Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, somewhere...
The Leicester game is a glorious defeat. We play beautiful free flowing football, particularly in the second half where we have 70+ % possession. Exquisite Potterball yet lose 1-0 as Vardy savagely pounces on not one but two mistakes by Webster. The first an under hit backpass to Matty Ryan, the second he dawdles too long on the ball.
The resulting GP interview has a lot of air being sucked through teeth, as he launches an impassioned defence of what he’s “building here for the future”, and tells journos in the post match presser he should be blamed as he tells Webster to play that way.
NSC struggles to cope with traffic as the ongoing Adam Webster thread expands by 500 pages. More calls for Duffy to be in the first team again. “Why can’t we recall Ben White?”, “our recruitment team don’t know what they’re doing?”.
Swansman starts a new topic detailing his latest correspondence with Paul Barber. Passing on all of our collective feedback on GP’s tenure thus far. “Thanks again for reaching out..” Barber replies, a large bead of sweat forming on his forehead as he contemplates (again) how to deal with this interesting Swedish character.
Bens Grandad has not been able to contribute to the now epic Webster topic as NSC servers freak under the traffic. When he’s manages to log back in he creates a thread topic “why can’t I log into NSC all the time?”. “You’re in now lolol” a wise guy replies.
JollyRedGiant and Anya decide tonight will also be a good time to remind Brighton fans what a terrible move it was to replace Hughton. “LOL are u enjoying ur 70% possession now?”, Anya gloats. His emotional compatriot piles on. “Oh for sure, oi’ve said from day one this Potter fellow is a trendy fraud. End this experiment. Bring back Chris”. People again ask what team JRG supports but as always met with silence.
On Match Of The Day later, we’re second to last on. A beaming Lineker asks Shearer to tell us all what an incredible job Brendan Rodgers is doing, and a spotlight on Vardys game today (“he was absolutely.. Magnificent.. today Gary”, Alan wisely tells us). Gary cracks a joke about having to go to the resident defender in the studio, a po-faced Keown issues a wry hairy smile and shows the two goals again, “you just can’t defend like this at this level Gary..”, a quick smug chuckle between the three amigos and they move onto the next game.
The bookies shorten our odds on relegation, again. A few of us gloat about our insurance bets.
A new poll is put up by Bozza: “Is it time to end the Potter experiment?”. A couple of new topics are put up slating Match Of The Day big club bias, the other “Maybe going back to the Championship would be good for us?”.
Meanwhile BensGrandad finally manages to log back in again and immediately creates a thread “End this madness. Bring back Duffy”. Someone moans why he couldn’t reply to the existing Duffy thread.
At approx 12.15 most of us are winding down, still dismayed about the result, but looking forward to the Man Utd game already. We are not down yet.
It’s all just another day on the NSC... somewhere.
The Leicester game is a glorious defeat. We play beautiful free flowing football, particularly in the second half where we have 70+ % possession. Exquisite Potterball yet lose 1-0 as Vardy savagely pounces on not one but two mistakes by Webster. The first an under hit backpass to Matty Ryan, the second he dawdles too long on the ball.
The resulting GP interview has a lot of air being sucked through teeth, as he launches an impassioned defence of what he’s “building here for the future”, and tells journos in the post match presser he should be blamed as he tells Webster to play that way.
NSC struggles to cope with traffic as the ongoing Adam Webster thread expands by 500 pages. More calls for Duffy to be in the first team again. “Why can’t we recall Ben White?”, “our recruitment team don’t know what they’re doing?”.
Swansman starts a new topic detailing his latest correspondence with Paul Barber. Passing on all of our collective feedback on GP’s tenure thus far. “Thanks again for reaching out..” Barber replies, a large bead of sweat forming on his forehead as he contemplates (again) how to deal with this interesting Swedish character.
Bens Grandad has not been able to contribute to the now epic Webster topic as NSC servers freak under the traffic. When he’s manages to log back in he creates a thread topic “why can’t I log into NSC all the time?”. “You’re in now lolol” a wise guy replies.
JollyRedGiant and Anya decide tonight will also be a good time to remind Brighton fans what a terrible move it was to replace Hughton. “LOL are u enjoying ur 70% possession now?”, Anya gloats. His emotional compatriot piles on. “Oh for sure, oi’ve said from day one this Potter fellow is a trendy fraud. End this experiment. Bring back Chris”. People again ask what team JRG supports but as always met with silence.
On Match Of The Day later, we’re second to last on. A beaming Lineker asks Shearer to tell us all what an incredible job Brendan Rodgers is doing, and a spotlight on Vardys game today (“he was absolutely.. Magnificent.. today Gary”, Alan wisely tells us). Gary cracks a joke about having to go to the resident defender in the studio, a po-faced Keown issues a wry hairy smile and shows the two goals again, “you just can’t defend like this at this level Gary..”, a quick smug chuckle between the three amigos and they move onto the next game.
The bookies shorten our odds on relegation, again. A few of us gloat about our insurance bets.
A new poll is put up by Bozza: “Is it time to end the Potter experiment?”. A couple of new topics are put up slating Match Of The Day big club bias, the other “Maybe going back to the Championship would be good for us?”.
Meanwhile BensGrandad finally manages to log back in again and immediately creates a thread “End this madness. Bring back Duffy”. Someone moans why he couldn’t reply to the existing Duffy thread.
At approx 12.15 most of us are winding down, still dismayed about the result, but looking forward to the Man Utd game already. We are not down yet.
It’s all just another day on the NSC... somewhere.
