Happinesstan

Correct. Our squad is full of players who can raise their game to a level that MIGHT keep you in the PL if you played consistently.

Aye. Shelvey might be influential, but he's not a leader.

Seem to remember them beating us 5-1 at home one year.

FAB

Aye. Howe is only interested in improving the players. Lampard, and Gerrard it seems, are only interested in players maintaining THEIR reputation.

I notice it's getting more and more difficult to come up with shite teams. Realistically, from that team, there is only Gayle and Darlow that I would worry about being in the team. Yes, Krafth at CB is dodgy.

Didn't say there was an issue between Germany and SA.

Imagine the questions in relation to the Saudi regime, if we signed a German player. If I was German I'd avoid us like the plague.

No wonder they protested. Horrible bunch.

Looking like two groups at the bottom now. bottom 4 fighting relegation. 10th-16th battling it out for tenth place. Obviously that can still change. Haven't looked at the top of the table.

I've got to be honest, judging a player's character negatively, based on the fact they sit on Barcelona's sub bench, seems a tad misguided.

Nicely edited out the bit about what their intentions are. It's not to improve your enjoyment of the game.

They were fishing to chnge the game to 2 30 mins with clock stopped for all stoppages, this will help the achieve their goal of maximum advertising opportunities. Easiest way to get what you want, these days is to drive your customers to complain about the service you no longer want to continue.

was it not a beach ball?

That's my point. No way we go to the PL and say can you OK this £100 million deal.

Can't see us announcing any sponsorship deals until safety is confirmed. Would anybody, realistically, begin negotiations before that? Being a confirmed PL club puts you in a much stronger negotiating position.

Just sitting here thinking how cool it would be to qualify for the CL with a transfer spend of zero. Obviously I'm imagining they all come because they just want the opportunity to play for the world famous Geordies, and not the salary.

Seems to be a lot of talent available on free transfers. The 'Project' might well tempt 5-6 of them to get on board.

The worst thing about football in the modern world is it's transformation from a sport, to an entertainment.

"They don't allow bacon, you say? That's barbaric!"

Johnny Giles

To be fair, we always get a performance out of him, it's just that sometimes it's not his scene. He needs to learn to allow others to take centre stage, when the script calls for it. It's not essential for the next couple f seasons, but if we are going to be a top team, with Max as a big part of that, then he needs to be able to take a back-seat without any fuss. I'm not saying he's difficult, he seems too happy to be that, but he seems to struggle after missing out. I'm certain this is something that can be improved upon, and Howe seems to provide a healthy environment for such development. If he does that in the next two years we'll be singing his name for years to come. Give him a full pre-season under Howe before we judge him, I think.

Oh aye. But if we had two players that can play either wide or inside it gives us flexibility.

If Raph is a natural 10 then we could play two 10s that can also exploit the width. Raph and Lingard, behind the striker. Backed up by a midfield trio, with natural width from the WBs

The best joke Viz ever did was a 3 picture strip. 1st pic: A clown asks a skinhead, in the circus audience, if he is the front end of a donkey, and the skinhead replies "No" 2nd pic: Clown asks "Are you the back end of a horse?" Again the skinhead replies "No" 3rd pic Clown says "then you must be no end of an ass" to which the skinhead says "Fuck off, you red nosed cunt!"