Holden McGroin

The UEFA cup isn’t that bad

They were dire until they got a goal out of the blue. The crowd was audibly turning on them. I got to see some of their players for the first time. Jack Clarke is being raved about but looked weak as piss.

You don’t remember Stokes famous 2011-2012 season in Europe where it took the might of Valencia to knock them out?

It’s hard to work out if they are joking or not half the time.

Thats the thing. It will be disappointing if we don't get CL but then if someone said we'd finish 5 at the start of the season we'd all have taken it. They'll get a fucking great send off from me no matter what.

You're not going to get invited into the Stats crew with maths like that. We have 3 games left. Ive predicted we get 4 points so that 70 points.

We need to go back to being solid and hard to break down in this game (and rest of season) Everton nailed it by flooding the central midfield areas which have been porous for us recently without Sir Sean. I think Eddie will know this but whether he backs us to over run them or not will be interesting. But their away record shows they'll be hard to beat and not dominate possession.

They've beaten Man Utd away, Arsenal away, drew with Liverpool away and narrowly got beat off Man City due to questionable refereeing. They'll turn up for this and our style of play will suit them down to the ground.

I sit somewhere between pessimism and realism. I've supported this club too long to be anything else.

I think there is a big chance they can turn us over. But even if we draw then going into the last game of the season we'll be nervy as fuck v Chelsea so that could go either way as well. I bet my left nut they'll turn up against us.

From the final 3 games I can see: Us getting 4 points Liverpool WILL get 9. Man Utd 7

when the stats fail then then all that’s left is fragile bravado.

That's Arsenal fans for you.

Crowds streaming out the ground. Magic. It might be us next week though.

I agree with first point but we need the knight in shining armour...Sir Sean of LongstaffShire to play and Big Joel on the left. Suffocate them with the press then throw on ASM or Isak/Wilson if need them.

Inevitable. They’ll win all their home games. And probs pick up enough points away to be safe.

Aye. We don’t want to be in a position where we need points from the final game of the season. It’ll be the one game they’ll put in a shift for potential suitors or their new manager. they won’t want us getting CL.

we dropped out when we had a key injury to Bruno. It now seems that LongShaft is another key player. 1 point from 9 with him not playing recently (maybe all season).

Was it my shitty stream or did the grass look really long?

It’s like Beardsley/Tino all over again.

Here’s one for the stats guys. we’ve lost 100% of games when Isak and Wilson have started together.

Scary.

We’ve previously had a bid for Maddison so I assume Eddie has a plan in mind. He’d certainly help with assists and goals but we might have to change system to accommodate as he is definitely best in a 10 role.

I’d stick a 1 year contract in front of Kante with an option of a second. I’ve somewhat changed my mind about Maddison and im in agreement about his fitness. I don’t think he has it in him. I’d prefer Harvey Barnes. Plus he is 6 foot.

I think the only home end I've been in was Spurs away when we destroyed them 4-1 with Martins and Owen etc. I celebrated the fourth as there were barely any fans left...then walked out White hart lane with pretend carpets under my arms and my massive nuts dragging on the floor.