Dr Jinx

Are his bounty hunting days over? ?

There’s a bit in that clip about Dog the Bounty Hunter, he’s on the Dennis Miller show.. gets me every single time. The man was a genius.

It will be more straight forward to deal with the Germans.. they’ll have a price and probably some wiggle room, if they were totally set on keeping him we’d have already gotten a no. Think this will happen. But maybe after the friendlies have started.

Frankie De Jong to Manure has stalled, Barca owe him millions apparently so it’s not a straight forward deal.

Well they were set to spend 30m on Ekitike, so at the very least that’s what they’ll spend on an alternative. I wouldn’t rule out us going back in for him.. the kid seems to be portraying an image like he’s happy to stay where he is etc but apart from spurious rumours about PSG, there’s no other serious offers for him at the moment.

We’re not back channeling with Rafa. As soon as Eddie Howe and his staff came in, and Dan Ashworth, the club have total faith in their setup and judgement. Howe would rightly be pissed off if he found out the club were taking advice on his role from outside. He’s the manager now and the club have moved on completely from the past while they will obviously acknowledge the efforts of previous staff.

Haven’t seen much of Gordon but first impressions.. huge engine, fast, great work ethic and a total handful. He plays mostly on the left though?

Elliot “NSFW” Anderson

On an unrelated topic..

Another two charges added from other complaints, I suspect this one won’t stay under wraps for too long.

That’s the weirdest mouth I’ve ever seen. He looks like he has no teeth ?

While I fully agree with you, I think the way they are going is identifying positions methodically.. the midfield currently is a known quantity and they can do better. You stick someone like Diaby up in the wide right forward position and suddenly all sorts of space starts opening up in midfield. We didn’t even have Wilson for basically most of that good run but when he did come back we looked sharp up front. Wide right is the main problem position, everywhere else we’re not too bad for the moment.

Although midfield is an area we still need to strengthen, I suspect our manager will assess them during the first half of the season and then maybe dip into the market in January. After all, much of our squad never really got into any sort of form last season until January, such was the poor level of pre season and general fitness they had.

While the idea of the loan structure is great for small clubs or in our case in previous years, an owner with zero ambition, why should we develop players belonging to another club, a rival club.. a loan is fine if there’s an obligation or option to buy at the end of it, but not if we’re just doing their work for them.

Ciaran Clark would be ideal for a mid level championship side, he’s made some absolute howlers but there was a point when he was our most consistent defender. (Under Rafa)

Lascelles was never the worlds best defender but he is a leader, or was.. still could be. It’s no coincidence that his best form came under Benitez who probably identified his weaknesses and coached him in such a way that he didn’t have to do all that much thinking about what to do. He lost all of that under Bruce, but also that leadership quality. Too comfortable, no competition for a place and looked shell shocked as others came in to take his role. Not sure if Howe is the type to give him that one to one attention that he needs?

Lingard and Dele Alli.. just the type of characters you want in the dressing room when things aren’t going well ?

Apparently in for Lingard ?

“Happy in your line of work?”

Serena does a great job, not sure who’s doing video but it’s still relatively new as a department. A fella called Dan is looking after the website and marketing overall so it’s his gig pretty much.

Why not both? Paqueta wouldn’t add anything defensively but going forward he’d be great, why couldn’t he take that wide right forward slot? (Which is as much in midfield as it is in the final third)

A finisher is useless if nobody is providing the chances. A right sided forward is priority now and hopefully Elliott will be pushing Maxi all the way, he needs to raise his game.. he needs to realise that playing the simple pass is better than beating those extra 2 defenders and then losing the ball. It would be nice to get another midfielder in but I can’t see anything other than Joelinton, Shelvey and Bruno starting, if we’re less wasteful up top we could be a very strong side. Bit yes we need a mobile forward to cover for Wilson

All the good ones have been mentioned already but I have to say I immensely enjoyed the win against Leicester last season, that Bruno header in the 94th minute.. I jumped up off the couch and roared, honestly hadn’t done that in so long (when not actually at the game)