LionOfGosforth

If there's one thing you can rely on a decently large section of our home support to do, it's stick the boot in and give the manager a good going over when times are tough

Maybe remember that feeling when Eddie has been replaced by some has-been twat like Mourinho and he's pissing everyone off and arguing with refs every week and the football's shite anyway

That analogy works annoyingly well

The home crowd can get itself up for big one-off games no doubt but for the majority of the bread and butter league games at home like today, pathetic. Leads to a perfect storm of negativity when we're in a rut like we are now, although the miserable buggers don't seem to have an issue getting themselves up for a good bit of booing at the end. It's why I find it cringey when players are asked about "the fans" in interviews. The players need to do more on the pitch as well obviously as each feeds off the other.

Might stop the constant whinging about us being shit and all over the place for a minute anyway

@AyeDubbleYoo

No doubt we need to review quite a bit in the summer. I would expect a lot of discussion around the squad, our playing style (hugely dependent on how many competitions we're in) and quite a bit of trading amongst it all. With a proper executive structure and a real DoF in place for once(the merits and skillsets of both to be determined), we should be in a better place for all of that.

This has truth to it but it's also quite harsh as it's the first window where we lost an elite "purple", and then had to replace him during a window where apparently all of the ESL clubs all wanted the same players we did. Had we got even one of the players he clearly badly wanted, whether that was Ekitike, Mbeumo or maybe Pedro let's say, I think things feel and look different. So just saying he had a "free run at it" is a bit disingenuous.

I'm as frustrated with our league season as anyone and the poorness of many of our away results, combined with a sinking feeling about our transfer business, but 6 pages of discourse 25 minutes after the game today finished, contrasted with a page or so after the brilliant battling performance mid-week suggests it's more than just venting to me. It's a "can't wait to get in there and blast him for every little thing" honestly. I get it to a point, we're all a bit aggravated, but most of tonight was on individual mistakes, as shitty as it is to lose to that lot yet again.

Aye but what have we done lately?

This league season is just exhausting.

Beaten home and away again by these nauseating bastards for the umpteenth time. Sickening man. Just once, do the double over them. Feel like i'll be in my 90s by the time it happens.

Looks like the beginning of Trainspotting when the title appears

How do we ever replace this legend?

The real test is some random league game in the near future that will be crunch time

Be quietish in here tonight. Think we were up to about 8 new pages 20 minutes after the Villa game.

All that's left is for this cunt to disallow a perfectly good goal for a mystery infringement

Dillon got mountains of grief weekly, it was comical at times. I remember 89/90, we were a strong side in the 2nd division, regularly cuffing teams at home but every week without fail, he'd miss a 1 on 1 and get it in the neck

Maybe try him up top, might actually have some goal threat

That is something i'd never argue

Don't disagree but I think if you look back at a lot of games, we keep missing gilt-edged chances whether they're created through our own play or defensive lapses. We're not ruthless at all. It's true we don't create relentlessly though and I would hope that is one of several aspects of our play that needs looking at in the summer.

Not worked up at all, not sure where that comes from. Enjoying the forum today actually. Have a good one mate.

That's fair comment, the lack of goals is killing us

Nah i'm in a great mood mate actually as I don't tend to get upset by one-off results, in an average transitional season led by one of the best managers we've ever had, that some suggest the world is ending and we need a manager change immediately at all costs

drama queen ffs, knock it on the head man and come back and post when we win