Chris_R

People's hatred of flair players is proper weird. They're always going to lose the ball more than your Tiotes or Battys, because they try things. That's the whole point. And you don't really want them tracking back all of the time because they need energy to run the other way. Obviously there's a limit, they need to put some effort in, but I pay money to watch exciting play not to watch James fucking Perch knock a pass 5 yards sideways to Vernon bloody Anita.

This. He's about the last player I'd sell from the pre-takeover days. There's plenty more we need to ship out first.

Really? If we were sat 8th or 9th, I'd be wanting us to bring a couple in to push us into the minor European spots. It all snowballs in terms of revenue and what players you can attract.

That'll come I'm sure, but it'll take years. Like others, I'll be disappointed if we get nobody in. Even just 1 in will feel like we've just done the bare minimum.

You'll get transferred alright. Transferred straight to the dole office.

Haha Everton now pretending Spurs are interested just to try and scare us into jacking our offer up. Get fucked.

Sure, just the 2 glasses..... Not that I expect anyone to tell the truth in these matters: "Yeah, I was halfway through the second bottle and just thought 'Fuck it, almost no chance of getting caught', oh well. Sorry!" is unlikely to be said at court no matter how accurate.

That's not exactly going to help him.

If we don't strengthen a couple of key areas this window but then fall away and finish outside the top 4, it'll look like a very silly decision indeed. Shades of 02/03 where we finished 3rd and in the CL but in the summer decided to just sign Lee Bowyer on a free. It was downhill all the way after that, and it's an experience tells me we need to roll the dice this time but we'll see what happens. I'll not be lighting any torches or sharpening any pitchforks if we keep things as they are.

Hahaha, he's completely torpedoed them by doing this, he's made his position there almost untenable. At this point we need to stop answering the phone to Everton and look elsewhere until their price drops to about £5m.

- Most of the promotion season in '92, but especially the 7-1 Vs Leicester in the final game - Cole breaking our season's scoring record - Shearer breaking our all time scoring record Then there's a massive long gap where everything is shit, but I did go to Plymouth away where we clinched the title back to the top flight which was great, before I completely gave up for a few years and just started hoping we got beat each week. After that it's the takeover. I cried when we scored in that first game Vs Spurs even though I was only watching on TV (the only thing on this list I wasn't at in person), just such a relief of emotion to actually care, properly, about football again. I also cried when our third went in Vs villa but that was because I was up in Newcastle because my father had just passed, I thought it was ok to go to the match but I properly started blubbing away in floods of tears, people around me probably thought I was a villa fan

Sounds like you've got a pretty good idea where it's come from to me.

Genuinely got no idea, it's that bad of a nickname. Absolute oddballs.

Nobody likes us anyway, might as well be hated. Create a siege mentality, fuck the lot of them. We were loved during the late 90s but we won fuck all. I'd take their scorn and derision whilst we hoist a trophy any day. It's us against them.

Yeah he was blowing out his arse about 10 minutes into the second half when he pulled out of chasing a through ball, not a good sign when you've just come back out after the break. There's a good few need a rest, he's definitely one of them.

Probably in about 100 years

Needs to start next match. I get keeping faith with a team that hasn't lost but keeping faith with a forward line which scores zero makes no sense. I'd like to see him and ASM from the start next match, they've both shown it's time to rotate things.

Fucking love VAR me like. Great system.

Think we'll have too much for them but really wanted to see some fresh legs in the team after the last few games.

If this goes through, ASM's off to Villa which should recover a lot of the fee.

Yeah I'd infinitely prefer Madison if we're talking that kind of money. It's outrageous for someone who has had one good season followed by half a shit one.

I agree. I've no ill will to Wood, I thought he was integral to keeping us up and turning our form round and any player who has played so much in a team which over 12 months has been a top 4 side cannot be a bad player, otherwise I guess without him we'd have won the league. It was just a cheap joke.

Nah, it'll be Wood doing the missing.

"Fixed Your Post" Can't be arsed to check back, but they've likely edited your post in the quote to change the meaning to suit their agenda.