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10 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

I don't feel better, I just feel relatively relaxed about most defeats these days. :lol: It's just very tedious when reality gets ignored in favour of made-up stuff like our opponents being shite, or something. 

 

The table position doesn't even mean that much when it's so tight and our immediate competitors are also stuttering. The teams currently in 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th all dropped bad points this weekend - most giving then away to teams lower in the table. 


I don’t see it getting better. That’s the main thing. I see zero answers in regards to the questions we were asking about the midfield over a year ago, a huge reluctance to pick teams based on home / away and opposition a la Rafa, one dimensional game plans and players clearly not buying in to the approach. What are we expecting from Howe? He wakes up one day a different man?

 

 

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20 hours ago, Ronaldo said:


With this squad and this manager, do you see us finishing top 6? 

Not this season now if I was being honest. 
I think we will finish top 10 but we are lacking something and too inconsistent to trouble top 6 for me this season. Unless a truly trans formative January window and major shift in midfield and tactics at some point. 
Sadly I think that will spell the end for our current and lead to a sale of a few players and a reset.

 

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13 minutes ago, Aiston said:

Turns out he is the one that should have been rested.

 

He was knackered from the 20th minute yet somehow stayed on for so long?

 

Said it in the pre-match thread, that if we are going to rest players, he should have been considered first considering he's played every game and has cost us late goals in both previous games. I think rotation is the right way to go, just don't always understand how we are doing it.

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4 minutes ago, Rich said:

If Paper Joe had been available he’d perhaps have started. Can’t believe how much Big Joe’s cost us this week, it’s so unlike him.


In keeping with his season - his level and consistency just haven’t been there 

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2 hours ago, kenlau88210 said:

3 games in a row he made costly mistakes. Ball watching at stoppage time vs Palace, cheaply gave the ball away vs Liverpool (though the idea was good), and today fell asleep when defending set piece.

Yeah have to say, I've noticed too when you see replays back of goals it's often Big Joe is at fault recently. 

 

Also don't like him in midfield. He's too awkward and gets dispossessed on the ball quite often when they swarm around him. He's alot more useful as a wide player when we need that extra defensive cover for Hall. 

 

Agreed also that he looked knackered and is clearly still struggling with that shoulder problem from the palace game. 

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1 minute ago, Shearergol said:

By not tracking his man? Bit of a reach.

No, I just mean his lack of physicality in duels etc., which is usually his whole game.

 

Won 4/12 duels today and 6/18 (0/10 ground duels) against Palace. Those are seriously bad numbers for any player let alone him.

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Just now, Smal said:

No, I just mean his lack of physicality in duels etc., which is usually his whole game.

 

Won 4/12 duels today and 6/18 (0/10 ground duels) against Palace. Those are seriously bad numbers for any player let alone him.

I feel like I’m constantly having a go at him, but he’s been shite by his standards for ages. Probably since his injury last year.

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