We’re on the verge of hiring a young coach who is highly rated, has a defined way of playing and demands so much of his teams.
Wind your cunting necks in and wish him luck and get on board.
Thought Baker was outstanding.
Thought Rose was excellent.
Bae very very good.
Burger the usual.
A good all round performance though in the end. Wilmot looked all over the shop first half but way more composed second. And Hoever second half was actually good.
Tonight just proved what I’ve thought for a while though.
Junior needs to be at right back over the atrocious Hoever.
McNally and Rose are scary but work.
Pearson and Burger work.
Bae is about the best footballer we have.
It’s easy to make a good team out of this lot
If you honestly believe that being relegated is a good thing for a reset, you are thick as fuck and clearly have no capacity to learn and should not be trusted with metal cutlery.
I'm no fan of sentiment but I do think Adam coming on for 10 minutes, shooting from the halfway line, missing penalties and kick the fuck out of Sheffield United would be fun.
Shawcross is a colossus. No idea if he messed up for the goals but he dragged us up the pitch in that last 10 minutes. No way we score those goals if he’s not playing:
One thing during this whole host of crapness that has been absolutely brilliant is how
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I actually really enjoyed that.
The defending was tragic though but Brighton are a good team and we know every defender that played isn’t shall we say the best.
Fitness also an issue. We were knackered from about the 40 minute.
Burger MoM
Bae class
Vidigal sharp
Another tremendous performance.
Manhoef, Junho or Cundle MOM. Take your pick.
Iversen excellent too with some vital stops.
Sidibe again didn’t look out of place, just get some longer studs. Also looked like he’d grown by about a foot.
There is no good reason why we shouldn’t play with that intent every home game.
The only disappointment is we drew.
We killed them as we should do to most teams in this awful league.
Cracking performance.
@FourFourTwo
The daftest thing I’ve shouted is “mark Viduka”. I meant for one of our defenders to mark, Mark Viduka at a corner as no one was but it just sounded like I was shouting his name multiple times as my mates were wetting themselves with laughter 🤦♂️😂
Much better intent
But we wouldn’t have scored if we were playing until next week
PLAY 4231!!!!
Fuck Hoever off
Fuck Johnson off
Burger MOM
Got away with a point in the end really and fair play to Bonham for that.
Better overall though.
The Jack Bonham contract extension has to go down as one of the worst decisions this club has made in the last 7 yrs.
Short sighted reactionary nonsense to appease an easily pleased crowd.
And if it wasn’t that and it was actually football based then they all should be sacked.
Thought Pearson, Wilmot and Laurent were really good.
Rose and Stevens looked solid.
Hoever was good but his delivery needs to delivery. Great goal though.
Vidigal’s goals were both really good and I liked how he kept going despite getting a few big hits.
Not a bad window really.
Shame about the lack of defenders.
Gayle out, new striker in, cool.
Fast winger. Cool.
Loaned the wrong young striker out imo.
But yeah ok overall.
Seen some pining for Josh Tymon.
I get we need a left back but he never showed he was good enough to play left back and we sold him for actual money.
Look forward, not back.
Re Sarkic punching and parrying everything.
We need to get over ourselves. He’s not going to catch stuff and he’s punching and parrying into safe areas like he was today then that is absolutely fine.
He’s really going to die on the Cundle hill isn’t he.
The epitome of a nothing player.
Can’t pass more than 5 yards, tackle, cross or shoot.
What a fucking awful player.
Butland is your typical cocky English goalie who believes the hype and doesn’t back it up. He just hasn’t had the 3 years of being an actual good goalie like Hart had. Should be one of the first out of the door in the summer.
Shall we talk about the owners?
6 years of neglect on the football side.
6 years of being asleep at the wheel.
Nothing will change as long as they’re here.
The linesman closest to the Boothen was absolutely fucking woeful. Got pretty much everything wrong.
My favourite was flagging Baker offside when it was Laurent who was off. 🤣
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Thought we were the better team 11vs11
Thompson shouldn’t even give the ref a chance to give him a second yellow. Fool.
They didn’t touch us when we were down to 10.
Good point.
So Phil Bardsley still going strong in the PL.
He’s not the greatest right back yeah but we kept Glen Johnson over him.
It always looked a mental decision.
It was a mental decision.
Why did we do it?
That interview with Sol Sidibe:
1) no idea why but wasn’t expecting him to speak with an English accent (very fucking stupid of me 😂)
2) what a mature, sensible and well spoken lad.
3) good work from the club for doing stuff like that
I’m sorry but that was absolute shite.
Playing for a draw at home is never acceptable.
Their keeper hasn’t made a save.
Absolute fucking negative shite
Berahino has impressed me all season and I thought he was really good yesterday. He had sod all to work with generally but his hold up play is so good. We need get bodies closer to him and he has to start every game.
Season officially over.
Time to do these things now:
1) play Forrester in prep for next season
2) use Tezgel in prep for next season
3) don’t use any loanees that won’t be here next season
Joe Allen is up there with our worst signings in the PL era. The sheer amount of damage his presence has caused is as bad as the money with some of the other candidates.
Seeing Harry Souttar do well at Fleetwood is actually really great news for us. If he can cope with the physicality in L1 then we have a player who should be given game time next season. He’s a bloody good footballer, so if you add physicality to that then you have a player.
Cundle’s performance was a massive red flag for me.
MoM for sure and was excellent.
But he’s gone from playing like a sheep to a lion in one game against his former club.
A terrible look for him imo.
He was all action yesterday. We’ve barely seen him break sweat otherwise
Re Tezgel. His touch already looks better than Brown’s, Campbell’s and Delap’s and he won more flick ons today than the former two (not their game I know) and is stronger. But what I’m trying to say is I think he’s genuinely the real deal. Definitely needs more minutes.
I love the chat about unrealistic expectation.
My unreal expectations for this season:
To finish top half
To have a plan
To play with a back 4
Just to have a go
None of that looks remotely close to happening. And it’s pretty basic shit.
Has there been a more deserved win ever? If it was a boxing match the ref would have called it off after about 60 minutes. Absolutely tremendous annihilation.
POTS
There’s surely only 2 options?
Burger or Bae?
No one else has come close to matching their performances.
Tbh I wouldn’t fucking have one this year but that might just be me being miserable :)
@muhammadbutt
@GNev2
He wasn’t wrong either was he. De Gea improved massively and in those first few seasons was a shadow of what he has now become. (Minus the last 12 months)
The Bonham debate is pretty simple for me.
Was it a good penalty save ... Yes ✅
Did he win us a point .... Yes ✅
Is he as bad as people make out ... No ❌
Is he the keeper we need to progress ... No ❌
Is it his fault he has no competition...No ❌