Barry the Badger

We'd be fine.

Lol. Yes, both of those things depend entirely on a centre back signing.

Am I missing something on the seating plan? Why is the middle tier greyed out?

For me it's simple really. I've been aligned with the clubs goals for many many years, through relegation battles, cup runs, promotion campaigns, I knew what the club were trying to achieve and it matched what I wanted the club to achieve as a fan. It's easy to get passionate about that, you feel at one with the club and players targets. Having established ourselves as a very good prem team, I was aligned with the clubs goals as it fought to make Europe. Then it's diverged. The club weren't that bothered about Europe, I REALLY was. I wanted us to prioritise it, the club gave it second billing behind trying to finish "top of our mini league" in the prem. I understand why they're doing that, it's where the money is, but I just feel like there's little point in finishing 6th, 7th, 8th if we then aren't going to really try in Europe. So success for the club now is finishing 7th, and I don't really care about that, but we're good enough to stay out of trouble, so the consequence of the club failing is we finish 13th or something. I just don't really care. In the past it felt as though every match mattered, whether it was a relegation battle, cup run, promotion attempt or push for Europe. This season feels like the games don't really matter at all, because even if we have a great season and get into Europe, the club will **** it away again. I don't even feel confident that we will play our best 11 for the second leg Liverpool game, which is a mad situation to be in.

I am enjoying singing along theatrically to annoy everybody around me. But yes, it's ****ing awful

Lol. 19 games!

Because who gives a ****?

It's not very hard. The least they could do is walk around the stadium and work out the correct volume for the music. It was WAY off

So how is it different to total shots?

If Davis got 7 or 8 goals a season he wouldn't be playing for us for very long.

It's relevant to the running of the club but utterly irrelevant to this conversation

He's just that mix of being very reliable and about the perfect level for them without ever quite being good enough to attract a Champs Lg club. Don't imagine he wouldn't have been off if they'd ever come in for him, just like any player.

I vote we wait until he makes a mistake then start singing "Charlie Austin's red and white" as loud as we possibly can.

Yet

The thing I miss is feeling any kind of connection with most of the players, even when we were on the way up and the players were earning lots of money, they seemed like real people, and many of them had been with us for a long time and didn't seem to be going anywhere. Once you get to the level we are now the money is so unbelievable it's hard to identify with the players or feel like we're all in it together, plus the good ones generally only stay for 2 years max.

and he still got us our best ever finish in the Premier League at that time, impressive.

Fair play to the club, away travel is bloody expensive. Hopefully this will lead other clubs to follow suit.

Because we are the only club in the premier league who has consistently punched above our weight for 3-4 years

Dear god, the comments on that article are meltdown-tastic

This is so funny, you guys

It always amazes me how surprised people are when these people decide to leave. You don't become one of the best defenders in the world by being anything other than ruthlessly ambitious.

This is making me quite angry. Is somebody paying off England managers to do mental things when tournament time comes around?

Great argument bro

Oh well, come on you Red Devils (shudder)

But if we can somehow get 6th we could all support palace in the cup final, which would make me feel less dirty.