The Fish

Not just them, but surely Chelsea, and Spurs too? The North remembers.

Have to hope that his directions at Man United weren't particularly aligned with long term visions for footballing excellence. To be fair, he's had to scout for 6 different managers in 8 years. Six managers with pretty disparate styles.

The difference is that Isak is more likely to drop deeper and drift wider to try and find the ball. Wilson wants to hang around the box (which is fair enough). I think if we had a settled team, Isak would link up with Bruno et al, but Wilson would remain more of a poacher.

Try again.

Honestly, I think that's a result of the way we play with the players we have available. He'd be more involved if we played with Barnes and Murphy. Hell, he'd be more involved if we had managed to play with a settled first 11. I do think we need a new striker though.

Funny how the graph for the Fucks you Get is identical.

This was always going to be a tough group to progress from, but once you are missing your first choice striker, left back, centre back you'll struggle even more. We were missing £270m+ of players, and have been for a few games now. So even our remaining quality players are fucking paggered. All players being fit and well, we'd likely have started Isak, a fully fit and rested Gordon and Almiron, maybe Tonali in midfield, Botman at CB and Burn at left back. With Anderson, Barnes, Hall, Lascelles, Livramento, Longstaff, Miley, Murphy, Targett, Willock, Wilson, as options from the bench. That's a very different prospect than what we saw last night. It's not just about fitness though, it's experience too. Botman, Isak and Tonali all have CL experience. As an aside I was talking about experience last night; Howe likes to sign players with PL experience because that competition was his focus, will we now see us pivot more to players with European experience as that becomes our focus?

Wouldn't be surprised if Livramento was at RB, Trippier at LB, Hall further forward.

"And they'll loan Neves from one of your teams and the proles will go crazy."

Updated

We got loads of injuries last season.

Nepotistic or Incestuous or...

There can be only one!

We're all having a laugh, but it's clearly Gemmil we're talking about, right?

The goodest.

He is a bit nasty on the pitch, and he definitely lets his heart rule his head at times. But he's an excellent footballer, has been absolutely vital to how we play, and provides much needed nastiness on the pitch. Plus he seems a genuinely nice lad off the pitch too.

Ballot ..... Asking if it's in yet

Don't forget Anderson's perfectly legal goal chalked off for offside. Probably loads more too.

Surprised you didn't go for this one.

Stop looking for conspiracies man, it'll drive you Wolfy.

Aye if he starts betting again after he's been given his punishment then they could do him again, but if it was before the ban was handed out, he's golden.

Yes please https://serieaanalysis.com/analysis/teun-koopmeiners-atalanta-serie-a-2022-23-data-stats-analysis-scout-report

Same story on RTG has him beating the shit out of you, stubbing his tab out on your hand and riding off with your lass on his hog. So think yourself lucky.