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Tbf if you are looking for a goal Rivière is the last player you should be thinking of bringing on as he offers zero attacking threat and has no goalscoring instinct whatsoever.

2nd half is irrelevant after a 1st half performance like that. Carvers record now reads P12 W2 D3 L7 Thankfully the bottom 3 keep losing every week or it could have been a nervous end to the season.

Never been one to try to blame the crowd but I'm at the stage now where it's time to admit they are a big part of the problem. Look at what the Rangers fans did. Stayed away in their 1,000's, stopped buying merchandise, some even broke into the stadium and eventually they got the result they wanted. Compare that with our lot. Still fill the ground, buy the replica shirts and just sit there in silence and take all the sh*t Ashley throws at them. Rename the ground, aye no problem Only compete for the first half of the season, that's fine. Don't bother with the cups, well yes 10th place is much more important Continuously sell off the best players, that balance sheet trophy is vital Employ totally out of their depth managers, well he is a Geordie you know! Suppose some people deserve what they get. Shame for the others though.

Of course he can/will He'll class today as another "free" game so it doesn't really count.

I know people who have stopped going altogether because of the membership scheme. Their stance is if I'm not good enough to buy away tickets anymore or tickets against the Mackems I'm not going to turn up and fill the empty seats for the likes of Stoke. Tbf that'll also be me from next season,

Amazingly there's people there agreeing with the clubs stance saying it's for security reasons which is a load of b0ll0cks! The membership scheme was put in place simply to make the club more money by fleecing fans into paying for a membership to give them access to the biggest fixtures. If you buy a ticket on general sale they still take all your details so this safely/security excuse is a load of rubbish. Ironically, they're expecting a few thousand empty seats tomorrow, same as against Man Utd the other week so this members only policy has cost them around 5,000 empty seats or around 200 grand in 2 home games.

Hold on a minute Carver was perfectly happy with the squad in January and said he didn't need any new players brought in and now he says it was a huge error of judgement not to strengthen the squad. Sorry like but any supporter could have told them that selling Mbiwa and Santon and not replacing them was asking for trouble. The fact that Ashley, Charnley and Carver couldn't see that between the 3 of them is criminal. Sad thing is this promise of massive investment in the squad (which won't happen) will probably be enough to persuade a few thousand to go out and buy season tickets.

It's a complete farce. A Premier League club, Premier League as in the richest league in the world, going into it's next 3 games with only one available centre half and could be none if Williamson gets injured or sent off in that time. There's better organisation and planning in your average Sunday League team. A complete shambles thanks to the fat mans penny pinching.

Appeal rejected. Serves a 3 match ban.

Which is exactly the reason he'll get the job on a permanent basis at the end of the season.

I've got a Sky sports subscription which means I can watch it live and I'm still not sure I will. It's on BT.

Aye but Carver says that Ashley is sitting there kicking every ball so clearly he gives a f***. It does feel like he's personally kicking my balls of every minute of Carverball I watch to be fair. His "style" of football is pretty painful to watch like. Probably more painful than a kick in the nads. The lad who sits next to me walked out after half an hour on Saturday cos he just couldn't stand watching it any more.

Aye but Carver says that Ashley is sitting there kicking every ball so clearly he gives a f***.

I actually agree on this tbh. Last match there was four Man United fan's sat in front of me who struggle to control themselves as each goal went in. Stewards chucked them out. If it was open to all there would be thousands tonight. It was members only last season and clearly it didn't prevent away fans being in home sections as your experience shows. They could have sold tickets only to supporters with a purchase history as other clubs do for their bigger games. The membership scheme has always been about the club making more money off the back of declining season ticket sales. At first they only sold away tickets to people with a membership and it's slowly crept into the bigger home games as well. Hope there's 1000's of empty seats tonight.

Harsh on Mike tbh He is the sole reason we follow a totally pointless football club these days.

Probably a City fan tbf. If so, I don't think he would be allowed to referee a Man Utd game. Clattenburg and Michael Oliver don't do Sunderland games do they? No they don't. Doesn't really matter whether he supports Man Utd or not, a lot of his friends and family members will. Seems daft that they have the full country to pick a referee from and they go and choose one from Manchester.

Just noticed that the referee for tonight is from Manchester. Shouldn't really be allowed that.

He won't.

Everton away in the FA cup, 0-1 - Ian Rush scored for us. :lol: I was at that one. The only thing I remember about the day was leaving the ground after the match and finding out we'd drawn Stevenage in the next round.

Thought Cisse played well yesterday especially considering the complete plank he was asked to play alongside.

Thought it looked about right from my seat in the Gallowgate. About 300 empty seats in the Villa end and about another 300 spread over Level 7. The rest of the ground looked full, even the Platinum club looked chocka.

When he first went to Crystal Palace he was full of praise for their fans and the atmosphere they create. Now he's reduced to begging them to turn up to watch his team. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2967729/Crystal-Palace-struggle-sell-away-tickets-televised-Premier-League-match-West-Ham-Alan-Pardew-urges-fans-leave-sofa-one.html

NUFC.com were saying over 50,000 had been sold for the Villa match by Wednesday morning. beat me to it, nearly a sell out apparently. I turned down a free ticket today as well. I'll stay in the bar. Staggering really. Blind loyalty or blind stupidity.