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They are prepared to take more risks tbf. Happy to throw in the wonderkids far earlier than we would, as a result those kids have good reason to choose them over bigger clubs who might not give them much game time.

I think a radish. He has quite a thin neck, much like the radish root. And he does have Barry from Auf Weidersehen Pet vibes sometimes. I'd like to see him really angry, I imagine he'd go a similar colour too.

His Spanish was impressive, but this move has been in the offing for a long time, he's had a long time to learn. Understand why Liverpool fans are pissed at him running his contract down tbh. He really strung them along.

You're joking of course? Exhibition park?

I think the fact Trafford obviously won't want another season with Burnley in the Premier League is a big factor in this saga. He won't want to tarnish the reputation he rebuilt last season by staying with them. The problem will be that we aren't the only ones who will want to sign him, unlike last summer.

Brighton are annoying. Literally any wonderkid and they’re all over him. used to be my go-to strategy on FM tbf but it’s annoying in real life leave some for the rest of us

I really can't be arsed with England tbh. Southgate was boring as hell, but he had good young players and generally played them in the right position. Team spirit was great and all Tuchel had to do was take thjhe handbrake off and let them do what they are good at. Instead we've got a 35 year old past it Walker, a 35 year old past it Henderson and a team that have no idea what their tactics are or what the idea is. Kane is scoring goals but his legs are gone and will struggle at the world cup. I am seriously not optimistic.

Aren’t season ticket holders the ones who don’t protest- because they’re weak and morally corruptible?

Maignan Is 29, while not old for a goalkeeper it doesn’t reduce the squad age like what was an objective. Trafford is the one if we’re going domestic.

I can already see headlines like "Sour Kraut" coming our way when he inevitably fails.

Don't trust American ownership one little bit.

It was @TBG who dropped this little doozy into the cup final thread and it still creases me

Liverpool fans are not happy that he was learning Spanish when he should have been training

Which is why the fear of ID checks and losing points, though almost universally unpopular, were a good thing imo. Plenty of games drop to lower points thresholds now, but obviously doesn't do anything for members.

For loyalty points you also need to make sure they only go to people who attend the game and not just to the person who buys the tickets.

Not often that I disagree with you but I do here. If you've been a regular at away games for the past 10/15/20 years you'll know that a lot of people on your bus were there on someone else's ticket. I'd reckon a good 50% if not more. They were putting the miles in, someone else is clicking for the loyalty points. Is that a fair system? I'll use my own dad as a prime example. He's sat on 169 loyalty points. He's been to 3 away games in the last 25 years. His other 166 points are made up of mates of mine using his ticket. I think a 3 year rolling period is fair. My dad still has loyalty points from games he didn't go to in the 1990s! How's can that be right? Members get massively short changed in many ways and away tickets is another example. I'm pretty sure that members of all the other best supported teams in the Country get some kind of access of away tickets.

Well, yeah. Quite why we ended up with such a clumsy mess of a shirt I've no idea (imo); that River shirt is so clean.

Anyone see how much Spanish Trent spoke at his unveiling? Very impressive. Also mad that every Madrid singing gets unveiled like they're a rockstar. Very strange.

Nowhere near as smart as this one imo

Anyone know what happened with Nico Gonzalez since he went to Juve? Was really interested in him when we were linked and he was at Fiorentina, but it seems like he hasn't done well at Juve judging on the amount of appearances

Minus ours.

What’s your view on members not getting any reward for loyalty, they can attend every single home game for years and get absolutely no recognition from the club and absolutely no priority over a member who’s never been to a game in their lives Loyalty only counts if you have a season ticket ?

I'm fortunately a season ticket holder and can get tickets for more or less any game I would like, home or away. I'm in a very, very fortunate position to have wrapped my ticket when Bruce got the job, alongside my Dad, brother (who sadly passed before we were even taken over. Terrible), and a few mates. I had over 150 loyalty points, so it stung massively as they had taken years and years to accrue. I was fortunate enough to benefit a year or two ago when a friend was leaving the country and passed on his season ticket to me - that small little window when you could, for the final time, change details on an account. As a season ticket holder, the system for members is not fair whatsoever. I've got a mate who genuinely applied for a ticket in the ballot every single game last year and the last successful one he got was actually Bournemouth or Luton at the very start of 2024. Not one success since, whilst it is a lottery, how can that be fair? The only benefit of the current system is that you can now pass on away tickets (twice I believe) to those who would find it impossible to go otherwise. I totally get that there's plenty who go away every other week and deserve their points, but as @Wallsendmag has correctly said, there are plenty who have only accrued their points by passing it on every week. I know loads myself and even the supporters coach I go on - when I go away, which is rare now I have kids - the organiser of said coach gets about 7/8 every week. Whilst this is good if you're in his circle, my son is essentially fucked as things stand for the foreseeable, at least if he wants to go with me or his Grandad. I'd definitely be in favour of a more inclusive system, and that's from somebody who can attend any game NUFC game I want. I want the next generation to be able to have a fair crack of going, without having to know someone who knows someone to sort them a ticket. At least Charlotte Robson can go every week eh.

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