500bhp

Observations from the match but only seen it in real time. Bruno is not captain material. Burn took on that role when it really mattered like shouting at the ref when he made fucking stupid decisions. Red card looked very harsh. No contact and Diaz dived. Gordon is playing within himself. The East Stand was really missed off with him today for what it's worth. Pulled out of loads of 50/50. Hopefully he's fully focused against once the window closes. Ref was shit from the first minute

That will be the team Howe picks except Burn in for Kelly. Going for a very comfortable unspectacular 2-0 win.

I notice you sensibly didn't include home gate receipts from cup games. Seven in a row away from home and counting!! That alone must be worth £3-4m per season in lost revenue.

Need to shift Miggy first.......

Is this fucker still there? It's my turnstile and already takes ages to get in without this shit.

On my stick its Live Events, match Preseason 07.

Ditto. Channel Preseason 01 I guess 😄

I said exactly that last season. He finishing and positioning is still spot on though.

They are taking the piss with the second point. That's just a normal operational risk that every club is exposed to. It's like us saying we need an allowance because MA didn't grow our commercial income for 14 years in line with other clubs. Or that last season we had the worst injury crisis in PL history, which means we lost revenue from being knocked out the CL and finishing 7th instead of 4th.

Yes, heard the same. That the police have been briefing some local organisations that this may happen. What a fucking mess. Why can't they just make the EDL meeting illegal. Use some of that emergency covid lockdown legislation, that must be knocking around somewhere still 🙂

Our #75 looks a prospect.

And a defensive one. That midfield three looks poor today. No pace very lethargic and being cut open on the counter. It's only a friendly and we'll improve before the season starts.

Once a team is full of elite players the manager is less important. Real Madrid, PSG and Chelsea until recently regularly changed managers and continued to be very successful. For a few years Real Madrid seemed to win the CL every year under a different manager! At NUFC Howe has turned average players into good players and good ones into very good. We still need Howe as we do not have a squad of quality players. But as the squad improves the manager is less important. Hence putting in place the executive level management structure we are seeing now. We still need Howe to do his magic for a while yet though.

Nee Steve Bruce 😃😃

The club will have known from September 2023 onwards there was a PSR deficit. The actual amount will have been clearer from December 2023 once we were out of Europe. And again in February 2024 after the winter transfer window closed. Raising the required funds on the day or the deadline is very risky. Maybe beyond the risk appetite of PIF, who knows. It's old news now and I hope this is not linked to Amanda leaving. I'm sure it's not.

The Athletic article by Chirs Waugh, I think. 10 points deduction if we didn't raise the funds, 48 hours to do it, serious concerns we might not do it. That type of thing. It was covered in the other thread.

Someone had to pay for the PSR fuck up last week. Hope it's wasn't Wor Mandy. The club not knowing on the morning of the 29th whether or not it could make the necessary sales is very bad management, putting it mildly. I'm sure that didn't go down well in SA.

Hope we stays but we already have his replacement in Barnes. Not a like for like but good enough and very productive in goals and assists.

As a neutral I'm finding the Euros a bit boring with bland games. The World Cup is much better with the African and South America countries being involved.

We'll likely be seeing similar next season when the 14 year price freezes stop. My ticket is going up from £550 to £900 it looks like. That's about 4% pa increase back dated 14 years!

What a fuck up. The Gordon bit is worrying.

Football is a cut throat game. Miggy now knows we want to sell him. He needs to move on, take the Saudi money and do what's best for him and the club. We can't progress onto the next stage until we sell players like him to Saudi.

Maybe he's pushing to leave? From his point of view playing for one of the big red clubs is the only way he'll get to start for England 😁. ....I'm taking the piss BTW!

Don't really want to say anything more but I've been told the alleged incident did take place, even if the photo's may or may not have been photo shopped. But let's not go into this.

They weren't.