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Think it’s usually for first time lights come on after a while.

Burn is the latest groupthink dislike button. He was somewhere between fine and good.

I know man, am joshing ye

Would be an empty-ass stadium considering referee, diving, cynical fouling...

It wouldn't happen but in theory take Burn out for Hall and I think that's a side that will pass and move you to death.

Early scouting reports suggest a Ginger Pirlo in fine form

Fuck it's next week - that's come too quickly. Going to be wild.

Thank you - such a banal and basic worldview that gets used to bash anybody over the head for thinking differently or wanting more.

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Cheap, transparent PR; absence of any meaningful content and boring.

We looked really bad, there’s no other way to dress it up. What a shit start to the season.

You were saying?

I think it’s partly human nature, especially nowadays when so much of the rest of life is unpleasant and difficult. Football, when your team is good, gives you happiness and other great feelings and thus becomes addictive and one forms an over-reliance on it for happiness. It’s not a Newcastle fanbase problem, it’s everywhere I’d say. You’d just hope the board don’t go the same way really. Your second point depends what “up to it” means. He’s not yet at top tier level but he could very well get there soon, we’ll find out a lot more this year.

I just really hope we turn up in all the fixtures and give a genuinely decent account of ourselves. Slight fear that we won’t and the occasion will be too big, but just want each team twice to think “fuck, playing them is horrible”

Surprised Dyche at broke Everton didn’t take him on a free. Then again, maybe I’m not.

And that’s why you’ll remain on that side of the decision fence.

Why? Is it any different from grown men wearing replica shirts or other clubwear?

I think it's really interesting because I don't think it's beyond reasonable imagination that we can beat any of those teams.

I think we can beat any of those teams.

I completely agree with this. He isn't there but he so can get there.

You’d imagine we’d rotate as well.

Essentially I think we're good to go, but that includes an assumption that we're going to deprioritise the domestic cups. I think we're 1-2 good players shy of being truly competitive on all fronts. And that isn't a complaint or an insult or blasphemy or treachery before anyone calls me entitled; it's just an opinion as to where we are and I think "sacrificing" the domestic cups is completely reasonable. I think there's a reality where we drop into the uefa cup and compete for it.

Seconded - if you can't enjoy this then I feel bad for you.

TBF at this point I'll take down to 3 competitions.

I don’t particularly rate Ten Hag. I’m not sure if it’s him or just Manchester United - I believe what Van Gaal says about it being a commercial operation, not a football club. I don’t think the cup final was too big in and of itself, I think the fact he’d never been there before and probably didn’t truly expect to get there was evident and the team looked a bit lacklustre as a result. Just an opinion.