Happinesstan

When does a transfer story involving us ever happen?

I was dubious about this since we seem to have a surplus of wingers but it seems like a very sensible signing, very much representative of Rafa's philosophy. He'll most likely replace Murphy for the most part which, given his current form seems crazy. But I'm certain Rafa understands that Murphy is still young, still developing and therefore shouldn't be squeezed for every last drop of goodness, just yet.

Torres??

He'll massively increase Joselu's missed chances.

Our tactics today were to win the ball back in our own half, and counter-attack, but Swansea screwed it up by constantly giving us the ball in their own half.

Should be ahead. But we could easily be a goal and a man down, so it's all porno.

This is exactly what will happen and we can all see it a mile off. So frustrating when we can't do anything about it. At this rate, we're going to get relegated and all the hard work done by Rafa/players in the Championship has been for nothing. That's not being dramatic, it's just very realistic. I wouldn't be so sure, at this current rate we would stay up given our points tally/form. Another couple of wins and we would all start feeling very confident of staying up. I don't think we're getting relegated this year personally, new signings or not. If we however start flogging key players like Shelvey, that's when I'd start to question our chances a bit more. At the current rate we are just safe, in fact if we hadn't scored that goal against Stoke we would currently be in the bottom 3.

If and when Rafa goes, he will take a large selection of the match going fans with him. Surely Ashley knows this? Ashley doesn't care. If he could he'd get rid of Rafa and the Fans at the same time. No doubt about it. He's already thinking about a giant sports direct sign to replace the east stand seating.

Away to Rochdale.

No, no, that's not my point. I'm talking about Rafa's 5 mil, 10mil, 20mil striker theory. No such thing as a 15Mil striker. Rafa either sees him as a 20mil striker and is selling him cheap, or he's a 10mill striker and is getting a good price.

I doubt that Ashley is pitching the club as "A Premier League side that possibly might go down this season". So improving our chances of survival shouldn't change his asking price at all. Good point. But once this financial year ends he'll likely have an extra £100million on the books.

So, if our premiership status is confirmed. AS will value the club at higher than she does currently. Let's hope Ashley doesn't do the same.

Don't enjoy being a spelling Nazi, but ffs if you can't spell OTT.

Minute in and Shelvey trying to score from a corner, fuck off. Also Perez's pass that led to the corner was the sort of pass that we never try enough.

£2000 for a fecking crème egg. That says it all.

Teenagers shouldn't have kids to be honest, and it should never be used as an excuse.

Maybe he was simply addressing his own homophobic preconceptions. " If I had 2 gay sons I'd question my archaic views on homosexuality".

Mickey Quinn shouldn't even be driving if he's drunk, never mind overtaking.

Eh! Are you saying that thinking he should have been rested, to avoid an unpredictable injury, is forgetting that unpredictable injuries happen in football?

Doug Stanhope mentions it in one of his rarer vids. Can't believe we have signs in the toilets asking us not to assault ambulance drivers.

The cunt will walk straight back into punditry.

Brilliant from the lad today. We really needed him. Hopefully boost his confidence.

Fucking tremendous performance all round. Happy New Year.

Players half-arsed tracking back, nobody willing to take responsibility in the middle of the park, half arsed casual passing, aimless hoofs rather than thinking about it and an obvious lack of movement up top. Those boos are kinda justified imo. A lot of these are not down to not working hard - some ability and many not being able to handle the pressure or not having the balls to take risks. They should be rousing themselves to get over the pressure and should find the balls to take those risks. I’ve been critical of the crowd a lot in the past and Saturday p*ssed me off at times too but I think the players not having it within themselves to shake off such fear was bordering into the lazy department. It’s game of football, not a war zone. If you can’t, at some point, find the courage to take risks and drop any fear of making a mistake in front of a big crowd then why are you in football? But then that’s the problem with the state of the game in regards to average/poor players at this level being on massive money, that then becomes a comfort zone. We have a very young team and it's nothing new, we suffered with the same issues last season. SJP is clearly a hard place to play football for our team when we aren't winning. The mental side of things is very complicated, what you are saying is akin to telling someone with depressing to just man up - it's a lot more complicated than that. Obviously I wouldn’t think of telling someone with depression to man up but I know what your saying. The thing is the support has been good at times this year. Granted not all the time and there’s still that whingey element but I think SJP used to be a lot, lot worse between late SBR era up till 2008. There’s always good support from the Gallowgate end now. A lot of fans are singing there hearts out non-stop and I can’t believe the players can’t hear it, towards that side of the pitch anyway. It’s there to feed off. There wasn’t any disssent at the beginning of the game v Brighton and I thought we looked nervous from the off. The mental side is complicated I agree. But this is what they’ve trained for & strived for. Playing in front of a crowd has been factored into their careers more and more through their development. It’s not like they’ve only just began to play in stadiums. There was too much of an acceptance that we weren’t going to win from the players, to me, whatever the reason. There aren't that many players who can play, week in week out, in front of 50000. Most can play happily in front of 30000, and can raise their game for the trips to the big clubs. When we completed the extension we were an ambitious club who were prepared to pay the premium required for such players. Now we buy cheap and expect them to raise their game every week.