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I’ve got more faith in Eddie Howe than I have a bloke on a football forum tbh.

It’s crap man management to drop someone who is playing well and doing the job asked of him in a team that’s just picked up 6 points in the last week. Willock has been really good recently. Bruno will get a chance. Calm the fuck down.

He got so lucky with their ‘goal’. Gave the ball away and almost played Watkins onside.

Absolutely buzzing. I fucking love this club. Fair play to them all but I reckon it’s a different second half if the fullbacks stay on. I reckon we win that by two or three.

Came in to ask this. Never heard of him.

Almost certainly horse shit. They excel in myth making. The stakes of absolutely everything they’ve ever been involved in have to be raised to ridiculous levels to justify their histrionics. It’s the reason they’re cock-in-hand at any sort of minor crowd trouble. It can’t just be some over excited kids being dickheads - the type of thing you see at most matches - it has to be some near existential threat they manage to fight off. They’ve watched one too many Nick Love films. They’re not on nodding terms with reality. If you want to break their brains just point out that NUFC and SAFC fans are the same - from the same places, went to the same schools, work the same jobs, subject to the same socio-economic forces. They end up one step away from phrenology trying to justify they’re utterly deranged positions. It’s class.

I think “I don’t give a fuck, I just want us to be good” is an entirely reasonable opinion to have. We ultimately have no say in who runs the club, as was apparent when we were trying to shift the last bloke, and football fans shouldn’t be elevated to moral arbiters of the sport. However I do think if you hold that opinion you don’t get to piss and moan when others raise legitimate concerns about our owners.

Because the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has never been the subject of any protest in the UK? I’m not going to second guess the motivations of people involved. If a well established LGBTQ+ fan group wants to use our match to raise awareness of rights in Saudi then fair fucks. It’s a very real problem, and we can’t complain that we’re the focal point of that protest because we’re now intrinsically linked with SA.

Aye, and I’m sure we’d be talking about how dreadful it all was. Football fans are selfish wankers. LGBTQ+ rights in Saudi are non-existent. I don’t think it’s particularly hypocritical for a gay supporters group to protest. We’ve had plenty of our fuckwits cutting about the place waving Saudi flags. The club went to Saudi very recently. The club is now closely linked to the country and like it or not we’re fair game.

It’s easy to get defensive about these protests but they’re justified tbh.

To be fair education about the history has to come from the club, and for the last decade we’ve been owned by a bloke who had zero love for NUFC. It’s understandable that people’s knowledge begins and ends at what they can remember or find on YouTube.

The worst thing about the Nazis? Definitely their self entitlement.

SJH was a businessman at the end of the day. This wasn’t a charitable endeavour. He had a group of people around him who could see the commercial potential of the Premier League and he made sure we were able to ride the crest of that wave. He also made sure he was well remunerated for his work. I don’t begrudge him that because without it this club doesn’t exist as it does today. We had an owner who “never took a penny “ out of the club and it was the most miserable, soul crushing period imaginable.

The next few months are massive for him. He hasn’t progressed in any regard since we signed him. If he can’t elbow his way into the team between now and the end of the season and we manage to stay up then get rid.

The meltdown is brilliant but they might get someone not shit now, which is a concern.

Someone will have to explain the Roy Keane obsession to me like. If you’re being charitable you’d say he did ok when he was with them originally. He got them promoted and kept them up when they were absolutely flush with Celtic Tiger economy cash and had first refusal on anyone who’d spent any length of time at Old Trafford. He left when they were in the bottom three and he’d alienated the entire squad. His post-SAFC managerial career was a dumpster fire. It’s not like they haven’t had other managers who have done a damn better in subsequent years that they could fud themselves daft over. It’s a bit like us pining for Glenn Roeder. Very, very odd. I hope to fuck it happens like. It’ll be a disaster.

Lascelles was class after the OG, aside from the daft free kick. A reminder of the defender he can be.

We should’ve won that 4-4 too. They went to total shit in the second half.

I don’t think the Trust is perfect by any stretch, but there’s a not insubstantial section of our fanbase that’s populated by hypercritical dickheads who wouldn’t bother their arse to ever try and improve anything. Fuck em.

Look at the shite chucked at Hatice Cengiz from our fans. That’s a good example. This is a bloke getting dragged on Twitter for making a tit of himself.

This shouldn’t be part of the same discussion as the other stuff around our owners. This is an individual tweeting something deliberately inflammatory and then finding out he’s not as funny and/or clever as he thought he was. Did he deserve to lose his job? That’s up for debate but had he made that joke about any other club he’d have got the same response from their fanbases. Serves him right.

That guy’s an idiot. Fuck him.

6. I have concerns about what we’ve done defensively, but I think we’ve made a few really good signings too. We’re definitely in better shape now than we were one month ago.

6/10. Trippier and Bruno are both massive coups. I think Wood will surprise a few and turn out to be a decent signing. I don’t think we’ve solved our defence problems in anything like the way we needed to - don’t really rate Targett and don’t know enough about Burn. Reserving the right to increase this if we do anything last minute.