Chicken Dancer

You’re right but they’ll be absolutely fine. They’ll easily finish above the 3 teams that are coming up, I’d be surprised if any of them survived.

Couldn’t disagree more with this tbh. I think for his own sake we need a fast start else it’ll get pretty nasty pretty fast. Couple of my mates were down there yesterday and were saying the away end was starting to get a bit more vocal in their displeasure to say the least. There’s been a few rumblings at SJP this season too, a slow start and that will boil over, 100%. No doubt we will start the season at the Emirates, home to Liverpool and away to the mackems.

They’ll be fine. They’ll replace them with a cheaper alternative and rinse and repeat, just like Brighton have done for years now.

Think it’s about time people stop saying ‘they’ll be shit soon/next season’. People have been saying it since the second they got promoted and they’ve just finished 7th in their first season in the top flight in a decade. It’s very impressive and the fact they’ve deservedly done us twice along the way probably means it’s the best season they’ve ever experienced. It may not be pretty but it’s effective and signing Xhaka was a masterstroke. I see them more as the next Brighton/Brentford, proper data nonces but they’ll never really be in danger again imo. Staying up the first season was always going to be the hardest part and they’d had that wrapped up by about Christmas. Genuinely believe they’re here to stay and probably kick on now, though suspect the ceiling will be about Europa. From the late goals in the playoffs last season to beating us twice to qualifying for the Europa yesterday, it’s been one hell of a 12 months for them that’s for sure.

Voted 2 and that’s purely based on the performances in the cup and CL. League has been fucking dire, played like shit in 90% of the games (including ones we’ve won) and looked like a disjointed side for the most part. Glad it’s done an hopefully it is an anomaly, but I’ve next to no confidence in the backroom staff and I hate to say that.

No matter what anyone says, it’s fucking embarrassing these cunts came up, comfortably done us twice on their way to finishing 7th and qualifying for the Europa League. People will try and play it down but if you’d said that to me last summer I’d have laughed in your face. Absolutely shambolic, no dressing it up. Fair play to them though, dreamland.

One game a week mags. Been mint.

Mitigating circumstances though. We sold Isak in August.

Absolutely fucking shit like all this season. Thank fuck it’s over. Fucking embarrassing.

Don't have a problem with Tuchel showing some balls, but I'd have taken one of Palmer, Foden or MGW for sure.

I’d still love to win the Europa mind. Had some great times as a kid watching us on C5 then as a teen on the lash for UEFA/Europa games. Fair play to Villa and especially Emery. He fucking loves this competition.

Thinking the transfer window was decent in September vs May are two completely different things I bet Liverpool fans thought they had an all timer of a window in September, it hasn’t quite worked out like that.

Play much better when we have better footballers in the lineup. If we hadn’t be so hopeless at holding on to a lead since the international break (not even counting all season…) we’d be right in the mix for Europe.

Sunderland will do Chelsea like. Chelsea are a bunch of fannies and the mackems will be well up for it. Mental to think they’ve came up via the playoffs, beat us twice, very likely to finish above us and have a very good chance of playing in Europe next season. You’d have got a canny price for that last summer. Unbelievable season from them. Hats off.

Fucking shite they’re gonna be in Europe let’s not pretend otherwise. Pretty sure they’ll do Chelsea whilst Brentford get tanked at Anfield. Fuck this season man.

Murphy’s fucking shite man. If we can get anything over £10/15m I’d be biting their hands off. Lovely kid, great servant, absolutely shite. He can whip a mean ball though, I’ll give him that.

I’m ashamed to admit him having such a shit time and season has given me more joy than a lot of our games this year Hope the cunt pulls up in one of the warm up games. Fuck him.

Thought Villa were well overpriced tonight tbh. May not win but were as big as 13/5 midweek. Crackers considering how shite Liverpool are.

If he’s serious and we’re not in the market for a striker I struggle to see how anybody doesn’t see it as concerning tbh. The ones we have are either hopeless or very raw. Hopefully he is just chatting shit and a striker is near the top of our list.

Just seen this. That’s very fucking concerning.

As someone who’d probably get a ticket if we ever miraculously made a CL final, I’m genuinely in favour of reform. Nowt wrong with doing it on a rolling basis imo.

That pen Hearts didn’t get at the weekend looks even more a disgrace now. Did that even hit his hand there? Replays were crap.

Sadly reckon it’s a formality Hearts shit themselves at Celtic Park on Saturday. Hope I’m wrong like.

Correct, just surprised we haven’t as we love ripping off the latest fad.

Yeah I should have worded it better. Our back catalogue is sound, we just very rarely use it for some reason. The away games in the 00s and 10s used to have some belters, especially on the coach down. There’s so many good local folk songs that we’ve never adopted either, yet plenty used to/still get played at St James’. You’re right about Jamie Webster though, the Van Dijk song and others were coined by him IIRC. I’m genuinely surprised we don’t have our own version of ‘Allez allez allez’. I still get PTSD from the 2023 cup final and ‘we’ve got Bruno in the middle’ relentlessly being sang from the minute I got on the train to the minute I left.