Is boring good?
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 | 122 Comments |
Things seem to be ticking along nicely, which is a concern that I will get to later, there is no football to come for over a week, all of our transfer deals have been done and the window is now shut, and there wasn’t even a surprise omission from the squad of 25 for the first half of the season.
I mean compare it to just one year ago when the club was still on the market and new buyers were apparently being sought, we didn’t actually have a full-time manager, the transfer window had just slammed shut with only one addition is the shape of Peter Lovenkrands, and most of us were still reeling from the fall-out from relegation. So in comparison it is pretty boring at the moment.
Is that a good thing though? It isn’t for me as a blogger as I like to have juicy things to write about, and if there isn’t much going on surrounding the club then that doesn’t give me much ammunition to fire from my literary guns.
I would have loved to be a ‘blog writer back the club was up for sale, when we were a laughing stock, when people were keen to knock us. There was always something to focus on, or at least that is how I remember it. The fact that there isn’t that amount of uncertainty and upheavel just one year later has to be to the credit of the club.
The good ship Newcastle United is sailing in ultimately calmer waters at the moment. Transfer dealings have been dealt with professionally, the squad has been strengthened with some real quality, results and performances have been decent. It’s very much a case of ‘move along, nothing to see here’ at NUFC currently – a far cry from this time last year you’ll have to agree.
It’s all rather boring though isn’t it? Perhaps it is because we are being starved from club football, the ONLY football that really matters? Maybe it is because a lot of us are eagerly awaiting the chance to see our newest signings, particularly Hatem Ben Arfa, or the H-Bomb as I am now going to call him, in action? Maybe it is because our next game is at home against a team which we should hopefully, and I repeat hopefully be taking three points from. Maybe it is a bit of all of that combined?
The history of supporting Newcastle should tell us to expect the unexpected. Time and time again things have appeared to be going rather well, smoothly if you like, only for some form of bomshell to be dropped out of the blue. I’ll wait to see if we get one this time around!
But for the moment there isn’t a lot going on, which is a good thing from a club perspective as it appears that for the first time in a number of years that things are actually relatively settled. It shows that we are being run steadily at the moment. No upheavel like this time last year, no sale saga, and we have a full-time manager to boot!
Long may it continue, but it’s shite for me!
What’s up with this post? 8O