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James
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See I think we’ve needed to do that since Brentford, more or less!
December 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I really hope so. It will probably be cagey if I’m being rational. I’m just petrified about our mentality with this game. Feels like we need to go 2-0 up to even have a chance of a point, let alone a win 😰
December 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
3-1 loss 🥴
December 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I’d have taken a point before the game! It’s the inevitability and regularity of our collapses that’s bugging me so much.
December 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Exactly. It’s mental: composure, concentration, calmness, urgency. All of it goes in the last ten minutes.
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Needs subbing. Not taking on his man, ineffective cutting inside too.
December 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
They’re making our press look *dreadful*.
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Completely agree. It’s so frustrating.
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
See
December 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I find myself calmly confident. That means danger.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Weirdly for me, same!
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
😍
December 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The problem being that so are we. I haven’t seen enough signs of underlying performance/quality in our recent run to make me confident about Sunderland away, for example.
December 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Very good points. Problem is, he should be a plug and play. He’s somehow looked, bar 2-3 games, pretty dreadful. I’m not sure we can afford him half a season of adjustment, when he’s so off it to start with. Hope I’m wrong.
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
I think he will improve, but ultimately he’s another in the same vein as Barnes and Gordon (roughly). I don’t think that profile of winger moves us on much.
December 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Completely agree. I just think we’re so beyond the point of needing a player that over-indexed in out of possession attributes. Same with Elanga. We doubled down on a big space counter attacker the summer that we were supposedly evolving to wanting the ball more. Frustrating.
December 2, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Agree on a GK. Ramsdale felt like a low-risk chance worth taking when Trafford was taken off the table, but just kicking the can down the road.

Am I going mad or are Joelinton’s OOP qualities simply not worth the amount of IP weaknesses? Maddening seeing him play over Ramsey so often.
December 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
But you have, HAVE, to win that game after that gift of a penalty.

There is a chronic mentality issue with this side.
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It was screaming out for him at half time tbh, let alone added time.
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Why did we buy Jacob Ramsey? I can’t think of a game more suitable for him to come on and make a difference in. Joelinton persistently giving the ball away and offering nothing in the final third is maddening.
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM