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The glorious campaign continues as we advance into the territory of Notts (they hate that) Forest, land of men in tights, evil sheriffs and pubs with bogs inhumanly far from the bar (I worked there for 2 years - coincidently, which is when I learned the original name for the place was Tigguo Cobauc or "place of cave dwellings", it was then changed to Snotingham which means "the homestead of Snot's people" - they hated me calling them snot people too. So I have issued an imperial edict that we will become their bogey team). We will overwhelm the flanks whilst consolidating in the centre, the scab cunts are doomed. 0-3 (AND we will score from a corner)

"No-playing motherfuckers"

Who the fuck speaks to each other like that on WhatsApp?

Sorry, but *. * You're right about the rest.

Years ago when I was a filthy student I was studying Human Geography, and one module was about social deprivation. We read papers on the Brazilian favelas, South African and Jamaican shanty towns, but one particular paper u remember was on the effects of social deprivation on adolescent mental health and development. I remember it because it was done in sunderland, the authors choosing there because of the short age gap between generations giving them multiple generations of adolescents to study Anyway, I found the paper online, the funniest parts are in the conclusions, specifically on page 450 and 477, which directly answer your questions as to why they do this en masse https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32540024/

Its the Toontastic Accountants whatsapp chat I believe

Scapegoating the foreigner. He'll be out patrolling the white cliffs in the morning.

First chance I've had to watch the game and having Willock playing like that makes such a difference the whole team. He works so well with big Joe on the left and makes him play so much better With Longstaff between the defence and midfield and Willock linking mid and attack we seemed much more joined up as a unit It would be glorious if Gordon works on the right, team seems so much more balanced Full backs were great, so much potential there Hopefully exciting times ahead

He might have been disruptive and abrasive, but my God, he was the best coroner in the business.

Two defeats in a row and we are shite, then two wins in a row and we are CL material. The rollercoaster mentality of a football fan.

Forest play 44by2

This was me this morning at work. Why aye.

And another thing, the key to Saturday wasn’t Longstaff not giving the ball away every 2 minutes for a change, it was the Hall x Willock x Joelinton axis down the left. A fit Willock has more influence on the side than a turbo charged Longstaff iyam

Yep. And people should stop fretting about Tonali, the fuckin paddy power enabled cunt. Am telling you, he’s Viana with A levels and a 2020’s fitness coach

Btw, can I just point out the OP nailed the thread in the first post, so we've wasted 86 pages and 9 years for nothing.

Stong thread name, Got me all

They were relegated 50 years ago as it happens. Was glorious.

Love Keane complaining that the current crop of Man United players don't have "the Man United DNA". That existed only under one manager in the past 50 years (or longer, there are people old enough on here to know). It just so happened that he was there at the time. But this is just a club reverting to its normal state. Through poor management cos they've got the money to be up there, but the way he talks like they have a divine right.

A most elegant sociological theory you are proposing there Dr Monkey's Fist. Nay, nay I say, this transcends theory and we can now consider it to be a law. The law of the fans of massive lads.

That is a top quality post and I applaud the commitment to it

This re naming is one of the many reasons long time admirer is in my top 5 TT posters (current rosta only, obvs)

Gentlemen.

Played really well for Italy too hasn't he in a different role where he's running everything. Keeping him, Barnes, Trippier and Willock fit for most of the remainder of the season could be the difference in making Europe or losing out again. We obviously just didn't have these options last season. I almost added Wilson to the list but trying to keep it serious here.

Longstaff was brilliant on Saturday. But let's not get carried away, he has been dogshit for most of the season (not the only one though admittedly). Him, Bruno, Joe, Willock, Isak all raised their games and therefore we won reasonable comfortably. If the team truly has gotten it's mojo back then Longstaff will continue to play an important role as others have outlined. But should things get a little difficult again and we need to do something a little different, be more creative for instance then his limitations will be on full display again. Yeah Bruno/Tonali is a difficult one. From Eddie's interviews, he focuses on Tonali's flexibility so you think he's not quite yet figured out where his best position is. Also says Bruno's style is suited to deep lying possession, and Tonali's is more athletic. All of which makes sense and indicated the thinking still is for Bruno to be the holding man and Tonali to take up the box to box role.

I’ll see your nightmares on wax and raise you…

What a fraud! He’s straight ripped off Nightmares on Wax, the no playing motherfucker!

Apart from his pass that laid it on a plate for Gordon to hit the cross, first time, for the goal, obviously.

I record Countryfile every week so I can watch the weather for the week like the old cunt I am be coming. This weekend it's been the Children in Need one. They have done it from Chatsworth this year. Funny how they're promoting people giving money for charity from a place owned by a cunt who is tax exempt for allowing people access to his land. What a fucking country eh?

YOU'RE a double pivot, MATE.

Just taking a break and watched a Keith Downie report on SSN on them and he was really positive about them. RTG will explode with the mental gymnastics. Aparrently their main man is some cunt on loan front Bournemouth (Mepham) - hopefully they recall him in January.

I've found it very odd that so many of our supporters were expecting Tonali to come straight back into the team and replace Longstaff and that the midfield three of Bruno, Joelinton and Tonali was suddenly going to be superb. It wasn't last season before Tonali's ban and it's been exactly the same this. I'm not saying it will never work, but so far Howe hasn't worked out how. If nothing else Longstaff clearly offers us more balance at the moment. He's not as competent on the ball as the other players we can play in the midfield three but he does the dirty work to allow the others to play. He's been superb this week and he's definitely an asset.

I can say with some confidence that "Other fans" don't have a strong opinion about Sunderland AFC or the MLFs that support it. Just like "Other fans" wouldn't have a strong opinion about Portsmouth.

I no longer have ANY good feelings about you.

that's me fucked again then.

Mr Cut & Paste enters the chat

RTG’dYP

We’ll need to get our away form going if we challenge the top 6. We were back to our powerful best while being hard to break down in the last two games. A throwback to 2 years ago.

The most pathetic part of that entire thing is "Other fans love us because..." The complete obsession with the need for external validation is beyond cringeworthy. I've not seen any 'group' do this in quite the way mackems do, both within football and outside of it. Or maybe it's just RTG, but either way it's extreme "pick me" energy, as the Zoomers would say.

I didn't realise that you could view what people voted for so I normally go for a controversial vote regardless of the subject matter. I may change my approach moving forwards.

What about those who thought the thread was puerile and irrelevant and point blank refused to lower themselves by actually voting?

Only Forest and Liverpool have conceded less than us so far while only three sides have scored less than us. Can the 14 idiots on here who voted yes please start drafting their apology posts?

But we're STILL talking about our win yesterday man. Wibble.