Kid Icarus

Jeeeeezus, horrible. Wish him a speedy recovery

No posts about this? Been told he's been playing with a broken toe.

What time did they release? Got on at 8:55 and ordered no problem like

If they're not immediately sold out I'll do very well to resist that t-shirt's charms.

From here onwards. As I said at the time, fuck her and every fan like her. Not her fault of course, I'm sure she's canny, but still.

If it make you feel any better, I got mine from American about a month back.

...or St James' Park.

It's a big 'that'

Anyone got the owld archive?

It's a fantastic example if you get into how the huge companies stay ahead through lobbying, protectionism, lawfare, buying IPs etc. Football in general has so many excellent allegories imo, not just with capitalism.

Think it went to VAR but they went with no decision on the basis that it was really funny and that Arsenal are cunts.

The logical reason is purely just that no form good or bad lasts forever. The irony here of course is that our form is actually good, it's the performances that are the problem.

It can and will change just as it did from good to bad away form in the first place. I do think we have quite a few factors affecting the way that we play though and it's left us exposed. In terms of players, last season our defense couldn't press up because Dubravka can't do the sweeper keeper stuff. This year it seems that we can't do it because with Botman out Burn can't do the snappy tackles on the halfway line that Botman can. We would have massively overpaid, but that's one of Guehi's strengths. Then there's just the confidence factor, playing badly breeds playing badly, playing well breeds playing well. If we can get into a bit more of rhythm it'll hopefully snowball. It'd be remiss to ignore the impact the off-the-field stuff is probably having as well tbh, not least on our support.

Don't think we have enough of our form overall or away form to go on to make any season-long judgements yet tbh, especially considering the results have been better despite the worse/same performances.

It would be down to whoever's to blame for that shambles of a transfer window more than anything imo. I don't think it's reasonable to say 'if you stand still you go backwards' on one hand, but then also say 'oh but if we do go backwards then that's on the Manager' on the other.

And through the local journalists rather than the club website too. Strange decision all-round.

He basically said no such thing, he said he was a step removed from negotiations. Howe came out with that interview because Mitchell was brought in apparently with Eales not telling Howe.

The main itch I'm scratching is the one when I see posts about the reaction being media driven tbh. Proper annoys me, I can't lie.

Set up by Mitchell, quoted verbatim and not a hint of what he said being spun into a negative until Hope did his own piece on it.

Good way of putting it

I'd encourage anyone who believes this (and who's also bored enough to bother) to go and see whether the reaction came after Mitchell's interview or after the articles about it. tl;dr - it was after the interview