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In tears here mate.

Disconcertingly relaxed here. Not out of confidence. Think the fact it’s a cup game makes it feel a bit less important, particularly after the relegation six pointer league games.

Buck has to stop with KLD, surely? The redecoration was being rumoured when the ticket allocation was first announced. I assumed it was just your fans being hysterical but evidently no, the people who run your club are thick as fuck.

I’d not like to see their hard drives.

There’s also the fact that putting weight in xG is the preserve of full-on nonces. Don’t forget that.

Outright refuse to believe any WhatsApp gossip after “they chopped his dick off lad” turned out to be false.

Cheers son’s crying

I does feel like it’s a learning opportunity for the club. Everything they’ve touched has turned to gold so far. But periods of adversity are inevitable and we need to have these issues to grow.

In hindsight he probably should’ve just binned off the Everton game and rotated, but if he does that coming off a 1-0 win against Man United he gets pilloried.

That was the most grimly predictable result of our season. Luton have upped their game every time a name has turned up at Kenilworth, plus with what happened last week they were always going to play at 110%. Fair play to them, they absolutely deserved to win. The biggest concern about our away form is how we don't really look like creating anything. It’s not like we’re peppering opposition keepers with shots. Our final pass is almost always universally shit - blindly put into an area where we don’t have anyone, overhit or into the first man.

I love watching the Brentford keeper. He appears to have absolutely no idea where his goal is at any time. Tremendous value.

Just reading out bread recipes.

Depends on the specifics but if it looks anything like what was initially proposed then yes.

I’d have no qualms fucking the club off. Taking all the worst elements of the modern game and amplifying it by 100 doesn’t appeal. You only have to look at the ESL’s argument - that football is an entertainment product and not a cultural one - to see the direction of travel they want to take. They don’t like football, they like money. They want the game without the things that make it great - the risk, the giant killings, the heritage. Fuck em and fuck NUFC if they want to be part of it.

Think they’re now banned by the PL, but I doubt the will exists at this moment in time. They got a proper fright last time around.

Original idea was that they’d play the ESL in parallel with the domestic leagues but the clubs were swiftly told to fuck off IIRC. Think the PL changed the charter to say member clubs couldn’t join breakaway competitions after that. In the short term this ruling is likely going to be used to get UEFA/FIFA to shift on some of the less popular rules (bye bye FFP). Long term you’ll probably end up with some compromise/rebranded CL-style competition that’s sanctioned but to all intents and purposes a closed shop ran by and for the biggest clubs in the world.

It primarily fell to bits last time because of fan pressure rather than any legal stuff. The usual suspects in Italy and Spain will still be bang up for it you’d imagine, probably PSG too. Be interesting to see the form it takes because the stakes are too high for Barca etc to write it off as a bad idea.

I’m not in the least bit worried about Barnes. There’s a direct correlation between the densest fuckers on here making sweeping, unfounded statements about a topic and then being made to look like know nowt cunts several months later. We’ll be dredging up posts about him in 2024 like we have with Howe, Gordon etc.

The mistakes are mental lapses rather than anything particularly physical. Just seems like bad luck to have a series of these performances strung together. I think there’s a compelling argument to be made that the injuries at the back have got us a bit out of sorts. Maybe there’s an element of Tripps trying to overplay and overthink because he’s not as comfortable with Lascelles/Dubs as he was Schar/Pope. We are an incredibly emotionally led team, and that can lead to these sorts of things happening unfortunately.

Why? We’re sixth?

This place has always been full of absolute tatties who lack any sort of perspective.

Don’t think either Botman or Burn are fit enough to play a full 90 (or in Burn’s case play two matches in such quick succession), so I assumed it was planned.

Houthi surfer flag would be a tremendous self-own considering what it says. Hope they do it.

Appears that he’s about to be crushed by the Leazes too. Can’t believe our luck.

Win or bust mentality in the context of Wednesday makes perfect sense though. There’s no part of me that thinks the club really wanted to drop into the Europa League when you consider how badly the CL fucked us. We could do with one game a week again for the next few months.