TheBrownBottle

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.

Folks need to make sure they ignore the wank in the press and just enjoy every minute watching this lad in B&W, whether it is six months or six years. He's the best centre forward I've seen in B&W, R Madrid must be fucking kicking themselves paying MBappe whatever stupid fucking salary and signing on fee he's on (something like 50m per year) when they should have taken that money and bid 200m for this lad.

Re KK / BR / EH, Keegan and Howe sit above Robson for me. Howe can’t outstrip Keegan emotionally by winning trophies, because ultimately KK saved the club and rebuilt it - though I suspect Howe is a better football manager. If Howe wins a trophy, he should have a bronze statue outside the ground - even if he’s followed by men who win far more, breaking that trophy duck would be the biggest one of all - but Keegan should have a stand named after him. That’s the difference for me.

Given the way the team is playing and performing the questions were absolutely reasonable - there was an awful lot about how mediocre the squad was and Howe was doing well to have it challenging top 7/8. Personally, I felt we had a really strong starting XI and a decent bench, and should have been playing and performing much better. Howe’s an excellent coach, was never in any doubt re that, and I never joined in the calls for his time to be up - but just as he deserves every bit of praise lavished on him at the moment, he also deserved some of the criticism for early season performances. It’s a wide open league at the moment, and if we’d got our shit together a month earlier we might have a very different trophy being talked about this season.

We didn’t play well and they lost 3-0. They’re where they should be on that basis

The ones who are good have gone. These are the Iberian Obertans, Gouffrans and Rivières.

I suspect they’re where they are for a reason

It’s like when we were France’s PL showroom

8 mins added time which neither side will want

Should’ve absolutely buried that

Seen enough unlucky 0-1s to more than make up for it