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Branthwaite at CB is surely a better option than Maguire? I'd go for something like this, although Cole Palmer and Ollie Watkins might be in with a shout of starting. If Southgate shoe horns Maguire, Henderson, Phillips, Rashford or Grealish into the starting XI he can GTF

So you admit to being toontastics Luke Edward's?

I'm confused as to why Paul Tierney didn't blow for full time when Forest regained possession on the edge of their box? Surely that's a new phase of play and it was beyond 98mins at that point.

I never saw the point of dropping a fortune on a Match ticket and then missing 10mins of the first half going for a pie and pint

Worst thing we could do selling him. Even if he brings in 9 figures, we won't find a replacement at the same level willing to come to us

Hopefully City smash them next weekend and they spend the rest of the season trying to play catch up

There were 8mins of injury time. He scored at 98.40

GOTS

Barnes has one trick doesn't he. And Gordon is better at it than him

Can you believe Everton fans wanted rid 🤯

GTFI

Neto is rapid!

That was a quick walk

Point disproved = goalposts moved = I'm not replying anymore

You mean the entire last month before the Blackburn game?

Clearly. You're devoid of emotion when it comes to NUFC, which is way more weird than fans daring to get miffed that the team they follow is playing shite

Who on here is calling for Howe to be sacked? Everytime someone dares criticise him you go all

We've had Botman, Burn, Murphy and Barnes back from injury for weeks now, Isak, Willock and Anderson more latterly. At what point does the injuries/fatigue excuse expire? No team has a fully fit squad for the whole season. If anything, we are playing worse now that when we had 11 for players. We've had 1 game a week for a while now. You can't just write off the rest of the season cos the players are tired. Howe isn't infallible. I go back to my original point. He has shown no plan B. We are currently playing Plan A at 50% intensity and our defence is getting ripped open by teams fighting relegation.

How is Rutter, with 6 goals, in there ahead of Szmodics with 18 goals? Also, as much as I'm loathed to admit it, Clarke with 15 goals needs to be in ahead of Fatawu with 3

Im not sure anyone can tell us what we have been doing though? Same players, same formation, same system, without the energy and without the results. We looked shambolic against Blackburn, a team at the wrong end of the championship. Perfect opportunity to make up for the Arsenal result.

It's worth a try. We've got the second worse Xg against in the league and our defence continues to get the run around from teams like Luton, Forest and Bournemouth. Playing 5 at the back relieves Burn of his wing back duties but still allows him to support for/against set pieces, with the added bonus of Tino offering more attacking threat.

Plan B is find a style of football that isn't "high energy, high press, outrun your opponents" when the entire squad is fatigued (as you keep pointing out).

Which isn't going to happen until the players have had a Summer to recover. The lack of a plan B is becoming more obvious by the game

Sounds like it was more about giving a narrative to the Islamaphobia rife in the party. It's just anti-extremism apparently

Sunak making a speech at 5.45 tonight. To moan about pro Gaza marches and call Labour anti-Semitic or something. Obviously top of the list of priorities atm