Vinny Green Balls

To state the obvious, they didn't and he is.

Are you Trump? Jesus.

I'm sorry too, man. I'd be bummed if you weren't around here, dude. We have some disagreement on this, but over the years, I have largely agreed with your posts, and have appreciated your insight.

Once again, I don't think Hope has been much of a reliable narrator. I am fairly sure that it wouldn't be beyond him to purposely take things out of context for a better story.

Or if you weigh circumstances and then judge, maybe you're not necessarily stubborn. And many of your opinions were were wrong. And if you admit it, which you have done, then fine, which is why I have and continue to have a lot of time for you as one of the 'purple' posters on this forum. But you really have been all over the place concerning Howe. And calling me a shit poster is much more belittling than anything I have done to you, man. I am more than happy to hear criticism of Howe. His subs can piss me off, and I was concerned about running players into the ground just like you guys were. He's a good manager that is still reltaively young, and needs to grow in some areas. I just have been tired of this pall of negativity that has been around the club since the onset of a relatively positive time (for which you have been a sizable contributor from my perspective). I was really hoping for Emery as well FWIW.

As it stands, that is still a big assumption. And once again, he seemed to really like Thiaw. Craig Hope is not exactly a reliable narrator on this.

I don't think we do. If you are going to be honest witrh yourself, you've been all over the place on this. You were sanguine for about two months, and then started to go back to form. And even before the really bad dip in form, you were sounding a bit like your early 2022 self...not proposing Stephen Gerrard as an alternative level mind you, but still extremely reactionary. Of course he isn't perfect, and has fucked up in his time here. But what you claim is 100% unwavering support, I see as considering the circumstances rather than just wildly reacting to everything unfolding.

As I mentioned before, it's extremely frustrating for me since I am working in a field where I have to be very careful with everything I work on. This latest project is dealing with a particuarly litigious guy who is just itching for a defamation suit. But even though I don't like him much, I still feel a responsibility to not throw him under the bus with wild speculation and sensationalist innuendo. Journalism has suffered across the board from this in the last 15 years to compete for clicks with citizen journalists who have no accountability for what they say (see the Cecil Hotel fiasco). But I can't remember a time in my life that sports journalism in the UK wasn't generally the absolute pits. From my perspective, it's been there long before the clickbait era.

Once again, can we assume that? Are we totally ruling out that he and Mitchell came to an agreement over certain players?

That word is doing a lot of heavy lifting when describing these tabloid level clowns.

It was pretty grim here after the 3rd game last season already...that on the back of a 4th placed finish.

Can we?

For you and a few others maybe. But you were staunchly against him to begin with, and said a couple of uncharacteristically bat shit things in that time.

Agreed. It does suck.

It's so stupid. And the worst is that they will be so confident about their opinions. It appears to be a self validation exercise as much as anything.

That's all well and good and we should expect and accept a lot of disappointment for this window, but FFS some on here have been abysmal self-victimizing cynics for the whole damn summer. And you think being relentlessly positive is more sickening than the opposite? Most people would probably much prefer hanging out with an optimist than a pessimistic buzzkill.

Same goes for a few others who are now strutting about like peacocks. It really feels football 4chan on here now, and a few steps away from some clown posting his manifesto.

One obvious positive is that we haven’t lost despite being really shit at times. We struggled even getting a point when we played shit last season.

We are not great at all without good ball playing center backs. Obviously not the only issue by any stretch, but a big one nonetheless.

Given that he protrudes from the ground, yes.

I'd first instruct him that the transfer deadline is coming up.

It's the level of confidence that this forum has in you.

Because you play with yourself too much and God is punishing you.

Not aiming anything at you. It's just a standard quip to why questions.

because you play witrh yourself too much and God is punishing you.