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In cases like this ambiguity is their best friend, because absolutely everyone is looking at it wondering if they’ve missed something. Explaining this particular decision would just confirm that our match officials are grossly incompetent.

I think he thought he was playing it to Schar. You can see Botman look up the minute it leaves his foot and realise Schar’s about 10 foot deeper than he expects be. Think the last few games have definitely rocked us a bit. We only seem to concede comical goals at the moment. Suggests we’re lacking a bit of confidence.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp6H-EeKgEQ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= The cheek of these cunts. I wouldn’t mind so much but a) they are the dirtiest fuckers we’ve played this season by some distance and b) we had a perfectly good goal ruled out because the baldy cunt ref is a spenk.

He was evidently taking the piss like. I don’t understand how this is even a talking point.

He’s definitely not a centre midfielder then.

The assist for the goal that wasn’t is just absolutely outrageous. I think I was more furious that was being chalked off than the fact it Anderson’s first.

He’s a defender trying to defend and is therefore deliberately playing the ducking ball.

I was agreeing with you, I was just too lazy to provide any context.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/16/brother-of-man-executed-by-saudi-arabia-says-f1-legitimises-heinous-crimes

F1 has a rich and storied history of taking money from reprehensible regimes but even they’ve copped quite a bit of flack in recent years for their increasingly cosy relationship with Saudi. It’s by no means exclusive to us.

Interesting. I always think the bad acoustics/blaming the ground shape is a bit of a cop out really.

Our best player today.

Almiron has been cat shit for months now.

No, you’re a fucking idiot.

Love discussing impartiality in journalism. Absolutely cock-in-hand at this turn of events. First of all impartiality doesn’t exist. It’s a nebulous concept which can’t be applied in practice. Nor should it. Good journalism is never impartial. Think of any piece of meaningful, award winning reporting you can. Was it impartial? No. The BBC is not and has never been impartial. If it were to exist a truly impartial BBC would look markedly different from what we currently have, and be loathed by the people who are complaining about Lineker’s apparent lack of impartiality this week. In this context impartiality only exists as a cudgel to beat the BBC with if it dares try and move outside guide rails in which it is expected to operate. In short, stop going on about impartiality if you don’t want to look like a know-nowt tit. It’s like watching adults say they still believe in Santa. Two further points: a) Biggest credit goes to the comms and production team for walking out. Doubt they can rock up at Sky and double their salary. b) If the man who introduces the football highlights makes you feel bad about yourself it’s maybe time to reassess your politics.

Could we add a poll to the OP? Existing ST holders who’d be interested in a singing section, members who’d be interested etc? Be good to get some idea of what the figures look like just on here.

Think I was behind the S or H in Ashley.

Aye. Self important prick couldn’t let the idea pass without trying to claim it as his own and turned the entire event into a mess.

Too many egos in our fanbase to do the more performative type of protest unfortunately. The 66/69 minute walk out fiasco was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. Made me realise the only meaningful way to show how you felt was to pack it in. Dreadful that there are people who believe that continuing to pour money into Ashley‘s pockets makes them some sort of superfan.

Honestly man. It was just after he renamed the stadium. I rocked up to the match and one of the lads who sat the row in front asked if I’d mind holding up a banner at kick off. Aye, no problem. Didn’t ask what was on it. Fortunately you could only see my knuckles on the photo that someone took. EDIT: Found it

Loved L7, particularly during the Championship season. It was like the Wild West. Charvas packed three to a seat just going hell for leather for 90 mins. I remember them sending a load of stewards up during the Forest game to spot check tickets just before Shola scored and they got absolutely mobbed. In hindsight we probably shouldn’t have held up that banner calling Ashley a rapist. That seemed to be the catalyst for moving everyone.

I don’t think there’s a more damning indictment of the quality of our songbook than the fact we still sing DJ Otzi. It was embarrassing when we were singing it about Shearer ffs.

Just need a rental van with a flag stuck to the side and find the person who owns ouratmosphereisshit.com.

Didn’t someone used to turn up in the Gallowgate with a drum? Might have been early WF/Gallowgate Flags era. Might have even been someone on here, as I’m sure I remember a story about them being threatened by some of our cretinous fans who didn’t like it. Think that would do immeasurable good in helping people keep tempo.

I’ve only managed to get to a handful of matches this season and I’ve been staggered at how bad the atmosphere was. Granted when I had my ST I was always in the ‘singing section’, whether that was Level 7 or the Strawberry Corner, so it may have always been shit but sat in the Leazes earlier this season the most animated our fans got was when Murphy came on and immediately lost the ball. I think a big issue is that for over a decade our fanbase has been motivated by spite. The best atmospheres I’ve been part of have been when we were balls to the wall against Ashley, or when there’s some sort of injustice happening on the pitch. Singing is what we do when we’re fucked off. Now we’re halfway decent a lot of our fans have no interest in shouting themselves hoarse, can just sit in silence and wait for the three points. Ultimately any change in atmosphere needs to be driven by the supporters. We need to Toon Ultras type movement that will at least try to coordinate some sort of atmosphere during the 90 minutes. There are obviously barriers - current spread of supporters, difficulty in getting tickets etc - but maybe it needs to start by surveying fans in the ground who would be interested in this sort of thing about where they sit. If we can identify pockets of support it might help create a new singing section almost organically rather than hope the club to turf a load of fans out of their seats in the Gallowgate. It means fans know that if they start a chant there are people around them who’ll join in, and members or people who purchase on general sale can try to sit in those areas if they want a sing-song. It would also be good if someone stood at the next NUST election on the explicit promise they’ll push this issue with the club. Big ask, but I can’t imagine they wouldn’t win considering they could barely fill the committee at the last one.