John Smith
barwineewindas.bsky.social
John Smith
@barwineewindas.bsky.social
Lawyer turned criminologist, #heedarmy by birth, #nufc by upbringing. May occasionally post about #eurovision, too.
Thiaw is better than Schar. Wissa hasn't been injured barely once in his whole career until now. Don't make things up to suit your point.
December 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Getting rid of SBR instead of backing him and chasing Dyer, Jenas, Bellamy and the rest of the 'young guns'
December 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The great managers always rebuild after 4-5 years. It's incredibly rare for a good/great side to stay on top longer than that. We're clearly seeing this with the current #nufc side imo, too. It would be a mistake to jettison Howe. We've made that error before. Let him rebuild.
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
There are parallels with Bobby's last full season at #nufc where losing to Partisan started a slow regression and the dressing room turned. Fat Freddie made the mistake of backing the players and turfing SBR out. On balance, Howe should be given the chance to build a second side imo 2/2
December 14, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It's because they are all rotated in and out, regardless of form. In trying to keep them all fresh and happy, there is absolutely no stability or accountability. Howe is always better when he has to pick his best 11. When he had options, he struggles to use them.
December 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Would have taken 1pt b4 KO but this is now clearly a mentality issue. It needs sorting before it wipes the session out before it really gets going
December 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Mentality has gone soft. Can't defend winning positions, or drawing positions for that matter. Lots of costly late goals already.

We sat back in stoppage time there, at home, to Spurs, and waited to concede. Shite.
December 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Except that we've conceded late goals vs Liverpool, Arsenal, West Ham, Brentford... At what point do you look at that and think it's probably not reasonable to expect them to see that out!
December 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
To be fair, that 36 yr old is a much better option up top then anything we have available. We've played the entire season so far without an actual centre forward. We all know why, and who is responsible for that state of affairs.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We lack quality up top. Our only out and out available striker is a raw kid. They had an experienced, high quality finisher. That, and Pope's absolutely inexplicable brain fart, are why we lost here.
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Never seen a Jekyl and Hyde team quite like it. Has to be a mental issue at this point imo
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
It's there for us as long we don't sit back and wait to get beat.
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM