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By all accounts Spurs were justifiably beaten at home by Wolves without anything like the injury problems we have, its all relative, doesn't mean Ange is a knacker

Rangers go top with a win tomorrow having lost one league game since sacking him, won a cup and lost only once in Europe. He doesn't seem to be very good going off the data. Should be in a relegation battle with 14losses by mid-Feb.

Is there a chances to goal ratio for present, earlier this season with Pope and last season. Pope sometimes had little or nothing to do but did ,make regular good saves. Feels like we concede more chances now but not 2, 3, 4 goals worth of them

In an era of FFP that makes him pretty much perfect for a Burnley. Yo-yoing between the divisions is going to end up being the dream for clubs like that.

Think his confidence, form or both have been brittle for years now and that slip definitely would be a major setback to it. A keeper lacking in confidence is hazzardous

Should be under pressure for raising expectations to the point people are dying to moan about being 7th with our hands tied behind our back by regulations and injuries.

Bingo. There's not much between us with what's available and Bournemouth thus there wasn't much between us and Bournemouth on the park. What top players we have are off-set by a good chunk of our players not getting in their team. The rest of the season is going to be a competitive tussle with the rest of the league because were all pretty average. Getting upset about it isn't going to change anything.

Really intrigues me how everyone to do with the club is under the bus from you at the first slip but Dubravka is defended to the absolute hilt. Something's off. Can only imagine how much of a cunt Miggy, Longstaff or Burn would be for not chosing to slip but slipping

What a surprising list. Leeds in 91/92 might have exceeded ffp too. They were big spenders for a 28k crowd and having been in the top division for two years. Some of those would have been at an absolute canter too. Oh the fun.

I'd say veteran Shola would be taken by Eddie over Wilson. Being able to formulate some plan around actually having a forward playing would be a blessed relief nevermind how unbalancing it is across the team.

With squad limits and ffp...he's worse than a waste of space now. Another wonderful romantic side effect of that bollocks.

Lot of shared ideas but there was a blueprint sweet spot in the 90s as a rough guide to aim for for me post level being onside, backpass rule, professional foul. Pre the death of 3pm kick offs, CL saturation, dominance, atmosphere an acceptable compromise between old school problems and new school sanitisation, four fairly even leagues (Germany/Italy/Spain), three UEFA comps in perfect working order with formats not advertising as a b and c CL. World Cups that had a flavour of the country they were in not generic FIFA WC xxxx tm. Etc etc. Basically undo most of the changes that have happened since

Can't see a way it doesn't make football a lot more boring in time when everyone learns their place and realises they're stuck with it as a rule. Even not having to worry about being overhauled will be nullifying. No more venting at clubs for not showing more ambition - because they can't. Basically I guess it's imagine a PL without Blackburn, Chelsea and Man City being financed, Leeds for better and worse under/after Ridsdale, Boro's over extracagance, Shearer coming home, where Ashley's are encouraged.

Aye he'll be back to despised fraud again and the poor fellas wart will become focused in on and back to second head status. About average gate but their lowest gate this year. Thought they had great away support (this fixture last year) and Netflix was supposed to make them massive.

Makes sense I suppose in the post ffp/fun wastelands. What it would cost us to replace a versatile enough defender would come out of the ffp hobbled kitty and nobody would be happy with that.

Not sure how this effects Rochdale and the like, not remotely would be my guess, but I know who these new rules benefit and hinder as Man City and Newcastle lose top execs to Man United. Yep, didn't see that coming a hundred million miles off.

Our gates receipts were higher 30years ago than theirs are now based on my first adult season ticket in 95/96 our income will have been 612k. The previous two seasons are unlikely to have been 30% less. If their figures were caveated with that and the acceptance that their match day income is a third of Leeds and as such they can't compete it'd be more tolerable for all. Hiding empty seats, lying about gates, zooming in on the playing area, having the camera avoid all the empty seats. KLD must have had a chinwag with Tony Khan when they played Fulham last season.

Cannot let things like that that actually happened (Bilbao) or having played Plymouth four times in the last 33years get in the way of, apparently, a Plymouth fan having enough experience to formulate an irrefutable view on Newcastle fans that hasn't wavered in 14years. They're the masters at claiming the most pathetic victories mind. Living vicariously through Pickford and Henderson, having a player whose brother is really good, a sequence of wins hitherto never counted and real or otherwise fans of other clubs we have barely played and have zero connection with not liking us. The only point any of that proves is how tragic they are.

The stunning lack of matchday revenue compared to those sides is your problem.(Southampton 842k, Leeds 1.2m, Leicester 589k Mackems 413k)

There it is. This weeks first 'were shit' generalisation based on the first slight setback in the match

Usually a fixture that produces a forgettable game and/or being frustrated out of the win by foul play or bad luck.

Possibly the trauma of playing under Dalglish and going for draws every game manifesting.

Yeah wasn't many seating arrangements behind the goal in those days so that was tidy. From the old footage I see that was the away end and the bit of concrete opposite the home end. Welcoming but odd. Glad to hear it's still hanging on. Think a railway line goes under the main stand, right past it at least.

Yeah you could tell he was milking the moment, being a rare appearance for him. Had some keeping entertainment that season between him Schmeihcel and Vinnie Jones.

Their keeper (Les Sealey) was legit exhausted at the end.