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I might be able to make this after all!

Basically if the rules we had no were in place several years ago, Delap would have only cost a couple of grand to leave Leeds. The smaller teams can't 'win' with this new set up, so I personally don't blame them. All the money to invest in the set up and then when you do nurture an amazing talent, some bigger club comes along and gives you £10k for him.

They must be some cracking pies. I feel for the big lad who breaks it up and gets his pint knocked all over him.

FA Level 1 FA Youth Mod 1 FA Level 2 FA Youth Mod 2 That's the current recommended path to follow.

They raved about that lad forever at all levels at the Academy. Loved a 'high wave', which always seemed to work for him. Nice to see him add some final product to his overall ability.

How man, we're obviously gonna win the World Cup. FUCK THE MEDIA!

Alan Pardew set plays still haunt me to the point I STILL expect nothing to come from them other than a counter attack from the opposition leading to a goal.

What a reference.

I think you mean Polytechnic? I'm shit with music, I wouldn't recognise any of their tunes even if you hummed one. Sorry.

This can't last, can it? The only thing left in Sunderland if this lot get relegated will be their massive BTEC Uni.

I had completely forgotten Hodgson's time at Liverpool.

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.