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they appear to be winding themselves up on rtg this morning in to forming a deep hatred and eternal rivalry with tinpot luton. their grudge games now start off on the south coast at portsmouth, head up to bedfordshire, cross over to the midlands for a dust up with jimmy hill's boys before heading north again for a stop off in the potteries. they're forging an unlikely truce with the smoggies at the minute and are desperate to see them disperse of the sky blues before gaining a wembley triumph against the evil hatters. they need to be very careful do the mackems or the only friends they'll have left in the entire football world will be bilbao.

So far we’ve had - drop Bruno - Play 5-3-2 - play Almiron CM - throw in manquillo against Mitoma - play trippier in Longstaff role in DM Either you lot are crumbling under pressure or you’ve been smoking crack.

A bit like the Ajax side that reached consecutive Champions League finals in the mid-90s - their big challenge going forward will be how they rebuild after the biggest clubs in Europe have taken their best players.

That’s the joke mate

They’re an amazing young team who play some of the best free-flowing, attacking football anyone has ever seen. They also finished 11 points behind tinpot Luton who play league one hoof ball and were the poorer side for about 75% of a two-legged playoff. They were 22 points (or needed 8 of their losses converted to 7 wins and a draw) from getting the tally Sheff Utd amassed to get an automatic promotion spot. Schrödinger's Black Cat 👍🏻

Does this mean Wedding Season can start early this year?

Lovely stuff. They had some knacker from Roker Report on the radio yesterday saying things like “it’s unbelievable, I’ve never seen us play football this good, it’s incredible” and I thought “you scraped into 6th and you have a bit of a pace on the counter attack” The standards are so low and you just have to look at what happened last night when faced with a strong, athletic side. Makes me think that they might not beat us after all

Not now, Keto

I'm hoping for us to rub it in on Thursday night by producing some classic mag behaviour, adding to our tally of 63 lucky goals and landing our 19th lucky win of the season in what has been an absolutely awful Premier league season where everyone has underperformed, especially against us.

Eddie says fuck you all

They are going to struggle to find a manager who can get his head around this new type of football they've invented. Maybe they should employ Chat GPT?

tidied

Ah god, they’re going to get a “highly rated” young coach from abroad and do it all wrong, aren’t they? Please say yes

Mowbray set to be sacked according to Talksport.

Jimmy is a top bloke, paralyzed in a car crash.

According to Gabbiadni on Total Sport they have invented a new way of playing football keeping hold of the ball and 'Those Cruyff passes where you let it through your legs and kick it' Silly CUNT

Klopp's being banned from the touchline from the 29th May till the 11th August. Unprecedented punishment for the Liverpool boss.

Mowbray is a good looking boro lad tbh

You know that they're toxic.

if you look at their home form over the last 8 games of the season they were 22nd out of 24 teams. Which is weird given what fantastic support they get at the SoL.

I land in toon around 4, meeting some mates for an early Chinese and got the day off work Friday so el vino will flow. Should be a few pints deep by kick off. I’m just going to try and enjoy it and make a racket, win, lose or draw. Howe said today that pressure is a privilege. Even if we lose, fuck it. Did anyone predict top 4 at the start of the season?

Tbh I think it's cowardly to attack an unarmed man.

You’d be laughing anyway. HMHM (and Cock-eyed Mala, golf legend) just reinforce that

Apparently it's all part of The Project. The only place on the internet that discusses this project is the SMB. From what I can gather, it means investing in the academy or players from the lower leagues, letting the players develop a bit, and selling them if they are any good, then getting all your best players on loan from PL clubs and not buying them, and then rinse and repeat. And a mandatory manager change of once a season, although two or three changes is preferred. Then somehow you are challenging in the upper midtable premier league like Brighton, without actually being there. Or something?

We are on the outskirts of playa del ingles. Fondle ahoy

I heard that this Kevin Louise Dreyfus kid is going to be their next manager because his mam will stop his pocket money if he doesn't get a job or tidy his room. 🤷‍♂️ But yeah, this is fucking mental. He may be the ugliest man in football, but he did a great job getting this lot to the play offs and is well liked and respected. I did think he would struggle next year for a variety of reasons, but it's highly unlikely a replacement will do better imo.

Germany, Austria, what's the difference?

This friendship will last forever, since they’ve got no hope of ever playing them competitively

Joelinton has still been playing his game, which is more free roaming. It works around the structure of Longstaff and Bruno, but when Joe Willock comes in instead of Sean we suddenly have two midfield players who both like to push forward (often down the left). The result is that there's more open space in our midfield for our opposition to attack into. Add to that that Bruno has been off the pace recently with his persistent ankle problem and our defense is being called on more regularly than they were earlier in the season. This is why we've conceded more. We don't have another player like Longstaff really. I just haven't seen it from Anderson and expecting Willock or Joe to change their style of play and positioning at this stage of the season is a big ask. If we had other reliable options at right back I wouldn't mind seeing how Trippier went in that Longstaff role but I don't fancy the risk of bringing in match shy Manquillo or Targett on the wrong side.

Survey going round on the next mackem manager already

Fish trying to pull off the old double whoosh manoeuvre

Yeah, it's fairly close imo. Mowbray has the look of an old ugly Odo from Deep Space Nine about him I reckon (nerd, I know) Tony Mowbray Odo from Deep Space Nine

puff, puff, give - yeah?

I watched the second half and Sunderland were fucking wank, Luton carved through them at will but just have a bunch of forward players who can’t seem to kick a ball (the lad with the headband on the left wing was particularly bad), I couldn’t believe the empty net miss at the end . If the mackems watch that thinking they’re some brilliant free flowing side they’re even more fucking deluded than I thought.

He's a left back and an international player. He is better than Burn as a left back, but has had injury issues. Burn can't continue as left back, especially in Europe, so we need someone more accomplished. Whether he is worth the potential injury risk depends on how much we are quoted. Knowing Arsenal - squillions, even though he is not their first choice.

I was trying to work out where they are on the mackem boom bust cycle but it doesn't work without derbies. But yeah, if they lose Diallo and that Leeds player and Stewart isn't really as good as Drogba then they might get off to a bad start, in which case as you say Mowbray won't make Xmas. Normal service resumes.

I understand that being a foreign fan too. However having observed the behaviour of the people from that place as well as the views of their football fans over many years, I think the only thing that should be acceptable to humankind is for the city and club to always languish at the absolute bottom of anything they are participating in.