinx

Is he actually any good? Seems confident for his age like.

Where did he used to play with his brass band?

Regarding targets, look at our modus operandi.. there’s been a few where I think we wanted a deal but it became clear our priorities weren’t available. Botman was one, however we carried on and eventually got him. Other players we’ve been persistent with in terms of bidding have been Diaby and Maddison of course. That’s not even 6 months old yet so I think we go for both now or in the summer Ashworth isn’t picking the targets either, it’s Steve Nicksons strategy and if they are the no.1 targets and become available, we’ll go in for them.

Why am I hearing “we’ve got Bruno in the middle” at the City v Chelsea game?

The definition of a professional foul

There’s no way he’s on that much. 60 maybe. Even at that he won’t be offloaded but he’ll eventually end up on loan somewhere. Such a docile creature, zero intensity and that miss will live long in the memory. Hear all the time that the manager likes having players he can trust.. well, how can you trust that? Like having zero confidence that your “25 MILLION POUND” striker can’t score in an open net pretty much.

You don’t change your whole fucking backline, literally the cornerstone of all our success this season. A bunch of trauma centre coulda beens looked like it was their first time playing together because it actually was. By the time Eddie Howe reacted it was already too late. This one is on him.

Well done Wednesday, totally deserved the win. This is the first time where I can point a finger at Eddie Howe and say he got it so wrong today.

Windass looks like the player Wood should be

Notice how Botman is running over constantly to cover Lascelles who’s actually there. He has zero trust in him.

Jesus Christ

Better from Lewis

Lots of players in who have played fuck all for us recently. Give em a chance to settle.

“Maxi felt a little under the weather” ?

Bit annoying that unprofessionalism is diverting the conversation to a negative when everything else is going so well. Eddie Howe will back his squad and if ASM has been disrespectful to team mates through his frustrations, we can’t be having that in squad while we try and promote team spirit and harmony in the camp.

I guess it just speeds up what would have happened anyway. As much as we love him, you can’t plan offensive tactics with a player who doesn’t know what he’s going to do in any given second. For his skill and ability, his end product is lacking. I had hoped that playing with better players and especially a better defence would give him a platform to really take it to teams but aside from that Man City match earlier in season, he’s been unable to dominate a game. He’ll get a decent move on reputation but am guessing it’ll be from English teams. The big European sides won’t touch him.

True… ?

Everton are so shit, I mean.. Man Utd have been very very poor tonight and they couldn’t do a thing.

It’s quite simple, we get top 4, we skip a few years of financial development. Revenues certainly increase significantly but are we ready for that extra workload in terms of club infrastructure? I’m not so sure. Can just as easily see Dan Ashworth with a message of stick to the plan, regardless of how well it’s going on the pitch. Are we in danger of falling off a cliff? Absolutely not. Is top 4 guaranteed? Nope, but that was probably never in the plan for this year anyway. I don’t think adding in a couple of players is going to suddenly make us title contenders. I don’t think that was our strategy in any case, the plan has always been to build the infrastructure for sustained success through youth development and top notch facilities. We have neither in place yet.

Ian Cathro was there for a spell

Almost as entertaining watching the post match meltdowns from several sets of fans.. they are so triggered right now ☺️ Only one thing comes to mind..

We played well and I suppose it’s a mark of how far we’ve come that I’m disappointed we didn’t assert ourselves more in the game. We were a little lightweight in midfield. I was constantly frustrated that we just stood off Partey, we didn’t have anyone in the middle who could mix it there. Other slight (and I mean almost minuscule) concerns are Almiron possibly coming off the boil, only 2 games but he was fairly ineffective in both. Isak coming back might be well timed.. but also Wilson not looking great either. A top class defensive midfielder would add so much to us.

Think both club and player expected him to feature more. I don’t think there’s anything in this other than the club protecting him from being wasted like that. I’d expect him to be given an opportunity somewhere else this month. The last few pages of this thread have been aids to be honest. This man was part of the team we were massively proud of last season, he saved us on many occasions. Sure we seem to have upgraded, but that’s no licence to start being snidey cunts about. He would have gone there thinking if De Gea had a blip that he’d have gotten in there. I have no issue with that. It didn’t work out for him, it’s zero to gloat about.

If it goes our way, in certain positions man for man we’ll get stuck into them for sure and have success. It’ll trigger memories of last season when they effectively blew champions league football and they’ll start looking at one another in that sort of frustrated “you’re letting us down” type thing. A quiet dressing room at half time and then disharmony within the squad for the first time all season. A bad jolt. If they beat us I think they have a great chance to go on but this game will be a turning point in one way or another.

I don’t think our game plan was to go end to end with a fit Leeds side who press effectively. We got suckered into it from the start pretty much and although we were dominant in the second half, we were naive. We can blame the ref all we want for the stoppage time but of the 4 minutes added, 1 was wasted by Murphy with some spat and then the other 3 because of Wilson shoving their keeper. Dumb. We shouldn’t need the stoppage time though and in this game we could easily have been up if we took chances. Massively frustrating.