Kid Icarus

No surprise that the morons on Twitter think those completely reasonable quotes are a dig at the world's worst person, Eddie Howe.

It's this season though, they all stick in your mind surely? Easily yeah, most of the Barca goals were individual errors, the 1-1 at home was due to Thiaw's error in the last minute. There are like a dozen instances of it being down to Pope or Ramsdale errors this season. A fair few Trippier mistakes (Everton and Brentford being the last ones), Gordon has a few, Woltemade against Sunderland? Pope vs Marseille? Ramsdale vs Spurs? There are loads.

You can't remember the last time one of our losses was down to individual player error? Come on. Even then, I wouldn't be blaming the players instead of Howe. I'm very much of the opinion that those errors are also a result of the ridiculous schedule we've had.

...let her murder iz.

No I get what you're trying to demonstrate dude, I just disagree because these things are relative not absolute (ie one option will cause way less pants shitting than another) But agree to disagree, I don't want to bore you or anyone else to death any more than I already will have over this.

See what you were getting at like. Can't say I agree like, but agree to disagree probably.

So then why did you say "People shit their pants, Eddie's had the dreaded pre-sacking backing."? Eddie Howe out people can shit themselves all they want, they're still thankfully a minority in our fanbase. Either way I want a CEO who doesn't embarrass or invite needless additional pressure on any of us. There's a difference between giving the generic answer every CEO gives and the dogshit one Hopkinson gave. I think we all know that and that there's no pant shitting equivalence with those options.

There are varying degrees of pant shitting. He chose B, which along with D are the maximalist pants shitting options. A would still be the best option by an absolute mile and C would be more of a critique than a comment on his future.

It's not over if Iran pull out, which is very likely.

Anyone got the ICE tip line?

Your post uses 'the club' as shorthand for the CEO and our absentee owners - ie the people who make the decisions on our manager and investments. Immediately after saying it's the club that you're loyal to.

'The club' Jesse Pinkman's loyal to in this case is the CEO who's been here 6 months and done nothing of note yet and our absentee owners then. 'The club' is not, however, the manager who's been here 5 years, escaped relegation, won us a trophy, got 2 champions league qualifications, a final, a semi, and 2 quarter finals, etc.

Only Israel would make me back Isak tbh

I dunno but this season I welcome it with open arms like. A match every 3 days is too much for me.

I'm going to be blunt, this is complete bollocks. Not just others, but you specifically have had plenty of engagement, not just from me (where we've debated fairly and in good faith) but plenty of others too. To retrospectively strawman all that as you asking questions and being met with "Eddie is our king" responses is just plain daft, particularly to anyone who's engaged with you.

Reading those quotes again I'm pretty confident he'll be gone at the end of the season like. Whether it's Howe's own choice or not who knows, but I really hope I'm just being needlessly cynical because I'll be absolutely gutted.

I think he'll not be great short term but it'll probably be enough to galvanise them.

Think they'll get automatic promotion tbh hehehehe.

I can't simultaneously claim to not care about something, then put my energy into caring about it or hating it. There are dozens of us though, dozens!

Coping so hard that I prepared this stance on Sunderland a full 20 years before they started their recent run of results against us in anticipation.

Don't think you got my meaning by beneath us there. Yeah they're currently above us in the league, but I'm talking way broader than that, our standards shouldn't be anchored or related to Sunderland in any way. Keegan knew what it meant, but he very vocally wanted us to move away from us measuring our success in relation to them. None of it means that losing to them isn't a failure, it is, but putting such an emphasis on the importance of winning or losing to them flatters them imo, and I'd rather we didn't do that and had rivals based on trying to succeed at the very top. For years it was the whole two bald men fighting over a comb thing.

This is very much a personal thing, I've lived in Newcastle my whole life and choose to do my part in the local rivalry by considering them an irrelevance that are beneath us. It's how Keegan viewed it and I couldn't agree more.

TIL Dokko hates Keegan

Couldn't agree more. The logic is seriously lacking like. To hate Sunderland, look down on them as beneath us (which they should be), laugh at them for defining themselves by their opposition to us, for measuring their success based on whether they beat us, etc etc, but then hand them the power of having played a part in ousting the most successful manager in most of our lifetimes. The irony would be overwhelming.

We maybe would, but they'd still be much less bad than what we did get.