TheBrownBottle

I agree - we have to be able to change this up, and the high intensity play was always likely to result in injured / knackered players. Howe needs to have a real think before next season starts (I’m hoping / assuming he gets that time) to start changing things up. The danger is the dressing room turning - if the players are being simply asked to do the same thing again and again despite clearly not having the energy levels to play that way then the players might turn.

I said a few weeks ago that he’d basically need to lose ten games pretty much in a row to be vulnerable. We’ve lost six in the last seven - and the next four games are Man City, Liverpool, Villa and Sunderland. I don’t think he should be vulnerable (pressure is reasonable) but there is a scarily real chance that we lose all of those games at the moment - certainly the next three league games.

I will be. It is 1:25am where I am, mind.

Two mins wasted to take a shite free kick. Glad there’s no reason to be playing with urgency.

Where has this cunt found six mins from?

Hope not. Hate that shite

Sometimes these lads are brainless when trailing

I know there is still that part of my brain which tortures me, though

Anyone else still thinking that if we grab a spawny goal we might nick something? I am. Hope is soul destroying

KK also lost at a shit Blackburn on his final Boxinf Day fixture (first spell). Was at both. We are absolute shite at Xmas

These are so shite that this is all the more embarrassing.

Yep. Really poor decision

We didn’t that day either, mind

Oh aye handball edit: just saw other angle. It wasn’t

Someone said Howe reckons it’ll likely be towards the end of the month. That’s a flawed transfer strategy if true

Wish he’d waited. Forest were stupidly playing passively at that point. As soon as they started playing aggressively they realised how vulnerable we are

Yes, I can see how a player who isn’t pulling up trees in a pub league would be perfect

He goes to ground so quick. Shaky as buggery.

I said the other day he’d need something like ten bad results in a row before there should be any pressure. But the next four games mean that that is possible. Still half an hour to go here like.

Early KO - wouldn’t hold my breath on the atmosphere front

At least we’ve been dominant

Livramento and Trippier both played him on.

Too easy for the lad. Fair play he’s took the second and third goals well. But our back line looks awful - and they’re not being helped at all by the midfield

Jesus H Christ

Fatigue isn’t what caused that second goal like. Burn and Botman can’t blame tiredness.