S9M1: Ring the bell

Welcome back all - hope you all had a lovely summer break. Speaking strictly with my red & white tinted specs on, I was very ready for a few weeks of no football which made me slightly forgive & forget. Until that first failed offside trap, at which point I reserve the right to ramp the fury right back up again.

It's been a reasonably quiet transfer window without much of the hype and saga of previous years. The business that's been done seems to have been done reasonably efficiently and those deals that seem stupidly expensive (ie Zaha £80m, Maguire £90m) seem to have reached dead ends relatively quickly - is there a change in the transfer ecosystem somehow?

Edit: Obviously the Maguire deal was then agreed about 30 minutes after publishing. Great trolling from Woodward there.

Manager-wise - loads of new faces, and some very old - Bruce back in after Rafa finally called it quits at the Toon. It'll be interesting and refreshing to see how many operate in the Premier League.

Loads of new kits - again there's a local bias but I've considered spending all my money at the club shop - Brighton, Spurs and Wolves also have nice looking shirts. Some horror shows too - Watford, Southampton and Norwich the worst for my money. Speaking of new aesthetics, as you can see, we're going for a new aesthetic, and all the historical pages are now up to date.

So, what are we going to see - well this season, as you can see, we're going for a new system. No more comments - we're going with last decade's tech and using a Google form to collect the data. This will hopefully be more efficient and solve some of the tech issues that some of you have had with leaving comments.

So, without further ado, let's start with the season predictions...


And next up, let's look at the Matchday 1 predictions:


Reminder that the more the merrier, so if you've got friends, family, colleagues, animals, enemies or anyone else who you think might be interested to play, especially given how easy it is now, then share the blog. Will be continuing with the social media/Whatsapp reminders  - so if you want in to the whatsapp group then be in touch. Good luck all!