Holden McGroin

I assume that's Rotorua (but potentially could be a lot of places in NZ). Permanent eggy fart smells as soon as you venture outside.

Give over man. 3 good games in a row and you'll be DM'ing Tuchel with glowing reports.

Trippier being injured/out of form/past his best can’t be ignored either. He is critical in calming the defence, retaining possession and creating chances. im not sure we’ll see him at those levels again and Tino is a different full back completely. All cut and thrust.

it’s an easy assumption to make and largely fairly true. The 22-23 season we could suffocate and smash teams. 23-24 was largely a write off because of the injuries (although we had some great memories). We seemed free scoring most of last season. 24-25 - struggling to score and not as mean defensively as the 22-23 season. we thought we’d evolve in 23-24 to be a more possession based team as we seemed to struggle the season before with 3 games a week. it just hasn’t happened. We need a few better technical players in the team. I’m not sure why Tonali can’t seem to displace Longstaff. That seemed an inevitable evolution. Having said that I’ve said he won’t work out since day 1. Very few Italians make it in the PL.

If Big Dan was playing we’d have won that or at least come away with a 0-0. Kelly was poor but he’d need a run of games before we should fully judge. BDB was awful when he first went back to CB but is now a lynchpin.

Uh-oh. If you say Minteh and Anderson in the same post this guy appears

The RW is a massive problem and has been for over a year now.

Why is it being reported we have to sell in January before we buy? Didn't we put in a £65m bid for Guehi in the summer?

I think your hatred for Longstaff skews your view sometimes. There were loads of people on the pitch worse than him and you over analyse his mistakes. For AWB goal for example, Bruno was pick pocketed in midfield but you blamed Longstaff for not picking up the runner. If the roles were reversed you'd still 100% blame Longstaff.

Real Madrid in for Branthwaite. 😂

You must have seen them play loads.

He was hobbling around before he was taken off. The commentator said something about a hip problem.

Miley didn’t even make the bench tonight.

We’ve scored 5 goals in 6 home games. There is definitely a problem somewhere.

Who can come out of that with any credit? Hall maybe? Big Joe playing all over the shop putting in 100%? That’s about it. Hopefully Bruno isn’t injured. Shame we didn’t manage to offload Gordon for £100m when his stock was high. We could have refreshed the squad with that.

Howe went too early with the formation change. We were getting chances and had a decent enough control over the game. Kelly has botched is chance. It’s going to be a long way back for him with Sven back soon.

Trippier needs to come in if fit enough next game. Along with Burn. I don’t know to what to even suggest for the RW. I’m out of ideas. Gordon has been honking most of the season. Barnes doesnt seem to step up and take over his LW spot. Joelinton isn’t comfortable at RW. Murphy is bang average and Miggy is surely going this window.

Howe has fucked up going to 4-4-2. It’s been a mess since,

More chance of them scoring. We are wide open.

Get Gordon off for Wilson.

We are all over the place since moving to 4-4-2.

We are a mid table team lads. We are okay when we sit back and hit on the counter but when we have to break a team down we are woeful.

WTF?!? bruno got caught.

This is the Brighton game Lalo over again.

Wilson will be rusty AF.