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Lad has got one of those youthful faces destined to be ruined by the pressures of the job. After a couple of seasons of misery and toil you'll see a picture of him c.2021 and think, 'mind, he's aged since he's had this job'. Like Tony Blair.

Occam's Razor suggests it's probably best to go with "because it's not actually concluded yet"

Was going to post pretty much exactly that I'm happy enough with Howe though, SAF seal of approval/kiss of death or not

His name doesn't fit in songs very well

Still could be, just maybe not by February next year

Can't argue with any of this really. If you'd offered me Howe instead of Bruce a month ago I would have been happy to roll that particular dice, even in the context of Ashley's ownership.

Can't wait for the first person to say they don't want to work for us because Saudi Arabia You can sense it coming

Aye, that's how I read it too. Personally speaking, if you gave me a choice of (a) an embarrassing winter of multiple managerial rejections leading to a dream ticket combo of Roy Hodgson and Joe Kinnear relegating us and the Saudis quietly selling us in the summer vs (b) Mike Ashley and Steve Bruce being here in perpetuity, I would still have been considering the positives of (a)

He must've been reading RTG

Obviously hardballing for £14m a year salary rather than the paltry £7m being bandied about I think I'll just wait and see what transpires media had us closing in on Fonseca as well just days ago

But still a proper comedy humping, all the same

Link? Love reading stuff that makes me irrationally angry

Were Roma second bottom and utter fucking dogshit though

More 'not good enough in every other regard' really

Looks amazing but I have the same misgiving as KI; we're really not in a position which allows us the luxury of experimenting with an aggressive possession style featuring personnel that don't appear suited to it. I'd be happy to see it tried of course, but it'd be canny risky with our prize collection of journeymen and cloggers

If the £8m was contingent on him saying nowt to his pressman besties for a day or two then I guess it could have been kept quiet

He looks like he's thinking about the right way to ask how long a game of football goes on for

Aye, that's what I meant

Well I understand that much I just wonder if there's a real disadvantage to a less lucrative sponsor (but still presumably loads better than our current incumbents) but just let them advertise their primary but maybe banned one for nowt

Was wondering why this wouldn't work myself, but I don't really understand the first thing about FFP

This is what happens when you leave a dead man walking responsible for things, though. 'i couldn't really give a fuck lads, I'm gone in a week or two. Do what you like' That's the real reason he has to go for me. Jones has every chance of surviving a cull in a coaching role and still has something to work for. Bruce has seen the writing on the wall and knows what the payoff is, he has zero incentive to perform to any standard whatsoever and I guess would probably prefer that they just expedite this shit and get it over with.

For me the only correct sequence is Blitzkrieg Bop, Alan Price's Blaydon Races, O Fortuna, Local Hero

Probably some bloke from Pegswood

There were absolutely fucking loads of them outside the Gallowgate like, mostly just teatowels