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A few draws and losses and the forum goes to sooky mode, and doom and gloom. I'll be staying away.

Completely agree. I think Jackson is a scapegoat in this team - especially with the way we set up. I think he is far too valuable to let go. The reality is, the tide of the game is not lost up front, but in the middle. A lot of these other strikers that get lamented for being lethal finishers also get a tonne of chances, which Jackson actually doesn't get as much. Isak missed a bunch of sitters the last Newcastle game I watched a few games back. Literally 2 surefire goals, but no one brings it up because they kept feeding him the ball and he got one to go.

People here are such overreacting drama queens honestly. Calling our sporting directors terrible for a few bad decisions amongst a host of good to great ones is ridiculous. They’ve formed a midfield group that will grow and be the core for years to come. They’ve found a gem in Palmer. They lured Nkunku who unfortunately now doesn’t fit and isn’t what he was. For as much hate as he gets - Jackson has been a fantastic find for cheap. Sancho has been a fantastic find for cheap. Cucu has been tremendous after the teething time. Defence in general needs a bit of work - but dear lord our rebuild has been better and a quicker turn around than most. We’re competing up the top end of the ladder and only need a few tweaks to stay at that next level which we’ve seen at the halfway point we can be at.

Jackson is an easy target. He missed one header and we are blaming him? How about the assist? How about the solo run and hitting the post? Even the header was saved, and I'd say he did the right thing heading it down - but just got saved.

Jackson needs to play but maybe on the LW. He is too good at everything else. He literally made chances by himself today. He’s an absolute hound machine as well. Play him and Guiu together.

We're playing boring football. Need a break and reset for this team.

Yeah - issues the whole time in the middle in the second half. Has happened the last 3 games. Our midfield gets bypassed easily.

I don't mind this sub. We need a forward to keep them pressed.

There is a discrepancy in the way the game is called for both teams.

Palmer has been dog shit on corners. Take him off.

If he got ball - it was barely. That needed a review from the ref. There is no way that was obvious.

Looks like we'll be playing City in peak form again. Up 4-0 against the Hammers.

Gusto in a vacuum he is a fine player. But get him to do anything bar lock down someone 1v1 and he seems lost.

We need a replacement for Gusto... Ach should play there once we get a CB.

Same thing is happening as it did in the Fulham game. Middle of the pitch is open and CP are getting down the pitch extremely quickly. No idea what is going on.

Enzo has been brilliant. I know our results have been down recently, but even the weeks before that I like the way he is finally playing that role. Great at holding it up, making those line breaking passes, etc.

We score then let them onto the ball... I don't get it. We've done this a few times against sides like this. Can't let up and invite pressure.

We're pretty average aerially. I say that more defensively in open play. Whenever a deep ball comes in and it has that awkward bounce before getting to that backline, it always looks panic stations for us. Probably a reason as to why despite getting one of the best set piece coaches, we really haven't scored much off it.

See if Jackson misses that I have to hear on here how he isn't a good enough striker. Isak does it, we ignore it and pretend like every striker doesn't miss shots that easy no matter who they are.

You can't just have talent after talent - especially when some will have to sit on the bench. Conor is good enough to start somewhere but not good enough for the football we play here. Lavia, Enzo and Caicedo are levels above Conor - so your replacement needs to be someone of the KDH level that knows how to play the system and can fill the void when an injury does occur. The issue has been that KDH has had trouble adapting into our squad, and hasn't been as effective as thought. A more dynamic midfielder may be needed but keeping what we had was not the answer as Gallagher would have just left regardless not getting minutes. Better to cash in. We need to cut the crap of shitting on the board as well. They've done a tremendous job in turning things around fairly quickly with a new model. In fact, to be where we are given a complete turnaround in how we are run and the methodology internally, its been great. They've clearly struggled to identify defensive talent more so than offensive, because bar Mudryk, we've been excellent in who we've offloaded and then kept/brought on. Estevao, Palmer, Neto, Noni, Jackson, Nkunku are all good to great and can make a profit on all of them. We're literally a CB and RB away from competing. Bring back Santos and let him be that dynamic midfielder who can do a bit of everything.

Reece and Fofana need to go and get a quality top shelf CB and RB. Its getting ridiculous at this point. Thanks for everything, but this isn't a hospital - and we need active players.

Reece and him have to go now. Get some proper help at RB and CB.

Yeah - I'd be all over Delap. Similar profile to Gyokeres but younger.

Also Essugo in the middle would be great. Who? There is no one "proven" worth dishing money out on.

Delap looks pretty good especially after today lol...