The Kraken

352 looks shit. It’s just lump it and bypass centre midfield. Lyanco exists just to get the ball and hoof it. Defensively it just looks like it confuses them. It’s hit and hope, then feed off the scraps. While looking shaky at the back every time they come forward. Forest are utterly shit, and there we go, they’re one up. Fuck off Lyanco you utterly useless Cunt.

fucking hell JWP. You’ve got to hit the target after being allowed a melee of our players in the six yard box? And Christ, Lyanco must have abysmal long ball completion stats. His role seems to be to get the ball and lump it away.

Not true. He’s usually about ten yards away from where he needs to be.

Ten minutes in, we’re not good, Forest are absolutely dire. And then they hit the bar Ffs. Terrible, atrocious defending.

Sloppy from ABK. Got away with it.

Fucking clown shoes on Adams yet again.

Looks like Mara in a two with Adams (Che).

Another first, the first Sikh Punjabi to be a linesman at a Prem game. We really are ground breaking.

Well we’re winning the fireworks.

We had an ex player of ours called Boufal who made it to the semis. Maybe we should go for him.

Is this Orsic fella actually any good? Just turned 30, never played in one of Europe’s top leagues, spent about 3-4 years playing in China and Korea, has scored 2 in 27 for his national side. I can’t say I’ve noticed much of him before, what am I missing? Other than that he’s quite good at long range shots.

Groundbreaking Twitter news from nearly 4 years ago there Brett 👌

Get Tella back and see if he can bring JRod and Jack Cork with him….

I keep seeing Adams (Che) for Saints lineups. Obviously with Armstrong the first name confirmation is required, who is Che Adams getting distinguished from?

It was initially reported as £6m by the Sun. They put out a table of all Premier League manager’s salaries which they claimed they knew for all 20 clubs. Other websites and outlets reproduced that figure. It may be true, it may not, but there were other reports out at the time that stated £6m was the figure Ralph could get to if he hit various performance metrics, one of which included winning the Premier League. So, as I say, I’m a little sceptical of that headline figure. Although tbf it also wouldn’t surprise me if it were true. We’re supposed to be paying JWP around £5m a year in wages so it’s not beyond the realms that the manager would be on more than the best paid player. But going back a couple of years or so ago it was also reported that RH was on around £3m a year.

Fuck me, talk about clickbait. The article itself gives the quote which is from a Footballer Insider journalist where he says: “Obviously nobody wants to be involved in a relegation fight, and I’m sure if an offer did come in it’s something that Che Adams would seriously consider.

I struggle to believe that. He only had another 18 months on his contract.

Lavia’s injuries have been excessive, but nobody should have been expecting an 18 year old to play every game of the season in about the most competitive position on the pitch. He was always going to miss a few games through form or knocks, the injuries have been more than that though. The massive mistake was signing Maitland-Niles effectively as the spare holding midfielder when he is nothing of the sort.

Who do you suggest we play instead of him?

On the flip side……You take an arbitrary 40 year period and change it to a 50 year period, then you can add Saints and Sunderland winning the FA Cup as lower league sides. But yes, I do agree. As a PL side we’ve often got an outside chance of doing well in a cup and that goes away drastically with relegation. That’s a downside, no doubt.

I can’t speak for others, and I’m pretty sure I’ve never said I “can’t wait” for championship football. I’d probably prefer it if we stayed in the Premier League. But, unlike around 2005, relegation doesn’t bother me. We are never going to win the Premier League. Massive success is defined as breaking the top six, which with Newcastle’s riches will likely become a top seven. It’s a bit of a closed shop. It’s not good going down, nobody should pretend it is. But its also not a disaster. Going to league One would be very bad, some time in the championship is just meh. We’re fucking shite in this league anyway so you get what you deserve.

Sadly it’s this.

I was chatting today with my pals about what’s gone wrong, and when you actually go through it, it’s just a clown show. From the end of last season….. Kept faith with a manager who had overseen an incredibly terrible run in of 5 points from 12 league games the previous season. Insist that the manager bring in a new first team coach / assistant manager, but they’ll be the ones to approve who it. Appoint a new head of recruitment who previously oversaw youth recruitment at a top premier league club, then let him spend a record incredible amount of money mostly on unproven young players from the club he was previously at. Then watch as the recruitment fella quits his job after the transfer window and says he wants to go elsewhere. Oversee a clear change in team formation over the pre season by switching to a 3 CB complete disaster, then watch the manager throw that in the bin within 3 games of the regular season. Persist with said manager who is clearly disillusioned with the whole thing and dialling it in until such point that there’s no other option than to bin him off. Install a manager with zero top flight experience anywhere and who horrendously outside of Luton Town, and who Stoke City fans rate as perhaps their worst manager ever. Give said manager more than a month to get his new team sorted, then watch him give his under-performing players an extended holiday while he gets his ideas sorted out, then takes his players on a jolly to southern Spain. Then watch the new manager changes his team formation from game to game trying to work out what he’s actually doing. Fucking hell, it’s depressing just repeating it

Christ I hope so. He’s the absolute embodiment of the lack of drive and ambition at the moment. Should have been removed for coming out with that shite that team position doesn’t matter.

Well done, you win the prize for spotting my intentional mistake…… 🤥 Swap in a young Oriol Romeu for the departed Frenchman. Or Jordy Clasie if you prefer.