[Albion] How are you finding this close season?

[Colonel Mustard]

Struggling a bit but it's improving. That is down to me finally getting rid of some bank account-sapping stuff that I should have got rid of ages ago. Just my pensions to live on so mobile phone down to Sim-only after the last contract, Season Ticket move to save £510 a year (I kept my seat in WSL as long as I could but with no OAP discount and £895 a year it was an easy decision)
Just Sky to get rid of now but not until the season starts so I can binge watch all I have recorded. I'll beat this Cost of Living crisis, it has to get better.... doesn't it?

There are ways and means to get live football without paying Sky (et al) but I'd possibly be breaking forum rules if I went any further.

 

[Anger]

This one really is dragging on for me.

I'm pretty pleased with our transfer activity so far though.

Trying really hard not to start pointless threads, but alas, here's another one.

You are @Bozza and I claim my £5.

 

[Colonel Mustard]

Mixed feelings. I enjoy the break but do start to get itchy around mid-July time, especially when FPL talk appears. I'm happy with the signings so far, especially Pedro who I think could have a massive impact on the team. More modestly, I think Milner is a great acquisition, and will be a big influence on the younger lads in the squad. I presume that's why he's been brought in, as well as having plenty of European experience to share around. And my BVB mate reckons Dahoud is an excellent purchase. I'm looking forward to seeing the team that's put out in the US tournament.

The big concern is that expectation is so high, it might be an anti-climax. Perhaps 'De Zerbi Ball' really has been rumbled? If so, you'd expect a clever guy like Roberto to have a Plan B.

Er, but summer? Yeah, let's enjoy the weather while we can and the break from the madness and chaos and emotion. Only 5 more weeks of it...

 

[el punal]

It was ok until all this Pink Floyd shit hit the fan!!

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

 

[el punal]

To be honest I’m at the halfway house - still watching YouTube videos and stuff of our superb last season, and gearing up slowly for next season.

 

[birthofanorange]

I predict that this close season is going to end horribly.

The next 38 games will be season-defining.

 

[BN41Albion]

I can kind of switch off from transfer gossip too, and I’m a realist so I don’t suffer the pain as much as those banging on about “Caicedo’s going nowhere” or “Colwill will join us”. The early ticks of Joao Pedro, Milner and Dahoud meant I could sit back and relax.

What transfer gossip?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.

Shall we put you down as comfortably numb then?

 

[Nicks]

Looking forward to 3 games in the ten days I'm in the USA.
Never been to the States, so sightseeing and Albion playing footie there , is the dream package for me

 

[Kosh]

Do I miss the ridiculous hype around ‘clashes’ such as us against Bournemouth ? do I miss the endless pointless punditry and over analysis of literally everything ?

The dry ice ?

The dwarves on stilts, juggling flaming torches ?

The sheer unadulterated hyperbole ?

The obvious corruption and money laundering ?

The inevitability of the CL placings ?

Errr nah.

Do I miss watching the boys for 90 mins… yes.

But I’ve found myself somewhat jaded this summer… simply put, there was WAY too much football last year… coupled with a minuscule break, I’m not sure how I’m going to feel about it all this coming season…

It feels like saturation point to me, too much of a good thing etc.

Add in the relentless twitter player links and nonsense transfer rumours … it’s all starting to feel like a dreary end of peer am dram - with all the glamour of a piss up in Skegness.

Hopefully my mojo will improve as we take those historic first steps in Europe…

Alas, I love the Albion, always will - but the world we now inhabit is in danger of alienating me as I fade to grey and drift off in wisps of joss-stick like smoke…



Lol

Errrr bring on the sickly sweet, plasticky ‘fakery’ of it all.

Let the pantomime commence.

Yey!

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Really? Despite the season finishing nearly a month later due to Winter World Cup? Enjoying the brief respite, meself. As I'm sure are most of the EPL players who have had to continue to slog their guts out in various competitions for much of June. I'd wager that many of them will be starting the season completely knackered

Jeez, now I feel really BAD.

 

[JOLovegrove]

Done with the break now. More than ready for it to start again. The hype around Europe along with hopefully a fantastic domestic campaign is really starting to build.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Not ready yet for football. Doesn’t seem 5 mins since the end of the extended WC season. Need more summer.

 

[monkeymz]

happier now i bought the new away and training tops

 

[AlbionBro]

Struggling a bit but it's improving. That is down to me finally getting rid of some bank account-sapping stuff that I should have got rid of ages ago. Just my pensions to live on so mobile phone down to Sim-only after the last contract, Season Ticket move to save £510 a year (I kept my seat in WSL as long as I could but with no OAP discount and £895 a year it was an easy decision)
Just Sky to get rid of now but not until the season starts so I can binge watch all I have recorded. I'll beat this Cost of Living crisis, it has to get better.... doesn't it?

Your doing well young man. I watched a program called naked and afraid the other day. They literally had nothing and was in the northern part of Canada with bears everywhere, they even had to kill a porcupine to survive.
Ditch the sky I say, you know it's the right thing to do.

 

[chickens]

It’s dragging a bit for me, and I’m grateful to all the pointless thread starters for providing close season entertainment.

Even if all it’s done is highlight that I’m Springsteen-phobic with no real reason to be.

 

[Sussexscots]

Personally, I'm enjoying the break and the good weather. Ashes Cricket and Sussex not being utterly shite.

Not thinking about the hopeless incompetence of Southern Rail and what fresh hell their pish excuse for a service will inflict upon me between August and next May.

Particularly as we'll have a lot of Sunday games before Christmas.

Come August I'll be ready. I was going to go to the friendly but, aye, Southern.

 

[Weststander]

Looking forward to 3 games in the ten days I'm in the USA.
Never been to the States, so sightseeing and Albion playing footie there , is the dream package for me

Wow, so lucky

 

[Skaville]

I always, without fail, enjoy close season. Football is fantastic, but stressful. It’s good to have some respite. If I had my way, the season would end mid May and not restart until September

 

[Mackenzie]

I love cricket, so it’s great to not have to think too much about football for a couple of months.