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Gone from a 9 to a 7. Was encouraged by most of the last half hour on Saturday, and it's useful that Howe will get the best part of two weeks with most of the squad. Clearly the next 3 home fixtures are key.

This is my takeaway as well. Amazing what happens when you stop treating every game as if you're a non-league side up against Barcelona

This is it. It's like a division 4 team rocking up at Old Trafford in the cup

Part of me thinks some of the comments aimed at Jones this last week have been a bit harsh. But fuck it, nobody is forcing him to pick this back three. Or put Ritchie up against Lamptey. Brighton have been woeful themselves this half as well. Imagine coming up against this opposition and you're only ahead through a soft penalty.

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The recruitment side of things gets a lot easier when/if a DoF is appointed, especially if they are a big name. And if they're not, hell surely they Keegan could be appointed to an ambassadorial role and wheeled out whenever they need to talk a player into signing.

Now admittedly I don't keep a particularly close eye on our mates from down the road but have they got a lot of injuries at the minute, or are they as fucked as it looks? Just looked at their game tonight and no idea who most of their team are. Honestly only recognise/ ever heard of three of the starting eleven (and one of them I only recognise because he's named after the strip of skin next to your arsehole.)

Think overall this is a cracking idea like. Wrote a few articles for The Mag back when it was in print and not a big steaming pile of online shitbait. Was really therapeutic and could do with something like thay in my life right now.

If @Stifler gets access to the oven he could do a cookery class once a week?

If it's aimed at putting pressure on KSA then I'm not sure what they're going to achieve other than some nice headlines. It's a bit late for that, the PL already passed them through the test. If they're meeting to advocate introducing human rights into the test in a meaningful way going forward then I'm all for it. The fact that the takeover was held up on account of pirated tv rights but nobody gave a second thought to a journalist being chopped up in an embassy is something I'll never fully comprehend like.

I think there's a difference between: On the one hand the way the media (written media and talksport in particular) go on about NUFC fans as well as, I suppose, the minority of dafties that swallow everything these outlets say. And on the other hand your average match-going English football fan that you meet and speak to before/after games. I agree think that the media love to run an "entitled, delusional geordies" piece especially in the age of the internet where traffic is everything to the business model. It's all a bit old hat now imo, although the widespread furore over the Bruce sacking did surprise me. But the idea that English football fans are, and have been for 20 years, permanently in a seething state of emnity towards NUFC fans is also basically bollocks, despite what RTG would like you to believe.

Given that the trust are (presumably) trying to se what can be gained from these owners in terms of official fan representation within the club they can't exactly be writing to them as "you genocidal scum." Does it sound a bit cheesey? Absolutely and they'll have to take the criticism and lolz on the chin, but I can see why they did it.

It comes across like they have to use it because it's his official title and not using it cpuld be culturally disrespectful. I think it maybe loses something in translation because it sounds a bit daft in English. I thought it was quite funny on the day of the takeover and the presenter on SSN went from basically saying (and I paraphrase) "this awful regime has committed some horrific atrocities. Here's a statement from one of the cunts himself, His Excellency..." sounded completely inappropriate

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Greg's comments are more measured than Hurst (not that that would be hard mind.) I'm just not sure what the article was supposed to achieve or why the trust got involved with it tbf. There isn't even any real insight or novelty to it- the best bits are a rehash of the age old "deluded geordies" argument which Alex does his best to live up to with a bizarre pop at Watford.

I've never been Hurst's biggest fan but bloody hell that is poor even by his standards. Is Caulkin sure it wasn't Michael fucking Martin he was interviewing there??

Having a Maradona Cup without Napoli is stupid anyway. Wonder if they were invited and turned it down or they weren't a big enough "brand" to be invited.

This is nothing more than a general observation (so don't anyone go taking this as aimed at them personally please.) But since the takeover happened this forum has been off its absolute fucking nut.

Fair enough. The club tweet with it was 15:58 so I just assumed that's when the statement was put out. Also heard a theory (that I'm not sure on the logic behind) that it was a hastily-arranged "fuck you" in response to the Palace banner. I hope not because we really don't need the club being run by daft impulsive types. Agree with your comments re the first club statement, but my comments were also about KIO who in hindsight should have approached the club in private rather than tipping SSN off that they urgently needed to raise the issue woth the club. (In fairness they didn't actually release a statement themselves which is what I had incorrectly remembered.)

Tbf, the statement came out at half time in the Palace game but the rest of the post I completely agree with. The wording of KIO's initial statement was OTT and preachy and would clearly cause those it was aimed at to double down and continue. As I posted yesterday, they're now in a position I don't envy- if they're going to issue a strongly worded statement everytime they see something that "could be offensive" they're going to be very busy and piss a lot of people off. Starting with Crystal Palace. Nobody gets everything right all the time and hopefully there's a lesson been learnt about picking their battles.

I think in the case of Palace fans it's more along the lines of if you're going to set yourself up as the voice of moral outrage on football, hold up banners criticising other clubs and release childish statements about deluded geordies supporting the saudis, then you might want to make sure first that your own owner (who you all speak extremely highly of) isn't in bed with exactly the same people. Or you're going to look a bit hypocritical and silly yourself. When people start using the comparison to actually defend the Saudi regime and it's actions (Twitter, dont ask) or shut down criticism of the owners then that's when we start looking ridiculous.

Fuck knows. Excessive freedom of expression in a built-up area? Too many people's feelings hurt in a public place? One thing this takeover has exposed is how thin-skinned a lot of our fans are. We need to learn to take things on the chin more. The takeover makes us fair game for banners like this. In turn, if the takeover goes as well as everyone seems to think it will and we're sweeping all before us in a few years time, Palace are now fair game for us to rub it in their faces when we play them. And so on and so forth. Like it or not it's the nature of the beast and if people are that easily offended then for their own good they might be better off going to watch rugby union or something.

Worth mentioning, in fairness to Palace fans, that they've previously help up multiple banners criticising the premier league and the way modern football is. So it's clearly something they're "into" and this isn't a one-off just aimed at us. That said, the tone of the banner and statement aimed at our fans is unnecessary and looks bitter.

No, I thought we'd be shit. Probably not as bad as we were mind. But what's that got to do with anything?