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Ando(?) ejaculated and it didn't even go in.

"the government set minimum wage, what am I supposed to do?" Pay more than the minimum wage? Especially to those contracted for 30 minutes of work every month. Maybe then you'd get a few non scumbag charvs applying for jobs there.

Can you be better prepared for an away game than they are? Beat the team on Saturday, no need to travel home and back, beat the team again on Tuesday. 0-7

I feel like there's something even more damning about being a FKW in an away kit.

Shit championship team fluking a cup win doesn't exactly feel like a proud trophy winning moment like. Nee point. No matter how near to death I am.

We scored six goals once so we're not allowed to criticize his tactics.

Apart from there were loads of bars showing the 3pm games last time I was home at least. With dodgy European satellites and the like.

Got to say I'm pleasantly surprised about how the Daryl Murphy signing has worked out.

Aye its on BeIN sports USA.

I mean, he was also born in the suburbs of Paris. If Newcastle were the best team in England and wanted to sign me even though I knew I might not make the team, I'd still be signing for Newcastle over signing for some mid table alsorans. I'm sure he's being fat lazy Hatem in training, which I'm not defending, but you know what you're getting when you sign him, so banishing him like this seems ridiculous. Still hope he can turn it round and be the boss on the big stage, but not hugely shocked it's gone this way.

People who haven't clicked in here must think there's an excessive amount of post match analysis going on for a single midweek game against QPR I'd say this would be thread worthy but I'm not sure what we'd get from it other than relentless circular arguments.

The trouble is that if you start allowing clubs to provide access to matches on an ad-hoc club-by-club basis, you're getting closer to a La Liga type system where the TV money pours into specific clubs and everyone else is left with fuck all. The Championship/Football League has tried before to provide more access to games and it took an entire TV network down with it. The demand simply isn't there even in the UK, outside of a few clubs with big enough fanbases to support it, so I suspect the one camera setup will remain for the foreseeable future. That and the costs of doing it would out-weight the money that comes in from it. For example if only newcastle fans had access to watching every game live, then we would have to do the setup for all away games. It doesn't have to be fancy sky coverage with flying cameras all over the joint. There are cameras at the games already. The goals arrive on SSN within minutes during weekday games. All of this is already being done in the championship, and likely in league one and two too.

The trouble is that if you start allowing clubs to provide access to matches on an ad-hoc club-by-club basis, you're getting closer to a La Liga type system where the TV money pours into specific clubs and everyone else is left with fuck all. Perfectly easy to get round that by funneling all the money into one big pot, or a pot per league or something. Even if it was available per football club website, there'd still be price structure and the streams would likely come from a single source. I think it's perfectly reasonable to say something like this could benefit the smaller clubs should the money be shared out equally.

Don't think this is hugely relevant. This is a factor of the Europa league being downplayed to fuck by everyone in involved, so no fans really gives a shit about going to the games in the first place. The early rounds of the tournament are just treated as a total after thought and the fans have reacted accordingly. I don't see this as being hugely comparable to bread and butter games in the league. Surely the more relevant stat would be how attendances at televised premier league games have been affected. But somehow removing the # of season ticket holders.

This is a mid night wake up message, so I'm going back to sleep to leave you to fight alone. But ultimately there is little point in arguing. You're fighting against the magical element of tradition. Its immune to criticism because people love to pretend its still 1996. No solution will work unless its exactly how it is now. No comparisons or stats can be used when tradition is in play. Plus, they're all good being nearby, and anyone outside of the city isnt relevant. Newcastle for newcastlians. People have already admitting they could go see any 3pm premiership game because of worldwide streams, and yet haven't mentioned the fact the pyramid has not crumbled because of it. Only a matter of time before more games are available anyway. Whether it's 3pm premier league games being streamed in England or lower league games being available through club websites or something.

Even in Sweden, every second division game is on TV these days. It's pathetic they aren't even being filmed with more than one camera. How do Swedish teams in the 2nd division manage to get a crowd when the games are on TV? * Don't answer affordable ticket prices. Obviously crowds aren't great, don't know what the average would be mind. Not strange considering the level would be around league 2 at best. You need to be a real fan of the team to bother with it, with how bad the quality is. Don't think championship crowds would suffer much from being televised. Are there really any evidence from around the world with crowds going down because of TV? It's incredibly shortsighted as it seems to only think about the people in the general vicinity who attend matches, not the fans all over the country and world who would like to see their football club play. I just hate that Sky is sat there recording every single match and cutting in to show goals live, so technically they are just creeping about with the feed. God, how awful. It's got very little to do with that anyway. It's to do with protecting the quite extraordinary depth within the English football pyramid. It's to try and prevent, for example, the huge amount of clubs in the Greater Manchester area from haemorrhaging new fans because the kids want to stay at home and watch Man City on the telly, and judging by the amount of people watching third and fourth tier football (and below) in England and Scotland at 3pm on Saturdays, it works extremely well in doing so. "No soul in football", you're so wrong it's frightening. The soul remains at the games that the blackout is there to protect. But this is just standard scaremongering, despite the fact there'd be many solutions that didn't actually involve the death of the football pyramid. You act like it's black and white, rather than there being plenty of grey options that could well benefit teams from all necks of the wood.

You could just... y'know, not watch every game that's on TV?

I mean, some beers are just not good. i.e. there's a beer of the exact same type that is just made better, doesn't have the same off flavours etc.

Well done, they're 8.

Love Sunderland me. Nice little town. Much better than Pisscastle.

Good for you guys. Make it so no locals can view it without attending the game. Easy. Now make it available online for everyone else, given it'd be a monumental piece of piss to do so.

Unless she's got cold hard stats on viewership for MOTD/BAKE then I think she's just assumed a whole fuckton of genders right now.

he's got a book out next week, he's just doing a bit of PR, got to make himself relevant again

Is that a different person to Lee Marshall then?

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