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4 minutes ago, The Butcher said:

Feel for him. The board failed badly this Jan. 

aye.  At times he needs to play the Rafa and Conte games. Not everyday company man.  
 

I say this because I don’t think he was happy with our business. If it was up to him we would replace or keep Wood and Shelvey.  

 

 

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1 minute ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

dude, have a bit of self awareness. Got through your posts. You'd think we were about to implode like Wimbledon.

 

You need to just get over someone daring to criticise the team.

 

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7 minutes ago, The Butcher said:

Feel for him. The board failed badly this Jan. 

I think the Wood and Shelvey sales were a guide to better replacements this summer however Howe needs to stretch the squad in the meantime, the bench today was awful 

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9 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

aye.  At times he needs to play the Rafa and Conte games. Not everyday company man.  
 

I say this because I don’t think he was happy with our business. If it was up to him we would replace or keep Wood and Shelvey.  

 

 

 

 

Howay man he's had two windows where we added 3 first-teamers at a time. One of the windows we were going to have to balance things out a bit. Having a go at any of our transfer activity the last 14 months. Give your head a shake man. :lol:

 

 

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I do have a couple of criticisms and they’re valid.

 

1. We have no plan B. This could be due to lack of options on the bench but time will tell. We’ve become predictable and easy to defend against in recent games and we seem incapable of changing it up

 

2. Our lack of aerial threat is a big problem and it clearly isn’t being coached/worked on in training. Going more direct could be our plan B if anyone could actually head a ball

 

In general EH is doing better than everyone expected but he’s not beyond criticism

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Howay man he's had two windows where we added 3 first-teamers at a time. One of the windows we were going to have to balance things out a bit. Having a go at any of our transfer activity the last 14 months. Give your head a shake man. :lol:

 

 

 

Pretty much my thoughts exactly, people love turning on others as soon as things don't go 100% our way.

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3 minutes ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

:lol: so brave of you. Those villagers I met in Niger standing up to the jihadists could use some of your courage. You give TED talks?

 

You ever going to add anything or just bitch and cry about my comments :lol:

 

Like my own personal fan over here. :lol:

 

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Just now, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Howay man he's had two windows where we added 3 first-teamers at a time. One of the windows we were going to have to balance things out a bit. Having a go at any of our transfer activity the last 14 months. Give your head a shake man. :lol:

 

 

 

If we were serious about sustaining a top 4 push we would’ve done more in the January window. 
 

 

It’s perfectly logical that they see top 4 as a bonus this season and going for it was not their intention and they would be content with us slipping to 7-8 like we may have targeted at the start of the season. 
 

But I think January was a missed opportunity and likely a mistake. That is also a logical conclusion.  

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3 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

If we were serious about sustaining a top 4 push we would’ve done more in the January window. 
 

 

It’s perfectly logical that they see top 4 as a bonus this season and going for it was not their intention and they would be content with us slipping to 7-8 like we may have targeted at the start of the season. 
 

But I think January was a missed opportunity and likely a mistake. That is also a logical conclusion.  

It wasn’t even about sustaining a top 4 push, Howe admitted we needed a CM before Shelvey left, so to let him go and not get anyone in is a really poor decision.

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1 minute ago, Vinny Green Balls said:

Not really a fan tbh. Your comments somehow subtract

 

Maybe if you tried to talk about the comments themselves instead making it all about me for once, might help you mate. Everyone else manages it :lol:

 

 

 

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4 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

If we were serious about sustaining a top 4 push we would’ve done more in the January window. 
 

 

It’s perfectly logical that they see top 4 as a bonus this season and going for it was not their intention and they would be content with us slipping to 7-8 like we may have targeted at the start of the season. 
 

But I think January was a missed opportunity and likely a mistake. That is also a logical conclusion.  

 

We're two points clear with a game in hand. We still look like winning more games than we lose. Looking at our squad before the season we had no right to be pushing top 3-4 and yet here we are. 

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6 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

We're two points clear with a game in hand. We still look like winning more games than we lose. Looking at our squad before the season we had no right to be pushing top 3-4 and yet here we are. 

Yes I agree our squad has no right to be pushing for top 4. We’ve done fantastic to be in this position And I don’t think we will finish there. 
 

Our Xg is midtable over the last 6 games or so. We’ve not scored more than 1 goal in the league in 2023. We’ve drawn something like 5 of the last 7 or 8. 

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2 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

Yes I agree our squad has no right to be pushing for top 4. We’ve done fantastic to be in this position And I don’t think we will finish there. 
 

Our Xg is midtable over the last 6 games or so. We’ve not scored more than 1 goal in the league in 2023. We’ve drawn something like 5 of the last 7 or 8. 

 

Another way of looking it is that we're having our sticky patch and we're still looking more like winning games than losing. Leeds, Palace, West Ham...we had the better and clearer chances in all 3. We're not going on 2-3 game losing streaks, we don't look like losing at all and we have a threat in us.

 

 

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1 minute ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Another way of looking it is that we're having our sticky patch and we're still looking more like winning games than losing. Leeds, Palace, West Ham...we had the better and clearer chances in all 3. 

 

Still doesn't get us anywhere. We've been found out and need something different ASAP.

 

Not signing a Shelvey replacement in Jan is just weird, and I wasn't his biggest fan at all.

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41 minutes ago, Aiston said:

Dare criticise him even a little? :lol:

 

Dropped points against against Leeds, Palace, West Ham and Bournemouth, 4 of the worst teams in form.

 

Poor transfer window hasn't helped him at all mind.


The state of this. 

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