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15th minute for their hero then donate the cash to a charity supporting teenage girls who have been the victim of grooming. It's what they would want.

Or they will revert to type and be dogshit again.

I bet it was the quickest tour ever. Best part of Sunderland? The northbound road taking them to Newcastle

Mind to give more details? We wont trust 100% no worries but do have interest to know why. It appears to be Charnleys inability to do his job that didn't get players over the line and Carrs meddling. Ashley being ill advised. Rafa not furious at Ashley. He's furious with his cohorts

A pal of mine who generally isn't far away with what he says reckon Charnely is the one at risk of losing his job

Noncing, Sexual Deviance... Starting to look like SAFC stands for Sexually Active Football Club

Didn't the announcement say he had control of all footballing matters? That doesn't mean he will set budgets etc. Plus everyone's assuming that we fucked up getting townsend. If Palace want to keep a player they've got under contract I'd say we have't got any control over that. Plus who could we buy that would be as good as Shelvey that could make the step up to the Premier League next year at a sensible price who would be prepared to drop to the Championship? Mountains out of molehills and I've always been a massive sceptic of Mike Ashley

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2755217/premier-league-star-forced-to-transfer-and-move-miles-away-after-secret-baby-following-affair-with-fan/ PVA I'm reliably informed

We need Townsend then bleat on about how we're fucked if Shelley is injured. They don't even play the same position!!

What's to say Townsend didn't just decide he wanted to stay and help keep Palace up? We've been very restricted when you look at who/what we've been linked to. We don't want to spunk shitloads of cash now on players who won't cut the mustard in the premier league. Sheff Wed have spent 10m quid on Jordan Rhodes! He couldn't get a game for Boro who aren't prolific. We've decided to stick. Let's see what Rafa says in the coming days and more importantly look to the summer. If things start to go wrong there then yes there's a problem. But for now let's just hope we do what we need to in order to be promoted

Wouldn't call Villa a rival at this stage. They're 22 points behind us with 19 games left. They'd have to do better than us by 22 points from the 57 available. Not going to happen. There's still 3 hours or so to go. Be nice to bring a couple in but don't think we will suffer too much if we don't.

Pete Townsend signing for Sunderland

Ulloa has just tweeted he won't play for LCFC again. Perhaps that may be the case but why would they sell to a rival at the bottom of the table? I dare say we'd have more chance of getting him if we wanted him. It would massively bite Leicester on the arse if he went to the mackems and kept them up at their expense

If we win our game in hand there will once again be a 9 point essentially 10 point gap between us and third place. We beat the team currently occupying 3rd spot 4-1 and comfortably beat the team in 4th away from home. From 18 games remaining those teams have to get better results than us in 4 games to get above us. I just can't see it as long as we keep our focus.

We need to take a step back here like. So we're not in the Premier League, so it's going to be difficult to attract players of the calibre we will covet once promoted. It's hard to see who we could bring in who wouldn't want big money over and above what we can currently afford. Clubs don't want to loan out players who they might need when they are trying to get the odd extra million or so in TV money by finishing 14th. It's very much a sellers market. I'm also in no doubt that when we go up Rafa will be given what the club can realistically afford to give him. Rafa may be ambitious but he will also be pragmatic. He won't be expecting Chelsea levels of investment - for now. There will be a plan to be a near top half team next year with year on year improvement. He will also have cast iron assurances in writing I'm in no doubt. If Ashley reneges on these it will cost him just as much to let him leave. I have a feeling he's learned a lesson and he's been given a chance to keep the fans off his back for good. Let's just enjoy the rest of the season, hopefully go up and reevaluate where we are when pre season comes around again. I think people have to realise we aren't a premier league club. At the moment at least

Obertan to Palarse? Oh dear.....

Must be contenti to play in the championship next year....

Even worth bringing him in to mentor Mitro? Could work and if we have an injury crisis he's a fall back option. Doubt he's gonna demand big money at 36

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I know we are in danger of clapping for every tragedy known to man but it's came to light last night that the young Sunderland fan Bradley Lowery has got worse and medics haves advised his family to take him home. A fans group on Facebook are asking folk to clap and chant his name on the 5th minute. Least we can do. Can't begin to think how his family feel right now

I have a feeling he might roll out a cup tie type team for this one. Arguably the cup quarter final is a more difficult game and the 'cup' team rolled Preston over last round

Scotland could be after Moyes according to the Northern Echo

There's a thread on RTG now comparing Ellis Short to Donald Trump. What a bunch of clowns

3 of the 12 away fans work at our place and only went cos they're related to Adam Campbell - not much of a travel from Houghton le Spring

The irony is, the model he has aspired to build probably works in a round about way with Rafa. He identifies players who offer value for money, and at some point they will still be sold because they're either surplus to requirements or want to move on to bigger and better things. Difference being the players have an opportunity to improve under a world class coach and become more valuable, and the club is sold to them on the basis that the club wanrs them and not purely as a stepping stone. Cold hard relaity is that if we end up with players becoming world beaters they will likely want that big move, or perhaps we end with a degree of success as a result of said players. The model will largely remain, but the structure is different