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Spoilsport. I was going to use my birthday thread to put myself LB.

That house looks fucking great. Look at all those windows! Must be ten or fifteen bedrooms at least, plus two chimneys means at least two fireplaces. Mint.

All of them. Dammit, that was a chance for one of my all-time fave gifs (Gary Oldman).

Sounds like a great idea, also sounds like a recipe for war . Edit: in the Balkans I mean. The North Sea stuff was mooted a while back to include Celtic/Rangers.

That was mint in the end. I'm just annoyed me and the wife didn't get to watch it in the pub - we were at the in-laws instead. I thought we (USA, just to be clear) were exhausted at the beginning of the second when Germany really started pressing: luckily they couldn't shoot for shit and then Alex Morgan decided to wake up. We've got a July 5th party coming up - local fireworks are next door, plus the wife is 40 on July 4th. England in the Final as well would be fantastic.

Best English shirt so far tbh You can't say anything until you've seen it with a sponsor. Makes the world of difference.

Playing really well. Just keep Rapinoe on those two and there'll be a red sooner or later (as long as the ref doesn't completely bottle it).

Jesus, lads . When does the footy start again?

...like Newcastle Utd?

He'd not lived up to the hype at all - Chelsea buying him was a weird decision. A Mourinho/agent special.

Southgate fucked up royally by taking Moore and Gibson, but leaving Dier at home.

Well a perma-crock is the last thing you need, right enough. I guess your best approach is to buy 4-5 first team players and use the players they replace as depth, rather than just buy squad players. I just find your CB position a bit scary .

I'm genuinely not trolling! Is he that shit? I mean, worse than Williamson?

I don't remember seeing him play, but wouldn't that be a decent pick-up, given the price and the state of your defence?

It's even more complex than that. Poch supposedly wants fullbacks who love pushing on to give width up front. Naughton is gone, Dier should only be a CB, and the feeling is that Walker is now a perma-crock and his injuries have completely compromised his game. Most of us thought Yedlin was a great shout, but the rumour is that he has been embarrassingly bad in training. Yet he looked excellent against Sydney (yeah, I know). We have two really tasty-looking young RBs as well - Fredericks (Middlesbrough loan) and Kyle Walker-Peters (believe it or not). I'm guessing that we try to get money for Walker, Trippier becomes the RB, Yedlin stays as backup/cup player. Fredericks stays on loan. I'm also guessing that most of you couldn't give a fuck .

The price isn't the problem. It's that PL clubs don't want to take a risk on these players. Rather bring in an established name, usually foreign. They just don't get the game time. It's taken literally Superman performances for Kane to get into the Spurs first team. JWP is a regular for S'hampton. Apart from Ings & Jenkinson (who looked good when he came on), the rest of the squad would struggle to accumulate 100 PL appearances. Look at us, rather spend £10m on Dost than Bamford. We have a risk averse managerial culture here in England. Few managers would do a Wenger and give the likes of Chambers so many games. I agree on the whole, but you can't really point a finger at Spurs. Dier, Mason, Kane and Townsend have all had plenty of time with us.

Whaaaaat?! Loftus-Cheek, Chalobah, Ward Prowse and Will Hughes are good players man! Ward-Prowse is good. Will Hughes isn't a centre midfielder is he? More attacking I thought? Don't watch the Championship so don't know much about the other two. The rest of the positions they have good premier league players so I would say central midfield is weak compared to the rest of the team Tom Carroll will play CM, you dopey bastards .

They are pretty good at weightlifting IIRC, although II also RC, they dope like fuck.

I also think this. Or one of the top 4 away, of course. Televised. You guys always say this, yet you've now been at home four of the last five seasons. We're away. Again. That's now five in a row, and two in a row when we've been away for the final fixture too. It would piss me off more if I was still a season ticket holder, but it still grates.

I hope you didn't say that two years ago.

You got shown more than us this year . It's not that funny. Yous have been s*** an arl Well it's all relative, I suppose.

You got shown more than us this year .

Must...not...make...obvious...joke....

I'm hoping that it's too early to tell. Conditioning and fitness have clearly improved - we have one of the best injury records in the division for the first time I can remember. He has shown some faith in youth - we have comfortably the youngest first team in the Premier League. The one might well have led to the other. In certain games, we have looked terrific: the home games against Arsenal, Chelsea and Everton were excellent. We simply outplayed Arsenal, and took Chelsea apart. You could argue that the emergence of Kane baled (arf) him out, but Poch did coach Kane, picked him (eventually), and built the team around him. There are just too many issues to ignore, however. He persisted with several players who were clearly out of form/ability/position/energy. He saw what worked so well tactically against Arsenal, and ditched it (and Dembele along with it). We were poor for long periods - not all that surprising given the number of young players. Substitutions were mixed, at best. We let in loads of goals, and I think much of this is down to issues in front of the defense. IIRC, he had similar problems at Southampton. Ultimately, he finished 5th. Our spend is 6th, therefore you could argue we're slightly above par, and this was his first season with somebody else's squad. We spent pretty much nothing in the Summer, and pretty much nothing in January, so we have plenty of money available and plenty of dead wood to clear out. Next year will be the test. On face value, he has been fairly successful, but some of the specific decisions he has made have been unfathomable. That's our major concern.

He is. We were amazed that we sold him rather than loaned him, although there is a rumour that we have a buy-back clause of sorts.