Exiled in Texas

RTG now claiming that they are waiting for relegation to be confirmed, where the 50% pay cut takes place, so that they can sack Moyes for half price

Oh, next season it will be ..... "its a tough league with Hull, Boro down and with Villa and Norwich rebuilt and add in Huddersfield, Leeds and Fulham playing well etc. Mags never had any strong competition and they still only scraped promotion. Blah blah blah" Mackematics

Trump logic - take the news you don't like, and call it fake news. Then make something up to deflect attention and now everyone can believe the new reality. Free Ticket Skunks will become the new truth on RTG.

Mackems in total denial of their ticket situation, despite so many of them only going to games on the freebies. And now attempting to create an alternative reality where it's not them flooding free tickets but now it's us. Fake News but soon to be the new truth in RTG What a make believe world they live in. But who would want to live in their world when it's better to live in denial.

Or from a thow-in. Which makes the AR's decision fun when there might have been a flick on from the throw, but also might have gone directly to the player in OSP.

It would be worth it just to see the melt down on Drearyside Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Penalties are intended to replace the Goal Scoring Opportunity within open play that was denied by the foul/handling etc, so they have a place in the game but I think the process needs to be redefined. The current rules give too much advantage to the shooter (lets play a game of ideas that sound good but a probably crap) First, I would make the Penalty a one shot deal (with no follow up allowed). Resolves all the encroachment issues. Second, I would remove "feinting" during the kick/run-up from the process - you never see a player feint like that in a regular play as the keeper is free to challenge the shot, so why allow it in the penalty when the keepers movement is artificially restricted. Third , I would allow the keeper to move as soon as the player starts his run up (They can always take a smaller runup). And make the penalty shot more like a regular one-on-one play. I'd settle for just removing feinting

Ego and stubbornness on the part of the referee to accept that 1 - he was wrong and 2 - he couldn't get out of it So he refused to listen to the 4th official

Agree - Encroachment at the PK has become almost an accepted part of the game. And if it was called "per the letter of the law" there would be a dozen retakes for every penalty awarded. It makes me wonder what the official direction the referees are being given by the leagues about how to manage encroachment. The referees get coaching and guidance on so many parts of the game (what to focus on, what to pay less attention to) that you wonder what they are being asked to do with encroachment.

The referee had a momentary brain fart, he mixed up the restart for an Encroaching attacker when the goal was missed and applied it when the goal was scored. Let's see who knows the penalty rules... The Attacking team encroaches, but the keeper saves the kick pushing the ball out over the goal line - The correct Restart is? The defending team encroaches, but the goal is scored - the correct restart is ? The defending team encroaches, but the goal is not scored - the correct restart is ? The Attacking team encroaches, but the attacker misses the kick shooting over the bar - The correct Restart is? Both teams encroach, but the goal is scored - correct restart is? The Attacking team encroaches, and the goal is scored - The correct Restart is?

Hopefully that will "tap the brakes" on this idea and it will no longer happen.

I almost wish that they had beaten Leicester today. Would have been funnier to give them a small inkling of hope today, before normal programming resumes at the weekend.

Schroederlands Cat

Yeah, he shouldn't have said it. But he did. And for us it's funny AF [emoji23] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The funny things, is that reading through RTG, they all seem to think that they should have been mid-table safe when in reality, for the last 4 seasons they have been in the relegation positions for 90+% of the time. And they blame Moyes for his early season statement that this season would be a relegation battle.....when a quick check of the facts show that based on most of the last four seasons that's where they have been and what they have been doing.

Watching Bundesliga and Hertha Berlin, and they just showed the players taking an escalator down to the pitch. So wierd see the players riding down the escalator - looks like they should be in a shopping center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBeW1JHh1NU Anywhere else have such a crazy path to the pitch?

Their bigger challenge is just getting off the bottom - they need 4 points more than Boro get just to get out of 20th place. They are down.

As if we would bother our arse to hire a couple of planes to gloat over those knuckle-dragging backwards ding-dongs. But if we did, maybe it could be something like this.... Thick c*nts. As long as there is a second plane chasing the first with a banner saying then I'm happy

hehe Sunderland coming into the 1990s Emails to communicate with fans instead of a posted letter... what is the world coming to

And the RTG baying mob want to spend their last pennies on paying off Moyes instead of investing it in players for next season.

I saw the replay of the second goal and couldn't figure out why the keeper went straight out to the AR to complain ... I assumed he thought Murphy was offside. Couldn't see where the keeper had the ball at all I also thought this when I saw them going mental immediately after the goal. Assumed they were appealing for an offside, still didn't realise what they were appealing for until the commentator mentioned it on one of the replays of the goal. Was really f***ing weird, the keeper barely had one hand on the ball, never mind two. One hand (or even one finger) would be enough IF the referee thought he had Control of the ball. It's doubtful that there would have been control of the moving ball at that time Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I saw the replay of the second goal and couldn't figure out why the keeper went straight out to the AR to complain ... I assumed he thought Murphy was offside. Couldn't see where the keeper had the ball at all Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is the correct answer. Defoe has been immense for them - without him and his goals, they would have been relegated in 2015 and 2016 (and possibly both ) The fact that they have been able to keep him (and keep him happy enough to play and score goals) is a credit to them. B******s

What would be cool would be to see the Premier League have a day when ALL the mascots were cancer victim kids. Bradley could be the face of the day, but it wouldn't be hard to find enough sick kids to be mascots for all the other Premier League and even Championship clubs for a day. That way Bradley's situation can be spread to benefit other kids that are not receiving the same attention.

Wasn't it Everton who made the big splash when they donated money for treatment first to Bradley? Maybe I missed the start of this but it seemed like SAFC gave him a shirt while Everton gave him 200K for treatment and captured the public imagination Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk