Conjo

Toesak is asleep today

Ref really liking the sound of his own whistle so far.

At this rate we could soon blame Ashworth for the atrocities in Gaza and global warming. 1. It's 6 years since Ashworth resigned from his position in the FA 2. It seems they had a plan in place, namely to promote Carsley same way Southgate was, and the FA decided to deviate from their plan

Hope for your sake that he'll take a hail mary approach and focus on playing to the players creative and attacking strengths rather than taking the safety first approach from Southgate. You may not get better results, but at least it'll be worth watching.

Alan Pardew

£2m a year for him to attend home games for the inevitable 2 second video of him in the stands so the commentators can say "he can't be happy with what he's seeing". He should have asked for more.

Although it would have been better if he just retired from international football rather than doing the primadonna move of only wanting to play "important games" whatever that is, I say good for him. Hopefully it helps other players taking measures which ultimately forces the governing football bodies around the world to reduce the amount of games being played throughout a season.

Luke warm half cooked hot dogs, old pies with molten magma in the middle from being microwaved too long and chips. Special relationship indeed well deserving of a celebration.

Prime example of Newcastle fans being emotionally damaged individuals right there.

Sunderland "partnership" (feeder club) agreement announcement imminent?

I don't think they do in theory. In practical terms it is extremely difficult. It's quite rare that any business grows organically. Most successful/industry leading businesses operated at losses for ages before they became profitable. If top flight football was more sport and less business, I'd be all for the rules.

My immediate thought is that it has something to do with planning and setting up a multi club model like Man City.

I know, but isn't Shaw expected to be available for your next game? I don't think Mazaroui being out will weaken the team you'll be able to field. While I can't say I've seen him make notable defensive mistakes, I haven't seen him do much offensively either. Just an average PL right back in the Danny Simpson mould is my impression. I could be wrong. Have only watched 3 or so Man Utd games this season.

If he has been Man Utds best player this season, Man Utd have been incredibly shit way beyond what my impression of them was. He looks so incredibly ordinary. Refuse to believe Man Utd would be poorer with Dalot at RB & Shaw at LB.

I think Murphy has done better at RW than Gordon & Barnes.

Absolutely nails that pale malnourished UK type of white.

Probably just me overthinking and making things up for myself to explain the performance, but it seemed like quite a few players didn't play to the best of their ability in fear of picking up an injury. Noticed in particular Tino, Barnes and Gordon getting visibly angry and frustrated when they were tackled and felt some initial pain due to impact, as if they were terrified of picking up/wasting an injury on AFC Wimbledon. The performance felt a bit like players not wanting to take risks in fear of getting ruled out against more "worthy" opposition. Realize this impression is probably influenced by our Man City performance vs. rest of the season up until this point.

Depends a bit which Everton shows up imo. The away losses in 22 and 23 were at points where Everton had gone into their usual batten down the hatches mode (22 was end of the season where they were in desperate need of points to secure PL status, 23 was right after they had gotten the 10 point deduction). I don't think they are quite there yet so I'm cautiously optimistic that their team and fans won't show up in the same way this weekend.

Thank fuck this game is so early in the season that Everton isn't in panic mode yet.

Is he being played out of position today, or has he been played out of position up until now? Looks to struggle with the more physical cb's.

It is a weird obsession within parts of the fan base to claim bargains all the time. If there's three reports of a fee or wage varying from low - mid - high in the news about a new player of ours, the low fee/wage will mainly be the one you find quoted on here. An example that springs to mind immediately is when we bought Trippier it was always an initial ~£12m with a reported significant add-on reported to be an additional £12m if we stayed up, but you won't see much of that mentioned here. Only that Trippier at £12m was a bargain. (I'd say £24m was well worth it anyway) Perhaps this is something that all fan bases does out of some sort of weird tribalism I don't frequent or read much on other teams social media platforms to know if it is.

Having the top clubs that are struggling for form in February/March hovering up the top players from the rest of the league as a short term fix would be absolute cancer. Clubs are already free to open negotiations with any club and player at any time, it's just their registration that can't be transferred until the window is open.

Dubs Tino - Schar - Kelly - Targett (Burn & Kelly if Targett isn't fit to play) Longstaff - Tonali - Willock (Tonali & Bruno one half each) Murphy - Osula - Sanusi Should be good enough to beat Wimbledon comfortably. If we're struggling, we'll have plenty of options on the bench to turn things around while keeping our best players fresh for Everton.

He always finds a way to stay it seems Wouldn't be surprised if he gets an undeserved narrow win or boring draw against Porto, lose narrowly against Villa and get an undeserved narrow win against Brentford that will keep him in the seat into November. If he manages to tip toe for another few games he might actually get another transfer window to fix things, at which point it doesn't make sense to sack him until the end of the season.....but can they if he gets another trophy, like the league cup or the Europa League, even if they end up 8th in the league?