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SSN managing to update us three times now that there has been no update

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Miggy 0 goals 0 assists Willock 0 goals 0 assists Shelvey 1 goal 0 assists Fraser 0 goals 1 assist Almost 60 appearances between them.

I’m really pleased by that actually. Whatever they said to them. As your edit says, it’ll hopefully ruffle a few feathers.

What are you talking about? The point is, Howe could (and should) be getting more from this group of players.

Weird comment when we’ve seen many of the same players improved under Rafa. It’s glaringly obvious you can get more from this group.

1 win from 9 games is always going to have questions asked. Especially when that includes three home games against Cambridge, Norwich and Brentford achieving 1 point and a cup exit. A lot of our issues are from Bruce, but he’s had nine games to start churning improvements out and other than Joelinton, I can’t think of a single other player who has improved under him. I can name a few more who have got worse though. I don’t think he’s helped by the fact players are going to be very unsettled knowing they are going to be replaced. But as I’ve said before, he isn’t making best use of the players he currently has.

I’m sorry but that’s a really shite quote. Imagine if Bruce came out and said that after losing to a League One side at home. Appreciate he wants to a create a team of smiles, but he also needs to take accountability and admit he got it wrong.

That’s absolutely not the point like. The point was, rather bemoaning the quality of your teammates and trying to do it all on your own, play a team game as a team. Players like Ben Arfa and ASM are individuals and they play like it. They can probably coast in good teams, like a PSG or Marseille, but they are worthless to a team in a relegation battle. We need a team that functions together. ASM’s one moment of magic every five games isn’t currently worth his lack of contribution in the other four games.

Watford have lost their last 7 in a row. If we don’t put these to bed, we deserve to go down. They’re as bad as Norwich and should be way behind us if we want to stop up.

Danny Simpson, Premier League winner and Ben Arfa, a missed opportunity. Maybe players like that should learn to play as a team and they might achieve much more…

Fuck knows what they were doing reviewing the Cambridge goal. No lines drawn at any point, just randomly zooming in and out before finally realising Shelvey touched it.

At this point we’d probably improve as a team without him in it, regardless of the replacement.

I don’t get why he waited until we went 1-0 down to change anything. Should’ve done so at half time, we weren’t exactly playing scintillating football. He’s still trying to put square pegs in round holes and is playing players in positions and tactics they’re unable to fulfil. Said that for weeks and he’s persisting with it. We need five or six players to suit his style (in addition to Trippier), or he needs to adjust the way we play to suit the players he has, otherwise we’ll end up with shit like this regularly.

8 goals and 3 assists in 96 appearances for us. Has more yellow cards than goals for us. Pretty much only does something once every 9 games, pathetic for an attacking player.

At least Everton are on now to take their share of the embarrassment today.

Who do we think are the 21/22 bad apples among the squad then?

But Howe should never have played Clark against Norwich, that’s on him too.

Can see now why Arsenal weren’t bothered about keeping him. They clearly knew it was a purple patch.

I’m not really clear on what we’re trying to do at times and I don’t think the players are either.

A warranted use of the word worrying.

Another game he couldn’t be arsed for. Absolutely fed up with him deciding it’s a bit rough and feigning injuring in the last 10-15 minutes of every match, either just hobbling around or even going off (Liverpool, Man Utd, today).