Chicken Dancer

Fucking shit. If he doesn’t score he’s a waste of a shirt.

We’re shit, spent a fortune on shit and the atmosphere is shit. What a difference 12 months makes. Some really bad individual performances today which aren’t on Howe.

Don’t worry lads, we will be fine when we’re only playing once a week. Apparently anyway.

This is true, but we also played a first team when 6-1 up against Qarabag.

Conference League would be class for the fans but pretty sure there was a report recently saying that it would quite literally cost us money to be in it, so I doubt the club would be remotely arsed. As much as I’d love a few nights in Ayia Napa I doubt the club would, unfortunately a sad reality of modern football. Plus it would undoubtedly have a detrimental impact on our league form.

Probably in the minority here but I’d be quite gutted if we lost him. We’d really miss his output, including penalties.

If this happens, I’ll personally hunt you down, break into your house and perform the best fellatio known to man on you.

Agree with this mind. Seasons basically done, would be asking a lot to get into Europa and the Conference isn’t worth qualifying for (quite literally) and I hate myself for saying that. Get Woltemade up top with Ramsey, Tonali and Miley behind him. It can’t exactly be much worse.

Think the top and bottom of it is that there were people at the club who didn’t like his comments about the transfer policy being unfit for purpose. He wasn’t wrong of course, but suppose he could have said these things privately. (He probably did though) Don’t think Howe will ever be able to successfully work with a DOF long term, which is just based on a personal hunch.

Unbelievably a bigger waste of money than Elanga. Due to the current rules and the money involved in this deal, it really is up there for the worst signings we’ve ever made. Certainly for value for money anyway. There’s still time for it to be a decent (at best) signing, but I’d sooner just cut our losses in summer and fuck him off.

Can still get 11/4 on Bournemouth…. In all seriousness it’s a cracking price. Even 5/6 +1 and 7/4 DNB are very decent.

The notion that there isn’t a realistic manager in world football that couldn’t get a tune out of our players is a stretch like. There’ll be plenty. Also every chance Howe has us back up there again next season if afforded the chance.

Think Atletico have a very decent chance of knocking Arsenal out. Remember the cheek of them cunts when we got a valiant 0-0 in 22/23 just after the New Year. We played rugby and time wasted from the first minute were the quotes IIRC. Fucking cheek of it Lucky for them they’ve got a nice game next Saturday to put things right for the run in.

Yep. Anything the club does next will be considered a risk. A) stick with Howe, spend a lot of money on his players in the summer, we start shite and end up binning him by Christmas. Another manager comes in and probably wants a small overhaul next summer. b) part ways with Howe, appoint someone who just ends up being shit and we all end up pining for Howe again. There is of course the opposite of both options - where we can be really good with Howe or another manager next season. I think people on both sides of the argument struggle to see that as a possibility.

He’s a top coach but never in a million years an Arsenal or Liverpool manager. Maybe pre-Klopp Liverpool but absolutely no way now.

Will he get a better job? The level up from us - in this country anyway - wouldn’t touch him, with the exception of perhaps Man United. Man City, Arsenal and Liverpool wouldn’t touch him. Chelsea might but they appoint everyone and anyone. Not me having a pop at the bloke, he’s absolutely class, but I don’t think he’ll get a job at a much bigger club than us.

Aye if we were unlucky in most games and just not getting the rub of the green you’d know the results were on the horizon. Even when we’ve won we’ve either been fortunate or just about good enough, with the exception of 1 or 2 games. Been shite all year, writing was on the wall in September imo. Nothings really changed since then. In fact we may have regressed even more. £250m that we largely wasted last summer will go down as a huge sliding doors moment in the clubs (near) future I reckon. It was a real chance to bridge the gap to the next lot of teams, yet here we are with 6 games left and we’ve got £220m of that window sat on the bench

Lovely kid, shite at football. No serious team in the Premier League would be starting Jacob Murphy in 2026. He’s crap. Didn’t he sign a sneaky new deal as well?

We’re lucky there’s only 6 games left

It’s such a shame as he doesn’t deserve it whatsoever but if these season fizzles out (and it will btw) and we wind up finishing about where we are now that lap of honour against West Ham will be a sorry sight. I hate to say it but he can’t seem to get a tune out of them anymore. He had 3 weeks to prepare for this - on the back of another embarrassing display in a derby - and we were as tepid, boring and just awful as we have for the majority of this season. He deserves another shot at it if we’re being honest but I believe this version of NUFC peaked at Wembley in March 2025. What a way to peak btw, but we’re getting worse by the game. Finishing 12th-14th would be an absolute disgrace, let’s not dress it up.

When the same things keep happening over and over there comes a point where you have to point the finger at the coaching staff. Surely that’s not even in question.

No surprise. 1-0 up on 75 minutes and didn’t fancy us whatsoever. Carbon copy of 90% of every game we play. Fucking awful.

Signing him was a real turning point in the trajectory of the club. Best right back we’ve had an arguably the most important signing we’ve made. Certainly the most important in a generation.

Another season like this one and he wouldn’t see Christmas, let’s be honest. I think he’d accept his fate too, but I doubt we will be as shit next anyway.

I doubt Emery would sidestep from his Cush little job at Villa no. Point I was making is we still are an attractive job to perspective candidates and always likely will be. Whether they see us as a stepping stone is another thing but I don’t think we’d have any trouble attracting interest from decent names (whenever the time comes).