Robert N. LiM

Great report as always @ricardo. Very glad the fitness doubts about you and Cordoba both proved groundless.

Isn't it terrible when, after a few promising performances and a few respectable results, you go and get absolutely pumped, the novelty begins to wear off and you begin to realise that a season of misery awaits you.

"Can you take her every week?"

Philip Larkin no longer the most miserable man in Hull

Up there with S****horpe as my favourite victim of the forum's naughty-words filter.

The f***ing Beaker Folk

Assumed you find all the poetry you need in the Takeover Code

This sounds very promising.

Mods, please move this to 'non-poetry'

Lovely. And ties in nicely with the 'unsilence' for mental health day mentioned in the OP. Not sure I always live up to those sentiments on here; I'm sometimes too thoughtlessly in search of a cheap laugh. I shall try and be better. In the meantime happy weekend and Never Mind the Danger to all fans of this great club.

Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.

It did. He had me absolutely bang to rights. Might never get over it

Our almost-instinct almost true. Yeah. He's just got so many bangers.

I've tried to put paid to that by talking incessantly about poetry

Just trying to reassure @Parma Ham's gone mouldy that it's more than a thin veneer of intellectualism

Didn't want to presume! Yeah, or all of it. What a poem. Thought it was a bit much for a match preview, though. Do you know 'Dockery and Son'? Might appeal to your child-free side. [Football chat resumes:] Full of confidence for the Hull game. Might be close but pretty sure we'll win.

That's one of his upbeat ones. I thought I'd keep it light

Also the great poet Philip Larkin who spent most of his life at the University of Hull. I've chosen this poem, mainly for @TheGunnShowwho will like the last two lines.

This is top stattage. I spent quite a lot of time last season wondering how we were doing so well, and this seems to back that up. In partial defence of Wagner, he did (eventually) find the best position for Sara, coming in off the right, where he was absolutely lethal.

You certainly seem to be misrembering the Watford game, where although Sainz scored the second, he wasn't involved in any of the other goals. And our goal against Leeds was fashioned by a nice pass by Crnac that led to Sargent being brought down. Not saying that Sainz hasn't been important to us, but your assessment above doesn't seem quite right to me. (The Watford game is the only one this season where I've seen the full 90, so fully accept my view might be partial too)

It is until they leave. I quite enjoyed some aspects of Wagnerball, not least Kenny bestriding the back four like a colossus. But it never felt very sustainable. (Totally accept he was doing the rational thing for a coach on a short contract who perhaps didn't have the full confidence of the DoF)

The underlying stats suggest we're doing better so far this season than we did last season. But it's obviously early days. We got off to an even better start last year but it didn't last.

You're just making these names up at this point, aren't you?

Exactly. Take Vincent Kompany, who's risen from losing to Aston Villa as Burnley manager to losing to Aston Villa as Bayern Munich manager.

Presumably people look at his teams and think "I like his style and think it'll work better with better players." This might be why he has a tendency to slag his existing players off in post-match interviews. Builds his brand. He'll be at Barcelona by 2030.