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Alright. Thomas the Train off, second half on. Can’t believe this match is on terrestrial TV in the US. I’m not complaining, but there’s got to be some better use for Saturday morning airwaves here than Newcastle v. Crystal Palace

Can’t watch because my two year old has Thomas the Train on, but doesn’t seem like I’m missing much.

Who knows why I started, but after Chelsea Away in 2012, how could I possibly support any other team.

Also, selling Wood seems fine, but years of following NUFC has conditioned me to believe that all of our strikers will suddenly get crocked as soon as the ink on the papers is dry.

Can't say I was expecting to see a debate about why we shouldn't sign Harry Kane when I walked into this thread.

Drunk driving is dumb, obviously, but it’s also incredibly selfish for a key player to do anything that might put himslef at risk of being unable to play when the club is on the cusp of a cup final and trying to hold down a top four place. You need to be aware that a lot is riding on your health and availability and conduct yourself accordingly.

I'm assuming not, but is there any way of knowing which part of Wembley our allocation would be seated in?

I think the best course for all of us is to just pretend that the cup doesn't exist until we actually win it. Why risk jinxing it with either too much optimism or too much pessimism.

Airfare to London the weekend of February 26 is less than $1000.

I am not used to everyone being so upbeat on here

What happens to this forum if we win a cup? The servers have to be wired to explode or something right?

Just sinking in that we're in a cup semis how dare this team give me hope

Was a dark day for English football when they folded alongside Sheffield Thursday.

It’s just the nature of modern football that clubs that are looking to spend will get linked with everybody. Every competently run club in Europe will know who the best pickups from most major leagues are now and every club with similar spending capacity will have a similar big board of transfer targets. It’s not too hard to guess who the players NUFC wants to buy are. Things aren’t like they were say, twenty years ago, where you could get to a transfer target first because your rivals had legitimately never even heard of him. Or even ten years ago, where if you squinted really hard, you could convince yourself that we were buying decent French players because of Graham Carr’s scouting network. Being “linked” doesn’t really mean that much on the modern context. Everyone is evaluating everyone and considering everyone all the time.

Just in general, it’s absolute shit that financial fair play handcuffs up and coming teams who want to make a splash while not functioning as a meaningful restraint against the clubs already rolling in CL money. It’s an incredibly anti-competitive system.

Most people were probably like “top seven finish would be great and would show progress” as recently as this summer. Now some folks are acting like we’ve been making the champions league every year for the past decade. “Need a result” away at Arsenal ffs

Probably completed more passes in the final third than we did in the entire Pardew era combined in this match alone.

Having participated in my first match thread since… 2016? 2017? Or so, have to say I’m surprised that we’re capable of being this unhappy about anything given how good the team on the pitch looks in general.

No amount of money spent will stop you from the occasional unlucky 0-0 draw with shit teams. We’ve been on the other end of results like this for years.

Can’t really blame posters on here for being unreasonably frustrated about this one result when our players clearly are too.

Good news Premier League! Anyone can beat NUFC. All you have to do is make us miss five sitters a game.

Still can’t believe that the shortest dude lying down underneath the wall is a thing now

I’m just starting out assuming that there’s no way in hell we’re staying in this position and that nobody we could buy that would change that

If any single result changes our plan for the transfer window that’s starting tomorrow then we’re being run by a bunch of amateurs.

I don’t think I’d seen as much quality attacking football as I’ve seen here in about twenty minutes in my first decade of supporting NUFC combined