Hobsons Choice

Come on boys!!!

I hate United. I hate their ginormous sense of smug entitlement. Lets finally get that smug grin off their prawn encrusted gobs. Going to buy Jack in Jan? Do one. I could take it from other genuinely quality sides, but United still think they just won the league.

Career stats don't suggest it's his strength though, and a few on here were complaining he didn't shoot more. Maybe it's coachable?

Agreed. But one issue- if he’s an inside forward he needs to get on the scoresheet much more often, particularly if Wes is reverting to his deep role. If not we’ll be way too reliant on our midfield scoring goals.

And those little cuttlefish things. I’ll get my coat.

Just watched the highlights again, Jack really is phenomenal. It’s no wonder we struggle without him. He’s at the heart of everything, and it seems like he’s maybe even got a yard of extra pace this season.

Bugger. Lets hope he falls out with Son before Jan.

Henry, Shearer or Klinnsman for me.

Who’s likely to be out of favour at Spuds now Jose is there? Anyone know much about their squad?

He’d have a clause in his contract that all four of our stands would have to be named the Zlatan Ibrahimovic Stand. And he’d have to be addressed in all of his interviews as Sir King Zlatan the redeemer.

Yeah, Leicester are smashing it at the moment. Sheffield will be a tough game. Hopefully someone will give them a battering between now and when we play them. They are a confidence side.

Man City will offer him our entire teams wages at the end of the season and still somehow not fall foul of ffp.

You’re right, it’s criticism. Not in any way constructive, but it’s not based on personal characteristics. Similarly the use of ‘snowflake’ to describe a person concerned about human rights is a lazy, loaded argument. For me, his performance was reasonable, given that he was dropping deep to enable others to go forward, call it a false nine or whatever, but I think we need much more aggressive wide players who can finish like strikers to make this work going forward. I don’t think DS knows exactly how to deploy Wes most effectively yet, but from a coaching perspective I think we’ll need to decide on a system soon and get it drilled.

Lets stay up first, then build for a long term Prem campaign. Regardless of the result today, there is nothing I’ve seen that suggests to me that we are not capable of staying up with the players we already have. Sure a freshen up in Jan would be welcome.

Not bad first half. 0-0 against the best team in the world. Southampton were 5 down against LC by this point.

Yeah, think of the damage he could do to defences in a league where the pace is slightly lower than the Prem.

I was one of those calling for Phillips at DM during the transfer window, but I have to say that we’ve done some great business with Marv. Cheaper and is not at all out of his depth in the Prem. Expecting him to be one of, if not the most important player in our team by the end of the season, especially given the system we play. Shame we had to play Luiz there exclusively at the start of the season as I still don’t think DM is his game, but I recognise that Marv had to get up to speed.

Such a cultured performance today.

Jesus wept, that really was an epically shit season.

So we’re back to wailing and gnashing of teeth again, cos we’re drawing. I hate the internet.

Thanks mate.

Mad to think that if we’d held on against Tottenham, we’d be 9th, and they would be 15th now.

I’m interested to see what Dean can do with a transfer window when and if we can establish ourselves in the Prem. He’s had an unbelievable first year, but as a team promoted from the Championship I am conscious that we were not exactly a draw for top level talent. The folks we’ve brought in have largely done very well, and are a good base. Add one or two top quality players (probably inside forwards) and we could be in business. We just need a bit more ability in the final third.

Yeah, you’re not wrong, although I guess we’re all fired up tonight. Everyone needs to sleep on it I guess. I’m off to get drunk.

What, when we’re talking to each other we can only refer to things we’ve only personally discussed? I thought this was a forum, not a DM. We were both commenting on the reactions to the game.