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There was this lass i'd fapped over for years, absolute banger of a lass, then one night she said "ok, you can have a go on me, but only once".
Told her to fuck off if she wasn't willing to commit. That showed her.
 
well we would need a good scouting system to try to refresh the squad with premier league money. but the current squad would be 16th 17th
 
N20 Blade said:
Recent home games seem to follow a trend, halfway through the first half v boro the crowd starting to go quiet and as the game progressed, this increased. during previous promotion seasons the crowd were always behind the team and drove us on - always think of the last minute equaliser v newcastle in 1990. Currently we're passive and only moved when well ahead or negative when behind. Hopefully I'm wrong and if it's 0-0 or 0-1 after 80 mins v luton, the fans will drive the team on??
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Well if the fans really do hold so much power to influence, I'm absolutely fuming at the negative, faithless arses I see on here every day.
 
BarcaBlade said:
Well if the fans really do hold so much power to influence, I'm absolutely fuming at the negative, faithless arses I see on here every day.
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Ok fingers crossed we back the team on Saturday regardless of how the game goes. Maybe it’s the lack of intensity that is misinterpreted as lack of effort? I don’t know but it seems to lack something. Maybe this happens when a team has been promoted relatively recently before? This is an unusual situation for United to be in.
 
Utter shit, some of the piss poor points totals that teams have gone up with (birmingham 83 points in 2009 comes immediately to mind),

You're also completely overlooking the fact our points total is false given the absolutely ludicrous run of injuries we had earlier in the season, taking at least 6 or 7 points away from where the team should be.

Illiman N'Diaye is probably the most complete and gifted footballer this club has seen since the 70s, easily one of the best players I've ever seen outside the top flight.

To think of the 'triers' in the warnock promotion team, montgomery, kozluk, geary and that the 'talent' in that team was the likes of alan quinn, paul ifill and jagielka playing in his 2nd best position.

Absolute insult to the talent in this team we have right now
 
11 to go 9 wins needed looking at the teams to play we should get maximum from 7



6 at home that all should be shoe-ins apart from maybe west brom
 
It’s not the best to watch but as long as we get over the line and finish top 2 then I don’t give a fuck about performances at the minute. We need promotion for financial reasons and to steady the club. Roll on Saturday!
 
If we do go up, sign no one and finish lowest points ever... I wouldn't give one shit tbh.

At least then we have somewhat of a financial platform to rebuild if we come back down.
 
jono_t2000 said:
If we do go up, sign no one and finish lowest points ever... I wouldn't give one shit tbh.

At least then we have somewhat of a financial platform to rebuild if we come back down.
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But doesn’t that take all the joy away from football? In the modern era, the only joy is the journey to the prem. once you’re there, you’re scrapping around for 9/10 wins in a season every season, due to the nature of the league.

My personal frustration is the lack of entertainment despite us being 2nd in the league. If we’re going to scrape through games in that fashion just do the club survives, goes back down to start again, what’s the point of it all? This is meant to me the good bit but it doesn’t have that feeling like the other times (imo)
 
blader said:
But doesn’t that take all the joy away from football? In the modern era, the only joy is the journey to the prem. once you’re there, you’re scrapping around for 9/10 wins in a season every season, due to the nature of the league.

My personal frustration is the lack of entertainment despite us being 2nd in the league. If we’re going to scrape through games in that fashion just do the club survives, goes back down to start again, what’s the point of it all? This is meant to me the good bit but it doesn’t have that feeling like the other times (imo)
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It's the journey we're meant to enjoy.. not the destination.

That journey never ends until we shuffle off this mortal coil.

Who knows where our next owner will take us, maybe if we come back down we rebuild an even stronger squad.

Some seasons will be dull some will be talked about decades later as amazing.. Just enjoy the ride.
 
N20 Blade said:
Recent home games seem to follow a trend, halfway through the first half v boro the crowd starting to go quiet and as the game progressed, this increased. during previous promotion seasons the crowd were always behind the team and drove us on - always think of the last minute equaliser v newcastle in 1990. Currently we're passive and only moved when well ahead or negative when behind. Hopefully I'm wrong and if it's 0-0 or 0-1 after 80 mins v luton, the fans will drive the team on??
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Fanbase have had a proportion of fannies for as long as I can remember TBH :) ;)
 
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jono_t2000 said:
It's the journey we're meant to enjoy.. not the destination.

That journey never ends until we shuffle off this mortal coil.

Who knows where our next owner will take us, maybe if we come back down we rebuild an even stronger squad.

Some seasons will be dull some will be talked about decades later as amazing.. Just enjoy the ride.
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We’re looking at Admin and oblivion if we don’t go up, unless we get a new owner with really deep pockets which looks very unlikely.

Notwithstanding the above, the Championship is always a huge grind. Performances are patchy and you’ve got to grab wins and results wherever you can. Even under the fluidity of peak Wilder, we had to play Hanson up top in L1 and Madine in the Champ to get through it. It was ever thus.
 
You would think we would ....get some new players in.......I know it's radical but it could work.
 
Good thing is, at least we will have Championship players as back up if we do go up. Last time, we’d accelerated and in a few cases were looking at League One back ups.

The good thing for United is that we are good at producing young players and giving them a chance. There is a decent pipeline. Next cabs off the rank if you like. You’ve got Jebbo, then Osula, Marsh and Hackford, then further down you have Havenhand looking like the next player a team like Man City would come and poach if we don’t go Cat A sharpish.
 
Mouth of the South said:
You reckon Luton will be easy? I'm not so sure.
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We all know Luton will not be easy, Reading weren't, Blackburn weren't and we needed an OG against Watford.

Hopefully the team enjoyed the win and it would help them travelling back for Saturdays game in high spirits.. Was It a genius move giving them Sunday off, yeah I think..

Reading was a bigger banana skin in my opinion because games in hand very rarely result in points, but Luton are as much a threat, let's hope we go on the pitch with a swagger, confidence, and play with style and purpose..

2 wins on the bounce (without being disrespectful to Luton) could see us on go on a good run too..

UTB.
 
Tezza1889 said:
We all know Luton will not be easy, Reading weren't, Blackburn weren't and we needed an OG against Watford.

Hopefully the team enjoyed the win and it would help them travelling back for Saturdays game in high spirits.. Was It a genius move giving them Sunday off, yeah I think..

Reading was a bigger banana skin in my opinion because games in hand very rarely result in points, but Luton are as much a threat, let's hope we go on the pitch with a swagger, confidence, and play with style and purpose..

2 wins on the bounce (without being disrespectful to Luton) could see us on go on a good run too..

UTB.
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We have to beat Luton because we all know Boro are going to easily beat Swansea. In fact we all know Boro are going to win their last 11 games. I keep reading it.
 
MobileBlade said:
because we all know Boro are going to easily beat Swansea. In fact we all know Boro are going to win their last 11 games. I keep reading it.
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Oh no we don't. 😂😂

I bet on them to win and they lost the other week.. Can't win a raffle me..
 
Sheffsteel said:
We lose and everyone thinks we've blown it......we win one and everyone thinks we're promoted.....back and forth....back and forth.
Also every game will be deemed as "a must win game".

Wouldn't worry.....once the loanees returned to their clubs Forest were probably the worse side there's ever been.
They had to buy a minimum of 12 new players.....but went out and bought about 20 new players.
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Not me I’ve said we are shit all season

Let paul get us up let him have the parade then you can see dozy in the boardroom Paul

What’s Nigerian for you’re fired
 
blader said:
Will he be one of the worst, or even the worst, automatically promoted sides since it became the championship?

Cardiff 2018 were pretty poor but let’s be clear we are not a ‘good’ side by any definition. To preempt the ‘oh can’t you just enjoy the win’ it’s a genuine question, not a rhetorical one to try to appear negative. Has there actually been worse than us?

Are any of our team premier league quality? Ndiaye being an obvious exception. But it’s hard to make a strong argument for any of the others. So slow, disjointed and lethargic in most areas of the pitch it’s far from entertaining that’s for sure! Promotion is meant to be fun but it has somehow felt like mental torture since we came back from the World Cup at least!
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Were you the miserable git behind me at Reading last night who never stopped whingeing the whole game?
 
Rodley said:
We’re looking at Admin and oblivion if we don’t go up, unless we get a new owner with really deep pockets which looks very unlikely.

Notwithstanding the above, the Championship is always a huge grind. Performances are patchy and you’ve got to grab wins and results wherever you can. Even under the fluidity of peak Wilder, we had to play Hanson up top in L1 and Madine in the Champ to get through it. It was ever thus.
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I think the financial pressure is the difference from other seasons. In the past failure wouldn’t equal Armageddon but this season is totally different as we all know. For me the primary emotion if or when promoted will be relief due to the tightrope we’re walking.

That’s why I admire the management team, it must be a trial doing the day job with this in the constant background.

Perhaps it’s having a slight impact on performances too. It would only be natural.

Importantly more hard fought wins like last night and we can relax with the future of our club a little more secure.
 
One of the worst for sure

And Hecky probably the 2nd worst manager after Scott Parker
 
The squad would need a lot of work for sure, and I don't think it's something that could realistically be done in one window, even with PL resources. As such, I certainly wouldn't want us to take a Forest/Fulham type approach to spunk all the money in a low percentage effort to do everything at once, I'd rather try to do things incrementally. Probably look to bring in 1xCB and 1xCM on permanents, then use the loan market to augment the spine of the side.

Basically I want us to be in the situation where if it's August 2024 and we're back in the Championship, we have a younger, better side than we have now and the finances of the club are more secure than they are now
 
Rather be the worst team in Premier league history next season than see all the players out of contract leave due to financial issues, our star players sold cheap and an owner willing to sell to anyone with administration knocking on the door.

I think Heckingbottom has earned the right to take this team and have a good go at the premierleague IF HE GETS US UP and I can think of worse ways we could spend the next 3 or 4 years than do a Norwich and go up and down sticking with Hecky (I recon he would give us a decent chance of staying up from what I’ve seen so far). The championship is ace when you are winning but the premier league is where the money is whilst destroying the game with VAR and the gulf in finances with the top teams so happy to have abit of both!
 

N20 Blade said:
I'm sorry for bucking the trend but I agree with you. For me it's still a big IF that we do go up (especially if the injuries tonight prove to be weeks not days) but I feel none of the vibe from Wilder, Warnock & Bassett promotions to the top tier. I don't necessarily mind but it hasn't been entertaining. Boro beat Reading 5-0 (albeit at home) and we cling on to a 1-0 away win. This kind of sums it up.

We'll be there Saturday but unless we score early, I can see the tension filtering down to the team and vice versa. A very strange season.
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.......and we beat Boro 4-0 at home. Not quite 5-0 but not bad even so. And Boro lost 1-0 at Reading, whereas we won 1-0. And if my Aunt Fanny had a cock, she'd be my Uncle Dick (although that's maybe not true these days).
Admittedly, there's not quite the vibe of the Wilder and Bassett promotions, but we were all a bit giddy as the baseline we had been rescued from was so low with those two managers (shitty players in the 3rd tier). But Warnock? Do me a favour.....
 
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