Matt Black

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Don’t think any of their players get into our starting eleven.

We get our game right and there’s every chance of heading home with three points.

NUFC are the better team and need to go into the game with that mindset.

All huff, puff and bad hair.

No chance. They are a very average team on one those runs where things just go your way and confidence grows.

They are already on the start of the downward curve. Derby game is an ideal opportunity to administer a dose of reality.

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Corners no longer resemble football.

Seem to recall the PGMOL saying they were going to clamp down on the grappling this season - soon as they do the media rent-a-gobs have a meltdown.

Foul on Dan Burn for the pen - harsh by current standards but 100% the correct decision.

Corners in the PL have become a tedious and time consuming farce.

Bottom line?

Ballsak messed up our summer transfer window and fucked up our start to the season.

Then Wissa’s injury forced a change of playing style and deprived the team of a cutting edge.

The team has lost a bit of confidence and there’s not much we can do about it until January.

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And there are two teams on the pitch.

NUFC are not Real Madrid and Howe can’t control how the other team play.

Wissa should help, but it’s always been unclear how he and the BFG fit into the same NUFC team.

Can’t afford another three months of learning how to play a different way - may need to drop NW and go back to the tried and tested high intensity pressing?

Or trust your team to do their jobs?

Having loads of bodies in the final third often just leads to confusion and chaos.

Having everybody behind the ball also means there’s no out ball.

There’s no right approach but I’d rather risk a positive approach than a negative one.

And club know that - been after a new keeper for two years.

Fair few injury time goals #NUFC have conceded this season.

Kind of thing that starts messing with the players heads and becomes self fulfilling.

May as well dump the shutting up shop thing. It’s not working, heaping pressure on the team and painful to watch.

Pope would have got a better punch on the cross.

Interesting that a player who refuses to play for their country can be fined +/ suspended by FIFA, but they do jack shit if a player refuses to play for their club.

I’m firmly in the happy clapping camp, but the amount of times we have given the ball away cheaply this season is doing my head in.

A lot of our passing has been Sunday league standard.

Probably a confidence thing.

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Lost count of how many crap passes NUFC have made in this game.

The mid block holding a shape thing isn’t sustainable either.

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It isn’t a mansion tax, it’s a tax on high value properties.

Touched on this a day or two back, but correlation is an unreliable tool.

Tindall was in charge for a fair few of the games in our good run, do we conclude Howe is the problem?

The media have been portraying this one as a world changing event. Obviously, so they can respond to some mundane changes with politically motivated hysteria.

And OM had dropped deeper to protect their lead by the time he came on.

Would like to see the BFG with some dedicated support. Gordon can’t deal mentally with Everton away. Elanga needs minutes. Murphy doing my head in atm. Best technicians in back five.

Same thing he thinking when he came rushing out against Haaland on Saturday.

Or when he got sent off after 20 min against Lpool.

Our great run of results last season coincided with Dubs being in goal.

Hard to make a clear connection between the two, but can’t rule out the better distribution from the back being an important factor in our good form either.

All things considered, probably time to bring Ramsdale in.

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Passing and decision making.

Both have been poor all season, hence why we have been giving the ball away so much.

It passed 14 to 6.

Bournemouth, Brighton, Brentford, Crystal Palace, Fulham and Leeds voting against… so we must have.

This kind of stuff is never about football.

It wasn’t violent, but that doesn’t matter as referees are no longer allowed to use common sense.

Woltemade’s big chance (with his foot) didn’t make the cut either, or the possible Barnes pen.

They found time to show Savinho hit one into row Z though.