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Luke O'Nien


If Ballard is fit he should always start tbh.

He wasnt only out of position.a lot, he wasnt very good when he was on the ball. Should've brought Geertuoda on tbh.
Probably part of their development but some of these young lads could do with developing the ability to tell big personality senior pros like Nordi to get back in their box from time to time.
 
What a thread :lol:

Luke O'Nien being the first defender to struggle against Ollie Watkins in his Premier League and international career :(

It’s pathetic how much shite he gets like as if it doesn’t happen with proven premier league defenders.

Look at Konate this season for Liverpool, makes a mistake or two near enough every game.

Before anyone says I’m comparing the levels of the two, I’m not.
 
They scored 3 scruffy goals and 1 good one
For me the worst we conceded was the third
Wtf were Le fee and reinildo doing
Diarra should have done far far better than he did
People bleating re O9 are football boofheads
If Diarra had passed to Talbi as Talbi was screaming for him to do, we would have won.

It is what it is. We aren't ready for Europe, its a definite case of careful what you wish for.

We need another season in the prem first. We can't manage two games a week.
 
If Diarra had passed to Talbi as Talbi was screaming for him to do, we would have won.

It is what it is. We aren't ready for Europe, its a definite case of careful what you wish for.

We need another season in the prem first. We can't manage two games a week.
Agree that it would take a big toll on us and give us a smaller budget to work with. But we might not get another chance to do it again for 10 years.

You can't just defer it for a year.
 
We need to get serious as a club around sentimentality, even the most hardened WUM on here should acknowledge LO9’s part on the journey here. That said, he was poor today for the first, second and fourth goals IMO - not exclusively at fault but, at fault nonetheless & when Ballard & Geertriuda are both watching on, the overall blame lies with RLB as he picks him over either of them - it needs to change
 
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And he will be so 09 will start with Ballard
Depends on what we decide to do with Reinildo (was also worse than onien today). If he’s fit to play - because his shite game today may well be due to injury - then the obvious addition to the defence is Hume in at right back and Nordi inside. If Reg needs Trai at lb then Luke may get a reprieve.
 
O’nien as always getting pelters

Left back was directly responsible for two of the goals (first and third) and not a peep of criticism. Mukielele at right back just disappears up the pitch randomly at times - again not a peep.

We let four goals in today - defensively very poor. Not sure o’nien should always be the one carrying the can (but obvs was poor - amongst others)
 
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Agree that it would take a big toll on us and give us a smaller budget to work with. But we might not get another chance to do it again for 10 years.

You can't just defer it for a year.
Sunderland have made it clear this week, they won't be selling many, if any, big players this summer.

Xhaka has said him and Nordi didn't come here for one season.


Its a plan. You don't run before you can walk. If we end up in Europe next season we will be in relegation battle for it all. They just want to get close enough to it so they can entice more names to the club in order to get there next year.
 
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Depends on what we decide to do with Reinildo (was also worse than onien today). If he’s fit to play - because his shite game today may well be due to injury - then the obvious addition to the defence is Hume in at right back and Nordi inside. If Reg needs Trai at lb then Luke may get a reprieve.
Nordi will play fullback now unless we play 3 at the back then Hume can come in as wingback like earlier in the season
 
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