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Word of warning then, dude means your knob over there…..not your friend

Bloody predictive text typo, I meant to write Cunt

Leadership team for football. Mainly Eddie. Who seems to get the most criticism for his alleged Brexit Mags philosophy. Dude, we’ve won a cup and qualified for the CL in the last 16 months. And you’re worrying that our transfer strategy may lead to mid-term failures in the future. Lighten up would be my advice to you. As Chic once sang: these are the good times, leave your cares behind.

I’m all for a bit of football debate and hearing different opinions is good, but you create the impression that you believe that NUFC don’t know what they’re doing. That they’re amateurs. This is a leadership team who’ve taken us from nailed on relegation fodder to a cup win, a cup final and 2 x CL qualifications in 4 years. Consistently integrating mid-market signings along the way. Not everything they do will be correct, but so far their track record on signings from both the PL and overseas is great. They know what they’re doing. Unless you’re involved in elite football I suspect they know a lot more than you do. Obviously people can express opinions but have some humility when you do it and maybe be conscious that you’re being very negative and forthright in your criticism of things that have yet to happen and may never happen. If you’re going to be forthright and negative, do it about things that have happened, not what you believe will happen. Elanga’s had a poor start that’s a fact, but does it mean he’s been a shit signing ? It’s still too early to say. This is a leadership team that knows what they’re doing and has brought us more joy than we’ve experienced in many generations. Enjoy it. You might get hit by a bus tomorrow.

How can you judge Ramsey and Wissa’s signings when Wissa hasn’t kicked a ball yet due to a rare injury and Ramsey has only just come back from an injury that was caused by an opposition player. If Wissa plays every game from now till the end of the season and scores no goals he was a shit signing given what we paid, if he scores 25 goals he was a great signing. Same applies to Ramsey and his impact from midfield. Give the lads a chance man.

We even made money on Lloyd Kelly for fucks sake. This “must buy from overseas or what’s the point in buying anyone” patter reeks. We buy a mix of overseas and PL proven and so far have rarely bought a dud. So if that’s the approach Eddie wants, that’s what Eddie should get.

Where are you getting a PL proven good squad player who can also start and scores outstanding goals and seems like a model pro who fits with the dressing room culture that Eddie has built, for less than £40m ? And it also needs to be someone who isn’t going to be snapped up by Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City or Tottenham who can spend fuckloads more on wages than we can.

Dan Burn, Pope, Tino, Hall, Trippier (signed from Spain but PL proven). All done really well here. All been good value signings. Wissa’s not even kicked a ball for us yet due to picking up an injury, which isn’t typical for him. Barnes has scored some outstanding goals. Ramsey’s only just come back from injury caused by Longstaff making a snide tackle. Even Chris Wood, who failed here, has proven himself to be a top goalscorer in the PL since leaving. And we got our money back on him. Gordon was being lauded for amazing performances but has hit an extended period of shit form for reasons unknown. But aye, signing PL proven is a waste of money and only players from overseas are worth having a tug over.

Clubs who breach the rules can escape a fine by allowing Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea, Tottenham and Arsenal to each sign a player from their squad, for free. It’ll keep the league competitive and prevent clubs from “doing a Pompey”.

Never mind the massive global financial crash it’s the huge alien invasion from outer space that’ll really make PIF wait and see, disappointing as that is

Most importantly you need to find a way to integrate paragraphs into an effective post.

I'm sure that's a Shakespeare quote

Catts for me like

And also that insufferable YouTube twonk who said he knew for a fact from the Council that Leazers Terrace was being moved onto the tennis courts, brick by brick

I don't think anyone is suggesting capping memberships at 20,000 because that's the amount of non-ST seats we've got and therefore demand will match supply. As it stands, the number of members can go to infinity because there's no barrier to purchase. But with purchase windows for memberships, at least there'll be a finite amount of members during the 1st then 2nd halves of the season. It could be 10,000 or 100,000, but it'll be fixed for that period. Right now, someone that isn't even an NUFC fan (a new tout, a tout who’s been banned, a holiday maker, an away fan, a local neutral who fancies seeing a top flight game etc) can just buy a membership today and stand exactly the same chance in the next ballot as members who've been applying for every game since August. That's what's really unfair.

And I didn't buy a ticket for the Man City match either....

If they limit numbers only by having purchase windows - Jun to Aug and Jan, then that doesn't feel unfair at all. In the vast majority of cases, someone wanting to go to games but not bothering to buying a membership in those windows probably isn't actually that arsed about going to games. Obviously there might be exceptions, like someone who's a lifelong match going fan with a membership goes into prison in May and then gets an unexpected early release in Feb and can't go to games for the rest of the season. But should we really be offering unlimited memberships all season long just to keep the tiny minority happy. Even having membership windows won't stop the touts, but at least it's a way to prevent a tout who gets banned from just signing straight back up again.

He’s got the brains, but has he got the touch? Now, don't get me wrong, yeah, I think he’s alright

If my nana had a massive veiny purple headed throbber she'd be my granda.

Wasn’t sure where to put this, I feel like I spend way too much time posting in the Pet Hates thread… I cannit fucking wait for the current trend for every team to play Stoke-ball to be confined to the annals of history and marked down as an embarrassing shameful period in the history of the sport. Tiki-taka possession for possessions sake was dull as fuck, but the new obsession with long throws and set penis routines is utterly rancid. AIDS for both the eyeballs and the soul.

Some people (I’m looking at you @Rod ) give me shit and say I’m a weirdo for fancying Michelle Collins. I’m not offended by that. I love her, other people think she’s a munter and that’s their opinion. It’s the spice of life. I say people are weirdo virgin nerds for quoting mumbo jumbo stats. And whenever the xG noncesense pops up some cad usually tags me into the thread, so I mooch on down to see why I’m needed, I spot that it’s about xG and I can’t resist reminding people it’s mumbo jumbo because nerds quote xG like it’s the elixir of footballing triumph. And as I’ve explained before, I know what xG is, I know how it works, I know how it and other predictive stats can be used by professional data analysts to assess performance and inform decisions. But I also think the overuse of predictive statistics and wanky modern phrases like “duels” makes for shite football discussion.

Some facts: Score more than the opposing team and you win. Score the same as the opposing team and you draw. Score less than the opposing team and you lose. 3 points for a win. 1 point for a draw. 0 points for a loss. Play each opposing team in the league twice. More points you accumulate compared to opposing teams, the higher up the table you go. Team with the most points at the end of the season wins the league. Fuck xG.