Crimson Cardigan

Have you seen much of him? I’ll be really surprised if he doesn’t surpass Pope. He’s already leagues ahead of any of our keepers with his feet.

I think Burn has been better defensively than Schar this season, medium term they both need replacing, but I’d be more than happy if they stick around to deputise Botman and new RCB.

The clamour for Chiesa is indicative of something most fans fall into. It’s all because of an excellent Euros for Italy which was now a very time ago. He’s been a crock basically ever since and nowhere near the same player. There’s still lads on YouTube saying we missed a trick not being in for him! What we need to find is a pre Euros Chiesa, someone about to explode. We’ve done it with Gordon, and Hall. We need to find a RW along those lines.

Nah, it was a miracle. Man Utd are woeful.

Mate, we will see one in one out, IF we’re lucky.

I’m not rewriting it. I’d prefer we sold both and bought Pedro. Wood is tearing it up. Wilson is tearing up. Some re evaluation of decisions is going to take place.

Depends entirely on the question. If the question is would it have been better to keep Wood (who never misses a game) or Wilson (who doesn’t play a game) the answer, hindsight or not, is now obvious.

You are right, but people on here and elsewhere would have lost their minds.

I’m sure they say the same with Isak and Nunez

Was there ever a serious bid for Almiron? Saudi was never an option for him.

He speaks really well. And he was decent tonight and unlucky not to score.

Was outside the box no?

Having said that, there's no way we win this game. A point against these would be a victory of sorts given Newcastle’s record against them.

The hyperbolic language that gets chucked around is the issue for a lot of us. Losing at home to two miracle finishes from Nunez is “disgraceful”, Pope is a “bottom 3 goalkeeper” etc. Like, criticise away, there is much to pour over but the language used at times is reminiscent of a kid rage quitting football manager, and makes a decent discussion impossible.

We will not get hammered. We will play well as we virtually always do against top sides at home, but we may get done by a bad decision or a late lapse because Liverpool.

Laughable indeed.

I would have sold Almiron too, but we don’t know a bid was made and again it had nothing to do with tonight.

Right ok.

Did you rate Gordon before he came in?

Yeah but only by default. He will obviously want to hold onto his squad as it was 1. Small and 2. Performing Being loyal to limited players is part and parcel of building a culture. It’s easy to be utterly ruthless from behind the ol keyboard, but limited player Dan Burn was sorely missed tonight and Almiron has little to do with our poor performances given he doesn’t actually play. Howe was much work to do, that is clear - but he needs more help then he is getting.

We did. A free replacement for Dummet and a kid from Sheffield Utd. Nowhere near enough for a side challenging for Europe given the strength of the league. it doesn’t seem to be Howes job to “ship players out”. Maybe I’m wrong but we’ve had one semi serious bid for Trippier and that’s about it. We don’t have saleable assets. By all means criticise the subs today which seriously backfired but Howe has been let down too.

Lads he hasn’t been given a signing in two windows. There is plenty of mitigation. We’re also living in an era where nothing clubs have trophy winning managers. Tonight was insanely frustrating with poor performances all over and Howe made some bad calls. But West Ham were also incredibly fortunate at crucial points and we didn’t get a single break. Paqueta only seems to bother playing against us, and he shouldn’t really be playing at all. It was a clear penalty. Gordon and Isak have to score those first half chances. There are issues, but Howe deserves time (and signings)

I mean, you expect knee jerking on here after a defeat, but that is next level. He’s clearly good enough for us (when fit). Bad game tonight for sure.

Yeah I’m not saying he’s actually biased, I’m sure he just doesn't like Klopp, but because of what he’s said and his past non decisions for them his impartiality will be called into question every time and they can’t have that so he has to go I guess.

He was VAR when Pickford assaulted Van Dyke. He’s finished and rightfully so.