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Tremendous shift today. Bloody love a bit of BDB, can't lie.

Love this snappy little fucker.

I fucking loved that win. Wilson, man. He is ICE. And strong as fuck. I've never reached the levels of love for him cos Bruce era but I love him today. Absolutely mad how dependable he is from the spot, like. And that hold up play, fucking hell. Won everything.

What a fucking brilliant performance that was. Absolutely fantastic. Everything you ask for from a target man.

Get the FUCK in.

Think folks need to get their head around the fact that last season isn't going to be repeated this season.

That wasn't too bad; very obviously a new forward line supported by a midfield lacking drive and creativity. The teams look pretty well-matched. Safe to say my expectations have plummeted a fair bit in terms of this season. We don't have the surprise factor to blow teams like Brentford away. Wilson and Schar have been very good. Barnes growing into it.

I really hope that’s sarcasm. Alan Smith is just about the worst player I’ve ever seen in our shirt. Factor in the financials and the number of appearances and he wins that award hands down Yeah that's an awful take. I know the whole place absolutely stunk to high heaven but Butt being the linchpin was arguably the main reason why we were one of the three worst teams in the league in a purely footballing sense. Just dreadful.

started writing a post but couldn't be bothered in the end.

Generic dumbed down crap, like every badge change. Not that their previous one was very imaginative.

Wolves 1-1 Liverpool Villa 2-1 Palace Fulham 1-1 Luton Man Utd 1-1 Brighton Spurs 3-0 Sheff Utd West Ham 1-3 Man City Newcastle 1-1 Brentford Bournemouth 0-1 Chelsea Everton 1-2 Arsenal Forest 2-2 Burnley

Christ the Totally Football Show is the pits n'all. The level of fartsniffing smuggery is absolutely off the chain these days; they all think they're fucking hilarious. And Charlie Vocalfryshare is the worst of the worst.

There'll be loads who like it.

I was gonna suggest another Zoom quiz soon as well. Early congrats to Sewelly if Disco is this horribly out of form.

details. Think I've finally lost patience. Two of that shit a week ffs, like it wasn't padded with utter bollocks enough already.

The point I was (poorly) making about the 'England always lose once they meet someone good' argument wasn't so much that it's completely untrue. It's that it's disproportionate and an unfair stick to beat him with, given: the apparent rubbing-out of achievements prior to the defeat; the strength of the opposition we lost to; the ultra-fine margins in the defeats themselves; and given the context of previous England showings at tournaments. Re the bit in bold, I think he's more than earned the chance for another crack at the Euros because it's still very much his team, despite what people will say about victories happening in spite of him. The argument seems to be that we have the players but we don't have the manager, as if replacing him means those ultra-fine margins suddenly swing in our favour. That's possible, but not probable imo. I'm not sure who we could recruit with an outstanding baseline and the time to implement their philosophy. The expectations should be great atm, I'll definitely admit that, because there are exceptional players everywhere in the side and we can win the next tournament. Hopefully the draw is kind and we meet the one team arguably better than us in the final and not before.

These lads, aye?

I don't think you'll find many who'd argue against the idea that the loyalty to Henderson at this point is regressive, but on the whole he's been good for Southgate's England. He shouldn't start in the Euros though, basically everyone will agree with that, even Southgate. He didn't start in the opening group games at the World Cup. As for destroying sides; we routinely score 4, 5, 6 or more in qualifying and have had several very emphatic victories in all of the tournaments he's been the manager in, too. Incidentally that isn't routine in tournaments; even the World Champions lost to Saudi Arabia and only just squeezed past Australia in the knockouts. The likes of Portugal springs to mind too, who infamously won the thing after drawing three times in the group. I know he's got his faults, I just think a lot of the criticism is disproportionate. The 'England aren't attacking,' and 'England always just end up losing to anyone good,' are the two fundamentally flawed arguments that have always cropped up in the Southgate era imo.

Add Stomes And Pickford, like it or not.

said whilst England comfortably dispatches a very decent Scotland side on their own patch. I get the clamour for getting more of the gifted attackers on the pitch at the same time, I genuinely do. But some of the criticism is twilight zone stuff at times. Even at the World Cup just gone we scored 6 against a side that barely conceded a goal in their qualifying; 3 against Wales, 3 against the African champions.

Gasp!

I'll defend Southgate more than most but aye, it's absolutely imperative that he gets them two in the team and hopefully firing. They're insanely good; as are Kane and Saka when they're on song.

Good to know and cheers, but we're looking at literally our biggest ever turnout atm so there won't be any need for ringers this time. Edit, in after lfee

It was never about the players really. That slogan first emerged in deepest darkest Pardew when the club was making it abundantly clear that it had no interest in competing; all the while to a backdrop of media coverage which labelled anti-Pardew angst as ungrateful Newcastle fans expecting the earth.

Yeah.