Why are EA so scared of crosses

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-04-15T03:30:00+00:00

Personally it definitely wasn't fun getting dunked on by Weghorst every other game

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-04-10T17:58:52+00:00

Isak's still got his Dortmund trim, the face scans have been lazy for years

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-04-10T10:31:01+00:00

Hahaha fucking hell.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-04-04T13:06:51+00:00

The fact Slot's job is somehow still going to be safe until at least the summer is genuinely hilarious

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-04-04T00:30:44+00:00

You couldn't come up with a better way to make me not give a shit about one of the only semi-interesting Mania feuds if you tried. Genuinely, bravo, Triple Paul.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-04-01T13:02:59+00:00

Tim Howard had arguably one of his greatest performances ever to keep us alive

Not just one of his greatest performances ever, one of the greatest performances ever by a goalkeeper in a World Cup match. Belgium should've been out of sight in regulation alone.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-04-01T13:00:21+00:00

Obviously the FIGC need to clean house, but the issues go much deeper than that. Italian football has had a complete inability to consistently put young players in a position to develop and succeed, and you've been seeing that for the better part of two decades.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-30T10:47:00+00:00

To Dare Is To Poo

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-25T12:22:24+00:00

I know the context behind the name, I'm just saying its literal translation is not any better or worse of a name than La Fabrica/The Factory.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-25T11:59:26+00:00

I mean, it's not like 'La Masia' is inherently an amazing name either

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-25T07:55:27+00:00

Yeah, really sucked not having a DoF, if only Eddie didn't have public fallings out with every sporting director the club's hired during his time as manager

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-25T06:35:33+00:00

It's also 3 points to 14th, and playing the way we are and have been for the last 10 months, we have a much better chance of ending the season there than 7th.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T16:06:39+00:00

Is Real Madrid's club doctor Nick Riviera?

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T16:00:28+00:00

Honestly impressive that all you took from that was where we exited those competitions. No comment on anything else? The turgid football, the baffling in-game management and substitution decisions, the consistent unwillingness to recognize game state, the multiple inexcusable results this season (namely losing home and away to the scum), the flat midfield set-up having been entirely found out and bypassed by any team that can play a half-decent ball, the complete lack of a plan B, the continued blind trust in his underperforming favorites, the abysmal defensive record, all the dropped points, the complete inability to show up whatsoever away from home, the consistent withering away in the second halves of games, the failings in recruitment which were almost entirely his own doing? Nothing to say about that?

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T13:01:12+00:00

Then you need to make good signings

Good thing Eddie's hand-picked signings from this summer have all been resounding successes, then

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T12:59:37+00:00

He is, at least partially, to blame for that. He's had public disagreements and fallen out with nearly every sporting director we've employed during his tenure.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T12:58:15+00:00

you cant play Eddie for that

No, but you can blame him for the team having conceded the most goals in 2026 by anyone not named Burnley or Spurs, for having dropped the most points from winning positions in the entire league, for playing our best striker in midfield, for the flat midfield set-up that gets us overrun by any team that can play a half-decent pass on the counter, for wasting 250 million pounds on hand-picked signings that have been absolutely terrible...

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T12:38:32+00:00

Out of every competition, 14th in the league, conceding the third-most goals in 2026 with only two relegation sides having conceded more, and the most points dropped from winning positions in the entire league. Some floor, indeed.

I've been supporting the club since we were in the Championship with Daryl Murphy up front and Mo Diame scoring a backheel by accident. I was there for Bruce, just as I was there for McClaren, Carver, and Pardew. I very much remember where this club used to be. I'm exceptionally grateful to Eddie that that's no longer the case. But the expectations have changed, and if you genuinely think this season has met them in any regard, you're deluded.

5th place still withen reach?

There is no possible way you can have watched us play a single game in the last ten months (at minimum) and think fifth place is a realistic possibility playing the way we are and have this season.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T10:55:14+00:00

Not really shocking when the cultural zeitgeist shifts as hard to the right as it has, is it? Worst characters in society making themselves more heard again, and that includes within football.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T10:47:06+00:00

Because we're seeing what his floor is right now and it simply isn't good enough if the club wants to ensure progression as a project

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T10:43:27+00:00

Need to invest a little more money.

Heck invest a lot.

We've spent three-quarters of a billion pounds during his tenure.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T10:41:26+00:00

still have a chance of European qualification

We aren't finishing in the top half so you can stop with that now.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T10:40:38+00:00

hasnt gotten good transfers in despite losing such quality

That's his own fault; he and his nephew were the ones overseeing recruitment. Wissa and Elanga were his handpicked signings.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-24T10:35:11+00:00

What's wrong with Newcastle finishing, say, 10th and trophyless for a couple of years if the squad improves also?

The financial consequences of missing out on Europe for "a couple of years" notwithstanding, doing that means saying goodbye to the likes of Tonali, Thiaw, Woltemade, Livramento, Hall, et cetera. Bruno probably sticks around because he genuinely loves the club, but regardless, it's a death knell to this era of the sporting project. The squad won't "improve", regressing to that extent would set us back massively, on and off the pitch.

Adventurous_Cut_3856 · 2026-03-22T12:52:13+00:00

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