Pilko

Why are they falling over themselves to praise Suarez for putting in effort? He's been sub-par all night, the least you'd expect is effort ffs.

JP's voice when he said 'side netting!'

'lopsided' is their way of saying that we should be gutted we haven't got a boring, out of town flatpack stadium with fuck all charm or uniqueness about it

Neil Taylor http://qph.cf.quoracdn.net/main-thumb-2151042-200-wDKRYP26Cj3nuDEW2ydYzP7XMQRPHCSj.jpeg Lee Bienstock from The Apprentice USA http://www.teamgb.com/sites/default/files/styles/300_300/public/Neil%20Taylor.jpg

Suarez is such a cheating little bastard. I'd love to kick him in the face.

Two left backs? Capital idea Stuart.

Charlie Slater paying a visit to SJP on the left there.

amazing goal

gol brazil

Mexican waves after 13 minutes

Neymar had so much space there, went for the extravagant finish ffs.

I bet the Brazil sub goalie wouldn't cost much.

Nice work from the director there. Muse: "...fall asleep on the job" The shot is of a little bairn wearing ear protectors who has nodded off

:lol: Aye I suppose you can I suppose.

This regime has been here over five years man. How far back was this new rating system announced? I have no doubts that we're now putting more money and effort into the youth side of things than we were before and obviously that's commendable, but to say it's 'clearly Shepherd's fault' that we haven't met a new grading system is going way too far IMO. Unless it's judged on what players you've produced over the last ten years, which I doubt. They've had a lot to catch up on. I don't know how long the criteria has been out for, but we could have easily spent a lot of money improving the academy before we then were told of specific things that needed to be implemented to achieve the Category 1 status. Things I've heard from friends and friends of friends etc who were at the academy years ago (Dean Critchlow and others in the same academy years as him) aren't exactly incredibly complimentary of the Academy and some of the coaching. It was all about buying for the first team back then, spending big money on big name players if we could.

The parameters for the gradings have been out for some time Club should have positioned itself better We basically cannot attract the top youngsters to the club now for at least 2 years. Unacceptable tbh But if the league are taking this seriously, you surely can't just throw money at the problem and solve it within a short space of time. We've had a lot to catch up on, especially compared to Boro who have always had a really good academy. I know less about the mackems but I highly doubt it could have been much worse than ours under the Shepherd years. That sort of neglect takes a while to sort I'd imagine. It's not like the Keith Lard episode of Phoenix Nights where we can just blackmail our way to Cat 1 status.

I think it's embarrassing too but it's clearly Shepherd's fault. Ashley has invested a lot into the academy from what we've heard.

Probably just twitter/tribalfootball level speculation.

I thought it was Plan B but there you are.

I don't think I'll ever get bored of reading that. :lol: So fucking good.

We could still feasibly get the deal done this week **if** that report about an imminent improved bid is true, and the other noises about personal terms and that already being sorted are also accurate.

:lol: :lol:

This lass off Eastenders last night reminded me so much of Sammy. http://i.imgur.com/fiVYb.png

http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20120731/youth-and-second-string-fixtures-released_2281670_2866727

I really hope we get Ashley Williams in. Coloccini, Taylor, Williams and Williamson is a very strong looking pool of first team centre-backs; with Tavernier, Good, Perch and even Streete able to cover that.