Holmesy

With no ASM in the starting lineup and Miggy’s purple patch coming to an end we just look a bit toothless around the box. Time to make some changes and some signings, Eddie

They've been talking about uploading juvenile social media content since the Roman times? Clever bastards!

Juvenile behaviour is the accepted social norm these days, as long as you capture it on your mobile phone and upload it for the world to see. He's a symptom, not the cause. It is fucking embarrassing though

With his stellar record of winning headers, he'll be a huge hit.

Jesus Christ, you're exhausting. You see the bit in my last post where i said i was wrong? Maybe focus on that bit you enormous bellend!

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What are you not understanding about this?! It’s really not hard. I admit I was wrong about Chris Wood not winning headers, 100%. Gold star for you. But those headers he wins don’t do anything, so it’s a shit statistic! If you want to crack open a beer because Chris Wood wins loads of headers that do nothing useful, knock yourself out pal. I’ll go back and amend my point from Chris Wood doesn’t win any headers, to Chris Wood wins all of the headers but the net result is still the same as if he didn’t. ??

Utter bollocks! It’s nothing like saying Haaland doesn’t score goals at all. Goals is the ultimate measurement of an attacking player. He either does or doesn’t. Winning headers is only relevant if those headers actually do anything. Chris Wood could statistically be (and probably is) the best striker in the league for heading the ball out of play. He’s still won headers, but ultimately achieved fuck all. It’s not even close to being the same thing. ? Look up the statistic for how many of Chris Wood’s headers have actually led to anything positive and let’s discuss that stat. I imagine we might be hearing tumbleweeds

Ok, I stand corrected on that one point. And the rest of them? How many of those aerial duels won actually led to anything constructive? It’s a genuine question. Statistically if he outjumps the defender and flicks the ball on to no one or even heads it out of play, it’s an aerial duel won, right?

So am I, in theory. I get the ‘Eddie trusts him bit.’ Same with Rafa - whoever he picked I was comfortable with. But I also have eyes and I’m pretty sure what Eddie isn’t saying to Chris Wood is ‘don’t hold the ball up, don’t win any headers, when you do, cushion it back to the opposition keeper, don’t use your physical strength to dominate defenders etc. We are winning despite Chris Wood, not because of his contribution to the team. It’s fantastic that we can carry him, but just like Sheffield Wednesday, it will come back to bite us at crucial moments.

Out of interest, what have you seen from Wood that would make you pick him over Maxi?

Put him down to a 5.1 and the point still stands. He offers a shit load more goal and assist threat than Wood and that’s not even up for debate.

Seriously?! The worst? Ok mate ?? We’ve seen this before with lots of shit players (especially under managers like Bruce, Pardew etc.). When you have a player in your squad, there’s always the temptation to use him. If he’s not in the squad you HAVE to use a different (better) option. Hence, stronger squad. Wood, isn’t good enough and nowhere as good as Wilson, Maxi and Isak. Therefore, the average quality of our attackers is reduced with Wood in the mix. Wood - 5 Wilson - 8 Isak - 8 Maxi -7 Average - 7 Wilson - 8 Isak - 8 Maxi - 7 Average - 7.66 This is merely for illustrative purposes obviously. No exact scientific models were applied.

Getting rid of Wood and not even replacing him leaves our squad stronger. Obviously replacing him would be the ideal scenario but knowing he wouldn't be involved in games any more is benefit enough. I'd rather have Maxi or someone from the academy playing than someone we absolutely know can't and won't perform at this level.

Adama Traore is just Jacob Murphy but quicker - does the hard bit and then either makes a wank decision or fluffs the final pass. So frustrating! He’s like 5% away from being world class

Not sure where people are getting ‘not a penalty’ from. Take away both of a player’s legs anywhere else on the pitch and it’s a stonewall free kick.

It’s all good lads, Murphy’s got this!

I’m sure Longstaff used to be able to shoot?! It like he’s got his boots on the wrong feet whenever he’s in front of goal

To be fair, he looked alright at the World Cup but he was never good enough for Barcelona. He's a decent Premier League performer but he's no Miggy

We're one injury away from having to dip into a poor group of bench players. The step down from Botman/Schar to Lascelles is significant, Trippier to Manquillo is not a nice prospect and any scenario where we're relying on Murphy doesn't bear thinking about. We need more strength in depth as we get into the second half of the season or we risk not capitalising on our great start.

I was thinking exactly the same. I loved him in that CM destroyer role. If we put him back there, we could drop Longstaff and put Maxi left wing, everyone wins (except Longstaff)

Bruno joining in with the Joelinton song after he scored was class. He knows!

Schar won absolutely everything in the air and played some class cross field diagonal passes. Burn was an absolute monster all game! I think he overcommitted a couple of times and left us open down the flank but he's not a bloody robot, and he's not a left back either so what do people expect. Some people watch the matches through shit-tinted specs? Baffling!

The fact that he has zero aerial ability will stop him getting a move. Physically he looks like your typical big CF and there's still a place for that type of player in the game, but since he can't hold the ball up, shield the ball or win headers, what's the sales pitch? "He's a nice bloke" doesn't warrant a £20m price tag and blowing your wage budget for