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He's hopeless but so are most of his teammates, manager, coaching staff, board of directors and owner. So he fits in well.

Exactly this. And that.

Great idea and a fantastic gesture from Widnes Vikings following on from what they did last year. Also a canny alternative for those still wanting to wear black and white stripes without a loan shark splashed on their chest. Another added bonus is the money goes to a great cause; http://www.widnesvikings.co.uk/news/article/48476/im-on-it-for-sir

We need goals right now, especially away from home and he'll score more than Mitrovic will so I think he's worth signing.

Sounds like the cart is finally getting bolted to the horse

So you want to move our main goal threat and top scorer by some distance further back down the pitch and away from the opposition goal? Total madness compounded by the fact that Wijnaldum, especially away from home has a tendency to go missing for long periods of games so playing him where you suggest would be suicidal. Thankfully even McClaren isn't stupid enough to do that.

Anyone thinking St James' Park is looking a bit tatty these days remember back to the old Gallowgate end bogs! 40 seconds in; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgnRNxZ8GTE&app=desktop

Don't want Gayle or Gomis, don't think they're good enough. Go all out for Remy now they've got Pato.

They were playing rush keeper as well. Darlow was in their half for 5 of the goals.

I heard they didn't even bother with goalposts and just put tracksuit tops down instead. They had Watmore stood in our goal the entire match and the little tinker kept making our goal bigger when no one was looking.

Well that sounds like a load of blatant lies. All local referees were busy with non-league games at 2pm on a Wednesday afternoon, that traditional kick off time. Yeah, most local referee's work full time and they have a number of midweek games at night time to referee in non-league football due to postponements from Christmas time. Aye but there weren't any non league games played last night.

Looks like Gomis is top of our strikers list now.

40 page thread (and counting) on this kick about over on RTG

I've got to be honest and say I couldn't care less about this. In fact I find it quite funny.

This 100%. Hardly the sort of character you want for a relegation battle.

Fair play to him though. A few people on here mentioned what a right tw*t Steve Harper was when out in public with a few stories of how arrogant he was. Thing with Shola is I've only ever heard what a top bloke he is off the football pitch. I wish him well, he's probably got a couple of years left in him playing at Championship level. In fact we might re sign him for our Promotion push next season.

I'd play him in that friendly against the mackems with the instructions to do what he wants.

Townsend on the left and Remy in place of Mitrovic and that looks quite interesting.

Obviously tongue in cheek but there'll be loads now who'll have that opinion for real, not being able to grasp that 8 years of chronic under investment has forced his hand and he'll now be sh*tting himself over the possibility of missing out on next seasons TV bonanza. Unfortunately for him, even if we do sign a striker, the manager he appointed to get the results needed clearly isn't capable of doing so.

We must be the unluckiest team in the world mind. We're tremendous every week but we always get beat. I'm confident our fortunes will change though when this horse we've all been waiting for gets stuck onto the cart.

Couldn't fault the players attitude either.

You will when Clattermole puts Wijnaldum out for the season with a neck high tackle.

Sky sources saying Leicester have turned down the chance to sign him on loan.

None of these so called better options have come in for him as yet and scoring 9 or 10 goals for us would surely give him more chance of going to the Euros than sitting on Chelsea's bench would. Puts himself in the shop window for the summer as well.

I think Remy's about the best we can hope for now. No £20m rated striker would touch us with a barge pole in our position and I suppose Remy would need to bang a few goals in to stand a chance of making Euro 2016 if nowt else.