Ashley17

Nolan

Yeah, sign a few more, take down all that shit SD advertising, actually try in the cups and go a whole season without being a cunt and we're onto a winner

This guy. This is the guy

Delph starts for England and Villa are as bad as us. In that respect, the only difference is there's no rivalry between Villa & City

Signing Kaboul

Good read, let us know when the 2nd part of 96/97's up. Loved it when the game was that simple. Thanks Polic, will do.

Well no, it's not exciting and it never will be until there's a change of attitude at boardroom level. In Pardew's final season, he had this squad midtable, and there's not much changed since then. We'd been in the bottom 3 but we were also in the top 5 at one stage, midtable was about average

Just wrote it...

So hang on, Pardew had us midtable despite all his massive failings, but we need 6 top class players to move us into the top 8? I'm not sure I go along with that, getting the best out of what we've got will get us to midtable and with 3 or 4 additions we can break the top 8, one of which we've already got. We're in desperate need of one or two as a bare minimum as we all know, but the league is of fairly poor quality.

Nobody will force him to come, I'd rather we set our sights high and try to get someone who sees himself playing at the top. It's like pulling women, the best ones are gonna take some work sometimes. You don't go home early with the fat rotten one in the corner just because she's more up for it. Aye, but this fucker's brought his Dad out on the pull with him

I've been writing about how the CM/FM series has evolved over the years and would appreciate it if you could maybe have a read and share it if you're not embarrassed to be associated with it. This week it's CM96/97 - I'm Newcastle so it's kind of relevant. I have nothing to do with the title before anybody asks what the fuck it's all about http://thehighertempopress.com/2015/07/15/classic-championship-manager-flipmode-is-tha-squad-for-tha-year-of-1996/ If you happen to want more, I did 93/94 over 2 parts Part 1: http://thehighertempopress.com/2015/07/01/58/ Part 2: http://thehighertempopress.com/2015/07/08/classic-championship-manager-id-love-it-if-you-were-newcastle-part-two/

May as well just post the standard replies in one go so we can all go to bed. No Stifler, there isn't a stream. Tiote has Visa problems Marveaux has had a hernia op Wijnaldum isn't there, stop asking. Riviere is rubbish Colback as captain, ffs. Obertan How is Lee Ryder employed as a journalist? Can't believe we lost to these 100 people referring to an F1 team instead of our head coach

It pisses me off our own fans don't know the difference between our manager and an F1 team

Chris Gunter starts for Wales ahead of Matthews, right?

I like how the article is about signing some kid and they just drop it in all casual about Wijnaldum

What's this Wijnaldum stuff?

Steve McClaren for turning up at the airport and saying "Howdy Partner" in the accent

Out of contract in 12 months

Got relegated didn't they?

We had WBA away on some leaked list I saw. Probably total rubbish though

Liverpool forgot they've got Origi too? Fuckers

Well Abeid has already pretty much gone, would be surprised if Tiote stayed too.

In an ideal world, absolutely. There's very few of our players I even like, let alone want to keep. But realistically we're not going to ship 10 out and bring 10 in.

Well obviously, but who is going to take them?

The International argument is fairly pointless though. If you play for a massive club you can buy the World's best players and that's obviously going to help the best players win trophies. At International level, you're kind of stuck with a certain set of players and you can't do it all yourself.