Vinny Green Balls

Didn't he say that his sources were confident? That adds up to some degree, considering how long the riodiculous saga went on for.

It's truly impressive how some will get their metal detector out to find any little thing to gripe at. All good apportioning blame to him for this summer, but some of this shit is absurd.

And by everyone, you mean no one?

I suspect that the likes of Almiron and some of the fringe players have probably felt a bit unsettled.

Gotta love these 'speaking the truth' types. Solipsism at its finest.

Well said, except there are a few posters that it should be particularly aimed at.

A few very loud posters always make it seem like way more than it is. I don’t fully agree with you on everything, but you haven’t been unreasonable either. I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all to be irritated and disappointed with no incomings to strengthen the squad. I do however think four or five posters have been utterly ridiculous nearly every single time they have chimed in here in the football section.

If Dunning-Kruger was an asshole, you’d be a gerbil that Richard Gere bought at the pet shop.

Jesus Christ. Your behavior is getting more and more clownish. Posters like you generally appear to go silent all the times they are wrong, but shout from the rooftop if they somehow wildly stumble on the truth. It’s a methodology even the mob at the Salem witch trials would criticize as without intellectual rigor.

We went on some unbeaten run after Brighton. Looked our old selves for 10 games. 'Never recovered' is hardly an accurate take.

The camel caravan set out to London already.

“Do you feel that problem gamblers deserve love?”

Hard to argue that we’ve strengthened tbh. As it stands, last season’s first 11 against Liverpool at home will be significantly stronger than Tottenham at home on Sunday. at least the back line…

It's back to there being a lot of wild speculation about being able to hold onto them goin back to before last January. Hypotheticals aren't doing anyone much good at this point imo.

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.