Pilko

Three identical corner routines Good thing we're learning eh Eddie.

Probably pissed tbf. Surprised he can remember his own name.

Hall dropped after last week This will be absolutely shit.

Wow. That's mental

Players are a long time retired, I can understand wanting to play on as long as they physically can.

Forest and Leeds could easily finish above us, especially seeing as we have to go to Forest as they're hitting a bit of form. Had it not been for LinkedIn Liam & Osula's late show against Man U, we'd be in the conversation.

This is class

"Til the end" Nae cunt there

Goalkeepers don't exist abroad.

Chelsea are such a gift under Rosenior. Fucking priceless.

never change, bobby I wasn't at the game Saturday but funny enough I heard the same sentiment from two different matchgoers about the quality of the warm-up and disinterest shown by Wissa.

"Elanga - Might be shite" I might have a hole in my arse as well.

We certainly need to give the cunt Das Boot alright

£75m and a few add ons would be a great deal. Get the cunt down the autobahn

That massive pause in the interview when he asked if players are still committed isn't encouraging like.

I was at Ponteland airport yesterday, sat at the gate and there was four mackems stood round a phone watching the game, all suddenly started going mental and one shouted "it's 3-3". All back slapping and delighted and happy with themselves etc. Stood on the steps boarding the plane and the same lads were a few people behind me still watching, what I heard was "This could be 4-3 this, he's in, ah what a save!" *twenty seconds later* "Ah fuck"

It'll be bleak, this. I'm planning to neck enough beers in the sun beforehand that I'm too pissed to remember or concentrate on the match, hopefully negating the inevitable bad mood that comes following one of our games lately.

Obertan was at least cheap. This utter clown came at a premium price.

He's talking in extremes there. I don't think any of us want a Brendan's Swansea, "but we won the passing" type of team that just pass round their own half for the sake of it. But being able to retain the ball for a few minutes (particularly after scoring a goal or late in a game) or having the technical ability in the team for every game to not turn into a basketball match that we inevitably fall on the wrong side of would have probably seen us sitting about 15+ points better off and looking forward to Europe again next season. I've come to the conclusion that he has absolutely no interest in playing good football and he has a dislike, distrust or whatever of technically gifted players, unless they're a runner and a warrior too. We're basically lucky Bruno ticks both boxes or we'd have nothing of the sort and might even be in the relegation places this season without his intervention.

Was thinking this morning that maybe some of the lads are bored of being told to run all over the opposition every game. I guess when it's working well and we're winning games you don't question it, but when we've had a shitter of a season like this some of them will stop and think "surely there's more we can be doing than just running and pressing". I wish one of the journalists would really press him on this and ask him if he is still here in the summer, will he look for some more technically minded players? Because if the honest answer is no, I'm petrified of the sort of players he'll go and shell out on.

The club happily let him swan off to go and run round some pudding of a pitch in Mozambique or wherever despite him having barely trained in months, it should never have been allowed to happen.

Happy to be corrected here, but my recollection is we'd been linked with Elanga for 18-24 months prior to him actually signing and the only other serious link for a right winger last summer was Mbuemo, it leaked he was going to Man U and then we went and bought Elanga. In retrospect we could have gleaned that the only summer signing we seemingly got early and unopposed would indeed be absolutely chod as everyone else had him sussed as not worth £55m in a month of Sundays.

Cunha's first touch there

He'll have seen him running Burn a few times and been conned into thinking he could do that weekly.

We never did.