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We’re going to miss this aren’t we

Shit goal disallowed by shit call more or less perfectly encapsulates this game

Not just an Eddie Howe problem but Premier League managers are far too conservative with subs in the five-sub era. You have the ability to swap out half your outfield players for fresh legs. You should use it more aggressively.

It’s kind of amazing that Burn at left back has lasted as long as it has really.

As nothing of a half as there’s ever been.

In case anyone was wondering, this is going about as well as could have been expected.

Knew Korea were playing Saudi this week, did not realize until just now that it was going to be at SJP. Going to be surreal.

Trying to get to Paris with the family for the away tie, work permitting. It's Paris, so wife wasn't that hard to convince. I'm assuming home tickets won't be too hard to pick up so will probably just get those and dress in neutral colors. Pretend to be a clueless tourist until we score.

Really don't want us to be the sort of fanbase that's impatiently up in arms to sell and move on whenever a player has a drop in form. That's exactly the typical sort of Man City fan behavior that we used to look down on.

I will never get over the fact that Shola Ameobi has scored goals (plural) in the Champions League.

Yeah, same. Was certainly hoping to experience us getting utterly torn apart by Messi at least once in my lifetime.

Newcastle playing in Paris! Milan! And uh... Dortmund. If that doesn't excite you why bother with European football at all. We're not going to win this this year, so let's have some fun.

I think I might have drawn the most boring group possible No real elite teams. Porto would be fun I guess. Napoli okay. Belgrade meh. Would fancy us to advance, at least.

Less than three points would probably send this forum all the way back to the Ashley era. Just waiting for somebody to bump the relegationometer thread.

One of those “let’s forget that football exists for two weeks” losses

Desperately unlucky bounce off Botman

Fuck

Brighton match will kick off ten minutes after stoppage time in this one ends.

Holy shit where did that come from

Subs probably should have come on earlier but that’s what I think about basically every game

Anthony Gordonaldo is going to have a big season.

I'm pretty confident that none of the shit that goes on in the California prison system, utterly deplorable as it is, is nearly equivalent to the sort of abuses that occur in whatever excuse for a penal system the Saudis have.

I would say the proportion of the NUFC fanbase that doesn't care about human rights abuses by the Saudi regime is roughly similar to the proportion of the general public that doesn't, so I don't see why anyone is surprised. It's an unfortunate reality of the world that for the vast majority, immense human suffering in a faraway land just doesn't register. I could easily see myself boycotting the club had the Saudis had come in to replace a relatively "normal" owner who I had no trouble supporting. As it is, they are replacing Mike fucking Ashley, so my discomfort with Saudi ownership is drowned out by the sheer relief and euphoria of having the club being run with competence and good intentions (in a footballing sense) after fifteen years of pure pain. I will allow myself a few years of enjoying having a football club again before I allow my concerns about our new owners to come to the fore. It's a human failing on my part and I acknowledge that. The most cynical part of my brain even wonders if this was part of the calculus when they targeted us as the club to buy. We are the one fanbase among Premier League clubs that has suffered too much at the hand of our past owner to ask too many questions about our new ones.

Once we've got good players sorted at every position is when we can afford to start splurging nine-digit transfer fees on the Mbappes and Haalands of the world imo. ...My God, what am I even saying I can't believe I just typed those words out completely unironically.

I'm sure they are lining up a big splashy CB signing as the long-term Schar replacement, it's just going to cost a lot of money so probably can't be done FFP-wise until either this winter or next summer. I think the Livramento signing is a good sign of the way these people think: bring in replacements for aging key players a year early, rather than risk being a year late. That way they have some time to acclimate themselves to the squad before they have to step up as first choice.