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Agree with all that. It does feel like the beginning of the end unfortunately. As has been mentioned before PIF didn't buy us to finish mid table with Bruce like performances away from home. He gets until the end of the season definitely, but if he has to go then make sure it happens in May. If we are serious about being top of the pile in five years, or whatever the CEO said, then I can only see one outcome unfortunately.

We must be at the point now where consider 'doing an Ange Spurs' for the rest of the season. Fuck the league off and go all in on winning the LC or FA cup. Accept we finish well below 10th and put everything into beating Man City, we can also beat Arsenal or Chelsea in a one off game. Gets us a trophy and European football.

0-0 if Pope starts. Otherwise 1-0 defeat.

5% chance. We are on course for 49 points finish. Lower mid table I guess. LC win best chance of Europe now.

Typical away performance. Now waiting for us to concede again between 46-60 minutes.

You love it up the shithole? Fair enough, we all have our pleasures.

This is my view as well. Best chance we have of a top 7 finish is to exit the three cup competitions as early as possible. For whatever reasons Howe struggles with juggling CL and cup runs, with collecting PL points. Our away fixtures in the new year are horrendous. We are averaging 1.35 points per game at GW 17, on course for 51 by the end of the season.

A generational talent. Improving with each game.

Once we are knocked out of the CL and the LC is done, and the inevitable defeat to Bournemouth in FA cup, we'll be back to one game per week and lots of training ground time. Expect a very strong finish to the season then, maybe getting 7th.

Just over 62 hours between Fulham game ending and this one kicking off. Fucking disgusting.

It seems that the WC is a vanity project with some sports washing. Whereas we are a full on investment with some sports washing. Any major capital expenditure at NUFC needs to hit the ROI minimum limits and other similar metrics. Thats why I'm apprehensive about assuming we are moving to a new stadium.

Was much better last night. But as things stand I'd rather still have Longstaff plus that extra £30m to spend elsewhere.

The thing is though we significantly overpaid for Ramsey and Elanga because they are PL ready, or so we were told. They should not need easing in or bedding in. The irony being we have signed many non-PL players who have been dropped straight in and been very good or class from the start. Thiaw, Big Nick, Isak's debut at Anfield, Botman. Even Bruno who in my view didn't need a 4 week introduction, you could see his class from the very first game as a sub.

Off the top of my head, Liverpool 45 seconds, Marsellie 47 seconds, yesterday 40 seconds or whatever. Its worrying.

Agreed. We should have gone into your players when on the ground knees first and broken their ribs and punctured a lung. Maybe Bruno, the Brazilian International, should have shown that level of passion eh.

Well that's their cup final completed. Won without a mackem player scoring. They can now have a 3 month winter break until we meet again mid March. Unless we make the LC final again.

They were absolutely shite and didn't have a shot on target until 70th minute. Lucky to get the win but my god we were crap as well.

So they've conveniently forgotten that in Dec 2014 their pedophile who snagged a 15 year old round the back of a Chinese takeaway scored the winning goal against us at SJP. The fucking inbred cunts. Always in our shadow.

Free Ticket Mackems. Been in operation since 2009.

Of there's one thing the Isak debacle taught us, it's that CL alone is not good enough to keep the very top players at the club.

I've no idea mate, only watched them a couple of times this season. I'll tell you at 4pm tomorrow how good their players are 😀 But they've won at Chelsea, draw at Liverpool (I know, I know!) drew home to Arsenal and unbeaten at home. Some of those signings must be doing something right.

One thing I will applaud them for is their recruitment this summer. They bought about 10 players but only 3(?) had the much valued by us 'PL experience'. We could learn a lesson there especially after our success with Walt and Thiaw compared to Ramsey and Elanga. Hopefull tomorrow is the day our PL experience does count.

Tonali needs to step up loads. We know how class he is which makes his recent performances all the more puzzling. Looks a shadow of the player he can be. Miley has to start alongside Bruno, plus Tonali or JL.

Yes, reading it again it looks like last 16 teams get £10m. So if we win the PO we get that. Whereas Arsenal and Man City are already guaranteed it.

£10m difference in prize money between finishing top 8 and 9-24. Potentially a very expensive 88th minute equaliser on Wednesday!