TheBrownBottle

We definitely will 😁

Ah, got you. Yeah he did the same when Murphy had the ball out wide on the right about ten mins in - the one where Murphy slipped when crossing

It’s a shame, but the lad’s race is run in B&W Cue a new contract

Three times - he did that with Willock early on, when Willock ended up running into touch

Wilson offside. I’ll write that a lot tonight.

Shh don’t say that out loud man

Well that was fucking dreadful

He did, and I love the man. But fuck me he looks rusty with offside traps.

If Callum Wilson could stop running offside that would be canny

Wilson not looking there

HTL

Wilson remains the second best ‘traditional’ no. 9 I’ve seen in B&W (Isak isn’t an old school CF, and Shearer obviously was better). Might not be a popular view, but I’d stick him above Ferdinand, Ba, Quinn etc in my lifetime. Without the injuries he’d have been an incredible centre forward - in his pomp for us, his strength, power and finishing was first rate. He’s probably the best I’ve seen at one on ones - the man has a very cool head (and a handsome one to boot). Like others have said, sadly he’s probably been here a little longer than he should have. But we’re in a cup final and might even reach another one this season - I wouldn’t write off him coming off the bench and grabbing a vital goal just yet and signing off in style. I still love the bloke tbh (can you tell?).

Honestly, I’m surprised by that with Trippier. I must’ve been watching a different player these last 18 months.

He’s a solid B, assuming that we have the power to rebuild him

That doesn’t seem to matter for the US presidency these days - so you keep your xhamster bookmarks mate. I’ll vote for you 👍

Absolutely. There isn't a good argument that he's in the top handful (as in top 3/4/5) of midfielders in the world - but he's clearly an elite PL midfielder.

Germany added in that way is a bit cheeky - it was two separate countries, so had more European slots available for more sides for quite some time as a result of them acting the cunt in the mid-C20th.

Always worth remembering that we’ve played exactly thirty-five times the number of games in Europe that Sunderland has. As the kids say, there’s levels to this game.

They beat Barca in the QF. You're right though - Dundee Utd hasn't won a European trophy.

Both Dundee clubs have made the semis of the European Cup

Fair dos - my OG post re that one was a throwaway comment about there being only one NUFC player who meets the ‘A’ categorisation

Trippier was a solid ‘B’; he’s now a ‘D’

No, he isn’t an ‘A’ - as in walks into any team in the world. The list suggested that ‘A’ is ‘world class’. Isak is the only player we have who is in that bracket. Tonali would be a ‘B’ for me - ie an ‘elite’ PL player, but not (yet) a ‘world class’ one.

Not for me. GK has always been a troubled position for NUFC. If Keegan had spent 4m on Nigel Martyn instead of Warren Barton, NUFC wins at least one league title under him - and Martyn wasn't a world class keeper by any stretch, just a good one. Given was a good shot stopper, but his distribution and positioning on crosses (and ability against them) was mediocre to poor. Harper was as bog standard a GK as you're likely to see. Darlow was a million miles away from being good. Krul looked like he could be, but ultimately he hasn't proved to be. Dubravka was an ok PL keeper, and is not that these days - Pope is patently a better keeper, but he's on the wane too. Neither are close to good enough for next season. Given would be most people's best NUFC GK, but that doesn't mean he was a great keeper. If at some point we'd actually signed a genuine high calibre keeper, we wouldn't be hoping that next month we end a 70 year trophy drought. I'm sure we will sign one soon - and when we do, the difference will be very, very noticable.

All opinion, but not for me at the moment