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Eddie Howe, brought my family back to SJP in 2022. Didn’t dare dream of anything more than that in the dark days of Ashley. Now, who knows what we can do, and it’s all down to this guy.

He was very Sunday League. Absolutely baffling decisions and Leeds played him like a fiddle

Well, we should have won that. We were miles better, but they did to us what we have done to others (hyper aggressive, shithousing). Ref lost control, Leeds were cunts and are absolutely cack. Hey Ho, we move on. Another clean sheet.

So at anfield we get every minute added on but today they waste all 4 mins and we get 10 seconds. Fuck right off

That performance today. Wow. Just fucking levels above everyone else. He’s by far the best midfielder I’ve seen play for us. The man is different gravy.

He’s a fucking God right now

Great today tbf

We are fucking amazing. Going to get pissed and eat cheese

Thought Daka was pretty threatening tbh. I guess in those situations you’d expect vardy to score though

We’ve switched off a few times. These are still very dangerous.

Jesus fuck this is tremendous so far

Merry fucking Boxing Day lads. Let’s hope it brings a W!

Ross county vs Rangers tonight. Don’t think I’ve ever been as cold as that at a match. So lucky I don’t support a team in Scotland and watch every other week?

Thought we were a bit lacklustre which is totally understandable. A QF though…a good draw and who the fuck knows eh

I have often wondered wtf they are for tbh

Think Rice is the most overrated player in the prem - an absolute pudding.

Looks like an SPL attendance ?

I’m going to try and take the last 2 windows as a lesson. Fuck looking over at what other clubs are doing. We will get who we get, and whatever happens Howe is improving what we have.

As much as I dislike the argies, do want Messi to win this now like

Yeah I mean, @Yorkie’s post is spot on. The look at the stats people, I get it, but it’s all a bit “but we won the passing”. At the end of the day, we’re out, again, when we could have been braver. It’s basically like game of thrones - the viper vs the mountain every time we come up against a top side. It’s irritating as fuck.

I’m coming across as aggressively anti Southgate because of comments made out of frustration. I know that we’ve improved, and as a nation we have no right to be expecting to win things. I appreciate our history in that we all remember 2014, Iceland etc. We aren’t a top tier nation, I get it, and he has done a great job, better than my expectations and most others. But, he has increased expectations because of the job he’s done. People see a team that could beat anyone on its day, and while it’s fine and dandy beating workmanlike sides on the way to a semi in 2018 and a final in 2020, we lack any sort of killer instinct to take that next step. It is incredibly reactive football against the top sides, in the moments that matter. We don’t make opponents think twice or have to adapt. Look at how many times we’ve tried to swing the big outswinger to Maguire for instance. It almost came off, like once. If he was capable of learning and growing fine, but this mantra of control, control control is great until we meet a more technical team, and we allow them to beat us. It’s flaccid and it’s a loser’s mentality against big nations. Yeah the answer is maybe not obvious as to who takes over but that shouldn’t mean we can’t criticise what we see. I’ll say it again, Kane’s missed pen was a chance to equalise, not win. We had already conceded the initiative to the French when we went 1-0 down and again when we were back to 1-1. Anyway, I’m banging on here so that’s me for now.

Imagine the sound and splash back from that fuckin whale

If Southgate was willing to change then great. Maybe it would be a crazy shout but I would look at the following candidates - Poch, Rodgers, Postecoglou

What is frustrating about the whole thing is that it feels people forget the penalty was to equalise, not to win. We were behind twice in the game and never really took the opportunity at 1-1 to make them think, change Henderson for someone, try and move the defensive line, have a more aggressive press…none. We saw against spurs what putting Lloris under pressure can do. We played well enough, but we never really took the initiative in the game IMO.

That we can agree on!