Shak

You couldn't have figured this out before I paid in advance for my hotel, no?

Was saving that for next week and you've both stolen my thunder and also gone and butchered the quote, you great big bastard.

Lass surprised me with one for Valentines Day Gonna debut it in Newcastle on cup final day.

He's joking but that sounds like a solid plan, frankly.

https://www.easyhotel.com/hotels/united-kingdom/newcastle-upon-tyne/newcastle-city-centre/book?numAdults=2&numRooms=1&arrival=2023-02-26&departure=2023-02-27&utm_source=metasearch&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign @Kaizero Rich recommended this place to me. 50 quid for the night and right in the city centre so will be handy getting to and from the meet up. Option of early check-in at midday too for an extra tenner. Might want something a bit fancier if you're staying a couple of nights but all I need is somewhere to crash on Sunday night so this should do the job.

If things do settle down and you can make it let me know, seems the flights are going down in price and there are hotels so you never know, might be doable at the last minute. Sorry to hear all of that though, hope your sister will be alright and it's not too stressful on you and your parents. Obviously that's the most important thing.

I went from "can't possibly swing it" to booking flights in an hour one evening last week. Flights are cheaper now though somehow ffs You to thank technically as it was talking to Rich after being eliminated from Traitors that I decided to just fucking do it Myself and Decky are both going over from Dublin the early flight Sunday morning and back late on Monday night. The hotel I'm staying in is about 60 quid for a room, was shocked how reasonable it was compared to Dublin prices at the moment. No chance at all you can pull it off?

Not sure if it's what you're after but loads of us from the forum are going to a room in a place in town.

Cuba flying in from Colorado and being the 26th man would be heartbreaking stuff

Aye, was 100% just taking the piss. As a general rule, it's best to never take anything I say seriously Really cool of you to organise all of this @BlazeT44, really sorry if you took that as a serious suggestion and it caused you any stress.

Hope you can pull it off, man.

I can imagine. You think you'll be able to swing it? Blaze should ditch the mother and girlfriend to be honest, tell them forum regulars only. They'd understand, I'm sure.

Unless they're super fucking strict about it we'll surely be able to sneak in a few extra heads?

Drewcastle if anything, surely?

It just seems like virtue signalling to me, to be honest. Is it a disaster if we finish 8th this season? No, of course not. Big picture, it's huge progress from where we were 12 months ago and we'd all have taken it. But in order to do that we'll basically have had to average barely over a point a game over the second half of the season and to me that would be a concern going into next season. Would mean that we'd basically have to not recover from the mini-slump we're in now before the end of the year. We're all happy the club is finally being run with some ambition, I don't think it's wrong for us to have some ambition ourselves in turn.

Aye Wilson and Isak up top together is an intriguing thought. Targett getting back into the team and playing well would help a lot too.

Being "over the moon" with 8th given the position we're in now Think it's OK to hope for better than what's basically the worst case scenario for the rest of the league campaign. Nobody is going to be calling for Howe be fired or for the club to be sold or anything if the season unravels from here but if you can't see how valuable taking this opportunity and finishing 4th could be then I don't know what to tell you, frankly.

What have I ever done to deserve such treatment?

"No chance of 4th" Half of the forum had us at a 10 on the Relegationometer this time last year.

I'll see to it personally.

He'll end up getting hurt if Man U win, though.

Bringing your mother and girlfriend to meet your internet friends. Fair play

Think we'll be right in this until the last few games. We're definitely having a wobble, setup needs a bit of a tweak. However, all the other teams in the race for 4th (assuming Man U keep it together and stay top four, which isn't a sure thing but seems likely ATM) are pretty badly flawed and I'd be very surprised to see any of them go on a tear.

Looked useful I thought. Adds something fresh to our team, pity we didn't get another player or two who could also do that as we have gone a bit stale.

Aye, he was decent when we just went to a back three in possession but we've started to ask more from him going forward recently and he looks awful tbh.