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Really like Craven Cottage, watched Ben Arfa smash one in there even though we lost. Was worth it for one of his thunderbastards

Fulham away is just fine. It’s a joke that we’re away but I think we’ll beat them. We’ll want it more than them by a distance

I find it hard to get worked up about this sort of stuff. This sort of off-field politics is something I just want to ignore. I spent most of my life trying to avoid actual politics but you just can’t given that it affects each and every one of us but there’s no way I’ll ever care about this sort of shit

Don’t get me wrong, I’d absolutely love to get Ritchie, Hendrick, Hayden or Manquillo off the books properly but I can’t see it happening with any of them. Do we even know what the situation is with how much wages we’re covering for Hayden or Hendrick?

Selling a non-first teamer? We trying to scrabble together £100,000 - £500,000 worth of player sales?

Don’t think Howe would have sold Murphy when he was fit, might be wrong but the amount he’d bring in would be pretty small fry and he’s a dedicated pro. That’s the problem with many of our squad pre-2022. They barely have any value so it’s hard to shift them and bring in new players due to FFP

Got to take the league into account massively but he’s clearly an extremely exciting player and plays in a position we’re pretty much weakest in

Good luck Tony

For a team that’s not throwing lots of money around, the model is working to an extent. Buying in young players who don’t quite make the grade for first team football (coming through the academies of top tier clubs) is a decent plan but one that I think won’t result in promotion unless it’s married with bringing in experienced players too. Will be interesting to see how Sunderland progress. @TeddySAFC in terms of yearly revenue and profit that can go towards bringing in players, do you know what sort of shape you’re in?

Arteta will be so fucking funny to watch when they properly fall away in the league

I work with a few mackems who are good lads, love their club and go in for some friendly ribbing. I’ve always felt like Sunderland have it pretty rough, clearly in Newcastle’s shadow as a city by every metric going so I don’t take that much pleasure in rubbing it in their faces. The rivalry no longer even feels like a proper rivalry given the difference in quality between the two footballing sides

A replay here would be a joy to behold

How is Havertz such a clogger?

Brighton - Palace takes the prize for the oddest rivalry

Win the FA cup by a distance

Watching the game yesterday without VAR was great. Even if it counted against us, it was so much more enjoyable to watch a game without delays and uncertainty. You could remain absorbed for the whole game

Why do they hate each other so much. So much anger and hate

Fair play, just wanted to check you were doing ok

You’re throwing round a bit of anger in your posts recently, Stifler or at least that’s how it feels reading it. Is that a fair judgement or do you not see it that way?

That’s the thing though, he’s a valuable squad player and for where we are right now he is an important first team player a lot of the time but if you look at Howe’s first 11 (omitting Tonali as he’s still an unknown really, having not found form for us before his ban) then the three immediately identifiable weaknesses that can be upgraded on are - Burn Longstaff Almiron Is Hall Burn’s replacement? Not remotely clear. Is Tonali Longstaff’s replacement, yes most likely. Almiron doesn’t have a replacement yet

Utterly shocking set pieces and intent to get the ball in the box

Spawny bastards getting lucky in the FA cup too

“That’s a penalty all day long” Dion would give a penalty for someone farting on someone else

Howe and Tindall are essentially Good Cop, Bad Cop

This was the right game for Burn and it was token minutes at the end so I don’t care. I would like to see him get some proper minutes soon though, as much for his development as anything else. Would be good to see him start in the next round