And the So, Ed fitting that the Louis Van Harr

that the Louis van Harr Derby in the middle of the week was

nil I thought and you know sort of doing a general Van Hal tribute act.

How are you doing in the midst of all this dreadful football?

What do you say?

Drudgery, misery and injury?

It sounds like our last three managers.

Hmm. Something like that, yeah.

Yeah, God, it's been bad.

Just to set the tone for what this podcast is going to be about this week.

Talking of our last three managers, I mean we've spent six years in the post-focused

and era on this show talking about how dreadful it's been with a couple of brief exceptions along the way.

But I don't know if it's recency bias or whatever, but this is as bad as any extended spell under any of them isn't it?

Well it's been stretching back to February. I mean I'm always a bit reluctant to make comparisons across seasons because of course it's

across the summer and many things change but Ollie did tell us that having got a full preseason in,

the players would be fit and ready to go play his game.

I barely see any pressing at the moment,

so they're not enacting that part of his game.

They're just like statues in the middle of the park,

watching Newcastle Tiki tacharet around us.

So yeah, it's it's really really bad and this is stretched back what

ten months now. Ten months. Eight months. 8 months.

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