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I'm with you!

Ha ha, just stuff for football and the gym - tracksuit bottoms, football shorts, the odd tshirt... that sort of stuff. Nothing for general wear, rest assured.

I really don't want to stop shopping at Sports Direct... but I think now is the time.

At least none of the money at NUFC is going on Public Relations experts.

This is so tacky I want to cry. Bracing myself for the abuse from other fans. All I can say is that I'll never say that name or write it again. Starting from now.

I literally can't believe that this has happened... even the BBC news item seems surreal.

What, so he's suddenly telling the truth? How did this happen? The thing I don''t get is how Llambias ever expects anyone to believe a word he ever says again, Well, most people anyway. I never said I believed him, in fact I specifically said that the comments might not be true.

The most valuable ones?

I hate him as much as anyone, but those comments actually make sense. Whether or not they're true or not is another matter, obviously, and everything he hasn't done in the past makes it hard to swallow. (Just to clarify, I would rather spend some more money on the team as well).

Yes, absolutely. The heritage of this club isn't for sale... it's all we have of value. I don't think the future of this club is at risk here, say we miss out on £5m or £6m, will be go bust? I don't think so.

Care to expand on what it is exactly that I am missing here? History, pride, love, honour, roots, all that stuff.

What a load of shit, nothing more to be said really. They realised getting rid of SJP would be unworkable, so now they want to tack something on to the name. This only makes them look more idiotic, and if anything makes the deal even less appealing to sponsors. Just admit that selling the name was a mistake.

I agree, but Kevin Keegan and the Premier League have different views apparently.

That's that sorted then.

Baba, I was just about to post that I think we'll be seeing some serious rethinking of contracts for managers from now on. I mean, I thought it was a basic part of being a manager that sometimes players would be sold who you wanted to keep. If the manager has to have overall financial control of the whole club, some more training is going to be needed! 10 years in top flight football, plus an MBA and accountancy training maybe.

It's bollocks basically, there's no way to judge it. Some people would say crowds, when that's essentially random, or number of hardcore fans, when that's impossible to measure. I suppose you could say it's something to do with winning things, in which case let's just call it 'successful club' and save ourselves a lot of hassle.

Just going in to football matches with a chance of winning them is a big relief for me, even if the opposition are poor.

Yeah, but if you're separating 'performance' and 'results' to mark them both then you should look purely at stats.

Don't think you can have a go at the council for this. SJP is owned and run by NUFC so they can call it what they like. You're right, the council could object and express their displeasure, but that's about it.

If results are considered alone then they must get at least an 8 or 9, surely? We're top of the league. My overall impression of this season is that it's been surprising how easy the championship is compared to what we were led to believe in the summer. I don't think we have played really well, so I'm diappointed in that. Also encouraged that when it looked like the wheels were coming off we put together another couple of wins. Makes me less scared that everything is suddenly going to go downhill.

The game is too fast for him in Prem I think, good player at the moment mainly because we've dropped down a level.

I love the way Drogba plays, except the diving. Rooney is an all-rounder and brilliant at what he does. Torres has the ability to complete confound a defender and score goals nobody else would, also very very quick. I can't choose, I'd probably go for Torres if I had other world class players around him. Otherwise Drobga/Rooney.

Rafa doesn't seem to be able to make a team more than the sum of its parts like Fergie can. On paper Man Utd have almost as many players you might describe as 'average' (O'Shea, Fletcher, Brown etc), but together they get the job done. And the amount of nothing players he has signed is alarming. Ironically he might have been better off not going for Torres and signing 3 decent players instead.

Someone like Ranger? Yep.

Glad to see he's showing some potential to be really useful, I'd just love to see someone up alongside him with decent pace and movement.