BottledDog

Pfft. Pardew is going to get praise, he didn't say he was unhappy that he left though.

Watson talking the Entertainers on Soccer Saturday.

Oh dear.

Not confident despite Everton being bunkum this season. Anyhoo, going for a 2-1 win. Fingers full on crossed.

Fair play. Nice words from him after the game.

Great news. Whered'ya hear that? I was at the consultation today at the Sandman. Grand, did the option for still extending actually look feasible or did it look a bit of an afterthought/sop to the supporters?

Hauled off.

Great news. Whered'ya hear that?

Have you ever played football? In fairness - I've never really understood the need. As I'm sure most people have here, I've played a lot of football over the years and never quite understood the need to spit during a match. Its just a release of fluid. And for some, just a (bad) habit. To say it shouldn’t be 'acceptable' is ridiculous. Why should the voluntary release of any bodily fluid be 'acceptable' during a match? Can't say it took superhuman effort to control my various orifices during 5 a side or park football over the years.

Nah, no way. I prefer him to Colback in many ways as well, though a lot of that is that down to promise over substance as it stands tbf.

No. Joke of a thread.

Fecks sake. Please stop.

I don't understand why this is important when everyone else in the league (i.e. our rivals) will see the same increases in TV revenue. Yes we might start spending a bit more money but other teams in the league will do the same and then some. I understand what you're saying about TV money becoming a bigger proportion of all revenue but the same goes for all clubs and we've seen before it usually leads to another increase in wages across the board and not much else. Ashley has not increased wages from the level they were at since arriving (well, only 3%). All other clubs have increased wages an average of 180% in that time. We've not made an operating profit either so the only money to be spent on Transfers has been what we've earned from sales. We've lost ground to all those other clubs in terms of what we spend. But we're still in the group outside the top 6 where tens of millions more has been borrowed and spent. From now on we should be able to grow at easily the same rate those other teams do, but more realistically faster. Unlike the other clubs, rather than paying off debt or interest on debt, any growth in broadcasting income nufc receive can be spent on new players and increased wages without adding to debt. The amount of debt and interest payments to finance it for other clubs will only increase as they can secure more borrowing on future TV income. They're paying significant sums to cover the cost of what was spent to get them where they are now, we'll pay nothing because the painful groundwork has been done over 7 awful years of scraping the barrell, with the owner accepting the financial risk if it led to relegation. Plenty have (perfectly reasonably) become increasingly suspicious as to whether we'll see any actual positives from the policy. Fingers crossed though. Nice to at least have some potential positives to hold on to while wading through shit.

No idea whether they have watched us but stats wise we are pretty good at home, certainly in comparison to other mid table teams. I can easily see ManU getting dick all off us tonight too fingers crossed.

Fingers crossed then.

Just have buckets of cold air ready to tip off the top of the stands when peoples pits get a bit claggy. Cold air descends, warm air rises. It's physics.

Eh, home win fella. Home win. /cue, 'As if we could ever score 4 in a game ffs '

Proper kicking. 4-1.

Yay me.

Uggh, this is fucking sickening.

Losing confidence we can get something out of this.

Some unheard of odds on us to win this now. Worth a cheeky punt?

Ambitious shot there Sissoko. Anyone doing anything nice for their holidays?

Er, they did.