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by Don Sholeone » Sun Mar 31, 2024 10:52 am
Was working but managed to catch the first half, missed the second, sounded like a mad half.
Again the Hall situation is as baffling as ever, Howe even admitted he f***ed up with the first sub and that played a massive part in their first goal. Really don't know his f***ing process right now especially with Hall still getting minutes, is he just trying to prove a point at the moment, he reshuffled the whole back line with a sub rather than putting a LB at LB & CB at CB, i honestly can't think of any logical footballing reason for a decision like that. Take your CB off for a RB, move your RB to LB your LB to CB, madness.
Problems are becoming more apparent with every passing game, 9/10 we won't have a comeback like that, the problems at the moment are mounting up both on the field and off the field. The club just seems in chaos right now, the medical team doesn't seem fit for purpose at all and we need a root and branch investigation of the whole set up.
Same can be said of the recruitment, that's partially solved with Ashworth on his way out but whoever comes in needs to sort out our actual process as Howe probably has a bit too much influence on the whole thing, also we can't have another Tonali situation.
Back to the game, I can't believe there hasn't been much, if anything said about Isak's pass for Barnes 1st goal, if that was Bruno everyone would be raving, that was class, we need to work on getting Isak into games more as he's clearly a top talent.
Barnes is an absolute killer at times, need to keep him fit but just as important that we fix our system to get the best from him, I think in last years team he gets a bag full of goals, he needs to play in a dominant attacking system. This years s*** show can see him drift out of games and that's been a shame as it's led to unnecessary criticism of him.
Lastly that ref and his officials are absolute jokers, West Hams second goal was the worst of it, I thought any head injury was supposed to be treated as seriously as possible? What happened to the protocols, disgusting officiating and shows the game is a long way behind in terms of approach to head trauma, even without the goal that decision was a disgrace.
Thought our second pen was probably a little soft too and the Gordon second yellow was ridiculous, the ball clearly is passed directly to a West Ham player, it's hardly been kicked away. Maybe naive from Gordon but f*** me the ref has to use whatever shred of common sense he has there.
