Kid Icarus

Think we ended up in a do or die situation with Isak and Wilson leaving and a daft amount of replacements (that all would have been brilliant) going elsewhere. Wissa is one that still absolutely made sense too, it just ended up being a disaster this season for a few reasons.

From the sounds of it they were all spinning multiple plates, understandably struggled through lack of experience and overwork, and then Jamie Reuben only got involved right near the end with Sesko, Woltemade, and Isak, and PIF only got involved with Isak. Mad that Reuben and PIF completely escaped the blame and the people who stepped up took all the flack.

Tbf he hasn't been taken off sales, he wasn't ever supposed to be there and only was temporarily because he stepped up when the club was left in the shit with no CEO, no DoF, and no contingency plan.

We're always linked with him like. Are we signing that Brazilian Eduardo kid as well? Sometimes you watch these highlights and talk yourself into thinking they have potential, those highlights are ridiculous though, he looks fucking incredible. Nearest thing I've seen to HBA in terms of dribbling.

I feel you like. I can remember stuff like that and who scored in some of our matches from years ago but I also regularly can't remember where I've put my hat. Before the Ramsey mistake we had Hall going arse over tit, Burn playing everyone on, Thiaw getting caught in possession as last man (not punished), Gordon misplaced pass followed by Trippier getting caught and then giving away a pen, Ramsdale not coming for a cross (surprise), Thiaw getting bamboozled by a through ball that was straight at him and slipping, then Ramsey's mistake which admittedly was the most egregious. I agree they're not down to Eddie, I even hesitate to blame the players ('keepers aside) for the most part.

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.