Dr Jinx

Let someone else take that punt on him. We don’t have the luxury at this moment in time.

Yep be nice to get some Rafa chants going but not at the expense of our current manager.

Instead of the La Bamba chant, maybe the 2 Unlimited one would keep everyone happy ☺️

58 minutes ago, TRon said:

Lascelles did fine while he was on, there seemed to be a really weird hate campaign going on against him and Willock in particular in the first half for some reason. Try watching the game back and see if it could be maybe reassessed. 

It’s not a hate campaign, it started really well for the kid when he arrived first and every one of us were happy to have him as a captain.

But the defending Mike Ashley and then just his overall performances over the last few seasons. It’s beyond repair as far as am concerned. As a player he peaked at 22 and as a captain has been like a mute the last 2 years.

Makes far too many mistakes in every match he plays now, lots of which have led to goals. Why should we treat him any differently to Ciaran Clark? (Who also did fine while he was on)

70 mins and he was blowing out his arse.. a familiar sight, but credit to him, the last 10 mins he worked his socks off.

Improved as the game went on, I’ll give him that. But that first half was shocking.

Desperately need some midfield reinforcements now, hopefully someone can come in who changes the dynamic.

Schär has been very good today

Terrible officiating.

Just now, Mattoon said:

ASM given up here, he looks sunk

70 mins is all he’s got.

Lascelles getting injured could be a blessing, they’ll just pay the inflated price now 

Been lots of speculation as to why the dip in form, was he low on fitness, lack of confidence, playing with an injury etc..

Nope, we have our answer. It’s his fucking attitude. Doesn’t want to be here and signed the deal here for all the wrong reasons.

He can get fucked.

Just now, Shadow Puppets said:

After a shakey first 30 mins, I actually think we've done OK. Stifled them completely... we just lack any cutting edge.

Stifled them? What game are you watching? ?

Boils my piss when you see someone lose their man and just jog back.. if we actually had options and a stronger manager, Willock would be hauled off.

2 minutes ago, Shadow Puppets said:

He was. But he was very good vs Man Utd a couple of weeks before. 
 

Compared to Longstaff and Willock, he offers more / something other players can’t do.

 

But I agree the options are awful!

Man Utd don’t press. Shelvey has always looked good against them because they don’t hassle him and he can take his time to pick out a pass.

I also think there’s a degree of him raising his game against the so called bigger teams 

Leeds work ethic and effective pressing, far superior fitness levels, and we have Jonjo Shelvey in the middle who’ll think it’s a good idea to pull shirts when he’s already on a yellow.

Thats why it’s 97.5% sure that we’ll lose today. Anything is possible but when you weigh up what we’re up against and what they are up against, it’s very hard to make a case for us.

My advice would be to lump on a home win, can get prices as good as 10/11. It will lessen the inevitable rage as 90 mins comes to a close. And then if we do magically do something you won’t mind losing it.

7 minutes ago, nufcnick said:

Lascelles has always had the speed and turning circle of a WW1 battleship, fucker always looks like he’s running in treacle 

Turning speed yes but he was always fast enough to at least keep up with players.

He was either trying hard and just not able to run, or wasn’t trying and didn’t give a fuck if he caught up or not.

I’m not sure what is worse to be honest.

Doing our own thing and there being a disconnect with KSA would be a bad thing.. if we go down we need to ensure that they are invested enough to make it work. A successful trip could well add much needed funds for last minute transfers too, it’s a PR exercise but so be it.

4 minutes ago, Kasper said:

Well thats Howe’s job to play with a tactic the squad’s fitness levels allow them to play. Trying to play high pressing football with unfit players is as naive as Norwich under Farke trying to tikitaka with shit players.

Why are they so unfit though? That ball over the top last week when Lascelles seemed to be running in slow motion was the worst thing I’ve seen all season.

We are actually the worst team in the league. I knew we were bad but I always sort of thought there were a few just a little bit worse, not this season though.

20 minutes ago, wyn davies said:

Listened to Talksh*te this morning, had on interview with Eddie Howe , was questioned about transfers, he stated that we have got two in and were looking at getting others, but if we don't then we are where we are, I gained the distinct impression he has more or less gave up as he mentioned that half the team had been there a long time and were good enough to get us out of trouble, kept on going about how moral was high etc etc , I'm not so sure.

That’s simply not to shit on the players who are going to be playing against Leeds. He’s not stupid.

He repeatedly said it in the press conference too about the most important players being the ones already there.. trust me, he’ll replace every single one of them given time.

Once Thursday afternoon passed by with no major progress, they’ll have backed off.. if they can agree a few deals after the weekend would be way better to bed them in before the next game rather then the mayhem of the Leeds match?

Players like Lingard and Dele Alli are icing on the cake type players, they are not going to cover the cracks of having Shelvey and Longstaff sauntering around the pitch aimlessly.

We need to be looking at players who can protect the defence

32 minutes ago, gdm said:

 

Strange that a player of that quality would be available on loan, his contract runs out in 2023 so maybe would be a better idea hoy a bid in.

West Ham were linked with him a few weeks back, the price was £14m, so probably 30 for us..

5 minutes ago, TRon said:

 

I don't think £10 would be spurious to that grasping fat bastard. 

I mean the claim that she violated an agreement, i can't remember one instance where she criticised him. Saying she couldn't wait to get rid of the SD signage would be impossible to link to a personal criticism, she said the training ground needed an upgrade, again stating facts, not a personal criticism.

I think it's a case of him being butt hurt over the way the removal of the signs was teased on social media, as yes it does paint SD for being an eyesore, but again, not a personal criticism so impossible to prove.

Seems spurious. She's gone out of her way to thank him for helping the takeover to go through.

Lingard looked good at West Ham when Declan Rice was cleaning up everything in the midfield and playing simple passes through the middle for him to run onto.

We have nothing like that here.

Aside from the new signings, every single player in the side minus Wilson and ASM needs to be cut loose.

Its like having black mould on your walls and only painting over a bit of it.. it still remains and will spread quickly.