TheBrownBottle

It didn’t work against Brentford, these aren’t a crack European outfit, this is a standard NUFC away performance so far

The fact that Strand Larsen was even considered suggests massive issues with our scouting

Other teams don’t seem to be affected in the same way, and we’ve been poor away from home for a long time now

I’m increasingly wondering why we signed a player who - despite his talent - isn’t a good fit for our style, and we appear to be doing nothing to fit to his.

Saved lad

For a big strong bloke Joelinton isn’t the best at winning the ball in the air

He’s definitely made a rollie from tabs butts he’s picked off the ground like

haven’t seen a single comment suggesting it

Yeah, was just thinking that. Thank fuck.

I’m not seeing titanic levels of effort so far

Most teams do this season - we play like strangers

Players or fans?

It’s not the 60th min

I’d blame his teammates - he wins the ball, looks for a pass, and they all stand staring at him. There’s fuck all movement

There’s still a result there for us - these aren’t any great shakes. But fuck me we need to wake up.

Rotated out, not dropped. He plays all the ‘big’ games.

Yep - and Bruno was fucking horrible as a DCM.

He’ll never, ever drop him.

It looked outside to me

Absolutely fucking stupid by Thiaw

Absolutely dogshit

Poor by Woltemade that

Players doing something once and once only is not proof that they have that skill ‘in their locker’. To prove it, here’s the old Bolton battering ram centre forward doing what he didn’t do best:

He never did anything like that again - it was a one-off. I mentioned in an earlier post that despite the Everton assist he didn’t actually do this.

Isak is an incredible centre forward if you play to his game. I’ve never seen a calmer centre forward - he made it look like he had a lot more time than he did when presented with a chance. He’s the best I’ve seen in terms of finding space and finding his spot. He’s also a very clean striker of a ball. He wasn’t much good at one-on-ones - when he had time to think - and volleys, which suggests a slight flaw in technique. He didn’t really beat players. The funny thing is that I think if you ask the usual gobshite pundits (including Merson) to name what he’s good at, I reckon beating players in a dribble and one-on-ones after breaking the line would be two of them. He’s isn’t Henry despite his frame and wearing the 14 shirt for us.