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When we've had the season we've had, you lose the right to say "Well, it's the last game of the season so...🤷🏻‍♂️"

I've said ever since public opinion started to shift post-Barca/Derby that I was going to see how the final 7 games played out. Few injuries, plenty of time to train, fairly standard set of fixtures. I wanted to see some evidence that, at the very least, he can get a team playing fairly well once per week. I also hoped for some evidence of some variance in our patterns of play and anything to suggest that next season won't just be a case of "Try the same thing again with a few new players". We've got 7 points from those games and ended up where we started (12th). I haven't seen today's game but there doesn't seem to be much to be encouraged by and it seems that the most recent source of positivity is a good run of results over a year ago.

"Hi Victor, are you familiar with Antonio Corderdo?" "Erm, no, doesn't ring a bell..." "Great, don't look him up" Edit - misread that he was 17yo but I'm going to roll with it anyway

Sessions.

Oh yeah He'll be primed to come on three minutes into the four added on 💪

I'm sure I read that this will almost certainly be the most NUFC players we've had at a world cup - four with England, Bruno, Wolt and Thiaw in the Germany squad, Elanga. Anyone else?

Honestly can't believe what I've been reading. Is this what one League Cup has done to us

Black olives and mushrooms, arranged in even stripes. Might look better than next season's kit actually, too late for a redesign?

There's a whole other block that is closer to the East Stand than Leazes Terrace is

Probably the opposite imo They threw money indiscriminately at LIV and look how that turned out? It obviously isn't as exciting as them just writing a £1bn cheque but if they're actually running us like a proper investment is shows they probably are in it for the long run because these blank chequebook projects are gradually being canned. The time it takes them to do stuff is pretty frustrating but by all accounts that's just how they do things

The charges are an asterisk for sure but I don't think they've spent more than three or four others and he's won is it six Premier League titles in nine years?

Someone point Reuters in the direction of the Europeometer thread...

Individually none of those are beyond the realms of possibility but for them all to happen? ChatGPT gives it 1.4%

I'm 99% sure that if the PL gains the 6th CL place we lose one of the Europa League places. 8th is Conference League regardless.

I don't think it matters does it? If Villa are 5th it'll be; 6th CL 7th Europa League 8th Conference League If Villa are 4th it'll be; 6th & 7th Europa League 8th Conference League Could be wrong...

I think in time the worst part of last summer isn't going to be the players we're stuck with, it'll be the ones we didn't pull the trigger on when we could offer European football that will now go elsewhere to play in the Champions League.

The gap between the bottom of the Noon patch and the blue Adidas stripes look shite too.

That's true, I suppose it's a question of which is more likely - that none of those clubs made a serious approach, or that one or more of them did but he still decided to go to Crystal Palace (if that's what ends up happening)

The fact that he seems to be going to Palace suggests otherwise. Bilbao, Chelsea, Man Utd, Real Madrid, Benfica, all big clubs that don't seem to have even made an approach.

There are very few occasions where I would actively want us to lose. To stop Sunderland winning the league, or be relegated possibly. As long as it didn't have any substantial impact on our season obviously. There are occasions where a loss would be more palatable than usual, tomorrow is one of those. But I still absolutely definitely want us to win.

It'd be a questionable decision even if they had 4th wrapped up but with two potentially tricky games left (Villa tonight then Brentford with potentially a lot to play for) it's not beyond the realms of possibility that both Villa and Brighton could overtake them, and I'm only ruling Bournemouth out because they play Man City.

The journalistic equivalent of "Yeah, my girlfriend goes to another school so you won't know her..."

Might have hit his hand, might not. Don't believe for one second that a few quick looks on a pitch side screen is enough to give it.

Carrick is being recommended for the Man Utd job by "executives"

There's plenty on here who are better connected than me but from what I've been told there's been a big misunderstanding about that Ornstein article. The club are working on the assumption that he'll be here next season but that's always been the case. The Ornstein article is written (intentionally or not) as if something has fundamentally changed, like beating Brighton means they are definitely not going to sack him, but that isn't correct. The next three (now two) games still matter.