HaydnNUFC

The no idea if realistic XI. Really struggled to think of a striker, no idea who we're looking at, could afford and would come here. Would love Gabriel Jesus here, but was a toss up between him, Nunez or Osimhen. Also have Milan signed Botman yet? Swap out with fuck knas if so.

Been a while since we've had a resident mackem tbf. @Stray Mackem I remember used to be alright, until you got him on Brexit.

They're both nice, the black and white one is lush. No idea why the small blue bits on the shirt are such a light shade, should be dark blue if there's any blue on it at all. Colours on a magpie are black, white and dark blue. Wouldn't be averse to going back to dark blue numbers a la 2003-05 instead of red tbh, never been a huge fan of them. Also really hope none of our kits are Saudi green, easy thing for Miguel, Tariq and friends to hit us with as if there's not enough already.

16 minutes in.

It's still shite. Super League through the back door.

Fuck off.

Had a look for the stats from that game and found these. 60% possession, 26 shots, 20 shots on target, 19 corners. Lost 1-4. Like a game of UT on Fifa.

Aye, think they'll go up now. They need to be aware though that the jump from League One to the Championship nowadays is massive, biggest jump in the pyramid imo. Will be a battle to stay up next season.

Aye. Marc Corby though, the guy who runs NUFC 1980-1994, said that us missing out on Europe in 1994-95 changed the fanbase quite a bit. Great days and atmospheres after that obviously, but it will be inevitable. This season, next season and the one after (assuming we recruit correctly) will be the seasons that we look back on in years to come and say that we enjoyed the most.

His goal away at Spurs in December 1993 is something you'd see Messi score, unreal.

When people talk about great PL striker partnerships, it proper irks me that Beardsley and Cole is never mentioned. 67 league goals in a season and a half together ffs.

This may be harsh, more 'underperforming' than overrated and even though I love him, Paulo Dybala. Was tipped to be one of the best players in the world in 2017-18 and his numbers hugely suggested that, but since that season he has not hit those heights. Injuries and never being central often enough at Juve when Ronaldo was there has affected that though imo.

2004, last home game of the season to relegated Wolves, drew 1-1. Shearer missed a pen and no one stayed for the lap of honour at the end. .com match report in the spoiler. One thing I thought about reading that and yesterday when the Man City goals were going in with the state of that ground, I hope we don't become soulless. Atmospheres et al will always drop off as you improve as expectations change, like a home game against Brighton in 5 years time won't have as good an atmosphere as the one this season did. But if we were to move from SJP (hope not) and we're consistently in Europe and challenging there's going to be a huge tail off in regards to atmosphere. The guy who does the NUFC 1980-1994 accounts on Twitter and YouTube I've asked why he cuts off the name of his accounts at 1994, and he said that the expectations after 1993-94 went up quite a bit and the atmospheres and occasions at SJP were hugely affected and weren't what they used to be. It's inevitable but it's disheartening to think about a bit. Long way to go I suppose.

Worrying. Shouldn't have bought Weghorst for Burnley.

We were linked in January iirc.

Don't think he was a terrible player but Eidur Gudjohnsen.

Declan Rice - Already been mentioned before. Good, solid midfielder but plenty just like him in Europe. Jack Wilshere - Honestly had no idea what he was good at yet and almost always injured but inexplicably made every England squad under Hodgson.

No chance we'd get Son. Paqueta I'd definitely take though I know little about him as a player. Raphinha I'd love here but he'll probably have better options than us. Bissouma I'd take but he could still be a sex offender iirc. Kamara is available on a free this summer and hasn't been arrested for sexual assault. I don't think we'll go back in for Carlos in the summer due to his age and the price. Would still take though. Oblak? Dunno we could get him. I think a GK is something we'll look at medium term ie next summer.

Either way we're safe and he should barely feature next season, so who gives a flying fuck

We bought Wood because we desperately needed a body in for what was a crucial match against Watford on the 15th January, and could get a fit and ready body with a record of goalscoring in the PL. He was never going to be the long term answer that we would have up front. He's been very poor, probably past his mediocre best but has scored an equaliser in a game that we went on to win and a winner in a 1-0 win. 6 points that he's contributed to directly. Take 6 points off us and we're 3 from 18th. Worth it given the future. He'll hopefully barely feature next season, if he does then something will have gone catastrophically wrong in the summer.

to both. Kamara would be the perfect number 6 to allow Bruno more of the ball, especially against the big sides. He was starved of possession today and v Liverpool because of it.

Also hate the 'where were you when you were shit' chant every bloody time we go down there. The Etihad is woeful but Maine Road was always full. When they were shit.

We won't be able to shift everyone we want, nor will we be able to get all the players in the positions that we want in the summer. I think we'll be looking at and need to look at getting a striker, number 6, winger, CB and Targett. Then next summer another CB, another striker, another winger and a goalkeeper.

Dummett has. Longstaff is out of contract in the summer. There was talk that we were looking to renew it but fucking hell do I hope we don't.