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If everyone knows what the rule is at the start of the season then the team finishing 4th can have no complaints if they don't go on and qualify. It's a good thing as it would mean more of the cash being shared around rather than the current 'big 4' having it sewn up.

Is Chris Sutton one of them? No, he made 1 appearance.

Hard to believe we beat Palace home and away.

Buying young players is easy. Buying good young players is another matter entirely... Actions speak louder than words.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Best brought back to start with Lovenkrands back on the bench.

Is the right answer.

Given is a fucking snake. He speaks with a fork tongue. The bloke was engineering a move to City for months and STILL didn't hand a ransfer request in til the end of January. Fuck him.

It depends what you class as our dip in form, I think it goes back to December when we had almost a fully fit side. Which year?

Their form has picked up a bit so it won't be easy. Should beat them though but it'll be tight. Maybe 2-1

If we go up, we will only be up for 1 year Maybe, maybe not. All depends on what happens. Getting someone to buy the club from Ashley is the priority and it might happen if we go up but probably won't if we don't. Our better players will leave and we'll be fucked for the foreseeable. We have to go up and cross our fingers.

If we don't go up this year we'll be down here for the next 10 years.

Erm, pass. As if today's 'performance' wasn't humiliating enough.

Playing shite, grabbing a draw, going top then seeing Forest lose is more than we could have hoped for with 10 mins to go. Win these 2 home games and we might have a bit of daylight again between us and 3rd.

Good. Let's get these 2 home games out of the way and have a nice long sit down and a cup of tea. We need to put our feet up and get our breath for a bit.

Been absolutely useless for a while now. His goals compensated for his lack of effort/movement/skill earlier in the season but now he's not scoring he's simply not worth his place. Badly needs a rest/transfer. (Delete as appropriate)

I know it's tempting to try to work out how many points we're going to finish on but we can't do fixture lists I'm afraid. Or anything that looks like a fixture list. Sorry.

Tedious, sloppy, lacklustre, negative shite. Utter fucking dross.

Broadly agree with James ( ) and Yorkie about leaving it up to the ref to use his discretion and hand out whatever card he sees fit for each incident. The only problem with that would be that it would lead to inconsistency from game to game. Managers, fans and players would complain about every decision and compare it to a similar incident the previous week/month which led to a different punishment. This is the crux of it though. Do you want consistency or common sense? You can't have both. Say what you like about the rule as it stands, at least everyone knows what the punishment for a 'professional foul' is. There's consistency. Scrap the rule and you get sensible, measured punishments but the consistency will go out of the window. Tricky one.

Boro either did, or were fucking close to, in '86.

The Yank didn't flinch too much when the shit hit the fan last season and stuck by Sbragia until the end of the season. Then again once Keane walked he didn't have much choice... Might be different this time around because it's cost him £30m net and they're doing worse this season than last. Might test his patience a bit.

This, basically. If it were any other club the wanker who wrote it wouldn't have batted an eyelid about who we've signed. Still not worth getting annoyed about though. It's exactly what they want.

Said it in another thread but the PL will move heaven and earth to make sure they fulfill their fixtures and some deal will be done. The potential embarrassment that having a PL team go out of existence during the course of the season is massive. Read somewhere that they want the other clubs to allow them to recieve their parachute payment now to pay the bills and see the season out. After that they'll be fucked big time and will drop through the divisions...but that won't concern the PL because they'll be history once the final ball is kicked this season as far as the PL is concerned.

Aye, I know it was only a month's loan but if they need him for the bench?

Any chance of Van Aarnholt being recalled by Chelsea seeing as Cole has knacked his ankle?

We'll get hammered 1-1.