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Because regardless of who comes in, without Europe and after a big splurge last season, our pull (and budget) may not be great and I also don't envisage much of a difference in style of play either. Our recruitment methods and the aforementioned style of play needs a shift, I'm not confident that is going to happen with the present personnel in place. Probably just a hangover from last season tbf. After the Barcelona debacle, although I said on here that I didn't really expect a strong end to the season, I did hope for one and to finish with a continuation of the malaise that was setting in was really disappointing.

We were pretty poor from August though. We won 1 of our first games (an undeserved 1-0 at home to Wolves).

That's me. At present I can only see next season being more of the same as what we've watched last season which doesn't really fill me with many reasons to be excited.

Ours have disappeared from my account as well but I've cancelled them so expected that.

I used to be above the 2nd "T" of the Potterton Myson advertising board 3 rows from the front so easy to spot myself on the TV highlights as well.

George Graham built his Arsenal success on winning 1-0. To a lesser extent Allardyce did similar at Bolton. Is it good to watch? No not really. Is it effective? Yes definitely. A solid defence and GK are the fundamentals to build a successful football team. Sunderland have just proven that. Qualified for Europe when their top scorer had 7 goals. If they were to throw money at a striker who could get 15-20 goals next season they may really well be onto something. On the other hand not being able to see games out and win 1-0 had cost us massively this season.

Sadly that ship has long sailed in the £1000 season tickets and £60 just to go behind the goals in the "cheap seats" to support the team era. In saying that even the way it's been going I still never thought I'd see the day when your average supporter was priced out of a pre season kickabout 120 miles up the road. Ultimately when you price a product aimed at attracting customers rather than your average working class supporter, then you shouldn't be surprised when they act like a customer who is spending a lot of money to watch your product. Can't have it all ways.

Ah good luck to him. Dream move which playing for NUFC helped him realise. He wouldn't have got that if he'd stayed at Everton steeped in mediocrity season after season. Seems we are happy enough with the fee. Let's just hope it isn't wasted on shite this time.

Unfortunately I don't think they are. People said that all last season. Their possession isn't high enough, they don't score enough goals, they have a shit Xg etc etc. None of that mattered. From what I seen of them, and admittedly it wasn't a great deal, their gameplan was built on outworking and unsettling the opposition (not to dissimilar to us in 22/23), and with a bit of quality in a couple of key positions that could turn tight games in their favour. They scouted and bought very well last summer. With an increased budget, and with them now being a more attractive proposition, they could well do the same again.

Don't think we'll go down like regardless, but speaking to those Bournemouth fans the other week they both said the signs at NUFC are eerily similar to the job he did at Bournemouth. Massive highs, comparatively speaking, followed by the decline that he looked clueless how to stop before relegation. Both said they wouldn't take him back there. Stating the obvious here but we need a fast start next season. 1 extremely unconvincing win in the first 6 like this season won't do and will have the alarm bells ringing that it's more of the same and he hasn't been able to arrest the decline. Sacking or a manager resigning pretty early in the season can pay dividends (Robson for Gullit, Howe for Bruce) but it's not a move you want to be having to make if you can help it. He'll be under massive pressure from August through to the October International break to prove he's found the answers and is on course to get us going in the right direction again.

You're a walking contradiction.

1 to 1. No capacity gain.

So what's your context behind this shitshow of a season then? We lost Isak and Howe wasted the money we got for him on rubbish?

What is their main shopping street? Serious question here as I haven't got a clue I know they've got the Bridges but Eldon Square is nearer to SJP than the Bridges is to the SoL.

You can't see any wrong in him. That's ignorance unfortunately for you.

Just view the season as to how it was instead. With what you watched with your very own 2 eyes. You can add content to anything if you look hard enough.

Players come and players go. It's the nature of the game. Always has been, always will be. If losing 1 player can have that much impact, especially when the entire £125m was handed back over for replacements, then the project is built on sand I'm afraid. We could play out next season in exactly the same way and the likes of you will simply find new excuses as you're incapable of taking your head out of the sand because Howe won a trophy. Selling Isak isn't why we dropped 27 points from winning positions. It's also not why we continuously shipped last minute goals. It's not why we kept on coming out after HT looking completely clueless, disinterested and disorganised. It's not why we rolled over twice for Sunderland or shipped 7 in Barcelona. Yes it didn't help but the money was invested/wasted back into strengthening the team and as good as Isak was he missed basically a full season out of his 3 here due to injury so it's not like playing without him was some sort of alien concept.

Just got to suck it up and take our medicine unfortunately and accept that we rolled over and let them tickle our bellies twice to hand them 6 easy points to help them along their way.

Literally loads saying the heavy fixture list caused the bad season. Please keep up. We were rubbish from August and they are the facts. Argue against that all you like but you'd be wrong.

This 58 game season excuse is another load of bollocks when we were playing poorly from August. (We won 1 of our first 6 games, a fortune 1-0 win v Wolves against). Fact is we never got going. Most of the excuses being peddled are quite easily pulled apart.

I didn't say I disagreed with you. What I'm saying is that you can't put a timescale on anything, ie we've gone back 5 years, cos that's simply not true.

You can't say that like. Ludicrous trying to put a timescale on things like that. We went from relegation certainties to qualifying for the CL from 1 season to the next. Mackems were in Division 3 five years ago, now they've just qualified for Europa League. Things can turn around in a very short space of time. We can't afford to make any mistakes this summer though.

Other than Joelinton they are all his signings though so that's pretty damning in itself.

Ipswich

Aye it was buying money. Whilst I'd much rather not have the money winning best part of £400 was a decent consolation.