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1 hour ago, Dr Venkman said:

The queuing system they use now which randomly assigns you a place in the queue when they go on sale is a more or less a ballot, I think?

 

 

 

Think this is the only fair way of doing it. Reckon they should have no face-to-face sales at the Box Office either to prevent people camping out for days.

Log on, get a randomly assigned place and a maximum of 2 tickets in one transaction.

Anyone missing out to get put on a waiting list.

Roma winning already.

Just now, Hanshithispantz said:

I would say this is canny OTT like 

Really? He will hold up a valuable squad place and he is dreadful 

Anyway, I’ll leave it there because I’m hogging the thread a bit and there’s only so many ways I can phrase the same opinion  

Just now, Hanshithispantz said:

I'm just saying massively OTT reactions look daft when things are going well under a manager who knows what he's doing. I'm not saying Howe is 100% right here at all.

 

It was hot take central under Pardew on here but that was absolutely fine because he deserved his every decision questioned with extreme prejudice.

I don’t think anyone is being massively OTT. It’s a fairly straightforward discussion and people just saying it’s a crap move?

If people were saying we’ll be fighting relegation again, or the owners/Howe need booting, aye - massively OTT.

I can’t remember Frankfurt fans being this crazy when we played them, or am I misremembering?

That was a dreadful game though, 0-0.

1 minute ago, STM said:

Wood has been a decent signing, providing your only metric for success isn't goals.

 

Had we not signed him, we would have had at least half a dozen fewer points IMO.

 

We both know he's no long term solution.

I won’t go over this again but I’m not sure any metric provides a positive for him. Doesn’t score, doesn’t assist, doesn’t create chances, doesn’t pass, doesn’t successfully have a first touch. There’s a reason he’s been dropped.

Also disagree on the points - we could’ve signed any big lump up front and got the same results.

But I’ll leave that there before we go down another black hole  

On 04/05/2022 at 09:13, Paully said:

Just read that - absolutely bull shit from Shearer - complete and utter garbage and once again sticking up for his mate 

Such a brilliant player and an absolute king, but gosh I wish he wouldn’t speak.

6 minutes ago, Hanshithispantz said:

You have absolutely no idea whether it's a crap decition or not though 

 

We all like to play armchair footy manager like but it doesn't really work when the man in charge is actually good at his job.

 

 

 

 

I though Wood was a ‘dreadful’ signing and I was right. I thought the same about Targett and was wrong.

Maybe I’ll be right about this, maybe I won’t. But everyone is entitled to their opinion and that’s the point of the discussion.

1 minute ago, Yorkie said:

Fanny won't rest til we've got '98 Lizarazu warming the bench. 

Just a player who is competent and fit enough to be relied upon when they’re needed would be fine.

Krafth, who looked a bag of shite under Bruce, looks like he could do that job and as a result I’m happy for him to stay around and play that role.

Dummett can’t. I’m not asking for the world, but would rather we don’t use up a squad place on someone who is a) proven crap over a long period and b) injured for 3/4s of the season. 

I’d get rid of Darlow, Dummett, Lewis, Clark, Hayden, Ritchie, Gayle. Replacing those with decent players would be enough to see us advance to the next step. 1-3 in the Bruno/Trippier (quality) standard, probably a CB, Winger and Striker and then the rest in the Burn (steady improvement) bracket would be fine.

Players like Lascelles, Krafth, Murphy, Longstaff, Wood, Fraser, Miggy all need replacing too but we may as well kick out the shitest lot, replace with quality and demote the above down a squad place as they’re ultimately better back up players than we have now.

It’s all opinions. But I’d be happy with that as summer business to be honest.

A bit weird to say, and I apologise for feeling this way, but would quite like West Ham to win tonight

3 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

Comments on here man. Delusions of grandeur already ?

It’s delusional to think Dummett isn’t good enough for any PL team in 2022?

As I said regarding Wood, I’d be disappointed to be clinging onto Dummett if Ashley was still here. It’s a crap decision and people are entitled to call a cat a cat.

We don’t need to pretend every decision the owners/Howe make are undeniably excellent. 

Just now, Yorkie said:

 

Can't argue that he's injury prone but I'd argue/insist that he's better than Lewis (who's done absolutely nothing for us), plus he can play in more than one position. And like I suggested in the other post, he's an important character in the dressing room (that's according to the manager).

I don’t know why we’d keep either of them. Both Championship standard and should see the door. We had an opportunity to get rid of one for free and should have taken it.

Buy two youngsters with the ability to improve with the club, or bring an experienced older head in who is also on a free in the summer.

When we need back up next season, he’ll either not be available through injury (as we’ve encountered several times in the past few years) or, he’ll be torn to bits because he’s not good enough.

7 minutes ago, KaKa said:

Club home grown player isn't he?

 

We'll be pushing for Europe next season and so will need to have some of these going forward.

 

 

 

Completely irrelevant for a one year deal. We don’t need to worry about that next season which is the one he’ll be sticking around for.

31 minutes ago, MrRaspberryJam said:

 

Care to explain why this is a anything but a shite decision?

31 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

Trippier, Krafth, Manquillo, Lewis and Dummett will be our full-backs as of 1st June. You'd presume one will just be replaced like for like, as happened in January with Lewis/Targett. 

If that’s the case why are we keeping the shittest and most injury prone one of those five?

What a dreadful decision that is.

Will hold up a valuable squad place.

It was totally bizarre how they threw it away. Like others, I was pretty much about to turn it off on 85 minutes.

They were quite complacent I thought. It was like they were playing in second gear, thinking it was won.

The first leg was shocking from their part. Should’ve been 4-0 up before Real scored. People will point to the last few minutes and ET, but they caused a massive issue for themselves with the first leg.

Thought it was a serious offer then and just noticed it’s that crazy fake businessman  

Liverpool are deffo going to win the quadruple, aren’t they?  

Might be best for everyone to stay away from the internet if they do.

Well they’ll be angry now. Only the league to focus on. 

5-0.

1 minute ago, Mazzy said:

This is laughable. Not even 3 minutes injury time was played, when the board went up the ball was out for a goal kick, it wasn't taken until a minute in and the the ref blows early as well.

 

Not sure what the fuck happened to this ref after 90 minutes but he definitely had an agenda.

Paid per game in Europe. Nobody fancies working late without overtime like. Bet he just wanted a bath.

Just now, The Butcher said:

Fraudiola at it again. Hundreds of billions spent and no CL win in over a decade. 

Will be hilarious when we win it before them.

Have Man City ever capitulated like that under Pep before? That’s some collapse like.

Mad that they could finish the season with no trophies at all. Completely reliant on getting over the line with the league.

4 minutes ago, WillingtonMag said:

The mens game has been grown over 100 years though, no you won't get similar results with the woman's game because the interest in it from the public isn't their yet and untill then it won't be profitable as hard as sky etc try to promote it.

But it has to start somewhere, doesn’t it? So why not now?

And the interest will correlate with the investment, improvement in facilities and improvement in quality. They’re all intrinsically linked.

The interest in Man City “wasn’t there yet” until they got a mighty windfall of investment. Why is that okay? Those pesky Man City lot should have had to prove themselves of being good enough consistently over years before they were financed, according to your wild theory.

You’ve still not answered why it would be a problem of any kind if they had good facilities.

Love it when fans get unnecessarily angry about places like Wycombe, with a population half the size of Sunderland and surrounded by many more successful clubs, not pulling in identical attendances.

1 minute ago, WillingtonMag said:

The money in the game is absolutely massive TV money, sponsorship etc ..look at the selling price of Chelsea right now.

Yes. All of which has been manufactured by huge investments into clubs that are not financially viable on their own.

Put the same money into the women’s game and you’ll get similar results. Your point is ridiculous.

We shouldn’t invest in the women’s game because they’re not good enough. But the men’s game is only good enough because of the investment it’s had.

Your Chelsea example being one of the biggest example of this.