bobbydazzla

Foolish to measure performance on 4/5th's of games etc. Football matches are played from the ref's first whistle to the ref's last whistle. If you're getting beat by added time sickeners or goals that were scored in the first few minutes, it's largely irrelevant, you're still getting beat. Saying we were good for periods is clutching at straws. Losing to soft goals isn't a rarity for us, giving away soft goals to lose points has been happening all season long. And surrendering points from decent positions all season long indicates a team who are mentally and / or physically weak.

Unless you have personal records you're snookered. Even purchase history details on the NUFC site only go back as far as Oct 24. Depending on your email provider, if you still have deleted items available going back to Jul 2024 then you could look through them to see how many ballots you've entered, because for each ballot you get an entry confirmation email and then a success / fail email.

Feels like that's a perm-anent problem at Chelsea

From the BBC. Further evidence was provided by team news leaks around both legs of their Champions League last-16 tie against Paris St-Germain, which sources say originated from within the dressing room. A leak before Rosenior's final match at Brighton remarkably seemed to come from Cucurella's barber.

Chelsea's trophies and league finishing positions in the pre-Abramovic years and after NUFC became a PL side. Conclusion: they won 4 x more trophies than NUFC so were far more successful in that sense. But in terms of the league the two teams weren't far apart. FA Cup 1997, 2000 League Cup 1997 Cup Winners Cup 1998 1992–93: 11th 1993–94: 14th 1994–95: 11th 1995–96: 11th 1996–97: 6th 1997–98: 4th 1998–99: 3rd 1999–00: 5th 2000–01: 6th 2001–02: 6th 2002–03: 4th

With a Wissa bit of luck, we can sell this fucking shite Holla with the rinsin sound Holla with the rinsin sound Holla with the rinsin sound

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

My Arsenal mate said something similar. Not that he's checked out, but that it's like being in a slow motion car crash after being in a number of other slow motion car crashes in recent years. He was at the Sporting game and said people around him were up out of their seats screaming abuse at players for the tiniest of mistakes.

There's more chance of Paul McCartney releasing a 170bpm makina cover version of John Lennon's Imagine featuring an MC Tazo rap in the middle eight and it goes to No 1 in the charts in every country in the entire world.

Think 40,300 is about right at the moment, but it seems to have fluctuated a little over the years as they’ve changed the configuration. Anyhoo, the bigger point you make is the important one. Chelsea owners don’t want the traditional working class fans from West London, Slough etc in the ground, they want the tourists paying megabucks for tickets who then sit and film the game on their phones. Same applies to NUFC.

Aye, we all had a good laugh at our hillbilly neighbours on Wearside posting attendances that had no correlation to the huge swathes of empty seats in their ground.

Aye, that’s the sense I got about general sale still being in big demand but the rip-off price seats aren’t seeing enough interest.

Done a bit of digging about on this cos I was curious and it seems that getting Chelsea tickets is still difficult. And the 40,000 is a bit of a red herring because capacity is only very slightly over 40,000. So if a few hundred don’t turn up that dips them under that level. Their average attendance is 39,500ish. There does seem to be plenty of people complaining that ticket prices have gone up massively there for some parts of the ground though. And just complaining about their hypercapitalist owners in general. I agree that we’re at a tipping point in terms of ticket price value for money across most of the PL. More and more people will balk due to the cost of tickets and walk away to spend their money on something else.

Someone I’m pals with is in the frame for a Commercial Director type of role there. Has been told by the people running the process that if successful they should expect the job to last 18 months at most before the axe will fall. I also know someone who’s close to the CEO who was there until 2022 and they described it as carnage behind the scenes under the current regime. None of this should come as a surprise.

It’s at Brighton the neet

I’d say us being weak as piss at defending and unable to prevent teams from scoring against us is a bigger problem than finding the 2nd goal. They’re both big problems though, obvz.

Tell that to Ian, he thought Ten Hag did nowt

Like for like Isak replacement

We come out all guns blazing but rarely get a decent foothold because we’re not good enough in front of goal. Teams know that unless we’re 3 nowt up after 20 mins they’ve got a good chance of scoring at least a couple and taking home the points because we run out of steam and also defend like clowns. So they just soak up that initial pressure and then make us pay from middle of 1st half onwards. Repeat ad nauseam.

Ten Hag won a cup ya dafty

We might be into the realms of when Man Utd gave Ten Hag and Amirom a fuckload of expensive new signings and then binned them both off within months. Football's a funny owld game.