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If Isak had a preseason with Liverpool, he'd still be mourning Jota now wouldn't he? What a load of toss. They're not playing to his strengths, which makes him a far more limited player than most realised when he played for us and we did.

Absolutely, and I wish a tiny majority of the voting population hadn't decided they wanted to enable the Brexit boats by throwing away Le Touquet Treaty for a delusion of "taking back control" but which actually gave away any control our country had over it. It completely fucks my mind that the same people that voted for Brexit which put us in the state we are now actually want MORE of the people that persuaded them to vote for it.

There's nothing racist about debating the level of immigration that should be allowed both for taking in refugees fleeing from war torn areas or to fill areas of employment that we don't have enough of a working population to cover. There is absolutely a massive racist/general cunt element to thinking "I know what I'd like to do this weekend, it's write stop the boats on a union jack(sic) and take it to the footy. Maybe I can fit in a bit of harassing a pride march while I'm there. Bonus."

It's a forum in-joke tbf to that poster. It's from this classic thread from 2004:

If multi-club ownership is going to be allowed (it really shouldn't be allowed at all), then related party ownership transfers and loans absolutely need to be completely banned. It's so obviously going to get abused more and more as a means to avoid PSR. How on earth do you try and regulate fair market value on player transfers?

Curious but what do yous that watch the women's team regularly think about the manager? From someone who takes an interest and wants the womens team to do well but isn't completely invested, it seems like managers in the women's game get let off lightly compared to the men's game where the manager is always to blame. The manager surely has to take some blame for performances this season even if it is big step up?

The Regis Prayer Our Regis on the touchline, hallowed be your name, Your league title will come, your will be done, in the stadium and in heaven, Give us today the 3 points we crave, And forgive our booing before, As we forgive previous defeats, And lead us not to league one, But deliver us the premier league and beyond, For the stadium of light is the kingdom, Sunderland needs the glory, Forever and ever, Amen

I'm more concerned about the Burn / Hall dilemma.

It still pisses me off how the mackems got promoted in '90 when Swindon got done. Blackburn and us both finished ahead of them in the league, and Blackburn got knocked out of the playoffs by Swindon.

I see they let them stop work to watch the footy while on shift at Nissan. Explains a lot.

Just hope we put a sell-on clause in there, his next move could be a big one.

Aside from the fact that it would be impossible to do the job he's supposed to do without people outside Man U from knowing about it, why would he risk his professional reputation and likely legal action when he's not even being paid by them yet?

Looks like they may have picked a good one.

As he was cheering on his boyhood club and watching a 17 year old Lewis Miley starting games in the Champions league, I'm sure Rigg was thinking how much better off he was failing to make the bench at a struggling Championship club that's had more managers in his lifetime than he's had birthdays. He'll surely also have taken note of how far young Jobe has progressed this season under the superb coaching setup at Sunderland and looked on RTG to see the encouraging and patient support that he receives from their loyal supporters while developing as a player. He'll be itching to sign a long term professional contract with them I'm sure.

People are overthinking the attendance (tickets allocated) figures if you think they're making the numbers up or giving thousands away IMO. Under 16s, £2.50 a game. Under 18s, £4.50. Even £8 for under 22s is nowt these days. The low prices for kids are commendable, but it also means there's very little lost in not attending especially on a school night or when their form is shit and there's nothing to play for. 9 points & 8 goals from the last 14 games, no chance of the playoffs, and no threat of relegation. It's no wonder half of them aren't turning up.

But getting £50m each from Al-Insheara would really help with FFP.

Exile on Bruno:

Lucky or they'd all get injured before kickoff

I know spending so much money without coming close to winning the league for over 10 years does seem impossible, but to be fair you've made it look easy.

Quality FanInPeace post on RTG

Only the lowest of the low would make under the counter payments to staff to subvert the financial fairplay rules of the league. https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/2018/2/28/17061448/the-moment-it-all-changed-for-sunderland-afc-an-illegal-payments-scandal-that-rocked-wearside