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1 minute ago, Toonjam88 said:

Must be one of the worst Sundays for football recently. Our match and then this. People will be watching the Antiques Roadshow repeats 

Makes me feel better about our game now [emoji38]

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Just now, HaydnNUFC said:

Only way I’d ever watch that ‘the Box’ that Sky keep peddling is if there was a pack of radge XL Bullies let in with them. Looks a heinous watch.


Saw them pushing it yesterday for the Manc Derby. What the actual fuck!


Grimiest of grim viewings.

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Just now, The Bonk said:


Saw them pushing it yesterday for the Manc Derby. What the actual fuck!


Grimiest of grim viewings.


Dreading to think what set of absolute cunts they get in for the mackem game in March. The likes of Pearson, Bowden and Matty Renton I imagine.

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That’s a stick in the spokes of all the “but Villa are doing it loads better than us with the same restrictions as us” posters on here.

 

Football’s a funny owld game.


 

 

 

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8 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:


Dreading to think what set of absolute cunts they get in for the mackem game in March. The likes of Pearson, Bowden and Matty Renton I imagine.

Tbf, getting Holly Blades in there might be a canny watch.

 

 

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5 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said:

That’s a stick in the spokes of all the “but Villa are doing it loads better than us with the same restrictions as us” posters on here.

 

Football’s a funny owld game.

 

As well as 

 

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But you'd think we were the only team in the league who are inconsistent. People cite Villa despite them playing like shit purely because they're the only plausible example left.

 

 

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9 minutes ago, Pearljam10 said:

Football has really become more boring the last 2 seasons.  Its becoming more and more like team handball.

 

Sometimes I wonder if it’s just me getting older and transitioning into that timeworn classic of thinking things used to be better. However, I’ve never enjoyed watching football less than this current era. Not talking just about Newcastle but the whole game, VAR, the off-the-pitch influences, how refereeing has gotten worse over time,  teams setting up in exactly the same overcoached ways and players being taught to be robotic rather than use any individual flair. Just feels an all time low for football as a product, which is ironic give the amount of money in the game, and clearly not surprising at the same time 

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27 minutes ago, Toonjam88 said:

Must be one of the worst Sundays for football recently. Our match and then this. People will be watching the Antiques Roadshow repeats 

 

I watched the Rotterdam Derby which was very entertaining (Feyenoord 3-4 Sparta Rotterdam). Sparta were 3-1 up then Van Persie brought his own son on from the bench. He went on to score in the 87th and 88th minute (overhead kick for his 2nd one) to level at 3-3 only for Sparta to win it in the 93rd minute.

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For at least 25 years the teams that did long throws and relied on set pieces for goals had the piss ripped out of the them for being shit at football.

 

Now the pendulum has swung and it’s considered the epitome of the successful modern team.

 

It’s fucking rank. 
 

Add in VAR, PSR, Ballots, Bots, sky high ticket prices, shit kick off times yadda yadda yadda and the game has become a toxic soup. 

 

 

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16 minutes ago, Pearljam10 said:

Football has really become more boring the last 2 seasons.  Its becoming more and more like team handball.

 

 

Agreed. Fatigue from fixture congestion, a focus on fitness over technique (which has levelled the playing field considerably) and the reinvention of set plays has made the average game that much more dour IMO.

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AFCON final about to start on E4. Hosts Morocco vs Senegal. I've not watched much at all of the tournament, but will be tuning in for this. Jackson, Mane, I Ndiaye, I Gueye, Diouff all starting for Senegal, as well as former PL players in Mendy in goal and Nakhate, who gave away the late penalty when we beat Forest. 

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28 minutes ago, Pearljam10 said:

Football has really become more boring the last 2 seasons.  Its becoming more and more like team handball.

 

 

Quality of player at its highest but quality of match decreasing due to tactical choices.

 

The robotic keep ball game. 

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13 minutes ago, bobbydazzla said:

For at least 25 years the teams that did long throws and relied on set pieces for goals had the piss ripped out of the them for being shit at football.

 

they've reinvented the long ball era, but with raw physical fitness in place of the long ball. technique only feels like it matters in terms of being able to do the simple things but at a blistering pace. it's fucking boring. plus aye, everything else about the game is rank and all, with the world cup being a peak moment in the wwe-ification of football. 

 

fuck 2026, give me 1996. christ, i'd take 1986. 

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