GideonShandy

Lets all celebrate with a plate full of eggs, gorilla style Could invite Mrs. Beardsley. Just make sure they're very fuckin' runny.

Earned a £100,000 bonus for avoiding relegation, apparently.

Here's the Premier League version (see Section F beginning on page 121): https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/document/2020/04/17/049a315f-f4a8-4706-bcec-75ec9ddf7f73/2019-20-PL-Handbook-170420.pdf I think the argument would be that copyright infringement regarding unauthorized broadcast of games is an offence designated in Appendix 1, at page 483, which is disqualifying for a prospective director under rules F.1.6 and F.1.5.3 on page 121. I doubt it will be taken seriously.

This x1000. Schmeichel saves at one end, Cantona scores at the other. Week after week, must have been half a dozen 1 Nils to them after February. If we’d even drawn with them up here then it was our title - pisser. No. That would only have been a three point swing. They ended up ahead of us by four points with a better goal difference.

The players just can't do it guys. Nothing to do with my pitiful coaching. No one can ever convince me that these players simply cannot do better with the ball than 33% possession every game. Even struggling to keep the ball and control the game against Oxford?! Tin hat on, but there's truth in what Bruce is saying. Almiron and ASM are good at running with the ball, not good at hanging on to it or releasing it accurately or at the right time. We rely a lot on those two being able to get past opponents, and open up defences that way. Joelinton is different. We use him as a pivot to the attack, in the same way as Rondon or Mitrovic. At holding the ball up, he's better than Mitrovic, but not as good as Rondon. So yes, altogether, the front three are not good at linking with the rest of the team and that affects the way we play. And I imagine that Bruce will think twice before confiding in Redknapp again. Very much doubt he was "confiding" in Redknapp. Deliberately getting his excuses out there by telling them to a media person.

Rover's Return

Bumped in sympathy for Mr. Madley.

The brilliantly-entitled "Dogawful Premier League Officiating" thread owes its name to him.

The non-jinky one. RIP.

His record at Newcastle is better than Rafa, so far. Premier league games. Rafa: 102 points from 86 games -- 1.19 points per game Cabbage Heed: 12 points from 11 games -- 1.09 points per game This doesn't count the Championship-winning season

In the last 16 league games of last season we scored 26 goals, which was more than all but five other teams. In the last 28 games we got 42 points -- the best record outside the top 6. Then Bruce arrived.

It'll be sort of a relief when the Bruce/Ashley fanboys can no longer roll out the fatuous line that "We're doing better than at this stage last season under Rafa."

In the season when we nearly won the Premier League, Leicester were playing in League 1. We were light years ahead of them in terms of finances, support, size of stadium, performance on the field, and everything else. Ashley arrived after the 2006-07 season, when we had just finished 13th in the Premier League, and Leicester had finished 19th in the Championship -- still miles ahead of them by every measure. In 2010, Leicester were acquired by new owners, not significantly wealthier than Ashley. Now, as a result of good management by them and gross mismanagement by Ashley, they have joined the list of clubs that we "can't compete with."

It's so obvious from his post-game interview that he just doesn't have a clue. We lost because we "didn't do enough," "needed to show a bit more than what we did," and "needed to do a bit more than what we did." He scorns "all this nonsense about tactics and this, that and the other." And his solution is to "roll wuh sleeves up, go back to the training ground and try and do the basics better." After Rafa, it's so demoralizing to hear this level of know-nothing vacuous rubbish coming from the man supposedly in charge of masterminding our season.

The bookies reckon there aren't any worse than us, and based on the evidence of the season so far, they're right.

Called them into training yesterday to work on pulling up their socks first Whoah, Whoah, Whoah! Slow your horses mate, they've got to put their boots on first, if they don't he'll not forgive them! Pre-game instructions for next Saturday 1. Put on boots. 2. Pull up socks 3. Roll up sleeves 4. Spread oot 5. Get stuck in

In trouble for simulation again. www.givemesport.com/1497856-aleksandar-mitrovic-could-face-a-twogame-ban-after-disgraceful-playacting-v-huddersfield

BBC (McNulty) predicting that we'll finish 20th. www.bbc.com/sport/football/49236095 Last year he predicted 18th.

Not sure you've got your geography quite right here, tbh.

Eh how can you say that Mike is his best mate now he wouldn't lie to him "he's been as straight as a die with me" Str88888888 as a banana, tbh.

Very good

Negative net spend on transfers during Rafa's tenure, according to this chart. www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F7b3027a0-96b5-11e9-872e-73f33f6fa5f5.png?crop=3000%2C2000%2C0%2C0&resize=996

Emre still playing international football at age 38. And an Icelandic jokester takes the piss by pushing a bog brush at his face instead of a microphone. www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jun/10/turkish-government-accuses-iceland-of-disrespecting-national-team-footballers-airport-euro-2020-qualifying

On the Ninth of June. In the afternoon.

"Now Sunderland know where they stand, it is time to push ahead with plans for next season. While things have been tentatively put in place in recent weeks and months, much has had to hang on whether the Black Cats would be in the 2019-20 Championship or League One. Luton Town, Barnsley, Huddersfield Town, Cardiff City and Fulham have had a head-start in their preparations for the new surroundings, but at least the Black Cats have got there. So what are the big issues to get to grips with if this latest spell in the second tier is not to be as short-lived as the last? Chairman Stewart Donald has never made any secret of his desire to inject extra investment in the Championship. They will have a budget to tread water in the division, but that is not what they came up for. Not that the second-tier is usually decided by money in the bank, but this was only the fifth-best team in League One last season – it needs strengthening.Before a signing has been made this summer, Sunderland’s wage bill stands at £18m. . . . That is not ridiculous as it was in League One, but there is still fat that they will want to trim." Etc., etc. Oops.