Jackie Broon

I remember there being speculation that it was some kind of rolling yearly contract, saying "long-term", conspicuously without a specific term, suggests something like that.

Looking back at the reports it's clear that he handed in his notice and so, yes, that (to stay at Brighton) wouldn't be in his hands. Although he is still employed by them, they haven't employed a replacement yet and if we don't know for certain whether he has actually signed a contract with us or, if he has, what the terms are. But, it is unusual that this hasn't been sorted out given the amount of managerial staff that move about in football without extended periods of gardening leave like this. Obviously it could just be down to Brighton making that choice, and if that's the case we'll have to just wait. We'll find out in the coming weeks / months.

Gardening leave can be for any reason, it doesn't have to be that specific circumstance, and during gardening leave you are still employed by that employer. It absolutely makes sense that he would not want to commit himself to the job until he knows what division we are in next season and/or vice versa. My point is that managerial staff move around in football all of the time without there being extended periods of gardening leave of massive fees, there is likely to be something else at play here. We'll see pretty soon if it's waiting for confirmation of our PL status has been that thing.

Surely you can't know that unless you've seen his employment contract. Also, managers and other staff have that sort of knowledge and move between clubs all of the time with little or no compensation or delay. It makes more sense that he's said to Brighton that he's decided to join us subject to us being in the PL next season (either down to him and/or us) and so they immediately put him on gardening leave.

Bo Thompson's on for Wolves.

On this showing we didn't do too badly on Sunday.

And we've got that part spot on with our signings so far.

PL FFP hasn't changed in any way that would affect that, and they've set a precedent of very light touch enforcement with Everton. UEFA FFP has changed but that should allow us to spend more than it previously would have.

I think you're forgetting just how shit Darlow is.

Wood doing his best to prove ASM's point.

No worse than Burnley's; Spurs away, Villa away (who just comfortably beat them at home) then us. They've had their caretaker manager bounce and won't get anything out of their next two. I could definitely see Leeds getting something from Chelsea at home.

I'm not in the North East.

Not necessarily, this is a different development and information from the previous application won't necessary be directly applicable or might be out of date. Seems like the main holdups on the last application were with the Environment Agency (who shouldn't need to be consulted on this one as it's a minor development) and the Coal Authority. Most delays in planning are actually caused by consultees, or more precisely applicants not submitting adequate information to allow consultees to say it's OK.

They did, and hopefully this should be more straightforward, but it's pretty much impossible to prejudge how long a planning application will take.

For context, that took 9 months, 15 months if you count the original withdrawn application.

Just surprising how little he seems to have done, from a quick google search, some mock-ups for L.R. Vicenza and small domestic extensions. I would have expected with the Reuben's and PIF's connections a big architecture firm or an experienced architect. There doesn't look to be anything wrong with the application but it's surprising that they have chosen someone with seemingly little experience, at least by his public profile, which architects will usually play up rather than down.

I suppose it's a pretty small scale job, but surprisingly low profile choice of architect.

"TheOther14"

Wor Flags are amazing and beyond criticism, but I think that display at the Palace match possibly just served to feed into his ego, which really doesn't need any extra feeding.

Don't even really have to prove they're clean, the burden of proof is on the person who makes the accusation, they would have to prove that they're not, see the Lane Norton vs. Jason Blaha case.

I don't think that's true, people cycle to try lessen the health and other impacts of long term continuous use, particularly of the more toxic steroids. But there's unlikely to be a big advantage from anabolic steroids in football, the advantage would come from stuff like EPO or an undetectable equivalent, of which there are allegedly many.

Aye, athletic world records that we now know were set juiced to the gills are still being broken because of 'improvements in sports science'.

Prophetic.

Goalkeeper has single handedly thrown this away.