Holmesy

I honestly can’t believe what I’m watching. We are absolutely pathetic. This is literally as bad as I’ve ever seen us play

Getting dry bummed by the team rock bottom of the league. Bruce ball at its finest.

What a fucking coward!

From the little we saw of him he seems to have good feet, tenacity and he’s yet to have the confidence and motivation drained out of him by the 3 Steves. Given how many low impact midfielders we have in the first team squad, we might as well start him against Sheff Utd

We're going to end up with Bentaleb again, nailed on

Tactics, gameplan, players to fit a specific system - it'll never catch on.

When fans are paying £50+ for a match ticket you have an obligation to entertain them, rightly or wrongly. Bruce is getting an easy ride because there are no fans in the stadium but he should be given absolute dog's abuse when the stadium allows supporters in, regardless of our league position, because he's serving up a bowl of shit when people are paying for fine dining. We're comfortably the worst team to watch in probably the top two divisions. Any result we get feels more like a fluke than an orchestrated plan. That's not entertaining!

Put a bet on 10 minutes ago for us to win 0-1, to try and salvage something from my Friday night. Wilson scored, looking good! Fucking Joelinton man! Now the fucker turns up! ??‍♂️

Deservedly, he was shite! Probably still is

It feels like Joelinton is so close to being a really good footballer but he’s just not right now. How someone who knows football could watch him and think he’s worth £40m is baffling! He must’ve had a couple of absolute worldie performances in front of our scouts. Or someone was pissed!

I haven’t actually been repulsed watching us for the past 25 minutes. Feels weird!

He repeatedly shouts their names, I think that’s his thing. I've heard him shout 'time!' on a few occasions. You know, the kind of thing I shout to fat Lee on a Wednesday night kickabout.

Unbelievable how short people's memories are. On his day, ASM is one of the best in the PL. Pundits, other team's fans, the media etc. were frothing over his performances last season - he was lighting the league up. It's no coincidence that since our neolithic manager tinkered with his positioning and probably sapped a lot of his motivation, we've looked a lot less dangerous as a team and ASM has looked a fraction of the player he was last season. Some of that is no doubt down to other teams figuring out how to play him but most of it is down to our shit deployment of him In the right scenario ASM is a game winner - Bruce isn't that scenario, ever!

That's gonna hurt even more when this saga is all over, NUFC are in the Championship and Neil Warnock walks through the door. I'd snap your hand off for Neil Warnock right now

He’s played 4-5 games at a new club, with new teammates, under a shit manager and shit coaches. Chill out!

He does, he’s shit!

Did anyone expect anything more when Steve Bruce was confirmed as our manager?! I think we were pretty unanimous in our expectations of how this was going to turn out.

As long as the current version of football has existed, the rule had been free kick awarded for DELIBERATE handball and there was nothing wrong with it. It worked. Things have only become fucked since they started messing around with it.

VAR would’ve been and still could be fine. The problem is they got referees to decide on the implementation and usage of it. If they’d given it to a panel of players, you know, people that have actually played the game, the implementation would’ve been fine. Exactly the same thing should be done when deciding on rule changes but instead they leave it to people who have never played the game and they consistently fuck it up. Who’d have thought?!

Very easy to force change - if all the clubs agree to pass the penalty to the opposition keeper instead of taking a shot, the PL would act within a week. except they won't agree to that, hell they'll all be adopting the strategy of aiming at arms instead of the goal Of course, too much self interest. They'd rather take advantage of it than try to restore the integrity of the game. But if they wanted to, they could force change

Very easy to force change - if all the clubs agree to pass the penalty to the opposition keeper instead of taking a shot, the PL would act within a week.

We literally don’t do anything well under SB, nothing. We don’t move well, can’t attack for shit, can’t defend, we’re not dangerous at set pieces, can’t mark, can’t press as a unit, we’re badly organised and tactically inept. I honestly think we might fair better without a manager!

Pretty sure Almiron hasn’t controlled the ball a single time yet. Just keeps bouncing off him!

Why would you play 5 at the back when you don’t have 3 fit CBs?! Surely you play the formation that suits the best players you have available to you. Or is that too obvious?

Personally, I love signings like this. Zero risk and nothing known about him but there’s just that small chance he could turn out to be brilliant. Far more exciting than signing already established players!