Neil

Me and you will sort out a nice little earner for ol' Ritchie, eh? Give him a slice of our luck. It's only fair, really. We can't all be so good at this.

Yeah, don't listen to Jonny. He's proper crap at this betting malarky.

It's 10 yellow cards, but it's time for a Brucie Barton Bonus, so Joey's banned. Forever.

Well, since you ask...

Since he's a decent player, he probably will.

Hopefully Pardew won't utter any sort of points target, be it in public or in private with the team. More than anything else, this season's unpredictability means it's hard to accurately forecast what will be required. Just concentrate on picking up points and see where they get you.

How the mighty have fallen.

Well he can enjoy his riches in the many conveniently positioned Greggs shops in the town centre.

I have this nasty feeling you'll struggle. West Ham, although of course generally under pressure, may not be under as much as they were 2-3 weeks ago and will hope the Geordie faithful grow restless. That, combined with results against a similar standard of opposition this year at home means I'm going with 2-2.

"Givet with the long ball forward, flicked on by Emerton, Diouf stands on the keepers' toes and Ronaldinho bundles it in! What a goal!"

I do like a good SMF connection problem or two.

Just realised, won't it be for a fee and immediate? Last time I checked, you're not a foreign club. Probably something shit like £2m and a pack of ready salted.

Well, it became pretty much inevitable he was going to leave, so I'm not surprised at all if this news is true. Have to question how committed he'll be for the rest of the season if he isn't going until the summer.

"What is this structure I see before me!?"

Only Mark Bright could turn the Huddersfield goal from earlier into "poor closing down".

Getafe vs. Real later could be decent.

What an astronomical twat.

Danny Graham's fucking banging them in all over the shop.

Haven't heard about him for a while... aye, whaling disaster.

Fwiw, just to stick my nose in; considering he's a fan of your fiercest (I think!?) rivals, I'd say Wearside's been very fair with his contributions. Decent banter.

Ah yes the old "best fans in the world" line that's actually only mentioned by the media and fans of other clubs about us. We never say it but they keep harping on about it. I'd take it as a compliment. It isn't self-named but it's quite clear the media, twats they may be who insist it's some sort of tag you gave yourselves, know that you actually do have an excellent and committed fan base.

Legend.

Maybe not, but iirc Sky were rather fond of him.

He can't understand you, man. Try again. ARE YOU.... YOU... HATEM.... HATEM BEN, ARFAAA?

This. Perhaps Wearside could inform us to the average Sunderland fans opinion on those comments br Bruce, if that had been the other way around i don't think there would have been many Newcastle fans happy with those comments. I remember those comments, felt quite embarrassed for Sunderland. First of all, a couple of weeks after the derby, saying something like "well, I'm not counting down the days or anything, but in 65 days we need to get our revenge", and then shortly after that, openly saying you were their benchmark. Oh, let's not forget his pièce de résistance: criticising Newcastle for, er, celebrating a 5-1 thrashing of your local rivals.