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Ah yeah, my memory is abysmal lol

They didn't appeal though right? City very likely will if they lose. That finance guy Maguire was on Overlap last week and seemed to think it would be next season.

GG, still got the rollover sweat

Exact same thoughts

Yeah that's fair enough and obviously the difference is clear between both your comments, I was just making a point, and as I said I'm not a fan of pilling on someone for an opinion they hold unless its warranted in extreme circumstances and has a purpose rather than just jumping on, not liking Benitez certainly doesnt fit that for me.

Your putting words in my mouth there to be fair since I didn't make any specific reference to that, and for sure I could find examples to illustrate my point but don't really have any desire to do so.

My memory is pretty hazy but if I remember rightly there was a prolonged uncertainty on whether he would stay or not and I also don't remember him turning down any great offers to stay, maybe I'm wrong though? Another reason for my doubt was his relationship with Liverpool and how much he loved them, but yeah I'm biased negatively for sure as just didn't see it the same way as others did with him. I also didn't like the narrative of how much of a favour he was doing us and how lucky we were to have him as our manager, even if there was some truth to that given our status at the time.

Maybe I'm wrong but don't think @BUJintention is to be a wind-up merchant, so think it's a bit over the top for 20+ people to be so heavy handed in their response. Regards the statistic point I assume he was referring to this stat for their respective first 50 PL games each: Steve Bruce – 16 wins, 13 draws and 21 losses Rafa Benitez – 15 wins, 13 draws and 22 losses You can add caveats to negate this, but his point about comparing their stats is true, and people manipulate stats to make their own point every minute of every day, so he's factually correct regards that. The other point he made, for me, is a completely wild take, but to be honest, for me it's not as wild as Yorkie's post saying he has more affection for Benitez than Howe, I think that's nuts, but didn't see any reason to comment on it, it's his opinion, and whilst it's mindblowing to me, he's obviously entitled to have a completely different opinion to me. Regards Benitez, I never had anywhere near as much love for him as most other fans did, for one the style of play was awful, but mostly I felt he was a master with the media and manipulating fans by saying the right things at the right times to keep them onside, something Bruce was abysmal at, but I never felt Benitez was 100% genuine in his love for us and the club. I could be way off the mark there, feel free to berate me if you wish, but preferrably just two or three of yous, not twenty please

If Wilson leaves, which he should, then we must buy a good proven backup Striker, it would be a priority over all other positions mentioned, we can't be upgrading on 1st team players as a priority to actually having nobody at all? Osula is completely unproven, and running Isak into the ground would be a disaster. Sure, I'd love us to improve on Pope/Murphy/Schar to take us to the next level, but none of that can be a priority to having literally zero proven backup to Isak. If we can get Delap for £40m and he wants to come here, which doesn't seem at all unlikely to me, I'd be all for it.

Paid, cheers for organising

Council website states "As part of the celebrations a parade will be taking place from St James’ Park to the Town Moor between 16:00 to 18:00" which seems more likely to be accurate rather than the bus taking 30 minutes to get from SJP to Town Moor

Fair, I'm the type of person to arrive at the airport less than an hour before a flight so I maybe not the best person to listen to Interesting to see how many people actually go to the Town Moor, nobody I know is going, no drinking will put a huge amount of people off, whereas I'm expecting Town to be mental.

Think you should be able to comfortably do any of the first half of the parade and get up to the Town Moor in time even though it'll obviously be heaving.

For sure will be able to do both if you wish

Plenty others have managed a bus parade ffs, let's get it done, everyone deserves it!