christ

I don’t understand the received wisdom on here around Lascelles like. Perfectly serviceable centre back who has more good games than bad for us. His form went to absolute shit under Bruce but then so did Schar’s. He’s got a rick in him but I trust Howe. Of course now I’ve posted this he’s going to have a nightmare and I’m going to look like a twat.

As I suspected. Dog shit. We’ll batter these.

“Sunderland’s a shit hole lads, have you not noticed?”

He doesn’t look happy. Worrying.

Man City match has got them all excited.

5 seconds in. “FUCK ME!”

If he doesn’t score we can just bung him in midfield and turn him into a box to box colossus.

He’s not a bad player by any stretch. I’ve no idea why some on here are so utterly convinced he’s a liability who shouldn’t be anywhere near the starting XI.

£16m then.

I thought he was canny. I’d like to see more of him, mainly to get a handle on whether he can defend or not. Seems happy bombing on.

Let’s put these dirty cunts to the fucking sword now.

I don’t think we’re overpaying at all. He has the potential to be absolutely phenomenal. He’s only 22.

Fire up the immersion heater!

Anything over £15m and we should be snapping their hands off.

It’s fucking class when we’ve got a decent result earlier in the weekend and you can just settle in and enjoy the Barclays.

Romano fired up Photoshop for nothing.

Today was a tremendous demonstration of why we must keep hold of ASM. Once we add more quality and teams can’t marshal him as closely as they may like to he’s going to be lethal. He had Walker looking like he’d been on the meths.

All I wanted from today was an indication we were progressing and I got that. Played them off the park for the first 45 and posed a threat throughout. ASM was majestic. It’s obviously gutting to be 3-1 up and draw, but I never really believed we’d win even when Trippier scored. If you’d offered me five points after the first three games I’d have snapped your hands off. We’re a couple of good players away from having a really formidable side.

The Cardiff walkout ended up being an absolute clusterfuck because MM decided he knew better and started putting about a different minute. Utterly cretinous behaviour. The top button of his Fred Perry polo must’ve been cutting off the circulation to his brain.

Posting from your Motorola Razr are we?

Even if all that is true (I don’t know Alex Hurst from Adam, nor do I pay much attention to TF) I don’t think that means you’re allowed to go around accusing him of misappropriating money meant for charity. Some of the stuff posted in this thread is actionable.

Honest question - Is there any genuine evidence they’ve done anything underhand here? Or is it just people who don’t like Alex Hurst imagining scenarios and getting upset by it?

Decent result, poor performance. We looked a yard off pretty much all over the park. Hard to gauge anything from that really because Brighton are often absolutely brilliant at home. Didn’t really tell us anything we didn’t already know. We have to get a couple of attackers in or we’re going to find it hard.

Said the same to wor kid. How was that less of a kit clash than allowing us to play in our away kit ffs?

Lascelles is a great example. Club captain and mainstay of the squad for several Premier League campaigns, whose form has understandably peaked and troughed along with that of the club as we swapped out good manager for bad. Performed well whenever he’s been called upon by Howe, but the mere mention of his name appearing on the team sheet seems to drive some people potty.