Kid Icarus

Apology accepted.

Sorry, I was agreeing with you. Should have made it more obvious.

Yes Yorkie, but that was then, this is now. Or something.

No surprise there, its a running theme with posters like you.

I imagine stuff like that rubs people up the wrong way tbh. Describing your opinion as reality is the exact opposite of being objective, and a bit like 'simple as' and 'end of' that sort of hubris tends to come paired with the biggest load of bollocks opinions you're ever likely to read.

Mackem-ish accent?

I don't think that's any less mental tbh, but each to their own.

Gut feeling for me has always been that Ramsey is Willock's replacement ahead of selling him. On paper he should be an upgrade, a strong runner like Willock, but also good between the lines, with an eye for goal and a functioning alarm clock. Weirdly, much like Willock it's about whether he can regain his form after a season or two of injury woes.

Gallowgate Shots are the only ones who've managed to not completely embarrass themselves this week and even then Chris has been pretty close.

Ah right. I'll not bother.

If there's always better out there, Man City should have sacked Pep last season. They presumably didn't because there isn't always better out there.

Just reading back, are you the same poster from a while back who said we should have two managers?

This nonsense again. Having an opinion on someone's else's opinion is just another opinion, it's not censorship.

All it's ever taken for them to be inconsistent is for a couple of players to be out injured or for their teams to be in transition. Very telling that you won't afford Howe the same courtesy you're giving managers who've been incredibly inconsistent relative to the quality of their squads and their spending power.

See you then.

As an alternative to what it actually is, yeah I'd take it.

Yeah when our form picked up in general it was very "who we should be beating" away form I think. Saying that I think we were unlucky against Brighton and Arsenal at the end and probably would have won with a striker who wasn't trying to stop us getting in the CL.

Ahh I get you. The home bit threw me. Yeah, our away form felt okay last season tbh, particularly when you include cups.

Can't work out what this means and how the answer isn't just our actual position of 5th.

Yeah, I suppose it's not that egregious. All 4 have been really good for the most part and there's not a huge amount between them.

These posts are reading like a battle in one-upmanship. Any advances on 4th best CB this season and not better than Jamal Lascelles?

Because you're a smart dude. I would expect you to know that 'panic buy' doesn't apply to Wissa at all and has connotations of us going for a player we didn't want as a last resort, which wasn't the case. Overpaid, held to ransom, paid a premium, painted into a corner, lack of plan B etc? Absolutely all apply, not panic buy though - you don't panic buy a player you've been after for months. Our strategy was bizarre in the summer - whether the problem was that we had ideas above our station and didn't strategise accordingly, whether it was actually very standard practice and the issue was that it was all very public, or it was that we were naive, or just simply didn't have a proper DoF, who knows, probably all of it to an extent, but I do feel for Howe x2 and Nickson for being put in that position in the first place and as I said at the time it had a very 'the operation was a success but the patient died' feeling about it.

Yes really. Whether he had fit straight in or taken time is moot if he's injured and going to AFCON. That's not 3 to 6 months settling in, and the person who posted about us giving him time only mentioned match fitness and him understanding the system - nothing about 3 to 6 months. It's an inflated fee for a player we clearly wanted and chased for the full window. If you think that's what's widely defined as a panic buy, then I'd have to disagree and I don't think I'd be the only one. How we ended up getting Woltemade is much nearer to what's generally considered a panic buy. Posts like that stick out like a sore thumb as not playing with a straight bat to me personally.

Some creative writing going on here mind. I'm more than happy to criticise the club for last summer, but to describe an injury as '3 to 6 months to settle in' and a player we were after for months as a 'last minute panic buy' are very strange ways to describe the situation.

I remember it well yeah. But I also remember thinking that why it was still a minority view was in no small part because of his standing in the game and that it meant having faith in him to sort it out was based on something. Howe has that more this season than last, but it's not at the level of a league and Champions League winner.