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I love the old Football Manager squad when they strike up, the indignant protests of the terminally entitled….anyway…. 1. Theres very likely moderate to large issues behind the scenes due to the frankly clumsy arrival of a new DoF 2. The squad is undoubtedly a bit stale with some players still involved who Rafa bought and who played in the championship 3. A lot of these and fringe players have the power of decent and relatively long term contracts meaning they’re hanging around like a bad smell 4. PSR has our financial hands tied tightly round our backs 5. Our best players aren’t for whatever reason playing at their best, mostly due to fitness issues as far as I can make out. Our best players are also, even when fully fit, prone to inconsistency. 6. In spite of all this, If we’d taken the chances we’d created in the games v Everton and Brighton we’d have won both and have been on 17 points level with Villa in fourth. Am sure that doesn’t console many on here because we didn’t win either, and the reasons we didn’t win are largely due to points 1-5. Am not sure whether this squad and manager are likely to get themselves out of this trough. We’re still owned by people with no track record in football ownership and after their frankly miraculous start they’re maybe wondering what their next move is now we’ve hit a bit of an impasse. I look at Villa, they’re owned by V sports group, who own a share in a number of clubs. They’ve fucked up a bit (appointing Gerrard and Smith eg) but they’re going great now. Bournemouth look a really well run club too, they’re owned by people with experience in running sports clubs too. Am not sure as it stands we can say NUFC are particularly well run and that’s from top to bottom. Do PiF know what is required? The sad loss of Darren Eales won’t help that either. In view of all that I think we’re right to be a bit concerned. There’s lots of issues and they’re unlikely to be all ironed out in January or possibly even next summer. The structure looks right on paper but it’s stopped working to the benefit of the team on the pitch. But, as I’ve said, we still did enough to win the last two games. So cheer up ya miserable fuckers 😜

Dr Gloom never did a match thread for a derby.

When I worked up in Aberdeen one of the lads’ cars got totalled when he hit a deer. I said well at least you got some venison, he said no, it’s illegal to take it if you hit it, car behind you can take it though, not 100% sure if that’s true mind.

I never killed bambi's mother last night.

Gloom doesn't get to many games

Because people like YOU thought a new CB was more important.

Steve Bruce never managed us in a derby.

Watching Chelsea‘s overly inflated squad does really make me angry. It’s ridiculous with them being allowed to sign a ridiculous amount of players while we had to sell Anderson to comply with the rules to make the competition “fair“.

No one is blaming Howe. We're all blaming you.

Not a fan of cycling but fuck cancer. I’ve had it twice, my dad died of it, my mam had it too. Speaking from personal experience, the worst thing about it is it makes you confront your mortality. I was 30 when I had my first diagnosis, and I had to seriously think about dying. It changes you and your outlook on things and your relationships with other people. It’s a proper headfuck. Fucking hell @Renton any chance you could fix it soon? Lazy bastard

The clocks are changing, are our fortunes? 3-1 to us. Cole Palmer to score all of them when he forgets you swap ends at half time.

And answered it.

I was listening to it on the wireless and the cunt commentating on it. Fuck me. He's deffo sat in his Liverpool onsie with his Liverpool undies and tattoo the sycophantic cunt. 'Nobody does remembering past employee's like Liverpool' FUCK OFF

Ewerk is gonna be busy cutting and pasting here.

I nearly hit a deer doing 80mph on the m50 at about 00.30 last night. all this misery was close to coming to a very abrupt end.

there seems to a pattern developing of the kid administrating monufuckingmental self tuckings.

The chances of us getting a top striker that gets into the team ahead of Wilson in the January window are very slim.

Just when we thought we'd got rid of your bad influence

Andrew’s knackers are even bigger it seems

Carra thinks the Liverpool pen that was overturned shouldn't have been overturned.....

Drury as Salah scores a penalty....

and more to the point, even if we did howe would leave him sat on the bench for 90 minutes.

PSR

Couldnt leave the opportunity for a bad actor to step in in the meantime sorry.

I will say this though. Howe is gonna have to knock this business of Murphy starting ahead of Barnes on the head. Barnes on the wrong side of the pitch is a better bet than Murphy going forward, and it's not even close.

Nice to see no overreactions anyway

Howe isn't being backed, (not by the owners, by the psr/ffp fix). I'd love to see him with a bit of genuine competition where it counts. If he falls short in those circumstances than it's thanks for everything and we'll move on. But at the minute, he's probably as frustrated as us.

What do you get when you cross a cabbage with a lettuce? Dr. Gloom.

An arrogant, out of touch, rapidly decaying lettuce of a thread starter. And Gloom isn’t much better

It's just horses for courses.

Arsenal and Liverpool fans moaning injustice and inconsistency is fucking

Reece James ✅

Nobody got to say it to Stevie's face.

Reece James man, just play his sister, nobody would know. He's fucking finished the fat cunt.

Easy excuse. - We had £50m+ available for Guehi this Summer - We've spent £15m on a striker who never gets a game - £40m on Barnes to warm the bench - £55m on Tonali when we were reasonably well stocked in CM - Massive wages on a 4th choice CB from Bournemouth - We could have pushed the boat out to include Elanga in the Anderson deal instead of spunking £20m on a 3rd choice keeper. There have been plenty of opportunities to upgrade the RW spot. It was far from a priority 3 years ago, I agree. But it's now literally the only position in the starting XI we haven't strengthened and it's glaringly obvious.

It is mad. The one glaring weak spot in the squad consistently ignored because Miggy had a purple patch season a couple of years back. Two Ashley era players competing for the starting spot. Neither Gordon nor Barnes want to play there and both do their best work out on the left. Has to be addressed in the transfer window along with a replacement for sick note Wilson who Howe actually trusts to play - ie not another Osula

Don't recall saying that. I tend not to call any player "shite" because they're not in reality (see Wayne Fereday). First half virtually all our attacks came down the right, I did think Murphy was poor, but first half that side of the pitch was our most effective, strange but true. If Isak had just been signed for £60 mill he'd be getting pelters way he's playing, aye he's coming off a knock but he's looked completely off the pace all season.

It was, and is. Did no-one watch the game, everything we did good was from the right first half yesterday.

Barnes' biggest strength is cutting in on his right foot and getting a shot off. Play him on the right and you remove that from his game. Murphy and Almiron offer more defensively which is why Howe favours them on the right. The biggest question is how the fuck, 6 transfer windows after the takeover, do we still have Almiron and Murphy as our only RW options?

Gemmill praying Meenzer starts the match thread for the Chelsea game. Typical flat track bully

Played 5, 10 points, 6th in the table when Gloom took over. Played 8, 12 points, 8th in the table when he leaves. The love child of Steve Bruce and Liz Truss.

I haven't started any threads and DON'T YOU DARE step to me like this.