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Rarely bother with this thread or how Sunderland are doing in general but weren't they fighting for the playoffs at one point earlier this season?

They're only best if the rest though via a bit of a false position. Same with Man Utd.

The thing that gives me confidence with regards to our away record is that in 24 it's not been that bad. Won 4/7 with losses to Arsenal, Palace, and painfully now Chelsea. We've just been and battered a team away from home and I suspect the players will be well up for the Man Utd game.

It's that sort of thing that makes me think he's not going to be leaving. He clearly loves it here.

Haha

Yeah I saw that on MOTD. Commentator mentioned it and then they didn't show it in the replay.

Don't back down, double down. This is the internet. And it's Froggy.

Also that was never a penalty but then Gordon has won a number of penalties that I don't think were so who am I to argue?

Commentator speaking absolute bollocks there. Saying refs should just give penalties so they can be reviewed rather than not. Then goes on to say "yeah it looked like havertz was playing for it but it wasn't an obvious error from the ref". Just think about the implications of what you're saying FFS.

But I'm actually quite confident about this. Feel like we'll turn up.

Fixed your post.

Could easily see Man Utd not getting anything until maybe the Brighton game. Us and Chelsea have somewhat comparable run ins. They're probably our biggest threat. Our GD could end up being the difference as a draw from us equals a Chelsea win.

Waiting for Brighton?

We'd not get a great amount for Trippier anyway. Worth keeping around to see out his career here I think. He has the underlying quality even if we'll need to start managing his minutes.

Arteta outside of his box. Red card the fucker.

Cfs summing up of VAR; Just fucking give the goal. They're taking about players arses now.

That's the sticking point really. He isn't entitled to do that. At least not a comparable job with a business rival. If he wanted to go shelf stack at the local supermarket I'm sure we'd let him but he'd still be subject to the not working for our rivals clause.

Us: You signed a contract until 2026. Him: But you didn't really mean that did you? I think is probably the extent of his argument.

It's pretty schoolboy stuff. If you try and tempt an employee from a rival you make sure you're in a position to actually get them. Either because you know their contract is shortly over or because you've agreed terms to release them early. Or you do whatever it is Man Utd are doing.

It'll be considerably more common for employment law to be applied at the executive level. I suspect the relevant part of his contract is you are with us until 2026 and you may not work for a rival before that time without our permission. And we are under no obligation to release him from that contract. The fact we are where we are suggests to me Ashworth is fucked and probably knows it. He expected Man Utd to pay what they needed to and he'd be over there already. Now he's looking at losing 2 years of his career and it's self inflicted.

Brighton now 11th with a negative goal difference.

I'm assuming Livramento was injured to not even make it off the bench. Hall I agree. Should be getting minutes given who else is available. Karius I think would disrupt what little cohesion we have at the back which given we are at the final games is too much of a gamble.

Looking forward to the daily countdown on Bruno's window.

I think that's something you can train to a degree. He'll not be one of those players who just instinctively knows what to do but he can certainly improve.

I don't know his contract but the fact it's gone on this long suggests he's stuck with us until the end date. Whether what we are asking for to mutually agree to end the contract early is realistic or not I don't think is relevant.