NUFC_Chris

Trying to claim it’s part of ‘levelling up the north’ etc. Manchester already gets way too much funding on that score, and have they not already had a stadium built with public funding? City’s former Commenwealth Games stadium?

Meanwhile we’re sitting up here getting crumbs.

I don’t think we should worry about it too much myself. The club is still going forward with its project and Eales, Staveley & Co would find a suitable replacement who may actually show the club a bit more loyalty. He’s a man in a suit at the end of the day. 

Wasn’t it the AGM at Alnwick Castle last year, that was shown in the Amazon doc?

“We only do what we are 100% convinced of”.

Trying to make it out we didn’t just tell them to fuck off. 

I just don’t believe any of it.

No way we’re selling him man. 

Love Eddie me, best manager we’ve had in decades. Course we’re going to go through bad spells. 

1 hour ago, Checko said:

God I miss the good old days when Eddie was untouchable and guided us to 2 wins and a draw over Chelsea, PSG and Man U in a week with effectively 11 senior players fit and we had the most points in the premier league over a 10 game period despite competing in the toughest champions league group and getting through ridiculous cup draws, all while dealing with the worst injury crisis I can remember.

 

The first week of December was so long ago now.

 

 

Seriously though, this year is a big learning experience for Eddie as well as the players. It's the first time he's dealt with Europe and realistically the squad isn't really a champions league level squad yet. Plus the general toughness of fixtures and injury situations... I can't imagine he'll get a harder season. But tough lessons make great experience & he'll be looking to adjust and improve.

 

Let's face it, 3 good results in a row or 3 bad results in a row and the mood around a football club completely changes. Just need to hang on and the good ones will start coming back.

Add to that the ridiculous cup draws we’ve had. Every one has been a top side, including in the Carabao. Then we draw the Mackems away in the FA Cup which is a hot potato as well.

I think we’ve done remarkably well to cope with all that, including the injury crisis, and still be in seventh. 

Thought I read on here the other day Man Yoo were class…

Howe has worked wonders with this squad given the injuries. The same 11 have played PSG away, Chelsea and Man Utd and were unlucky not to win all 3. The same 11 playing a game every three days or so. We’ve done amazingly well. We were doing fine tonight til the first fuck up. Get over it and move on. 

It’s a shame partnerships like this Fenwick’s one haven’t happened before. A sad indictment of years of shite ownership. A Sage partnership incoming perhaps?

Knowing how Howe works, I don’t think he’ll bring Botman straight back into the starting 11 either. Whether or not he should is a different matter.

Every time there’s a derby coming they sack their manager looking for a bounce ?

11 minutes ago, OCK said:

 

Aye that's my concern, too. Hopefully other fans have filled it in similar, showing no interest in all the fancy shit to trap you in the stadium for 5 hours, or huge fuck off seats. People just want to see the team play and have somewhere to piss. 

 

1. More seats

2. Better toilets

3. Better entrances/exits

4. Greggs

5. Aquaruiam with giant seahorses being ridden by magpies (obviously the magpies are wearing scuba gear so they don't drown)

Aye, I hit no interest to all of those daft hospitality seats. Imagine the cost when they’re already charging, what, £600+ a pop for those new hospitality areas?

Received the email and replied. Lots of focus in the questions regarding getting people into the ground earlier if offering better bars/beer/food etc. Similarly what percentage extra would you be willing to pay for your season ticket in a renovated SJP. 
My only concern is we don’t get flooded with hospitality type areas as the atmosphere will be shit and people can’t afford silly money for their season tickets up here. 

24 minutes ago, Minhosa said:

Hypothetically, and I'm not trying to mischieve make here, but imagine you're Eddie Howe and it's the last game of the season. Hall is currently a loan with an obligation after x appearances, let's say he's one game away from that deal being activated, and the game is dead rubber.

 

Bearing in mind, he's a £30m fee for next summer and you've only got a budget of say £70m for next season.

 

Do you play him and tie up the budget or leave him out to free up the funds for next summer? He returns to Chelsea.

 

I'm interested in what people would choose.

 

FWIW - I'd play him and commit to the spend based more on how successful our recruitment team have been with pretty much everybody else perhaps rather than having been blown away by the initial impact of Hall. Also considering he's still very young and english.

Is the obligation definitely based on number of appearances? Personally, I'd definitely sign him as his potential is massive. There's others in the squad who are more likely to be moved on to make room in my opinion.

Fuck me

Police will be dusting off their riot gear

4 minutes ago, jack j said:

Be a few sitting ducks around. Some naive cunts follow us thesedays

 

The march of the white trainers

I sit in the Gallowgate and the atmosphere was good in my opinion (as it always is) especially second half obviously. It did start off a bit quiet but I think that’s largely down to there not being a huge amount of positivity pre match. Crowd seemed a little on edge. After the goal it was markedly better.
I don’t really know what Mehrdad’s on about. Possibly he’s meaning more in a general sense and I of course would agree with that. Thing is there’s so many tickets go to ballots and you never get the same group of people going and sitting together which has a detrimental effect on the atmosphere. If they wanted to, things could be put in place to help improve the atmosphere but that’s more on them and their ticketing system in my opinion. 

Just now, madras said:

For those at the match, when the var stuff was coming up on the screen possible ball out if play, possible foul, possible wearing a tache in a public place etc.......was anyone expectting the next one to say "look, we're trying to find something......anything, to disallow this goal.

At the time it felt like exactly that. I was convinced they were going to overrule it for something. The ref was awful all game and was booed off at half time. From my spot in the Gallowgate I didn't think there was anything wrong with the goal. The "push" could have been given, but the VAR officials obviously didn't think there was enough in it to award the foul. I agree with others that the defender was stooping to try and flick it back with his head and fucked up. It's just ranting and raving from their point of view on something that's entirely subjective. Embarrassing behaviour.

1 hour ago, wormy said:

Sorry if it's already been posted but for some reason this was recommended on my Reddit feed and I'm not mad about it. Absolute fucking riot.

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gunners/s/cPzOk1MRQX

 

@Mike saw you embedded a Reddit post not long ago. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Always get 'The link could not be embedded because an error occurred on www.reddit.com.' pop up.

Christ. So fucking entitled it’s surreal.

Not too happy with the draws, it’s pretty suspect in my opinion. I certainly don’t fear em but a home draw would’ve been nice.

O’Neil frothing at the mouth about the pen decision in his post-match. I thought it was soft, but I can see why VAR didn’t overrule it.

I reckon this’ll be a back 4 of:

Livramento, Lascelles, Dummett & Targett

We’ve got to really, Schar and Burn have played every game.

42 minutes ago, LFEE said:

Very surprised to the criticism of the atmosphere as I thought it was fine in the Gallowgate. The team were urged on whilst behind and cheered off for their efforts. Goals change games and they also change atmospheres and we didn’t score yesterday.

 

I do think some of you are a bit unrealistic with your expectations at times in search of some atmospheric narnia. Yes things can be done to improve this over time (choose your seat, new stadium, increased standing areas) but as it stands we’ve still got one of the best atmospheres going. Wether that’s a low bar these days I don’t know.

 

 

 

Same. Thought it was good in the Gallowgate Upper. Definitely depends where you sit.