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He might have a point if he then didn’t proceed in playing him 90 minutes again today. Ralph is a fine one to talk, he pretty much ran the kid into the ground at the start of the season.

Quite clearly, with Broja, your paying for potential. I know you have cognitive Inability and unable to process anything that isn’t black and white on a spreadsheet, so I wouldn’t expect you to understand. I think it’s pretty obvious we won’t sign Broja, so next season will be telling. I’ll leave it at that.

And still missing sitters each week. Adams is physically bigger than Armstrong though, so has a bit more about him. Other than goals, what’s Armstrong offering? I’ll tell you what.. fuck all, which is why he doesn’t get selected.

Enough for what? Lukaku has scored 5 of 20 this season. Is he good enough for us? Messi has 2 in 18, what about him? Is he good enough?

To be honest, I think both are decent championship players but not good enough for the premier league, where the pace of the game is that bit quicker. I don’t think either have speed of thought to succeed at this level if I’m honest and everyone always uses the ‘confidence card’. It’s happened for Redmond for years, I’d be amazed if the same doesn’t for Armstrong as well.

He’s been poor for the past 3 or 4 games. As has everyone. Hes 20 years old, has everything physically to become a top class player. it’s a never ending pointless debate. You’ve clearly got a massive agenda and a desperation to prove your right. You won’t be, but your consistent triad of him is tedious.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s long, to be honest. Ralph likes long against the bigger clubs.

Play a game of football. Then play a game with a decent stand out player. Watch the space they give the less talented. until you’ve played a game, it’s a pointless debate.

It’s just your agenda against a 20 year old lad, so you look for the negatives, because you made a stupid comment at the start of the season.

Big comment. One I suspect I’ll be laughing at you in a year. Broja would absolutely thrive at a bigger club with better midfielders.

We’re pretty much a 1 man team in terms of threat going forward. If teams can single out Broja then we don’t have a great deal else left. Much more needed from the midfield.

Who is a big club more likely to buy? Che / Armstrong or Broja? Broja and his pace / ability to run in behind essentially enable Che to have the space to perform like his has done.

Agree he wasn’t Great today or for past few games to be honest. Hes still miles better than Armstrong or any other alternative though, who’s shite, so simply has to start (unless we’re gonna Chuck long up there). In fairness to him and Che, we’ve been off the boil for the past 4 or 5 games in general. Not really creating enough. Funny enough, the only game I can really remember us having 2 or 3 clear cut chances of which we should have scored was City, which Armstrong blundered.

In which time your man Armstrong has had Long, Tella and smallbone selected ahead of him. I think that shows what Ralph thinks of the 2 of them.

He’s crap. 6th choice now, Long, Tella and even smallbone been preferred to him in recent weeks. I think we’ve slightly changed how we play or teams have sussed us out, don’t seem to create anywhere near as much as we were 10 or so games ago.

@TWar salivating with excitement just at the thought of this (yes I know it’s an April fools)

Doesn’t sound great. Moving Romeu on would be a very, very big mistake. Up there with letting Fonte go for me, I think we’d struggle to replace him.

One of the best left backs in the world for me.

hearing they’ve got a little firm together on the hunt specifically for warriorsaint.

Are the goals bigger up there then?

Bizarre how you could say with such confidence that someone is the best or one of in the world for a certain position, but not actually know where they play 😂 You’ve literally just read on the athletic or something that he’s a good player and formed your opinion that way, haven’t you.

If I remember rightly, Phillips much like Broja, you had it in for before the summer started. Nothing he could do, even voted best England player of 2021, could or would change your opinion.

His in game management is pretty poor. But those notible mistakes do not include picking Pickford and Phillips and not picking Trent (as you suggested) who’ve both been brilliant every time they’ve put on an England shirt.

This argument completely contradicts you wanting Phillips dropped. Fwiw, I’d have both of them starting.

Imagine how well we’d be doing if Southgate didn’t continue to make ‘notable mistakes’. Crazyyyyy….