Erikse

You all better crticize Howe sometimes, or else I'm on the case.

Well.. I said something that is literally true, deemed "untrue". I adressed that. Anyways, great win today?

I will go through your posts later. Will I find anything remotely critical of Howe whatsoever? If not, how is my point wrong?

I found one of them.

Yes I do. It happens both ways? You made a point that it happens one way, and I added that the same thing happens the other way around.

Certain users who will praise him whenever we win a game will never admit it when he makes a mistake, and no loss is down to anything that he does. A perfect manager, never loses a game with his decisions. Shame he is the most unlucky manager alive.

He gave me 0-3p every gameweek since this one, so I benched him again today.

Posts like these man.. Hyping up bang average players purely based on the past and what team they play for. It's as if Southgate posted the tweet himself.

I would assume that we probably wouldn't have been able to get a decent replacement with the money that he would've gotten us last summer anyways. Having Isak only all season would obviously be crazy. So, in that case we probably would've had to buy a striker over one of the other players that we bought, but those signings were made for other positions where we were short in numbers. Hall was a loan deal, so I don't think we could've used that money last summer unless it was a loan deal with someone else instead.

6 away games in a row now..

Fair enough, sometimes it's taken too far. I think both ends of the spectrum is represented here though. Some will also make exuses for everything and pretty much never concede that he has made a mistake.

The point is that some seem to judge current managerial performances based on likeability or past results. Bruce got a lot of stick for each bad performance, and rightfully so. Ofcourse Howe is a better manager, don't get me wrong, Bruce was really bad. But it seems like when we have a manager that we don't like we have to collectively hate him every time we lose, while when we have a manager that we like and/or who has had good results in the past, we have to make excuses for every single bad choice or performance. Why is there no in between?

I wonder what the plan was/is with him. We must have known a little bit about him before we signed him? Were the club completely wrong in their assesment of him and his strengths/weaknesses?

It's not about the quality of players, we have to remember that Blackburn, like Luton and Nottingham (and every other team) is a bad matchup for us.

They are having a party when I don't get points for it in FPL. Reminds me of when I had Pedro, he kept giving me 2 pts but scored a hat trick in the cup against a PL side.

It all sounds so simple. When Bruce was stinking at Newcastle why didn't he just change setting? When Pardew was stinking at Newcastle why didn't he just change setting? When Kinnear was stinking at Newcastle why didn't he just change setting? Why do we criticise managers ever? Being a manager is not easy! By the way I wouldn't want Mourinho near our club. He's way past his prime.

I'm sure you could make an argument for every team in the league to have strengths against us. Does Luton and Bournemouth not have weaknesses of their own? Weaknesses is something that you try to compensate for tactically. For example, our defence was struggling with pace against Luton while Livra was on the bench. Now that the fatiguer factor is gone, we have to find new excuses it seems.

In the same way that Arsenal just has better player than us, the 11 players we played against Luton and Bournemouth at home were certainly of much higher quality than that of the opposition, regardless of our injuries. We need an alternative gameplan for sitautions where we can't do plan A anymore, because right now, we are underperforming with the quality of players that we have. Bournemouth and Luton would only dream of having players like Botman, Bruno and Trippier. A Miley and a Dubravka doesn't change the fact that our 11 was much better, they aren't THAT bad.

I keep being scared of another reoccurence. Just make sure he's ready before we start him, please. When he's fit and ready, he gives us something that the other players we have can't. Still have hopes of him achieving the potensial that he had.

10th here we come

Salah about to go up in price, and it might be relevant for me. With my transfer plans I will end up at 0.0. Any news on his injury at all? Maybe I will just take the risk..

Maybe not, but the pure fact that he made those subs tells me that it's not necessarily as bad of an idea as many made it out to be back in december. Again, I'm referring to some specific arguments that were most commonly used to defend the decisions to not sub. According to the wording of some of the arguments back then, there was no way Klopp should've done what he did, even if their youngsters were better than ours. Simply due to the fact that they had no experience whatsoever, and usually they don't even feauture on the bench. Yet Klopp felt like he had to trust them over his tired on field players in the decisive moments of a final. It wasn't just a league game against Nottingham or Luton.

Did Gakpo or Mac Allister get injured? The point here is that we didn't make subs on our knackered players. Klopp could've chosen to stick with his players and not sub them.

It's dependant on other things too as I said earlier. Klopp took them on for Gakpo and MacAllister in a final. I believe they weren't nearly as knackered as some of our players were. Do you think Howe would've done the same?

The argument was often that we should never take off our main players for kids who hasn't played before, as if that's something that you can almost never do. If you read back the exact words that were often used, then that would also cover what Klopp did yesterday as something that you should never do. Also, did Miley get any minutes at all in the league when we had any other senior player available? He hasn't come on as a sub in any game, and as far as I can remember we've never had any other midfielders available when he has started in the league this season.