Finnegan

I know it's bad right now but it's not that bad

The stadium is just a much, much, much bigger and more complex project though isn't it. Other than environmental concerns, there wouldn't be and wasn't a massive amount out of the ordinary in buying a huge piece of land like a golf course and building on a blank slate. Redevelopment of the stadium and the surrounding area is an absolutely massive undertaking. There's significant involvement politically and rightly so. Even just simply the extra surge in traffic on match days is a huge policing, traffic and infrastructure concern before you even start thinking about building anything. Even when everything is signed off and agreed, which takes years, you've then got to consider that you're agreeing to do major building work on a structure that you rely on 9 months of the year. We can't afford to temporarily reduce our match day revenue right now which we may have to do in terms of reducing capacity to do building work during the season. Anyone thinking you can reliably guarantee it'd all be done during one summer hasn't studied a single British engineering project in the last fifty odd years, haha. A bigger stadium with better facilities comes with more running costs well what happens if we're relegated and the demand plummets and we don't even fill 30k let alone the new max? And this isn't London, there's no guarantee we're going to attract gigs and shows and other sporting events outside lcfc even if we build an arena and renovate the ground. The entire thing is a risk, it's a gamble. There's not really a major risk in building a training ground.

I don't necessarily mean like for like, just squad spaces. If we don't actually have anyone lined up to buy, might as well keep Hamza around if the alternative is registering 24 players. He's versatile enough and his attitude seems pretty good, he's even been given the armband before. I don't really think he's good enough even in the Championship but if I was Ruud I wouldn't hate having him about, he's got some actual fighting spirit which we're very short of and really need.

Yeah but you do two deals together don't you I guess. One in, one out. We'll let Hamza go if/when we've got the deal we want to do ready to go.

Jesus

This is on you @Miquel The Work Geordie

As a whole yes but this match is ****ing bonkers

Benfica Barca achieving pure meme levels

We don't have a conventional director of football so every manager wants something different and the squad needs an overhaul every time we change.

Erm. He's spent enormous amounts of money and resources pushing increasingly far-right ideologies. One of the most recent and the most pertinent to the Nazi salute being: “Only AfD can save Germany, end of story, and people really need to get behind AfD, and otherwise things are going to get very, very much worse in Germany,” Musk said during an audio livestream alongside party co-leader Alice Weidel on X. There's obviously room for cynicism here, does Musk believe all of the things he says or are they purely just to promote himself both in terms of profile/power and financially? Definitely I think his only guiding belief is more for Elon please. But that's a bit tomayto, tomahto really isn't it? Doesn't matter if he believes it deep in his soul, he's openly promoting deeply unpleasant far right propaganda and has been for a while.

Even for you this is awful

They're hailed for their on-pitch success, in fairness. Their owner is an extremely successful businessman, investor and gambler, he knows how to make money. No Premier League football club is ever going to be particularly great for it's fans. Brighton especially are going to find themselves in a situation much like we are where they need to generate as much match day revenue as is physically possible in order to be able to spend as much as possible on the squad to close the gap. This is maybe the biggest problem of all with FFP and PSR and one thing that doesn't get spoken about nearly enough, it's massively anti-fan. Football clubs outside of the Big Six need to squeeze every single penny they can out of the fans that they have to pump up the income to try and compete. Fortunately for Bloom, the demographic of his fanbase is a lot more affluent than most in the country outside London so he'll probably be able to push it quite far.

I'm not gonna lie, food and drink at football has been so overly expensive for such shit quality for about twenty years or more, that I mostly don't bother.

Hermansen, Coulibaly, Stam, Huth, VK Bounanotte, Winks, Alves, Bilal Vardy, Van Nistelrooy Let's go

Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I thought the "article" (really? If I start posting all my rants on WordPress can I start calling them articles?) was a bit tone deaf to be honest. People are upset to the point of furious about the mismanagement of the playing squad, to try and make it about clappers and corporate "match day experiences" just because that's what a small fringe group who love Fan Culture care about is a bit shit. It's almost hijacking everyone else's anger. Does the OP actually go to away games? What ground in the Premier League has good toilets ffs? Or doesn't have security? The food is the same naff, over priced shit in every stadium. Every home support in the country these days is quiet and soulless and outsung by the away fans. Every ticket sold in the Premier League is over priced to the point of criminal. I absolutely think there's a whole conversation to be had about who actually wants the current match day experience and I definitely think prices in football need to come down. But there's almost an implication here that we'd all be happy with Rudkin running the team in to the ground just as long as we got to stand on a terrace with a quality beer, a hearty home made pie and no security around to stop us bringing in pyros. I'll be honest, my season ticket could be £1.50 and Top could carry me in to the ground on a throne like a king with his whole family fanning me and handing me luxury cocktails and I'd still be livid about what's happening on the pitch.

I saw @Ric Flair staggering out of the Corn Exchange at 9am this morning wearing a half and half shirt made up of two of those designs.

okay buddy. I think we understand each other.

Of course he did LOL? You've got to either be a fascist apologist or be Nigel's ostrich to think otherwise. Musk has been building up to this for years since diving in to American politics. He knows exactly what he's doing, he's signaling to these people that he's ready to step up and be their figure head when Trump is too infirm (or dead) to continue: He also knows it'll go down well with the gamergate crowd that he's recently been alienating, half of whom will think he's awesome because they too have a Nazi Germany fetish and the other half will think he's awesome because they'll see it as a act of hilarious trolling. He also knows the somewhat more moderate Trump voters will hand wave it away, as you are doing, as "it can't possibly be that because that would be nuts" as if 90% of what Trump and Musk have said over the last few years isn't absolutely batshit insane. There's actually a fantastic term trending today which pretty much sums that up, "sanewashing". This is peak Edgelord Elon. He's been gearing up for this for years. Of course it's a Nazi salute, of course he meant it, of course he knew what he was doing and of course he planned to do it before he went up there. This was Donald Trump's inauguration but Elon won him the election and whose face is plastered literally everywhere all over the world this morning, on every media and social media platform going? The real fun will begin when The Donald starts having to cope with the fact he's having to share his spotlight like never before. He's already chucked his first grenade, "Elon knows those computers."

.... Yes, mate, the entire sane world.

Those newspapers are all owned by billionaires with next to no moral compass who are cheering on Trump, Musk and their oligarch government. One of them in particular has been one of the biggest drivers of right wing ideology in the USA for ages.

Not gonna lie, mind, I did laugh this morning waking up to see all the old Rangers / Chelsea excuses of "it's a Roman salute!" If you're gonna be a fascist, at least be less of a coward about it and admit what you are.

Mood

Twice.

It's not really enough. You need to vote with your feet if you want to make a real impact. Don't go at all. If every season ticket holder is absent it's going to very quickly become embarrassing. You scratching the match day revenue a bit is quite a lot less impact.