TheBrownBottle

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.

Keegan’s results were league only, not consecutive matches in all competitions

They were more exciting - I know the 95/96 team closer but they weren’t ’The Entertainers’. 93/94 and the first half of 94/95 was that side - proper swashbuckling attacking football. The formation suggests a 4-4-2 but in attack it was more like a 4-1-5.

No, it never reaches zero - even Lascelles will still have a small amount of amortised book value. It will be so small as to basically be worthless, but it will still have a value.

They're not all off the books, though they will have been reduced significantly. Willock will be about 5m per season, Joelinton will be around 2m per season, and BDB just shy of 3m. Hardly breaks the bank, but it never gets to zero until the player leaves. edit: sorry JB, just saw your list after I posted. Joelinton will still have around 2m to be added, though. Amortisation for NUFC is running at close to 100m last I checked.