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Nah, you can make that judgement after two games under Howe. Including one he couldn’t even attend and we got a draw even though the keeper had a fucking mare and cost us the win. And another where we lost away to a team who’d won 4 on the bounce and have a much better squad.

any more than 6 would be a bonus

This mantra of “we didn’t deserve anything” out of the game is patently bollocks, three clear penalty claims utterly ignored by ALL the officials and a Shelvey effort that plenty of times could have counted. From what I remember teams don’t have to dominate or necessarily be the best overall to grab a point or even three. We were denied clear, decent chances by blinkered officials and a very decent goalkeeper.

Massive fan.

Sorry, but I'm not gonna bore myself and everyone else engaging with this.

Kindly fuck off with the Gerrard would have been a better option patter. He's a completely unknown quantity. That alone makes him an objectively worse option.

Tbf, when Mrs. F. is working from home it does my fucking head in.

Javid really is a snivelling little shit - claiming working from home costs too much in economic and mental health terms - usual lack of proof of course.

He’s prepared to argue having a deeply unpopular manager was a good thing rather than admit his mate/source was a fucking joke. That’s how much journalistic integrity he has.

We are where we are in large part because his mate was our manager for nearly 2 and a half years, in general it is of course down to Ashley but Bruce deserves a lot of criticism for where we are and as I’ve said in the past if Edwards can’t see why he should pack in being a football journalist as it’s bleedingly obvious. We’ve already seen performances from certain players better than anything they did while Bruce was manager and it’s been two fucking weeks. His point is also, as per usual with him, completely wrong anyway. He’s trying to frame it as if it’s almost exclusively the players being the issue, while accusing others of pinning it all on Bruce yet two minutes scanning comments on anything regarding our team and you’ll see huge gripes people had with player performance and ability before Bruce, during Bruce’s tenure, and still to this day. In short the blokes a fucking prick, he puts everything in black and white terms while accusing others of doing the same despite the fact basically nobody does. We all know the squad is weak but the point being they’ve visibly regressed during his tenure, the ability levels of this group of players absolutely isn’t bottom of the PL with no wins, we’ve seen far more from them in past seasons and his ridiculous “no longer capable” or however he phrased it holds no water imo you’re talking about a 2 season time scale here not 5-6. The players have received hardly any training or tactics in Bruce’s tenure, and the fact that Edwards literally blows that off in the below tweet shows the level of bollocks he posts to defend his unqualified bestie: the arrogance of this tool aye you’re right Luke, change the entire mood, actually train the players, etc and absolutely nothing will improve ffs man how can he even tweet this? Does he genuinely think if Howe was given this team back in June we would be in this same position? If the answer is no (hint it definitely is) then his entire shit point is made redundant. He’s clearly dressing this Arsenal result up as a massive failure but despite losing 2-0 in what was imo a poor performance we still managed 5 shots on target to their 6, that gives us a fighting chance of walking away with points, in contrast we went games under Bruce without registering any shots on target which is simply unacceptable. As far as I’m concerned the bloke has absolutely no credibility as a journalist. I still see his ridiculous tweets but I’ll never read any of his articles, he’s shit at his job so why bother? Tweets like the above are simply embarrassing as well, attacking and insulting the fan base he’s supposed to be covering games for yet he then whinges when people insult him? I’m not sure what he expects. Then again he cried when similar was happening to Bruce, the pair of fucking fannies.

Or... he's done well at international level and a bit of proper coaching could make him worth a bash instead of Richie, whose defending is all over the shop

Totally. But if that's Newcastle fans we get pelters for it.

Call me crazy but I think the original cinema releases for both Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner are the best versions. Yes they may not of been the "full" realisation of the director's vision but they were the actual releases that changed the way we looked at cinema. The effect they had on cinema from that moment on is huge and the later released director's cuts never had that effect and influence. If you haven't seen Heart of Darkness then make sure you do as soon as you can - the fact that Apocalypse Now was even made is just a feat in itself.

I've worked from home for the last 17 years and I'm completely normal. But aye, I do tend to agree really. It's not for everyone and to be honest, if my company had an office here I'd be up for going hybrid. So to speak.

Our only hope is getting a couple of players who can hit the ground running in January. That's it. Had the takeover not happened we wouldn't even have that as otherwise this is a nailed on relegation season.

Does it count how much the commentators are bothered and the producers whether they show constant replays of a penalty incident for var to start looking at things?

Relegation confirmed.

Well you can forgive people for the confusion given you have previously posted on this board that you wouldn't be getting the booster as catching covid gives you better immunity. In fact, that's a drum you've been beating for months on here, ignoring the fatal flaw (1000s of them) in that plan

Plus the second game was v Arsenal. Yes, they're not the Arsenal of old but they're still miles away from where we are.

Pfft .

Frozen stiff. Thanks piss!

Public service announcement The best version of the best film ever made is on BBC1 tonight at 12:15 Apocalypse Now. The Final Cut

In fairness most folk probably do.