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Got to say, haven't been this nervous of a semi since I watched broke back mountain.

Struggling with mental health again and doing my level best to keep positive thoughts at the forefront of my mind. This place continues to do it's thing to keep me going. Thanks all

Not necessarily on here but I’ve seen lots of stuff suggesting the investment has dried up etc. I don’t really see it, unless the new stadium and the state of the art training ground aren’t happening. I’m pretty sure that’s not the case, and I don’t see why the owners would be pressing ahead with that if investment wasn’t going to keep happening. The PSR discussions have been done to death but a few things to remember are the woeful inward revenue that was inherited, the massive squad overhaul that was needed (and has lead to position we didn’t really want to be in - selling two young assets in the summer to avoid repercussions). We’re clearly not the only ones feeling the need to tread carefully, just look at the lack of transfer activity in the January window compared to what it used to be like. All that means is we’re reliant on getting players we’re pretty sure about investing in. Players who’ll be here for years. There’s no point in looking at short term fixes in the Saudi league. There’s no guarantee they’d be sanctioned anyway as they’ve clearly been bought to raise the profile of the league with the World Cup in mind. What would be the point in signing a 37 year old Benzema for 6 months in any case? That’s an extreme example but it just doesn’t fit in with the way Howe or the hierarchy seem to want to do things. And if we start getting ‘creative’ it’ll just get outlawed the next time the cartel get together. I’d also say selling Kelly for £20m after getting him on a free is an incredible bit of business. It obviously needs to be a big summer but I don’t think there’s anything about the way we acted in January to suggest it won’t be.

And then the whole train started clapping.

I’ve just had 4 cans of cider for lunch , I feel fuckin GREAT! ☺️

"Woooah bonny lad! Ah protect me sources to the hilt, it's me opus memorandum! So don't be giving away me top Saudi source, Didi from Munchies whose uncle lives on the Saudi/Iraqi border, he's also got an Emre poster up on the wall with a 2005 shirt on so he's my go to man if we get any turks an aahl. Errr.......pretend ah never said Didi, it's definitely not him, errr.... it's the other miserable cunt who works there. The one with the tache. He's the source."

You don't think that Lee Ryder's little black book doesn't stretch into the upper echelons of PIF? You poor, naive fool.

it's all about the first goal. if we score first, it could be another psg occasion. i don't want to see them score first and us have to defend in a 5-5-0 for 80 minutes

Left Inverness at 10:00pm last night with 27 tons of chipboard, just arrived 4:40am at the factory in the heart of @PaddockLad territory- Selkirk. Lad came out and started making mouth noise , lots of vowels, some consonants. No a fucking clue what he said. Anyway, after some sign language and what-have-you, I’ve got to wait until 6:30am before any cunt arrives to unload me. Ffs!

Just coming into Doncaster, the FUCKING MACKEM guard has just threatened to kick the Gooners off for using the word “Yiddo”… this after him welcoming them all on at Kings X and him saying he “hopes they win tonight” …. We’ve just told them that he’s a typical mackem cunt and they gave us a couple of beers ☺️

Just tell them you're fans of massive lads and you'll be plied with drink, drugs, bait and any arsenal lass there will give you a knee trembler in the bog just because they love Sunderland and hate the mags anaarl.

on the train behind you

Absolutely fucking dreading tonight. Wish it was Thursday.

Good

Either M&S haven't thought this through very well, or they've thought it through very well.

'Trent' misses the game tomorrow. So Liverpool have a chance.

I hope the train employee licking the arses of the arse posts on rtg, I'm sure his tale will be as entertaining as all the other many tales of encounters with opposition fans.

Just left King’s Cross….. we’re fuckin SURROUNDED by Gooners

No team has ever failed to get to a league cup final after taking a 2-0 away lead in the first leg. That should instil confidence. Shouldn’t it?

Targett did well for us in his loan spell. We then spent the summer looking for a better option but couldn't come up with one so ended up signing him permanently later in the window.

That approach is what has resulted in Targett still being here. Although we had the opportunity to send him back to Villa the first summer and bizarrely didn't take it.

I'd agree that Mandy was more of a risk taker than the lot we're left with now but that's also the approach that led us to desperately trying to sell players at the end of last June. If the right player was available this winter I think we'd have gone for him, like we did with Gordon but the most likely explanation is that none of our targets were available for a reasonable price. This isn't like the first January under PIF, we're choosing from a much narrower pool for players that can definitely improve our first XI.

He's probably telling a similar story

I had the same around 2012, couldn't say that now though!

He's flooding the zone with so much shit its almost impossible to keep up. Almost gone unnoticed yesterday that the World's richest man, who is entirely unelected, cut off aid to literally the poorest people in the World. They and their children will suffer unheard. The US has become an abomination.

Howe playing this as though it's an individual match rather than the second leg, which is not surprising and is the right thing to do as long as the players can do it without any sort of complacency.

At least

I see that America is going to take over Gaza now and "invite" the Palestinians to live in other countries. Bet those who supported the Palestinians in the US aren't as happy as they were with their protest votes against Biden and Harris.

You could kick any of those 244,000 people off the edge of a cliff to their demise and nobody would be any worse off

Fucking hell man. Hockle and Greb's wives speak. Hold the fucking front page.

I’m simultaneously puzzled and highly amused by Bert Boxing and his dedication. He never posts elsewhere on the board, never gives up his righteous cause, even when the matches he’s utterly failing to drum up interest for are poorer fighters than you’d see in the Turbinia on a Monday afternoon

https://snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-its-a-coup?publication_id=310897

If you were a know nought outsider looking on it may seem that way simply because the spending on players has eased up dramatically. Of course as you've noted it only needs a modicum of knowledge to know that we were starting with a grossly underpowered squad that needed a massive overhaul and now that we have a much stronger roster we're heavily limited by PSR.

Not sure about this. MBS might not be that arsed, but the muslim brotherhood thing might cause civil unrest in ME societies. Always a strange one Palestinians for me, on the one hand they are Sunni but on the other Hamas were proxies of Iran (Shi'ites). Can't see it going down well regardless.

Realistically? Ukraine and probably Taiwan.

I actually don’t. The reasons are obvious. But as I pointed out the other day we’ve got into this relatively great position position via a series of calculated risks. The idea that any club doesn’t have to sell to buy is bollocks. Building up a plethora of youngsters to sell on is going to take a decade. So I’d have bitten the bullet in an attempt to ensure champions league revenues next season. I don’t need an explanation as to why that hasn’t happened, it’s a distinct change in policy at the top of the club. My point this morning is that I doubt we will get an explanation in the manner of “the transfer policy isn’t fit for purpose” due to the fact that the much heralded “recruitment specialist “ Mitchell is wholly responsible for this new direction and for that single reason there won’t be a similar post mortem with the local journos this time round. We might have sold a player, brought three in and still finished 8th. I completely understand that. But if we want to bring money into the club finishing as high up the league as possible would in my opinion be a logical idea. We’re likely to tread water again because nothing has changed again. Keeping our fingers crossed for another upturn in form this spring is another risk. I’d have personally tried to mitigate that.

The rumours about Saudi btw. I mean howay, rumours from who? You've just got to ignore shit like that. We've just engaged with an external party to do the training ground. Are they in on the smokescreen too? People should just be dismissing they as drivel. And they shouldn't need an explanation for January. It's fucking plainly obvious why we haven't spent.

That happened to me when I was on keto. Went for Christmas dinner at my mam's and had her texting my wife after to ask if I was ill. I was pissed off at the time, but I recently saw some photos from Christmas day and I did look fucking unwell. I mean, I wasn't. I was what would probably be considered a healthy weight, and if I'd been walking around like that in the 60s and 70s before we all became fat cunts, no one would have said owt.

How to assess Paul Mitchell, a handy flow chart. July-August 24 || || || Too soon to assess. Ignore what he said. || || || ⬇ January 25 || || || Too soon to assess. No need to ignore what he said, because he didn't say anything. || || ⬇ June-August 25 || ???

I don't see how the rest of the world could sit back and watch it unfold? Though I'm 99% sure that is what will happen.

Point of order. Good health and safety doesn’t slow down construction, it speeds up it through proper planning.

My first thought too. I remember those Muslims in michigan refusing to vote for Biden. What the fuck did they think would happen? Granted this is a worst case scenario but it was always on the cards. At this stage the US is no different to Russia, in fact, it is jarring how similar it is.

Have a wank obvs

In a criminal trial, you need to prove beyond reasonable doubt. There must have been much more than "I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough”.

"Hey! Loving your football output Josh but we're getting some negative feedback from the oldie dinosaurs who support clubs that aren't 'United' or Liverpool football club. They're saying it's just Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher's channel. Any ideas to pacify them a bit, the subscriptions are falling through the floor otherwise I wouldn't give a flying one." "Yeah, sooner those 'saurs die off the better! Leave it with me, I've had an idea I've been chewing over for a while, might be a good time to put it out there!" ......A few weeks later.......