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So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here 11:29 - Aug 24 with 673 viewsKeno

We are relegation candidates
The season is over
Mike Ashton doesn’t know what he’s doing
McKenna hasn’t a clue and should be replaced by big Sam, Pardew, Megson etc
The players are crap, even the ones we haven’t signed
No one else wants to sign for anyway

All seems very reasonable and considered responses

Just remember the words of a wise man about 3 years ago

Ignore the noise
Keep the faith
Trust the process


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So just 3 leagues into a season and reading on here on 11:32 - Aug 24 with 634 viewsMarshalls_Mullet

Lovely use of hyperbole.

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So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here on 14:02 - Aug 24 with 472 viewscbower

Love the reference to 'Mike' Ashton seamlessly lifted from an earlier doom and gloom poster. Great work!

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So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here on 14:10 - Aug 24 with 453 viewstetchris

If Mike Ashton can sign a central midfielder and a striker I much rather have him than Mark Ashton
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So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here on 15:04 - Aug 24 with 374 viewsKeno

So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here on 14:02 - Aug 24 by cbower

Love the reference to 'Mike' Ashton seamlessly lifted from an earlier doom and gloom poster. Great work!


Thank you, nice when your efforts are recognised

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So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here on 16:15 - Aug 24 with 293 viewsWestSussexBlue

Was the wise man Putin?
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So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here on 17:00 - Aug 24 with 225 viewsITFCSG

It isn't just 3 league games.

With the exception of Villa, Chelsea and Bournemouth away we have been $hite for the large part of 2025 regardless of division or competition. Many people thought that being in the Champ playing with lesser quality teams we would improve but heck no. That's the worst of all -

Same mistakes being made. Same few underperforming players especially the useless J Clarke being started. Same few players being played out of their natural positions. Same aimless sideways and backwards passing in our own half.
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So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here on 17:16 - Aug 24 with 183 viewsBloomBlue

POTD

The bedwetting on here has been premier league. It's been worse than Niagara Falls after 3 days of non stop rain.
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So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here on 17:29 - Aug 24 with 144 viewsJoey_Joe_Joe_Junior

We’ve won 2 home games since April 2024, Burnley lost 2 games in their promotion season last year. People are probably a right to be a little bit concerned 150M+ later with a week left in the window, no number 9 in the building and 2 points out of 9.

I’m sure it will come good, however can we stop using that dumb bedwetting phrase it’s so annoying.
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So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here on 17:42 - Aug 24 with 80 viewspointofblue

So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here on 17:29 - Aug 24 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior

We’ve won 2 home games since April 2024, Burnley lost 2 games in their promotion season last year. People are probably a right to be a little bit concerned 150M+ later with a week left in the window, no number 9 in the building and 2 points out of 9.

I’m sure it will come good, however can we stop using that dumb bedwetting phrase it’s so annoying.
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I think there are more people whinging about whinging then there is whinging about the team. Which says a lot considering there has been a lot of whinging about the team.

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So just 3 league games into a season and reading on here on 17:49 - Aug 24 with 55 viewsHighgateBlue

If your point is that some viewpoints are over the top, then yes.

Clearly any calls for Big Sam or Megson are silly. I have seen no such calls. An inability to name our CEO/Chairman is also not the sign of someone whose opinion should be overly regarded (and I assume that your citing of that error is intentional).

But if your point is that what we've seen so far is good enough, or that faith must never yield to anything, including evidence, then no.

I do not have faith in anything without it being supported by evidence. The evidence that I see is that McKenna is erudite and considered, and intelligent, but that he has overperformed with the cash he's been given in only one of his seasons with Town.

We trusted the process last season and it was a disappointment. I don't put it higher than that. The premier league is a hard league. But what is the basis for having faith? Faith /that what/ anyway? Faith that some specific result will occur (top six? promotion?), or just faith that the manager must be the right man because there is some quasi-religious credo that he must be?

I'll be clear: any suggestion that McKenna should be sacked now is extremist, and I consider it to be nonsense.

But talk of faith (especially without specifying what we're supposed to have faith /in/) seems to me to constitute an assertion that the position of the manager will never be able to be called into question. That too, in my view, is extremist, and I consider it to be nonsense.

If that is not what you're saying, then when will we be allowed to drop our trust in the process, and when will we be allowed to allow our faith to dissipate? When /you/ say so? Or when the evidence suggests it? If the latter, then the discussion right now should be about the evidence.

What is the process that we're trusting, anyway? The attempted process has not occurred, Kieran admits as much. He says it's not gone how he wanted.

Relentlessly positive slogans lack meaning just as much as the most comical utterings relating to Big Sam, Megson, or even "Mike" Ashton.
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