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Abacus

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  1. West Brom currently 3-0 up and in the play off spots. What on earth can have brought such a turnaround?
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    sunderland

    It's hard to disagree with his basic point that if only Sunderland had been Newcastle instead it would have been much better. And that if Newcastle had in fact been Sunderland, Newcastle would have been much worse. Since the boot would then be squarely on the other foot, I'd concede.
  3. Weren't we already looking for a midfielder once Shelvey got injured? Maybe I imagined that. Definitely need someone else creative in the middle in the squad and we probably already did even before this, as hard to replace as he is.
  4. Get in! That co-commentator virtually crying he's so unhappy
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    sunderland

    You're not responsible for RTG or every Sunderland fan's behaviour I know Teddy. But on their 'bother' thread here's this about their teenage hooligans; They split into two groups surrounded some Swansea lads who had been chanting stuff about Adam Johnson ... They’re young and on their Todd could get knocked over by a feather but they’re game, organised and a mob. Much more dangerous than the crew that had Deer stalker hats and hung around the Roker Pie shop back in ‘84. Love the detail about some Roker Pie shop hat wearing idiots from 40 years ago But the stupid thing is, by glorifying it in this way they encourage it. We'll equally have knackers that love this stuff don't get me wrong, as does every club. And yeah, championship refs were routinely dreadful when we were there. Not really sure what you do about it, though. It's not like they were biased, they were just rubbish.
  6. Was chatting to an Everton fan the other day who was keen to bring Allardyce back. Not heard his name mentioned in a while, so presume he's properly retired (unlike Brucie)? Fine, that's a sample size of 1 fan, but it seems to be only them and the real mackems that would want him back.
  7. BBC Final score was staying what an amazing job Corberan had done at West Brom, getting them into the play off spots with 9 wins out of his 11 games. No mention of the disaster-bag who had won something like 2 games out of about 15 before that, with the exact same squad. The most important English manager of the last ... 100 years!
  8. Yea but we were away then, against the league leaders having massively over-performed and it seemed that everyone outside Newcastle spat their dummy out about it. A few years ago, we set up to defend and block at home to pinch a point vs City, when were genuinely a relegation candidate under Rafa and City were in their pomp. Nothing but criticism. In this match, City have just had a bit of a wobble and Man U, at home, with multiple times money in the playing squad, were being praised for sitting back and doing very little.
  9. Weird from the pundits at half time. It's nil nil and they're already gushing about how Man U have shut City down. Not mentioning creating much themselves. This is Man U at home, currently one of the form teams in the league. It's almost like they'd take a draw.
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    sunderland

    Haha, even the concept of that looks absolutely terrible, and that's before they balls it up in real life. What a stupid shanty town
  11. I reckon Potter is better off out of it at Chelsea. I'd say he'd be a good shout for Everton, except I'd rather they kept Lampard and got relegated.
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    Joelinton

    Stupid and reckless. He should be (and almost certainly will be) punished by the club on top of whatever legal punishments he gets assuming he's found guilty. Purely from a club point of view, it's not something you can tolerate or be seen to tolerate, and for sure it's blot on his copybook. Very surprising for a player who I'm totally invested in as a potential legend here.
  13. There's nothing illegal or immoral about a related party transaction - in the corporate world, they just have to be disclosed so it's clear and transparent. I'm already not sure how the current rules about fair market value for deals can be enforced, which at a guess might be why they're trying to change it to something simpler they can defend now. Regardless, I can't see how putting a new arbitrary limit on where clubs can legally earn money from could withstand any kind of challenge. So sorry ESL 6. That ringing bell you're hearing is the Undertaker and we're coming for you.
  14. The draw has had me day-dreaming of freak results now. Such as, we get Man City in the semis with the away leg second. Sneak a 1-0 at home, and then absolutely shithouse, timewaste and foul our way to a 0-0 away as the press and pundits spontaneously combust and lobby for us to be called up for war crimes in the Hague. Then tonk Man U 5-0 in the final, capped off with a Philippe Albert style fifth goal scored by none other than Big Dan Burn, as the whole of Blyth erupts in mayhem. By my calculations, there's a 73% chance of this happening.
  15. I'm absolutely blootered, but what a cracking match. That's the kind of game you go for and Big Dan Burn has a chance to write his name in history now. Him, Joelinton and Bruno were superb.
  16. Well done to Norwich for not appointing him. But for him to have even been in the conversation suggests he hadn't ruled it out. Which would have made it only his second job after nasty Newcastle fans apparently caused him to retire forever. Here's the thing with lovely Brucie. I read an article in the Times by their chief sportswriter a few months back. He's a rugby writer that knows nothing about football. But still, as Bruce was imploding at West Brom and was coming up with the same meaningless soundites he's been using his whole career, the writer claimed that this was just because he had been so emotionally scarred by his time at Newcastle and his treatment by the fans that this was just a reflex response. Rather than pure laziness and cluelessness. He's a sports writer, like many others who knows nothing and defends the indefensible in relation to Bruce. Here's what they never seen to consider. Bruce had a great career as a footballer and mystifyingly long and well paid one as a terrible manager. He's set for life - but they never consider the effect he has on others people's lives. A footballer's career is short - maybe 10-12 years at best. It can be ruined entirely at a formative stage by poor management, such that someone never plays at the top level, never achieves what they could have, never lives the life they could have, or has the chance to be as secure as Brucey. Look at Joelinton and Almiron - both could have ended up on the footballing scrapheap, two lives ruined. And that's surely the tip of the iceberg of the number of players careers he'll have wrecked. Any single apologist for him in the press, and especially any ex player pundit who defends him is a disgrace in my eyes.
  17. I keep worrying about squad depth, but then I'm constantly surprised at how unsung players seem to just be able to step in and keep things rolling. And we don't have any European games that most of the other contenders have. That said, I'd be stunned and delighted at a top 4 finish in Howe's first full season. It would be well beyond what I thought was possible at the start of the season, and I still don't expect it now. Still - it really would be a Keegan-like turnaround for a club in the doldrums and heading for relegation a little over 12 months ago.
  18. Quite happy to have a maverick in the team that gets other teams worried and stepping back. Whether it's the first team or a sub impact, I'd keep him as long as his fitness allows.
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    Nick Pope

    Watching Dubravka tonight, and that's just made it clear it was the right decision to bring him in. We don't even talk about the keeper now The only debate now is who his back up should be - terrific buy for £10m.
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    sunderland

    Dragon season, marra.
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    sunderland

    Scuttled under their rock, then. If you can't trust yourself to say anything in public, even under a forum username, then you should probably have a bit of a think about that and what it says about you.
  22. Sounds like he was about to break into a chorus of Bootylicious.
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    sunderland

    The ground looks emptier and emptier. I tell you what lads, stay till the end and beat the crowds.
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