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Nah, email Eddie he'll get it sorted

I wonder what this is like for our players. It's got to be difficult to put 100% in when the opposition is so low

Don't mind them scoring late on, keep that record of 8 defeats without scoring on wearside

4 isn't it? Goals scored

Lee Clark against Boro (I think) but for totally different reasons

Maybe because it's we've been here fairly recently but I actually really feel for the Leicester fans and players here

If we keep it up 10 (ten) is actually on here

Fucking sick of those aimless pints by Schar like

Lets be honest he probably struggles with 60 mins on the bench these days

Isak's 7 behind Salah. A hattrick today and then he can chase down (a) the golden boot and (b) 30 for the season in the league.

Will never happen but I'd love Donnarumma here.

I met him when he came for Sunday Lunch at the George in Chollerford. I know he had a rep for being a bit up himself at times but he was on great form that day, tipped pretty well. Also had Frank Clark in one evening for a private function, kept the bar open until 5 am for him and his party, he was decent on the old guitar. Then good ol' Sid Waddell and Jerome Flynn (on separate occasions), refused to be called sir and we're great company.

Are we putting an Ashley era player into the current squad or putting Howe back into the Ashley era here? Of the former then Remy would be in with a shout of the golden boot but I'll die on the hill with a flag saying HBA. If the latter then it would be Perez or Sissoko. Wildcard, Mbemba would have been interesting under Howe, really thought he was going to be the part for us

Barnes added £10m (max) to the p&l last season, Sandro about the same. We only just passed the loss limit through selling both Minteh and Anderson, both of which were £15m plus. So even without buying Barnes we'd have had to sell them both, at a push maybe held onto Anderson but it's not a given

Nah I just can't see that one happening

Fucking loved Nightowls.

A year in Saudi for the bank balance then back to the coaching team here

Its Albuquerque for me

Sure I think the Math/Meth adds up there

You would need agreement to draw a line on the past for this, but I don't think the principles to a form of PSR are that far removed from what we have: (1) There is a limit to what you can spend (2) You have to be able to finance the spend It's pretty straightforward really. You can set (1) as aggressive as you like to maintain the leagues position in world football, but there has to be a mechanism for teams to invest and grow so an overall cap that is equal for each team seems fair (and is a practice established in other sports so should pass any test). (2) is then the sustainability bit, owners need to fund from cash generation, additional capital or loans but as loans have the risk of immediate repayment they have to be secured on a bond - no interest charged but there must be a cash deposit in escrow at a ratio of 1:1 of the amounts loaned to clubs. If the PL wants to keep a link to income for wages/fees then it must allow for a forecast period where investment is realised in future income growth.

Unless we get a couple of huge wins (or do Chelsea by 3) then Chelsea would be 5 and a draw if we win 6 with GD but you also to factor that City would also need to win 6/8 (or 5 wins, 2 draws) if we win 6. I just don't see all of us, City and Chelsea winning 6 so its who slips up

It's time to break the 9 goal PL record

Its quarter of the season to go, you don't need the analysis to know that there really isn't anything in the fixture difficulty overall (not withstanding the complete brain fart results that happen towards the end of each season). In our favour is that we are front loading a nice run of winnable games that 'should' put us in the top 4 at the end of them and a maximum of 1 point behind Forest, but if we do our job more likely we'll be in third after the Ipswich game. Our last 4 are trickier and you wouldn't want to be in 6th going into them, but if we are defending a position then you'd take them. The last barrier facing Forest is what happens if they do get pulled back over the next couple of games, does mental fatigue kick in or do they go again?

Interesting weekend, good chance that none of City, Forest, Chelsea, Villa win