There will be a frustratingly preventable loss around December/January that I will go apesh*t about, to which certain other posters will reply with sneers about 'real' fans, to which I will subsequently angrily respond, at which point the mods will descend and cool it down. This will happen several more times in the season, and will translate into angry accusations of criminal negligence in transfer dealings and related rebuttals swiftly coming to Levy's aid as the season's transfer windows open and close. Finally, next July will see
@par_18 start another thread about the predictions for 2017-2018.
Simultaneously,
@Yoof will do good work on the youth thread,
@Gazzasrightboot,
@alekaras and
@braineclipse will try to argue for sanity in a place where there is little,
@Gutter Boy will advocate playing the U-15s over buying someone,
@thfcsteff will exude positivity in the abyssal darkness that is every post-match thread after a loss,
@billyiddo will look bemused at it all,
@paxtonwolf will obligingly give us the matchday view,
@parklane1 will complain at least once about computer games and how it was different in his day,
@Rorschach,
@Nigeyman,
@Robspur12,
@Jordinho,
@DHSF,
@galeforce,
@Rossi22,
@diego_maradona,
@Modric THFC and many others will keep this place lively and informative....and
@scaramanga will heroically try to keep it running.
Through this entire process, the team will, without paying heed to any of the above drama, play relatively steadily, rev up into top gear around February-March, suffer a horrible collapse of sorts at the end of a long, tiring season and finish exactly one spot behind Arsenal (be it in 2nd or in 17th), all of which is tradition.
And the band plays on.....
