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Don’t we all? I certainly do, not reaching my levels of despising the scouse/mancs and marginally below Hereford (dead club hahahahaha) but definitely registers significantly on my despise-ometer.

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I think Gemmill should get the FA Cup, lets see if wallowing in one’s own glory leads the masses to wallowing in glory.

On the game itself, I have a distinct uneasiness about the refereeing. Carabao no doubt would like an all big 6 final (the way the draw was rigged points to that) not to mention a certain club have put a shitload of pressure on referee’s of late (and what seems like forever).

If we get through, do the laws of juju demand we have two match threads in future. If we don’t get through which of the threads was to blame and which wasn’t, or was it both of them 🤷‍♂️ I think we need a qualified juju practitioner to adjudicate.

He will, but they've got to be available.

It's somewhat ironic that the phrase "snuggle bugs" has been coined by someone from Australia, a place where the entirety of the local fauna (especially the bugs) is out to kill you and is extremely capable of accomplishing that.

Even more of a punt if you deviate from your main vetted/analysed targets though. The squad is stale now, getting rid of the more stagnant bits is a good step towards changing that.

Maybe, maybe not, he seems a pretty chilled character, but even if so we'll get serious coin* for him. *Which Mitchell will take away in a rowing boat and bury in a chest on the island in Leazes Park lake and hire some cannibals to guard it.

Last three seasons have been excellent and beyond initial expectation IMO, Rather than inability to spend I thinks it's about being careful with the money, we can't take a £50 million punt and it not to pay off (Barnes does fit that category maybe).

I would reckon the club internally will know what the vibe is with that too.

Oh I'm sure he'd like new players to work with, but I also think he'll be realistic about stuff so long as the board/Mitchell etc. are ;letting him know that they're not demanding miracles.

From where we were, it's amazingly good tbh.

It's the definition of what's gone wrong that's the issue, finishing top seven with a cup semi final (possible final) is not "going wrong" IMO.

You need some players Eddie? hmmm, meet me at the railway line to discuss.

Oh fuck. This not good at all. The good juju is all confused and just opened up it's house as an air bnb for bad juju. Our juju is hanging by a fucking thread. If juju was a parrot:

Lots of faces being eaten by leopards belonging to folks who voted for the leopards will eat your face party.

We have been in a league cup semi final 3 times in our history, Eddie's got 2 of those, we've finished 4th, 7th and will be top 7 this season. Mitchell's man or not, Eddie's seat isn't even tepid, never mind hot. The only folks who'll be blaming Eddie are pissy pants fans who've forgotten where we've come from not so very long ago.

Oh I'm sorry, I'm not a scholar of old Stallone movies. Don't push it! Don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe.

This, I posted all but same on bluesky earlier this moring: Oh there's funds available I would think, the problem will be the players we want aren't. We'll want players who'll be part of the set up for 4-5+ years, not players for today. We're getting rid of those from the bottom end of the squad who hardly play, it's a risk in short term, but not long term.

Eddie's only been stiffed, if he's not on board with the strategy and internally they are demanding results as if he had all the tools at his disposal. I would reckon that's unlikely the case. They want to win it all consistently, that's what we're building towards, Eddie'll know that.

So a historically long standing racial slur used against italians is ok, but a bad taste joke about a crocodile raping someone (an event never likely to happen in real life) isn't 🤷‍♂️

Errrrr.....

I'm sure it's all above board