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Another one for unpopular opinions but find it be try hard to support England atm with so many rule changes etc from fa to spite us. I know it’s petty as not the players faults etc but that’s where I’m at.

Please don’t refer to man united as United on a Newcastle United forum.

I was gutted watching the game yesterday but now we are out of it no choice but try to see the positives. It will definitely drop our chances of winning a trophy by at least half, and we will start the league cup a round earlier, but should help the squad. Beggars can’t be choosers but ideally I’d rather our first trophy win was something more established, although I’m a bit torn on wanting to build up to something good. It feels like we will never win at Wembley and I thought one of the lesser European trophies would be our starting place. I genuinely think if we had of won the league cup last year that would be bigger to us as fans than eventually winning a champions league the way Man City have, where you’ve been knocking on the door so long. Next season needs to be at least as good as 22/23 for me, and needs to be consolidated. It already feels like a huge one like it could be the end of the first phase under new owners, and hopefully it will be a successful one so we keep Howe. The summer won’t have the same buzz for me without a European draw to look forward to but hopefully some exciting signings can change all that.

They were favourites?

just tried to add 84 retro shirt to order with some castore tat and its saying it can't ship to UK address, wonder if its due to error or licensing issue. edit, doing it with castore stuff too so must be problem, managed to get it to work eventually without retro shirt.

Remaining sized shirts from £10 now on club shop, £8.50 with code and not much more for pro versions, plus £5 for personalisation.

According to wiki West Ham are now in the top 20 of coefficient teams now, which will be largely due to last season, so there’s definite merit in this.

I think thats right and would make what someone has said above is correct about qualifying positions etc. The only reason I think there's less games is nobody starts in thr group stage, unlike the other two competitions, every team making it to the group stage would have played a qualifier of some description.

think we would be ok, villa and west ham were seeded and got hibs and viborg respectively, spurs were also seeded a few years back as you'd imagine given they're in europe loads more and got pacos ferreira

Not that easy for everyone, people who work before the game or have young family in my case. I was in plenty early Saturday as I walked up at about 25 past 2.

Don’t know if it’s been mentioned but sorting out the queues to get in would help facilitate a better atmosphere. Would also get people spending more in the ground as I’m averaging around 15 mins to get in this season.

Yeah but we’re long associated with them, same for man united. Was generally top clubs. I know Burnley and Stockport ended up with them not long after us.

Think that was maybe season after. Certainly rarer before the teamware template’s were rolled out.

It was fairly prestigious to have adidas then only Liverpool, arsenal and rangers seemed to have them in uk so quite exotic too.

Just seen there are no retro shirts on the official store now. Hoping this paves the way for a few official adidas ones.

With Burnley all but down and sheff United gone our nearest away trip will be in Manchester next year I think unless Leeds win the play off. Been out back through top flight seasons past 40 years and I’m sure this is a first for us?

Will be on the 1.05 train from Manchester. If you see a big sexy bastard in a retro away top say hi. New ground for me and our local derby in the league this season I believe.

I’m going for blue star on mind in keeping with Keegan one from the 80’s.

We would have a two legged qualifier for conference in August, not that it would make up for same cash. That in itself wouldn’t be ideal but didn’t seem to harm Villa much this year, it wouldn’t be too taxing a tie I’d imagine.

We would certainly be among favourites for Europa too, especially with no champions league teams dropping in next year. I’d imagine spurs would be other favourite off top of head. Bilbao are hosting final and have already qualified so they’d be another big favourite, what a place that would be to go back to for a final.

Got the pro home and normal away totally sponsoorless on sleeves. The quality of the badge on the away is pretty poor.

The weird thing is he’s not even a mackem, sure he’s from Wigan or somewhere. Used to be on at cozy joes, no idea if still is, was a bad enough night to end up in there anyway and couldn’t believe he was on there too. I’m sure he played the hilarious yogi beat song which was as painfully unfunny as when I first heard it in the 90s.

Tempting on the plain shirt

Just noticed this years are heavily discounted without a sponsor. Not sure if these were always available

Bad craic. I was on the official club coaches they put on (dry) as only 15.