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Damn, yeah that's madness. They were always one of the 'bigger' clubs of Dutch football in my mind. Is that due to Ajax's domination, or the limited number of CL spots assigned to the league?

Quality. They're going to train where most of the Newcastle Untied Women's and Foundation train. This is the only part of Sunderland AFC I feel sorry for, as they've had nothing but the (Ellis) short end of the stick for a long, long time. First the FA simply ignored their application to the WSL as they were too far north, there's no lies behind this. It's straight up the case. They had the funding, the success, the players, the set up, but were too far North. All the other teams in the first season of the WSL were Southern based with Merseyside the furthest North. Once that happened all the players thay had (sort of) trained over the years went elsewhere (basically Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City). However, it can't be ignored that Sunderland's Women team benefited greatly from NUFC's own stupid management of the women's team. The amount of talented players the Foundation had to signpost to Sunderland was insane, as that's where the development centre was based. We didn't have any of that (and still don't). Still, utter gash from SAFC to dump the women's team on their arse like this. They lost a lot of goodwill from the few sunderland fans I know due to the treatment of the women.

We didn't get anyone sent off against West Ham

Imagine if Ritchie had been sent off. 3 out of 4 games a red card.

FA to invest in time travel so they can retro-retroactively suspend Matt Ritchie for his crime.

If they win the League Trophy they've been promised an entire Gregg's Caramel Donut to share.

Steve Stone didn't even have his level 2 when he first joined, man. Seriously? Aye, utter joke. That's why he worked with the reserves and that as he wasn't allowed on the bench since he wasn't qualified.

Steve Stone didn't even have his level 2 when he first joined, man.

Is that true? How much is that likely to have amounted to, a few million? Surely it's a stretch to say that's the reason we didn't invest properly in the summer. We pulled £11million out of somewhere in our measly reserves, whilst everyone else presumably dipped into their next June moneys. That's been the difference imo. Well it's obviously not the reason we didn't spend in the Summer.

The reason there was no transfer fund was that he gave EVERYONE employed at Newcastle United a 30% bonus for being promoted. Even the Foundation got it, people coming away with £5k bonus at the end of the year was canny, and that was just as the lower end of the pay. Players got it too.

Probably enough for a Mankini.

:lol: I don't know what's funnier, Palace or the Dildo Brothers. What a week.

Aye, they're wearing thin like. Some people a treading a thin line with them.

Let's hope he's good at taking corners...

Nice, now for them to announce the back sponsor and the crotch sponsor.

Plot Twist: Everyone eager to buy Mike Ashley a pint.

Evil people live a long time.

They'll do it all season long, which is why they put the window in in the first place. But the spectacle is gone. You can sign someone whenever, and there's none of that inflated transfer deadline price shit.

Just remove the window, but then what will all those agents do, what will Sky Sports and Co do when their biggest money making is removed. Oh noes.

I used to work at Durham uni around that time and we used to play 5 a side at maiden castle a couple of lunchtimes each week. The end of our games used to coincide with players leaving after training. During the school holidays I was asked for my autograph many times when heading back to work! I hope you did it.

Chris and Matt Holland Paddy Kelly I was going to say Andy Griffin, but I thought he was class.

I forgot all about that! Another life time, reality & dimension now. Amazing what pride can do.