TheBrownBottle

Fair enough - but for me there is a benefit. I get to see NUFC in Europe

BDB can play for a top club in the PL, but would struggle anywhere on the continent? Not sure like.

The ‘streaky’ nature of the results are notable, mind. But the vacillation between ‘he’s mint’ to ‘he’s shite’ definitely happens. It tends not to change my view - he’s an excellent coach with some limitations.

Why would anyone want us to not qualify for Europe? We might as well stop following football if qualifying for European competition is seen as a bogey prize.

Richard Masters made us play 5-3-fucking2

Fucking ho’way lads, need a much better second half showing than that shite first half

We’re not good away from home generally; but we not good at all against quality sides. Howe’s away league record before today vs the four members of the big six who haven’t been misfiring: W0 D2 L11 Not a pop at Howe, just a reminder of how difficult these games are.

In 2024/25, no-one died

Could end up being brutal this

Easy. They’ve been completely dominant.

Recent form doesn’t support this position at all

He's done exactly that, tbf. I reckon the cunt sleeps like a baby.

A general rule of thumb - if the pub has a flat roof, has the curtains drawn and is in a postcode where your car insurance premium gets a '0' added to the end - you've probably found a place to watch it. Enter at your own risk

BTW if anyone is interested in this stuff / bored beyond all reason and wants something to look at, then you can do a 'spot the difference' exercise between the APT rules before and after the December republication of Handbook and its changes. Before (page 132): https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/document/2022/07/19/40085fed-1e9e-4c33-9f14-0bcf57857da2/PL_Handbook_2022-23_DIGITAL_18.07.pdf After (page 135): https://resources.premierleague.pulselive.com/premierleague/document/2024/12/11/e9aa1b9e-a7d5-4788-8afe-6e07b8a5f5fc/TM1603-PL_Handbook-and-Collateral-2024-25_11.12_DIGITAL.pdf

TynesideLife is being moved brick by brick for his retirement in Beamish

I used to watch some of the games on a dodgy satellite feed in a local CIU club - the irritating part is they didn’t like having that forrin commentary, so they’d hoy Radio Newcastle on over top - which of course was several seconds ahead of the game on the screen. Absolute knackers

The thing is of course that while sale was all down to PSR, if there were no FFP regs we are unlikely to bother signing a Minteh in any case, let alone have Elliot Anderson still not scoring goals from midfield. So stop whining about it, lads

I never thought he was intended for anything but being flipped for a profit. He was never going to be our RW

Because it doesn’t remove FMV, only APT

Fair enough, we’ll not be able to agree on PIF - though I would say I thought it was clear that we don’t know what sponsorship has or has not been on the table.

The entire structure of English football needs to be completely overhauled. The PL breakaway itself is the source of so many problems - remember, the ‘big clubs’ wanted the breakaway so that they weren’t drastically outvoted by the ‘small clubs’ of the rest of the FL. The league shouldn’t be administered by the clubs - it should be via the FA (which also needs serious reform). Changing the FFP rules is a sticking plaster. English football is a mess, a mess which is covered over by the ludicrous sums of money which have poured into it.

100% - but again, we do have to wait for that panel to meet. And there is nothing to stop the PL entirely changing all the rules and having a new FFP model - the biggest issue that I can see is the PL blocking sponsorship deals, which is restraint of trade.

Not unless we can show that we had a sponsorship deal rejected by the PL. We don’t know if this has happened.

They already amended them. The entire rulebook wasn’t found to be illegal and void - the panel picked out three items. It’s not illegal to adjust those rules to reflect the judgement or the assumed legal requirements. Again, nothing has changed - the rules that were adjusted back in November remain in place, and I didn’t see us bagging loads of sponsors and splashing the cash in January. Let’s see what happens to the adjusted rules and the PL’s response if they’re ruled to be illegal too. Until then, it is status quo.

Agreed, it might well do - they were hastily drafted. But they could also redraft again. At some point, you’d hope, this ends. The PL has been absolutely stupid in not compromising. I also don’t think this ends until the Man City case does - which could be some time. Man City’s actions are more than a bit dodgy, mind. But there’s a lot of premature excitement re this - nothing has changed in months, and this isn’t an update. We knew all of this.