Dr Venkman

Some good, compassionate posts in the last few pages. Gazza as a footballer gave me more joy than anyone else ever has, he was simply a pleasure to watch.

What was up with him at FT?

MON's spent the entire half walking up and down the touchline, 4th official hasn't done a thing

We've got form for offering contracts mid season if we think it's more likely to be accepted, hopefully we're doing it right now.

I've just read debuchy to be annihilated by bale and lennon to have perch for breakfast down the right. Well informed. Avatar

The absolute polar opposite of the majority of mackem opinions on a player if it were the other way round.

We all saw how impressive it was last season with Ba out wide. We now have Gouffran, in my opinion a far better wide player than Ba. Also Sissoko in for Jonas, plus two fullback who love to bomb forward. It's a delicious prospect. Imagine, a better team without Ba, who would have thought?

First time admitting a mistake, ever? They admitted not communicating with the fans enough a while back. The hope was that they'd learned a lesson from the summer, those quotes are promising.

Saying a fellow human being isn't worthy of encouragement to fight illness is quite staggering imo. It's one thing being against it because you don't think it's appropriate during the game, but not worthy? Harsh.

Hard to say really, depends if there's any chance of keeping him. We need to be planning for next season really and if he's said he's going then I think it's the right thing to do.

I do wish this story would go away.

And what about the guy he punched in the take away? Such a victim complex. That was 1 on 1

Probably when we hammer them at SJP, in fact definitely when we hammer them at SJP.

It's well placed arrogance tbh. As a club, players, fans, manager, they shit themselves every single time. Probably something to do with only caring about two fixtures a season. There's always pants shitting happening in here pre match and it's understandable due to the bragging rights, but no matter the form of the teams I just always expect us to win, especially at home.

Can't wait to see the back of this tit.

Tiote vs Sissoko on the training ground will be some epic shit.

hopefully he's told he's there to keep it simple

Bet he made the most of it

Am gan oot the neet, with Davide Santern

Remarkably (given how I was feeling just a week ago) I reckon we're good for a point in this.

The one thing I wasn't expecting (though I'm not sure why) is how good his first touch is. When he's running into the space between midfield and defence he can almost always take the ball in his stride and do something with it.

Dear me, poor soul looks really terrible. Such a sad life.

He's not particularly good in the air on today's evidence.

Yeah fair play. Didn't cripple us with stupid subs today, let the team get on with it.