Fantail Breeze

That turn and pass to Wilson for the 2nd goal was outrageously sexy.

Pretty much guaranteed at least 14th now as no chance Southampton will beat both Liverpool and Leicester.

Not seen a Brazilian as tidy as this since I went to Magaluf.

6 minutes ago, Nine said:

Hes been better overall tonight, seems like hes had instruction to make less solo runs when out wide and first 10-15 was really bright. None of the potential big moments came off for him which is a shame. 

 

 

 

Best game in a long time. He linked up brilliantly in the first quarter of the game and did everything I’ve been desperate for him to do.

Didn’t win the game on his own, but we’ve won it as a team. More of this please.

Emil Cafu.

There’s Xhaka again with his dodgy last minute yellow for his betting mates  

Always happens.

Surprised it’s just an NUFC award and not some sort of Fifa recognition.

20 minutes ago, joeyt said:

 

Didn’t realise he was only 17 when I was reading that article - was expecting him to be in his mid twenties for some reason.

Good on him. Hope others feel that they’re able to come out too.

“A teenage Championship footballer will come out as gay in a televised interview next week in a bid to tackle the scourge of homophobia in the sport, it has been claimed. 

Seems really bizarre in 2022 that this is news, but here we are.

Also find it crazy that there is only one gay footballer across the world who is ‘out’. Says a lot about the sport.

4 minutes ago, St. Maximin said:

I’m going by what Everton fans have said to me, albeit a limited sample. They follow their team more than us and we get criticised for our opinions on our managers. I wasn’t pretending he has done a brilliant job as a manager, but the comments from that journalist seem pretty reasonable. 
 

PFM is a silly term and I don’t really care who a manager voted for. Lots of people vote Tory as you know. I don’t agree with them but they certainly aren’t all tossers. Though I realise anything remotely in defence of them is prohibited here and makes me one too so I’ll shut up. 

Everton fans are bound to be okay with him, they literally hounded out the previous bloke before he signed on the dotted line.

Lampard was pretty much appointed by the fans.

12 minutes ago, St. Maximin said:

They have a long way to go but those comments seem reasonable though. Even if they are still pretty crap, there seems to be a lot more fight and positivity around than the time before Rafa was sacked. 
 

Not really sure why people dislike Lampard anyway but each to their own. 

A team fighting relegation “showing some fight” shocker.

A few posts up @Yorkiehas summarised clearly why Lampard has been indifferent at best.

He failed to get Derby promoted with Mount in the team, he failed at Chelsea (who immediately picked up after him and won the CL) and his Everton team are still tactically all over the shop and in a relegation battle. He also has Pardew lips. Every thing that comes out of his mouth is a PFM cliche and he’s a Tory tosser. 

Not sure what there is to like about him, tbh.

1 hour ago, MrRaspberryJam said:

 

Every fanbase has a mentalist called Adam then?

If your account goes into minus, leave it alone and in a few days you’ll get an email to say they’ve written off the balance and reset it to zero.

Fancy us to beat these, based on absolutely nowt.

10 minutes ago, McCormick said:

I’d love it but don’t see it unfortunately.

Didn’t realise but if Burnley and Leeds both win, even a point against Palace isn’t good enough for Everton.

 I know it won’t happen, but it’s still sexy to think about.

Would love Everton to lose their last two. Every chance both Leeds and Burnley will be able to grab one win.

Love how Everton fan are seemingly allowed to buy and have flares at every game, lobbing them onto the pitch constantly… do the FA not sanction clubs for shit like that these days?

How the fuck is that a pen?  

9 minutes ago, christ said:

Sorry, but you’re talking complete bollocks. Collaboration and consultation is a great idea but entirely inappropriate in this instance.
 

You could end up with the entire pot spread across dozens of different charities in quantities that are too small to make a difference in most cases, alternatively you could end up with a massive lump sum going to an organisation that isn’t set up to deal with that influx of money. 

No, I think you’ll find it’s you who is talking ‘complete bollocks’.

As I said in my original post, which you seem to have been a bit to thick to comprehend, members could put suggestions forward.

None of the hypothetical scenarios I put forward in my post would result in the suggestions you’ve made in yours.

Inappropriate suggestions could of course be put to one side. I’d also argue your point that any charity donation would be ‘too small to make a difference’. Any donation to any charity makes a difference… that’s the whole point.

6 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

I think so, tbh, yeah. Not necessarily in the sense that money just gets pissed away, but squandered in the sense that more could've been done. I used to administer community grants in a previous job role and ensuring groups could actually spend the money/deliver their projects was basically the most important part of the job. 

 

Hypothetically they could give every charity in the region a grand; would that be the most appropriate approach? Likewise they could give it all to (say) the Food Bank. Again, is that the best way to do it? Who's to say? Those are two extremes, just for the purpose of making the point that I don't think it's as straightforward as Greg and Alex standing there and making it rain,  and all good, everybody wins. 

 

Taking care, doing due diligence and inviting people to come forward to explain their wants, needs and their strategy - before making as informed a judgement as possible - sounds like a totally sensible way of distributing money to me, if that is indeed what is happening (obviously the comms is total wank so who knows). Again I would caveat that by saying I'd hope there was some contribution from actual professionals. 

Administering community grants is totally different from making a donation to a registered charity.

They could’ve done something totally unusual and consulted with their members (you know, the people who are actually important in the Trust) and asked for suggestions.

Those suggestions could be, as you say, a small % to hundreds of charities or big donations to two or three.

Equally there could’ve been a list of suggested charities with a vote and the charities getting a % of the pot based on their votes.

There are so many ways of doing it, loads of them could have been collaborative.

I’ll leave it again. So many missed opportunities to get something/anything done with this Trust are absolutely infuriating though.

2 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

Doing everything they can to ensure the money isn't squandered/goes as far as it possibly can seems inherently responsible to me.

 

I've little to no time for Alex Hurst and feel dubious about how the Trust operates, but probably not every single thing they do is some moustache-twirling masterplan cooked up by Hurst to make him feel more important. A lot of stuff is, clearly. But this just sounds like they're doing what they can to ensure people's donations are going as far as they can. Is there a rush?

 

You'd hope there might be some independent assistance, mind you. I don't know if anyone on the Trust board is actually qualified to undertake such a process and there's plenty of professionals out there in this field who could help.  

Do charities have a long history of squandering donations?

Are they seriously making charities “put forward” a case for the funds? Aye, let’s ask some charities to beg for cash.

Everything Hurst does is like a little power trip. “Oh look at me deciding between you all” sort of thing.

23 hours ago, triggs said:

Not sure if giggs but have people seen that Man City's Aguero statue looks a lot more like Toni Kroos?

 

 

Why does his torso look like a sad face?

2 minutes ago, Joey Linton said:

Four months? 

Haven’t you heard? Greg’s got a new lass. Impossible to sort shite like this between work and a lass.

He’s a top bloke though. 

NUST have sent a proposal to the club on how to manage STs without asking their membership on what people want  Think that sums up the Trust more than anything else.

Only in it for themselves. Remind me… isn’t Greg a ‘canceler’ himself? Weird that.