See I think we’ve needed to do that since Brentford, more or less!
December 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
See I think we’ve needed to do that since Brentford, more or less!
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
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 😰
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
I’d have taken a point before the game! It’s the inevitability and regularity of our collapses that’s bugging me so much.
Exactly. It’s mental: composure, concentration, calmness, urgency. All of it goes in the last ten minutes.
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Exactly. It’s mental: composure, concentration, calmness, urgency. All of it goes in the last ten minutes.
Needs subbing. Not taking on his man, ineffective cutting inside too.
December 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Needs subbing. Not taking on his man, ineffective cutting inside too.
They’re making our press look *dreadful*.
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
They’re making our press look *dreadful*.
Completely agree. It’s so frustrating.
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Completely agree. It’s so frustrating.
I find myself calmly confident. That means danger.
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I find myself calmly confident. That means danger.
Weirdly for me, same!
December 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Weirdly for me, same!
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
But you have, HAVE, to win that game after that gift of a penalty.
There is a chronic mentality issue with this side.
There is a chronic mentality issue with this side.
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
But you have, HAVE, to win that game after that gift of a penalty.
There is a chronic mentality issue with this side.
There is a chronic mentality issue with this side.
It was screaming out for him at half time tbh, let alone added time.
December 2, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It was screaming out for him at half time tbh, let alone added time.
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
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.