Ghandis Flip-Flop

Chelsea are hilarious like. I’ve said it before but spending a billion on potential is mental. Especially given the fact they’ve sold potential with PL experience to fund it. I couldn’t help but think watching Tomori on Tuesday that he'd instantly walk into their starting 11. The same for the likes of Abraham too. They’ve not had a coherent plan for ages tbh

I dunno either I’ve not been since I had a trial for Newcastle Gosforth as a 17 year old (I joined the RAF at 18) ? I’d imagine so though as my sister takes my nephew to watch the Falcons quite regularly and has to drive from Ashghanistan

Aye hopefully a few players given the manager some nice difficult decisions to make in the coming weeks. It’s mental to see all levels of the club actually performing well and acting like a professional, competent organisation

Literally scored their 8th as I was typing my last post

They’re not doing too bad today, they’ve just scored their seventh without reply away to Bradford. Still about ten minutes to go for more too

GTFI, was nervy at times and I nearly punched the telly every time Don Goodman showed his bias, but it’s three points in the bag and hopefully a little bit of pressure off the lads

Watch it again then I suppose. They nearly scored from a break where Norgard stands on Trippier's foot. The off the ball blocking they’ve been getting away all game isn’t even subtle either. it’s a big reason we've been struggling in the final third, every time we've looked to run in behind we've been body checked off the ball

Craig Pawson has been utterly lifting mind. some of the stuff happening off the ball is blatant

Would you like to tell me which one of our starting midfielders played well at Brighton? Bit odd to single out Longstaff in this context

Could it also be a case of because he's a local lad who's come through the academy, rather than a £40M signing that his actual ability and contribution is under-rated?

Clark was a regular starter for the first 2.5 years in the PL, until he fell out with KK after Batty was signed. When ironically we stopped creating as many chances and allowed Man Utd to chase us down

Sort of agree with the point, but I’d argue it was right wing bell ends who get annoyed by Gen-Z hat he was trying to get on board, if anything he’s alienated the kids since a king over.

were we not actually better off for points 94/95 until we sold Cole?

To be fair he's on my ignore list, but people keep quoting his "hot takes". I’ve also just done my last pre GNR long run whilst affected by sciatica, so I might be more angry than normal

Incessantly shit posting doesn’t actually mean you have any insight either tbf

Well I'm glad everyone else is confident regarding Brentford, I have a recollection of Schade pulling us all over the place last season. Let’s just hope we have our first choice CB pairing back, or I dread to think what he'd do to Burn and Lascelles

Made a joke on Twitter about 15 minutes in that I’m wondering if a Paul McCartney type conspiracy about Bruno might take hold. He looks a different player from the one in his first year here at the minute

https://x.com/thesecretscout_/status/1697724191452078176?s=61&t=WnClsvSdaSTVODBPOIOFZg

https://x.com/nufc/status/1697708479413211605?s=61&t=WnClsvSdaSTVODBPOIOFZg

Sounds good to me, now we haven’t got an utter fraud in the dugout

What am I reading in here sometimes man? ??. Man Utd finished above us last season despite their record against the top 9 sides. Did anyone seriously expect us to challenge for the title this year? I certainly didn’t, but I hoped we'd improve on last years results. However, apparently unlike a few on here, I expected that improvement to come from beating the likes of Palace, Bournemouth and the other smaller teams that parked the bus at St James'. Yes it would’ve been nice to beat Liverpool and City, but those results do not define how our season is going to pan out. And anyone trying to make any significant judgement on the team's ability or our managers potential based on such a small sample of results, needs their heads read. I'm honestly not sure if some posters genuinely believe what they’re writing, or if they genuinely think it’s the done thing to come out with ridiculous hot takes for hipster kudos or something. I mean I didn’t think I’d ever beat some of the bullshit takes on the likes of Pitchside YouTube and then I read this thread.

FFS how many times, the whole squad was largely pish when Cabbagehead was boss. The squad has turned it around very quickly. I don’t think it’s rocket science to suggest that there are major reasons why multiple players have experienced massive changes in fortune post takeover. For example why are those so sure that the REAL Miggy is the Bruce era one; not expecting Joelinton to revert to the player he was under Bruce? After all there’s two and an half seasons worth of stats to back up that he can't kick a ball. Its the same rationale and evidence ias suggesting that last seasons Miggy was a total fluke. Its not like the whole club, coaching staff and just general level of professionalism has been transformed, since these players MIRACULOUSLY (apparently) experienced upturns in form.

Honestly when you look at the youth prospects they’ve let leave (Guehi, Tomori, Abraham et al…) to go out and buy other team's prospects. Yes they MIGHT have higher ceilings, but given what they’ve spent you’d expect their team to be full of ready and proven winners already. i just find it utterly baffling myself.

Wonder if this makes it finally hit home for some people; that the argument about young women being attacked shouldn’t have been out and about, or been dressed more modestly etc etc…it’s not their job to police other knackers behaviour

Yes this is all true but using his output from 2.5 seasons of Bruceball and half a season where Eddie didn't play him skews those stats massively. For what it's worth I don't think he’ll get the same return as last year, but I don't expect him to go another season without scoring either. Not least because as this season has shown so far, we aren't solely attacking down the right this year.