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This 100%. Only simpletons or those who like feeling an undeserved sense of moral superiority have trouble seeing the difference.

Indeed. Well said.

Agreed and it's incredibly obvious who the true itks are who are just sharing what they can. Very rarely do those types of posters get any abuse. It's also obvious who the bullsh*tters, liars and attention seekers are largely because they get so angry when they are even mildly questioned. I don't support any abuse or ridicule of genuine itks but over the years the likes of Jack schitt, Saint David, lifelong Saint and others deserve all the cr*p they received.

Oh dear soggy has been embarrassing himself again I see...

Out of that lot I'd rather have Clyne, fonte, puncheon, lallana, schneiderlin, Rodriguez and lambert. So maybe 4 or 5 players from the current squad would get in that team. Makes me sad looking at that.

Stop following me around the board soggy.

I'm always suspicious of these type of things. Is it an official one? Is there any confirmation of what's happening with the finance?

If we compare to previous seasons we are weaker all over the park apart from maybe gk. We best pray that our new attacking signings are up to scratch because our midfield seems to be one of the weakest since promotion. Does anyone have the lineup for our first game back in the top flight for comparison? I just hope we play some entertaining football.

Absolutely appaling attacking lineup there. Lower third of the table without a doubt.

We've had a few itk people over the years. The proper ones in general post with little fanfare and are roundly thankws for sharing. The bullsh*tters and attention seekers like Jack schitt for example are largely ignore, abused or made fun of because they are very obvious liars.

That one that was mates with lallana knew some stuff too but he was an a*sehole

Erm good for you. I'm sure we all do that from time to time. Invariably turns out to be wrong though...

Ohh get her. Heaven forbid that topics evolve. Just to update you, we haven't been linked with anyone of note.

Exactly. To call something positive "lucky" means you have to refer to everything negative that happened as "unlucky" which is nonsensical. You could just as easily say we were unlucky against Everton otherwise we would have stayed up comfortably.

I think if you did a poll of what position people would like to strengthen most it would be up front so I think it's clear that that's where we need to sort first of all.

Odd that you would think luck played any part in that at all. Hughes improved our points per game ratio and it was enough to keep us up. He did a good job and I'm glad he was appointed and he should now be given a chance to see what he can do. There's thus far been zero indication that we would actually do worse this season than the abysmal performances last year and the fact you think we will actually do worse can only really be based on your harsh opinion of Hughes rather than anything he has actually done whilst here.

I don't think luck had anything to do with it. He improved our performances to a point that we were able to survive relegation. He wasn't lucky, he was competent.

I think that's the consensus. Even if he's not good enough to be a starter, he's certainly good enough to be part of the squad.

Apart from save us from relegation. What specifically should he have done differently to answer your criticisms? Kept us up by more points?

Something you certainly would not have predicted when he was appointed so maybe you are wrong in this case too?

Of course people do, I was referring specifically to the poster in question rather than a general thing about people changing their opinions.

He was incredibly anti Hughes before he came in so he's hardly likely to change his position now. I can't see why we would be more likely to go down this season than last season considering that Hughes is a miles better manager than Pellegrino.

Yes but TBF you really didn't want us to employ him in the first place and he was great and saved us from relegation last season.

I doubt he would do worse than what I saw last season. I'd give him a run of games and see what he can do.

Agreed. I really can't understand why people are saying he has shown he isn't good enough. Almost every time I've seen him play he's looked exciting and shown that he very much is good enough.