Nine

The mental gymnastics that mackems are capable of is honestly scary

The Simon Grayson one always cracks me up, remember when some of them were saying they would rather have him over Rafa?

Not sure how they thought Keane would ever work anyway, have not they seen him lose his rag with poor standard premiership footballers on tv? Now imagine him in charge of a team of league one shitters

Fuck sake, hopefully hes fit

I honestly think 32/33 points might even be enough this year, obviously a lot can change yet

Under Rafa we saw those kind of attributes exactly, the only difference being he started.

I still think he can have a big role to play coming off the bench especially when we are trying to protect a lead, his energy and carrying the ball is made for that role of relieving pressure and giving us time to get back into shape. But the other night Howe brought Murphy on so maybe it’s not the way Howe sees him, quite a niche role as well and if I was Miggy I might want to go elsewhere to start.

Yeah, he’s just not suited to this back 4 we are playing now. He would fine in the middle of a 5 but it looks like that’s not the direction Howe wants to go, side point but I know Lascelles is limited and people have got on his back as he seems to be one of the scapegoats when things arnt working but put a good partner next to him and I think we’ll see the player that he was under Rafa. It can’t help being partnered with someone who’s not a back 4 CB.

Depending on outgoings I think we’ll see - GK, LB, LB (Targett), CB (Botman/Carlos), DM/CM, RW, ST

£12m for him honestly might prove to be one of the best value for money deals we’ve ever done in 2/3 years time.

That Alex Neil looks a decent choice for them but it won’t matter because so many of them will be on his back so fast as soon as they hit a bad spell ‘it shoulda been sewper hard keeno marra’

Happy birthday Miggy

Sums Zaha up, scores a banger and then hits a shit penalty right after

Norwich have thrown it

Zaha

Coutinho is fucking good

Come on Palace you useless fucks

Hoping thats what Howes thinking

This is the best way to incorporate him I think, Howe taking off Willock for him last night might be as sign of things to come. Just not sure on the time frame of it, if he gets one start over Willock and plays well I can’t see Howe not starting him.. depending on the opponent he might put Willock back in occasionally. Fully expect Bruno to be a starter from next season onwards though when he’s been fully bedded in and has settled.

I think that headed chance he tamely hit at Pickford yesterday shows his lack of confidence atm, coming to us knowing he’s our only realistic starting striker with Wilson out puts some pressure on his head to. Reckon he will come good after 3/4 more games.

They’ve had how many 50,000 post threads about us since they had to merge the many, many threads they post about us daily into one big one . Their level of obsession with their rival compares to no other football club, not even everton

Cos its Keeno he shouts at the lads and hes hard marra

I probably would to, well after recent performances I think its harsh to drop Shelvey (I know some will disagree) but next season I think thats how we could line up. The key thing is though that Howe will start Shelvey for the rest of this season and based off of his decision to do so last night I cant really say its wrong