Jackie Broon

perfect

His contribution to us winning three games in a row has transformed our season. We wouldn't have done that without him but all we need to do from here is average a point per game and we'll be comfortably safe.

I don't think so, I don't really know much about accounting but I think it would be on a separate part of the balance sheet and wouldn't count towards our cash profit / loss that FFP is based on. Payment for shares is actually specified in the PL rules as one of the ways that an owner can fund a club to cover cash losses, which needs to be done to allow a club to lose the upper FFP amount of £105m over three seasons rather than 15m if those losses aren't covered

Nope, not how it works, that's not part of our profit / loss in terms of the FFP calculation. Even if it were then the PL could just say its a related party transaction at above market value and adjust it down to the value of 10 shares.

As far as I understand it's only subjective decisions that have to meet the clear and obvious error test, a call as to whether a foul was in or outside of the box will probably be seen as a factual decision.

Yeah, but then what about the offside by a toenail goal of theirs? For once we really benefited from VAR today.

What a great battling win! Just three more wins this season will see us safe I think.

It is but they were always going to find form eventually, I think we have more chance of finishing ahead of Leeds.

A point per game is going to comfortably enough to stay up, most seasons but particularly this season.

Yes, it is perfectly legitimate. No equivalence whatsoever.

The best they can look back on since the glory days of finishing 7th twice is a 10th place under Bruce, their only top half of the top division finishes since 1956 Has anyone else noticed how their fortunes seem to be inversely related to ours? They were going along quite nicely while we were really struggling, now things are starting to look up for us everything has fallen apart for them. Seems to happen every season.

The weight on his through balls is so perfect, it almost looks like they have back spin on them the way they split the defence then suddenly slow for the attacking player to run onto.

He looked a broken man, after one PL match

He was fantastic in the second though, more than made up for his not great first half. Shelvey too.

Gigantic result! Fantastic 2nd half, hands up Eddie got the big calls absolutely right. Nice little cameo from Bruno at the end, although I'm not sure that blind backheel was the wisest idea, even of it did come off.

Such a terrible decision keeping Shelvey on, Howe has an uncanny knack of getting every big decision wrong.

If Shelvey comes out for the 2nd he'll get sent off for a stupid yellow 100% guaranteed.

The issue is we desperately, desperately, need a change in midfield, we know our current midfield is not up to it and, as you say, this is a must win game. Better to take the risk of playing him and it possibly not working than play a midfield we know is not going to be good enough.

He's not had any significant injuries and he's only just 30, he'll have a few years in his legs yet. Other than the addition of Cornet the whole team had gone stale from what I can tell, which is more likely to be the cause than his legs going at 29.

I've just watched through that videos of his first 50 for Burnley and 11 of them were him running in behind onto through balls, which isn't a bad return for someone playing for Burnley. Some cracking finishes too.

Can we leave that term to the mackems please, so rtg.

I can't see him working as a striker, I think in order of preference it would be: Gayle Joelinton ASM Willock None of which would be good.

On paper this is our easiest remaining home game, if you can't see a win here then where?

He'll be a disaster, all the more hilarity if he does.

Not completely clear from that angle, could be that it wasn't all of the ball over all of the line, not the miles in they're making out.