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I think it is fine to concede possession. However, the problem was that we didn't really press at the right times (when they crossed the halfway line), and we didn't attack the wide areas. We should have been able to have Sancho or Rashford hug the touchlines ready for a more direct ball/quick release. I think we could and should have picked them off. Anyway, I'm personally really sanguine about it all. We played a great tournament and were beaten by the better team on the night. It has been a great month and while it would have been great to win, as much as you want it, there's another team who want it just as much. It isn't a case of just picking the right players and we win...there's another team trying to do exactly the same...I'm not sure if that makes sense, but I sometimes think that in all of the analysis, we focus on what we should have done, and forget that we're up against a really good team, with great players and a freak of a goalkeeper. The reason we lost is because they won, and beat us fair and square. Love this team though and even if we never win anything, at least we had some fun for once!

I get really really annoyed with the people who prattle and whinge about us not playing attacking football. Look at our record prior to Southgate. Look the football we've played for the past 25 years. England have been utterly boring, tactically clueless and at times, absolutely shit for all these years. As soon as we start actually winning some tournament games it's like our squad is Netherlands 74 being put in a straightjacket by some grandma. Based on the recently history we have absolutely no right to be playing expansive football and winning games, and lets face it, are still light years behind the few national teams that can do so. Absolutely mad English exceptionalism at its finest. People think that because they've seen Foden or Grealish do a few tricks that we should somehow be playing total football.

Guilty of typing exactly what I think. Shouldn’t have posted it but still think it

With Grealish - I think he is good enough for City tbh. I don't think his ball carrying is an issue (i.e. the assertion that he doesn't release quickly enough). There are different players in that city squad. Mahrez, KDB and Foden often carry the ball in a similar way to Grealish. I think the issue is more that he wouldn't get into the starting XI. I could see him at Man Utd.

Also binned all of my social media accounts apart from WhatsApp. I haven't missed Facebook or Instagram one tiny bit. It has actually significantly improved my wellbeing to get off them tbh. Twitter is a funny one - I don't have an account, but because tweets are so ubiquitous on news pages, forums etc. I do actually access twitter, but I don't have an account, and I no longer spend hour scrolling through tweets. It's quite good actually.

That's such a weird take on the game. I thought both teams were excellent at times. City in the second half were outstanding

It's actually a theme of football journalists tbh. Creating some sort of troll schtick to give meaning to their sad little lives. Barry Glendenning does it on football weekly too, and then claims to be tired of all the twitter aggro and football nonsense. Perhaps watching and commenting on football as your job is just an incredibly dull, unfulfilling, pointless job...

Let us back in or we will leak details of why you stopped the NUFC takeover ?

I can’t allow myself to get angry at the lack of punishment like. Should there be? Yes, absolutely. Will there be? Not on your life. The result will be that this situation will come up again and as sure as night turns in to day, these arseholes will pull it again, and the apocalypse will happen, sooner rather than later. Football is fucked, it can’t be saved. There are too many contradictions in the model. Let’s just be thankful that it’s still free to be able to pick up a ball and kick it around a park ?

Great to see Barmulloch on the map again

They’d be better off fucking off to create their own esports super league tbf

Not that I’m into this thread particularly but the purpose of it is pretty evident if you look back to the first post. Also, was it not just a “positive optimism” thread pre-Saudi takeover? The point being that the thread is here to be a lighthearted antidote to the misery elsewhere.

Shot up to £36000 on the counter now...wonder if it’s just catching up?

With any fan led initiative anywhere you will always get people that you don't like. Pretty sure the likes of Bartomeu isn't liked at Barca, but that's why there are democratic processes...well done for pledging!

The chat from the Hearts lads on the launch event was inspirational. Finally feeling something for this club again.

What a colossal bore ^

It’s a natural protective response isn’t it though? Constant negativity and snarky remarks have a real impact on people you now, and contributes to burnout. There have been loads of other protests and actions which have stopped, with people giving up for this very reason. Constructive feedback I’m sure is preferable. I do find the mentality of an NUFC that chooses to slate fan led action very odd. It’s as if the idea of having some kind of hope is an affront to them personally.

I mean the thing that has given me the greatest joy this season was when the fans donated the PPV money to the foodbank. At least it was something positive.

Long term whether it's PIF or someone else trying to buy us, I support fan ownership as an alternative and the Trust is the best way to do that. I'm in this for the long game - I have a 2 year old that I want to take to the match at some point. I don't care if it takes 10-15 years, if they can keep snowballing away. On another note, I cannot get my head around this "hard earned cash" trope - I understand if people are genuinely broke fair enough, but otherwise...chucking in £10 or £20...will you miss it? Really? I'm by no means a well off person, but I can easily spend best part of a £10 on lunch (pre-covid), or a couple of pints. I'm also sure a great deal of the people whinging about pledging are chucking money at the bookies each weekend, and while there's no judgement in doing that from me, I just find it odd that people are so so attached to a goddamn tenner... Anyway, as I said earlier, there has to be a place for fan ownership at some point, and there is no harm in being ready.

Deleted my account on here last year because NUFC is so depressing. However, I wanted to post on this because I feel like the loudest voices on this sort of thing are always the whiners. I think it's a great idea, and in fact it's the only option we have really. Okay it might take a while, and it's not guaranteed to work, but fan ownership has to be attempted at least. It's a strategy that at least we have some control over, whereas deciphering pictures of bread on twitter really isn't. We've seen how close we are to relegation this year. We have no idea how the pandemic and a relegation will affect the clubs finances, but there is potential for club to go on a very negative trajectory towards administration. If that does happen, you want a fans group to be ready. You have to start somewhere, and eventually Ashley will go. When he does, we want a seat at the table. It's our club. Well done to Greg and the team. Keep going.