Wolfcastle

These rules consign them to competing with West Brom and Norwich financially and put us beyond their reach forever, no matter who owns them. The dizzying heights of clinging on to fourth bottom in the PL was only possible because of big investment from different owners Stuffs them but if it holds us back that's the most important thing

Yes, an Ashley style ran club would be less than it really is, we could flirt with relegation doing the bare minimum, get caught out a few times and come back - much smaller clubs ran the Ashley way would be certain of relegation. Their ambition is more to stagnate, Ashley's was more how little could we invest and drop without getting relegated.

Spent 14years getting shafted by an owner with no ambition only to get shafted by ten other owners also with no ambition and the perfect excuse to show none.

Furthermore how many atmospheres have improved at new stadiums? Cant think of any in England and only Juventus and Bayern Just believe the debate and decisions shouldn't be based on the idea that a new stadium would mean we'd win things and that the atmosphere would improve. It'll barely make any difference competitively and the latter wont happen

Would have saved me and a lot fans all around the country a lot of bother, money and time if asking parents after a miserable loss in the old 2nd Division if they'd ever be a top team and being told "no, the top teams wouldn't like it, so its outlawed" instead of "you never know a millionaire/billionaire/group of local businessmen/another Abramovich could happen".

Relegating teams that weren't getting relegated to help their sustainability.

Make us their bitches!? They've only just, perhaps temporarily, claimed a gasp of air and some breathing space from Middlesbrough's complete dominance over them for most of the last decade and results wise for most of the last half-century. Next stop after that herculean effort is naturally world domination.

Really like having bench options. Throwing Willock/Tonali into things as well as Barnes and hopefully Wilson to come. Even Almiron would have been useful in the scenario that transpired towards the end of this game. 1-3 down you wouldn't want him breaking on you.

First half wasn't all that bad. Definitely the better team, maybe the better of two ordinary teams, and upped it in the second half and were not just distinctly the better team but good and more reminiscent of previous seasons

tbf I even forget who the second team was (Tottenham too?). Mam taught me that from her day and that was 34year ago now itself

Fair play, away fans singing the old "we hate Nottingham Forest" ditty. Thought that was well dead and buried.

Knew it. Barnes is made for such circumstances

Hope that's not serious

Wouldn't mind Barnes being injected into this fray now, with his counter attacking menace

Its so fully deserved I didn't think it would happen

Jerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Well now that doesn't happen if the c8nt had been booked like he should have been - at the absolute minumum - already

Feels like the sort of game where we'll recieve an innocuous red-card as the cherry on the cake.

Just the couple game changing clear and obvious errors by the referee in an age of video technology forensically looking at things and slowing the game down.

Boos and groans at the end. Its like their default position is toxicity and winning just holds it back temporarily

Not a betting guy but I'd put that on to either curse it from happening or get some consolation if it does.

Gonna be tricky. But kinda like that their good start takes some edge out of it - should be just win however we can, bollocks to the manner of it.

That's the spirit, don't let the manager and players making you look a right knob this week spoil the fact we've won two games.

also think Burn loves sticking a nice ridged one right up Havertz

Hall was excellent. Little big things like getting blocks in and his head to crosses on supplementing being generally brilliant is more pronounced in games like that.