Holmesy

The fact we've won games without ASM, Shelvey and Isak in the team bodes well. We've also been carrying Willock for a few games as well, so that would suggest there's a decent amount of room for improvement.

It's a valid point in one sense, but it's the job of the person recruiting to look into more than league tables - feedback from previous players/employers/staff, analysis on style of play, upturn in results from previous managers, fans' opinions and umpteen other factors. When you're spending millions on someone who the football club's plight is 100% dependent on, you have to do the most thorough due diligence possible. These guys just seem to pluck Bruce's name out of a hat, speak to a few pundits who bum him and hand him a 3 year contract. Proper due diligence would ensure Bruce never gets a job in English football again.

How many other walks of life are there where a proven failure consistently lands jobs earning millions of pounds? Politics? Banking? Is anyone actually held to account for making these decisions in the first place? Hiring Steve Bruce should be an instant sackable offence because the outcome is inevitable. It's absolute lunacy!

Like Tyrone Ballsniffer or Jeremy Fuckwit?

Would Maddison be extraordinary? He'd be a great signing but given the calibre of players we've signed so far - Isak, Trippier, Bruno, Botman - extraordinary would be someone in the next couple of brackets up, surely? Mind you, this is media talk

Rafa's key skill is making groups of players stronger than the sum of their parts. There's enough quality at Forest for Rafa to work his magic - Lingard, Johnson, Boly, Aurier, Kouyate, Dennis, Lodi, Henderson. He'd keep them up with room to spare

Not like Murphy to make the wrong decision. Must be an off day

He’d have to get a game first

He must have mis-hit it

Fuck me, will wonders never cease!

Stonewall red card. Never gonna happen though

Anderson has done more than enough to start games over Murphy. What is the fucking point of benching him in favour of a player who should be in the development squad FFS?!

Jesus at Arsenal highlights how much Pep’s approach can stifle individuals. At city he looked limited and unspectacular. Given the freedom to roam, dribble and take players on at Arsenal, he looks like the world class talent we thought was coming to the PL when City first signed him. He looks like he’s loving life!

Why not give it a go, she's a proven winner. There's only way to know if the players would respond to her. And she definitely wouldn't play every game with two holding midfielders as well, which is a good start

Scot Parker's iconic cardigan is a glaring omission from that list.

Shelvey and Maxi will make the world of difference to Isak, when they're back. Shelvey gets plenty of pelters on here but he has better vision than most and plays the ball early - he'll spot those early runs from Isak and stick the ball over or through for him first time. Maxi just creates space, which is exactly what we needed against Bournemouth. No striker is going to tear up trees with Almiron, Murphy and Fraser feeding him

Put 20 crosses in - fuck all. Plan B - put 20 more crosses in!

There's an awful lot of home bias on this thread with regards to ranking managers Whoever put Howe above Conte, have a word!

They would never agree to that - it would immediately highlight how inept and corrupt they are. I don't even think our ref was told to look out for a push on Willock, just the foul on the keeper. The whole crowd would've been up in arms and on the verge of a riot if that had been broadcast

It is mate, it’s completely his fault. No one is telling him to do the wrong fucking thing every time he gets anywhere near the box. It’s 100% his fault.

If he’s told to watch for the push on Willock through his earpiece he’ll watch for it but clearly the corrupt cunts in the video haven’t told him. The pundits saw it, we saw it, the crowd in the stadium saw it but the two pricks in the video room somehow conveniently missed it and didn’t tell the ref to watch for it. The whole thing fucking stinks

Your job isn’t that hard you simple cunts! Watch the video, make the right call. Fuck me, you could train chimps to do a better job than these bribe-taking scumbags!

What’s the fucking point any more?!

Joelinton having a rare poor game. Keeps giving the ball away, can’t hold onto it etc.

I would’ve said he was better than Longstaff but he isn’t any more