Guybrush

I think they will be looking at things long term. It doesn't matter if Bruce is still here this week if you're thinking 5, 10 years ahead. Personally, if they have a long term strategy it doesn't even necessarily matter to me if we get relegated this season. If the investment comes, and good decisions are made to improve the club (like replacing Bruce), then the change we want will come.

Even if by some extraordinary turn of events those complaints were successful, it is still a massive win. If the consortium were forced to sell, it wouldn't go back to Ashley, and we'd have less of a moral dilemma. We've won no matter what.

Such a strange feeling. I've been putting more and more distance between myself and the club as the years have gone on. No longer attending games or even watching the highlights (if you can call them that). Not because of the performances, or our win loss ratio, but because of our ownerships apathy and clear neglect for the club. Now, it feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders, a weight I didn't even know I still had. Forget the money, forget potential signings, we have a club that tries again.

If this happens today I will shake the hand of every man, woman, and child I see in town. COVID be damned!

It's insane how positive every media outlet is. Must. Not. Hope.

Looking at this tweet reminds me of how rocked to the core I was when I realised that 'spelk' was not a standard English word.

I would rather Tom Jones speak for the fans tbh

Why? Why do we have to hope to be taken over by an authoritarian government just to compete? Why do we have to protest on the UK's version of Fox News to compete? Why do we have to plead with our owner to compete in the league he wants us in? Don't mind me - these just are just the questions I scream into the night.

Got to agree with the Sancho and Sterling hype - they have been fantastic. And, on top of it all, not an England brass band in sight. Which in the end, is the real victory.

This used to be a thread of airplane watching, detective work and a mutual distain for the writings of Luke Edwards. As a lurker and reader it was a simpler, more hopeful time.

It's got to the point where I care less for Steve Bruce than I did for Alan Pardew. How is that even possible? Maybe it's rosy retrospection, but as poor as Pardew was, at least at one point we had a decent run (not that I'm attributing that run to him). The right thing for the club is for Bruce to go now, but unfortunately thanks to club senior management, the right thing for Bruce is to stay. It's looking grim.

I check this thread for positivity dammit. Do we have to start a new positive optimism thread? Is anyone taking title suggestions? I'd like to go with 'Super Positive Thread II Turbo HD Remix Revival"

Maybe Bruce means it's morally wrong to watch his style of football? In which case, I agree.

They are two separate issues. Conflating the two issues is disingenuous.

Screw that. It's not about who is in the big six. It is the very concept of big picture that is the problem.

I demand someone with expertise explain this to me. I demand it.

The forum has become sentient and has answered this question in full.

He isn’t. He’s a mighty pirate How appropriate, you fight like a cow.

Again, and I can't stress this enough, I just don't know who he is or why people post about him. I know nothing about the takeover, current ownership, or anything else bar the underwhelming fact this deal was made a while ago.

Doesn't that mean it'd less likely to have the breaks you'd need to get the Saudi money. Yes but would also mean Saudis would be aware of the extension before they bid Taking the tweet with a pinch of salt mind I still don't understand who or what Steve Wraith is, but that tweet is accurate.

Not to be branded ITK about the club, because I'm not, but I do know that this partnership was agreed ages ago (Jan/Feb) this year.

Seems like an easy way for the PL to say 'look the UK government has taken action, all is well' and move things along. Who knows at this point though!

This kind of opinion always intrigues me. Do you actually think it's a case of him actively looking to avoid the ball over him just having a s*** footballing brain (as evidenced by the insane levels of thick as pigshit needless fouls he'd commit mentioned by toon25 above)? Just find it a hard thing to believe that someone could become/remain a Premier League footballer with the mindset of actively avoiding the ball being a full-on trait. Please don't take this as any kind of defence of the disgusting little scrotum btw. More a broad thought I've had before that cropped up in my mind again from your post. It is hard to believe but I do genuinely believe he actively looked to avoid the ball. He would always call for the ball when he knew he was man marked and stay quiet when he was actually in space. I think he was aware of his limitations but had to be seen to be doing something, so adopted that as a strategy. I know nothing about his character or him as a person, but from a football perspective I'm glad he is no longer a part of the team.

Yeah you're right, it can work both ways. Will be interesting to see over next few weeks. It's a shame because these are the perfect conditions to test that theory!

After seeing Richie's goal yesterday, it got me thinking about confidence players and players that are 'great in training'. With the absence of crowds, I wonder if some players will take more chances, or feel less pressure (and as a result play better), because there isn't any immediate feedback from from the crowd telling them they've made a mistake? I'm not necessarily saying that Richie is a confidence player btw. The goal just reminded me of someone having a pop in training.