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Rules changed, it's why there's only one player in the centre now, no need for 2.

The avatar It's all coming up Ritchie.

He's basically Patrick Bateman.

The look he just gave after missing that chance

People do have things they need to do like

Wew

'kin hell Poland, that play way beautiful. Rapid as out.

Just the 40 yards Ron, why not.

Praise the Welsh. Hopefully they go all the way.

Don't say sorry because I love you to pieces you sexy little Englander. Sexy American

Portugal odds are so bad, wish I'd seen Polands before they'd scored, still 8/11 now.

Just spent 5 minutes trying to think who the fuck Mickey Owen was

Ahh god the back shield. 'Innovation' in football shirts needs to fuck right off.

Was more that the Spurs fans who'd watched every game he'd played for them said, to the effect, "tallented player but absolutely thick as fuck." He'd also never played on the left wing as far as I'm aware.

That didn't happen though. I was keen to give the lad a chance and not hold where he came from against him, very small time mentality iyam... And for a couple of games looked a decent rotational pick... However that became progressively worse as it went on. I can only apologise for not instantly disliking him because he played for Sunderland, I'll not be open minded ever again. I tried to give riviere the same chance (because I have been accused for not giving players a chance because of the being 'forrin') but my patience ran out after 2 games People still down on English players and Townsend suffered from that, Ritchie won't get the same due to Rafa being the man bringing him in but had this been a mcClaren signing shit would have hit the fan, same with Gayle. I've said for years now we need more English players who give a shit about the club, see us as a big club and want to play for us, not treat us as a stepping stone... But they do need to be the right quality as well. We've just not struck the right balance, I think rafa sees this from the off and I expect to see more domestic players come in than foreign, which would be typically strange for a foreign manager. This is during a time when people effectively hated the club tbf I think if Rafa had signed him (knowing he has full control) it'll have been a lot different, you're right. McClaren bought him as a left winger too iirc, the dolt. EDIT: Not sure people would be complaining about Gayle and Ritchie regardless of manager mind, not in the Championship anyway. The main issue back when we signed Townsend on the whole was our squad was shite and everyone was convinced we were getting relegated. Ritchie and Gayle would get into most sides in the Championship though and it feels like our squad will be the strongest down there.

The cheek of TT after he vehemently licked Colback's hoop ffs

Should have tweeted a picture of a stool and noose the ABSOLUTE BASTARD.

Be taking this to court if I was Fenham like.

What's your opinion on Ritchie based on? Genuine question btw, you seen a lot of him? What I've seen and read about him, not geet loads but then again I don't support Bournemouth - probably similar to anyelse who watches the Premiership fairly regularly. Am I not allowed to think that, were we still in the Prem, we wouldn't be buying him for £10-12m or something because I'm not a scout, and I haven't been monitoring him since he was at Pompy Yoof? As I said I hope he turns out to be the best winger ever, I'm just saying there's no chance we'd be paying that for him if we'd stayed up. We really only have 1 chance to come up though (if we're to keep Rafa) we cannot afford to gamble with bairns or forrins, we need players who've proven themselves in English football - you're always going to pay a premium on that. Dont be so touchy man, was genuinely interested to know. I know nowt about him, other than what I've read on here. Agree with the rest of the post. Let's just hope he's as good as they fee suggests, let's agree on that. Sorry mate Just seemed like what I'd said originally had been blown way out of proportion a bit is all. As a Championship player he seems a great signing, I'm just looking at 10-12m, along with whatever else we spend, and the TV money we lose out on, and feel bad about what we could be doing in the Prem with Rafa. The silver lining is that players like Ritchie and whoever else we sign will add some meat to our squad if we come back up, something we've lacked for about a decade. Maybe even a bit of fight in them.

Avoidable? that's what I was looking for, aye.

What's your opinion on Ritchie based on? Genuine question btw, you seen a lot of him? What I've seen and read about him, not geet loads but then again I don't support Bournemouth - probably similar to anyelse who watches the Premiership fairly regularly. Am I not allowed to think that, were we still in the Prem, we wouldn't be buying him for £10-12m or something because I'm not a scout, and I haven't been monitoring him since he was at Pompy Yoof? As I said I hope he turns out to be the best winger ever, I'm just saying there's no chance we'd be paying that for him if we'd stayed up. We really only have 1 chance to come up though (if we're to keep Rafa) we cannot afford to gamble with bairns or forrins, we need players who've proven themselves in English football - you're always going to pay a premium on that.

My opinon on Townsend was based on his time at Tottenham and what the Tottenham fans thought about him, he was great for us the 6 months he was here but lets not go over the top about it, aye? I hope I'm wrong about Richie too, aye, whatever that means. Hopefully he turns out to be the best winger ever.

Lovejoy, I like Townsend and on reflection £12m looks good business, not really sure what this has to do with us signing Matt Ritchie in the Championship though? Are are we just going to mention him every time we probably pay over the odds for a player (which we are here imo, but we need to because of how badly we've fucked up)? £10-12m for Ritchie is not a signing I would be expecting a Premiership club trying to achieve anything to make*, unless there's little else out there and they really need a right winger. That's all I'm saying, this relegation has cost us so much and was completely unavoidable. *Obviously Leicester throw any argument like this out of whack, but yee kna.

Because Townsend would violate the Championship Ritchie is a signing to get us out of the Championship and potentially settle us back into the Premiership, he likely isn't going to tear the league up if we return.

Aye, I think it's a really good signing for a Championship club, I just cringe thinking about what we could be doing if we never got ourselves pointlessly relegated. It's not even if's and buts, we effectively went down for the craic