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2013-14 was the result of Pardew's persistence at convincing Ashley and the fans that being in the Europa League was a bad thing to cover his own failings in 2012-13. We were 6 points off top on Boxing Day yet we sold Cabaye in January without replacing him even though the club had already agreed to his exit earlier on in the season. We then completely fell apart and broke all those lovely records of consecutive defeats, games without scoring, home games without scoring etc. That team with Cabaye in the first half of that season though was better than the 2011-12 one, best we'd had since SBR and only bettered by the squad we have now imo. 2014-15 was dreadful for the most part bar that spawny run of 5 straight league wins in October/November. Pardew left around NYE and we didn't bother replacing him despite candidates such as Tuchel and Galtier being linked (the former of whom saying he would've been very interested in the job had we approached him then). Charnley desperately wanted McClaren who turned us down, gave Carver the rest of the season which was a decision that almost relegated us on the final day of the season in order to wait for McClaren to become available whilst his Derby team imploded in the Championship. Who ended up relegating us the following season anyway.

If we beat Leeds we'll be ahead of 1994-95 at the same point (17 games) so it'd be our best start to a PL season since 1995-96. If we score 2 goals against Leeds it'll also be our best goalscoring return at this point since 1995-96.

NUFC after sixteen games - all PL seasons: 2022/23 33 points, 2nd (scored 32, conceded 11) 2021/22 10 points, 19th (scored 17, conceded 34) 2020/21 19 points, 15th (scored 18, conceded 26) 2019/20 22 points, 11th (scored 17, conceded 23) 2018/19 13 points, 15th (scored 13, conceded 22) 2017/18 15 points, 16th (scored 16, conceded 25) 2015/16 16 points, 15th (scored 18, conceded 31) 2014/15 23 points, 7th (scored 18, conceded 22) 2013/14 27 points, 6th (scored 23, conceded 22) 2012/13 17 points, 14th (scored 18, conceded 23) 2011/12 27 points, 6th (scored 21, conceded 19) 2010/11 19 points, 11th (scored 24, conceded 25) 2008/09 16 points, 16th (scored 19, conceded 24) 2007/08 22 points, 11th (scored 23, conceded 26) 2006/07 19 points, 14th (scored 15, conceded 18) 2005/06 22 points, 10th (scored 14, conceded 15) 2004/05 20 points, 12th (scored 27, conceded 31) 2003/04 24 points, 5th (scored 25, conceded 20) 2002/03 28 points, 6th (scored 26, conceded 23) 2001/02 30 points, 3rd (scored 27, conceded 19) 2000/01 24 points, 9th (scored 18, conceded 16) 1999/00 16 points, 15th (scored 27, conceded 30) 1998/99 20 points, 13th (scored 21, conceded 21) 1997/98 25 points, 9th (scored 20, conceded 21) 1996/97 30 points, 4th (scored 26, conceded 17) 1995/96 39 points, 1st (scored 36, conceded 14) 1994/95 34 points, 3rd (scored 34, conceded 17) 1993/94 28 points, 4th (scored 31, conceded 15)

Aye, can see Everton's season being a carbon copy of last season; manager sacked mid season, new one comes in, home form proceeds to keep them up. Which was what the mackems did for years before they eventually went. Given the state of Everton atm I can see them doing that but going down in the next few years unless they luck out on a manager being class.

Fuck it, went on a gazillionth surf of old NUFC stuff. How I'm feeling at the moment; in the SBR video just replace when he says 'Manchester United' with 'Manchester City'.

Another fucking bonkers stat; this calendar year we've only conceded 5 league goals at SJP from open play. 1 v Watford in January. 1 v Liverpool in April. 2 v Manchester City in August. 1 v Bournemouth in September. All the others have been set piece goals. The last opposition player to score against us at SJP this season was Ivan Toney's pen for Brentford. The World Cup break skews this a bit but still, fucking hell. Especially given the absolute mess we were in 2021.

Fuck VAR.

I'm expecting him to score when he gets in good positions now, which is a hell of a far cry from 18 months ago. No sign of it stopping either.

Was he celebrating that tackle to our fans or Leicester's? Even more sensational if it was the latter.

A win here would match our longest ever PL winning streak: 7 in 1996-97.

Forest, Southampton and Bournemouth imo. Think Everton will still get enough points at Goodison a la last season and Wolves will start to improve under Lopetegui.

Surely that's a pen?

Think its absolutely huge that we play 4/6 of the 'big 6' as well as Brighton at SJP in the second half of that season.

“I want people to dream about their football club. They should, we should all be dreamers at heart. Some people are the opposite and say ‘we can’t do that’, but when you ask them why, they can’t give a reason. Well, I say, ‘Why not?’” - Kevin Keegan

In here and in the Benitez thread from 15 January onwards, a truly fantastic read.

Should've sacked him in January and replaced him with Benitez, I believe.

Was in the away end for that, proper grim stuff. We've just been a completely different side and club as a whole post January.

I remember when we lost 0-3 at home to Leicester almost two years ago to the day; how grim it was, how dead of a footballing institution we were and how many lightyears Leicester were ahead of us. But look at us now, 2nd in the league, thinking about poaching one of Leicester's best players in the near future and talking about the top 4. Fuck me.

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Thought he was brilliant today.

What a win and performance. Botman, Bruno and Wood outstanding. 2nd in the league (for the time being) man