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I’ve never wanted or agree with VAR fullstop. Adds a bit of drama for the neutral though.

Fair do’s.

Honestly, the decisions where a line has to be drawn through several players looking for an errant toe or knee I’d consider onside. The offside VAR fundamentalists can fuck off.

Yeah it’s offside in VAR land, I think people get pissed off with its employment on marginal decisions where the human eye doesn’t pick it up and even several slo-mo replays and lines drawn are barely conclusive. It’s not what VAR was intended for.

Jesus fuck drinking out the bottle? Surely not.

Swap him out with Joelinton, at least he can hold the ball up and bring others into play. Bruno/Shelvey/Willock in midfield.

Must admit I’m getting a little bored of watching him run around and challenge for headers. Yes he works hard but it’s quite excruciating.

The badge changes are so minimal they’re barely noticeable although after comparing the before and after several times the new design looks a bit ‘fresher’ in my opinion. Either way, I prefer this to a radical redesign into some generic ‘circle crest’.

Just buy everything on Barrack Rd, student flats, business school etc. and promise to build them replacement state of the art facilities elsewhere in the city. Move the pitch across and free up space to develop the East Stand. Re-route traffic etc.

A plank of wood would have done better.

This is fucking gash so far, wish someone could get a grip of these games and show some leadership.

Porto Porto de Galinhas is lovely, went there a few years ago. I’m jealous.

If we stay up we’ll be fishing for similar targets next season. We might not be a match on the pitch yet but we will be competing for players.

We need to forget about pulling £40/50m CBs out of CL clubs in this window. Surely there is obtainable players that would improve us for a lot less. Leave the long pursuits until the summer and we know which league we are in.

It’s a risk, but all of these mooted January transfers are risks. He knows the PL and can score goals. I’ve always thought he’s a decent player. The risk is Burnley bring in Brereton-Diaz for £24m and he sets the PL alight whilst Wood scores 1 goal and we are relegated.

Took the £1bn takeover ‘war chest’ and spent £950m before season started. After 10 games in 17th place!!

As a left footer I always go out to the left first after the keeper so my childhood Subbuteo teams all had No2 at LB.

Got crushed in the Gallowgate v Sheff Wed, must have been a couple of years before Hillsborough. Absolutely packed, squashed against concrete barrier, could hardly breathe. Very scary, managed to push myself to safety at half time and got off the terrace. Standing wasn’t always fun.

He wouldn’t be anywhere near the top of my list for a relegation scrap. He’s been a great player but we need high energy, especially in midfield where we’ve lacked intensity. He’d need paired with a Tiote type figure and I don’t see where that player comes from. We are a target for all the big teams trying to offload their disastrous and profligate transfer business. This is a case in point.

Signing Ramsey would be putting us on the Everton track rather than Man City track. Avoid at all costs.

This is the reason we are going down, it doesn’t matter what improvements Howe may make individual errors are costing us goals every game. We’ve had 2 in the first 5 mins.

This is awful, can’t string 2 passes together.

Interesting discussion, it’s the location that’s hallowed for me not the current construction. I’d take a 60,000 modern ground that utilises innovative architectural planning to keep us at the same spot than a 75,000 super stadium on the outskirts of the city.

First went in mid-80s when the old wooden West Stand was still there, stood in the Scoreboard mainly then moved over to the Leazes around the time of Ozzy's team and was in the Leazes for Keegan's return against Bristol City and for the Pompey game. As the ground's changed so much I've got no real attachment to the current iteration, happy for them to tear it down and start again. Hopefully we can stay on the same site or a short move to Leazes Park.

Both (Fun88 and Castore) still on the website.