TheBrownBottle

Bournemouth had to put academy products on the bench because their squad has been hammered by injuries. They’ve also played three games in the same number of days. I don’t think it’s much of an excuse. edit: their fixtures in that week were a decent West Brom side and Chelsea away - we had Bromley (and played a reserve team) and Wolves at home. So fatigue isn’t the answer.

I’ve always thought he was quality when he was fit. He’s a better midfielder than Joelinton, for example. The lad is made out of paper, unfortunately.

Yep, that’s because feasibility studies don’t take years, they take a few months. Those of us who actually work in the industry know this, but that would be to criticise our owners, which cannot be countenanced.

It’s not to do with being winners, we were poor against Wolves, too; but Wolves are shite and Bournemouth aren’t. Bournemouth played really well both in terms of their play and in knowing exactly how to exploit all of our players’ weaknesses (and we played poorly to boot). BDB’s clumsiness, Botman’s lack of pace, Hall’s positional sense, Joelinton’s hot temper, Bruno’s playing with fire in trying to draw fouls, etc etc etc. The match was a perfect storm in terms of beating this NUFC side. Not sure re mindset as I’m not in the dressing room.

That wasn’t great, but cool heads need to prevail. That was a bad day at the office not a trend. Howe deserves some criticism for today, as well as deserving lavish praise for the nine games before it.

Trippier seems to have forgotten how to play RB.

Yeah, that was coming

Some hit that mind

We’ve still got goals in us here, Bournemouth are a good side who’ve played well, we still have levels in us. Give them a rocket Eddie, onwards and upwards second half.

Joelinton is a walking red card at times like this

Fucking ho’way United wake up

Should’ve been there really - Hall poor here

Poor defending that mind

The invincibles played quite a few more games - Murphy’s joint goal participation would equal 33 if he’d played as many matches as Bergkamp or Pires; and around 50 if he’d played as many minutes as Pires That’s right - Jacob Murphy is better than Bergkamp or Pires, as proved by science

Hahah get in Trafford lad

Is this ref on the take? Another shit decision

Another pel

Get in the future NUFC No1

Massive dive and outside box

‘Chat GPT, please write me a Jeremy Kyle episode synopsis’

I just like to avoid regionality entirely, and we should get into these Tory retirement village cunts

100% mate - and believe me, I’m not happy about the journey of English football

Competing doesn’t mean joining them. Football sold its soul decades ago - John Hall got ridiculously excited about joining the ‘Super League’ (as he used to sometimes call the PL) and couldn’t wait to fuck over the other (then) 70 clubs and keep most of the cash. The ladder was pulled up in 1992, not 2022. The European Super League was and is a catastrophically bad idea - but I fail to remember any whines or complaints from our support when Hall was also banging on about a European Super League in the ‘90s, with us as members. The ‘Champions League’ was created to maximise money for the big boys and absolutely wrecked the balance of European football to the extent that no Eastern European side ever looks competitive in Europe. The FA Cup has been torpedoed because the ‘rewards’ are not great enough; so top flight sides will play their stiffs and go out early to avoid the risk not finishing 15th again. The sport has been fucked for decades now - clubs trying to duck out of cups early because of the ‘risks’ to PL status has been far, far more damaging than PSR / FFP. The support has been exploited throughout all of this - English football went all seater then ramped up the prices contrary to the express advice of Lord Taylor (who stated that all seater grounds should not mean the support being exploited for cash); piss poor clobber for high prices (which our old owners had a good laugh about), obscene ticket and TV pricing, and for all the talk about SJP, I can remember the ‘bond scheme’ and the Platinum club’s introduction; all about getting the most money possible, basically SJP in the ‘90s is what Spurs have today, and I’m meant to get misty-eyed about it? SJP in its current form isn’t some bastion of football stadium purity; it’s a chrysalis form of what other clubs are now building and we are at severe risk of being left well behind. We’ve potentially got a chance with the current ownership to build a ground that would help us compete at the elite level, as well as bringing in a billion quid or more of investment (and jobs) into the poorest region in Britain - and folks are upset because the stadium footprint might be moved 100 metres up the road?

It was a genuine question - I think the current SJP is exactly what you described, only a bit more rough around the edges. A soulless half-complete concrete bowl with a shite ‘match day experience’. It was built twenty-odd years ago, it’s not some ancient relic of a bygone age when football was still in touch with its roots.

Yep, they’re right in the shite as a result - a squad full of players with shocking attitudes, and mostly on wages that would put them out of reach of a sale even if they didn’t have poor character. They’re in real trouble.