TheBrownBottle

Yep, that boils my piss too - and I suspect it’s only an issue if you sign a squad of athletes and not technically able footballers. We look like a complete shambles - and worse that was an insipid, gutless display. I think he’s cocked this up really, really badly - I’m not convinced he can fix this. Too much needs to happen and I wouldn’t be convinced by trusting Howe and his nephew and the yes-man DOF. There’s no-one at the club’s tiller so I doubt anything is likely to change.

That’s 43 goals conceded this calendar year, but that’s totally normal

‘No-one could do better’ tweets no doubt being lined up by Edwards and Hope. We look like late-stage Bournemouth under Howe at this point.

Maybe his pals and sycophants in the press conference might grow some fucking bollocks and actually grill this man for once. Absolutely shocking stuff in a season full of shit performances. Zero excuses not to turn up again - fuck knows what he says to these players at HT. We look uncoached and utterly disjointed - and worse than that unmotivated. I hope he has a better plan for next season than spunking even more money on a bunch of athletes - and I’m really starting to think he shouldn’t be here next season at all. Raging.

Even away from the context of this that’s 43 goals shipped this calendar year. We’re an uncoached side. He’d be under massive bother at any club which didn’t have an absentee ownership.

Not fucking good enough; not by a fucking long chalk. Three quarters of a billion to sign a squad of fucking gutless runners. Tick fucking tock Eddie.

Totally agreed - there’s nothing been done to date which couldn’t have been done with any vaguely competent ownership.

Coming up to five years with no game-changing investment. I know plenty will enjoy indulging themselves in the fantasy that it takes a decade to build a new stadium - but the fact that we don’t even have planning for a new training facility speaks for itself.

I discount it tbh - there was a division between us. We’re back on an equal footing.

It was always great when a lad would get up there looking confident then would brick it after one forkful. One of the lads I know who did it reckoned it was really painful

The soft shites were on the pitch and on the bench in October. Don’t want to see that again.

Any kid who was born the day we last performed at home against these cunts is about to sit their GCSEs in June. Fair enough, they ducked out for about half that time - but there are zero fucking excuses. I don’t want to hear a fucking peep about time on the training ground or number of fixtures - not for this. If you don’t have reserves of energy for these cunts then you can get to fuck.

100% - though curry hell was a bit later I can remember one where an away fan was on the stage, puked into his curry and Mick and the crowd were demanding he finish the job (he tried but didn’t manage it)

All on the players and manager this - I’ve never been to a derby without an atmosphere. Their failure to turn up at the SOS was pretty much unforgivable - do that again and they’ll be in for it.

With the encouragement of MBS by all accounts.

It’s an odd one, because the (poorly written) rules do seem pretty clear on it, but then the game should’ve been awarded to Morocco at the time if it was going to happen at all. And I absolutely share your views on Balague - and just realised that Revista was three decades ago when I used to watch it 😬. He also was decent on the European football show he used to do with Marcotti on talkSHITE at the turn of the century. Total wanker these days.

He sees ‘all you can eat’ as a challenge

If he bundles the winner off his massive arse tomorrow then all is forgiven. For a day, anyway.

Harry Palmer with his guitar, followed by watching some fat fucker puke on stage after failing to sink a yard of ale, then the strippers trying to dance while avoiding the puke which hadn’t yet been cleaned up is pretty much what I’d be watching from 2-2:55pm every home match.

One of my best mates was manager of Idols during that period. Went to Mad Mick’s stag in Amsterdam a few years ago. Idols could be great pre-match, especially if they had someone like Alevis Broon on.

The only correct answer:

I’m getting the word …

I’ve been saying it for four and a half years. They’re absolutely full of shite - it’s the way the govt works over there. People around the world think they’re all knocking about in yachts with gold toilet seats.

I mean, he’s absolutely right. The problem is intent - the evidence to date points to PIF doing sweet FA, it’s been predictable since pretty much day one, this is what they do - talk and promise big, nothing materialises, every so often talk again, nothing materialises, and so on and so on until the world forgets they said it in the first place. This is how it works with massive Saudi infrastructure projects - why would we be any different?

Big players want to play for teams who are trying to win the CL, not play in it. Big players don’t want to play for clubs who celebrate getting CL football - they want to play for clubs where not to qualify is massive failure. I don’t think a League Cup win adds any prestige whatsoever, as emotional as it was for us. No footballer is choosing us over Chelsea, Man Utd or Liverpool - I wouldn’t if I was them. That doesn’t mean we aren’t attractive and can’t sign good players - but we need to get them on the way up, not when they’re established. We should be shopping in the same places as Brighton and Brentford, and we’d be absolute favourites to sign players ahead of them. We need to buy young players with huge potential resellability - any club outside a handful is a selling club; that’s what we are and need to be, only I think some of our management as well as our support has imagined otherwise, which culminated in last summer.