Jonas

Hands not given and off the bar, classic cup heartbreak stuff in the offing

There is no circumstance that ffp doesn't negatively effect. injury's, fatigue, personnel, morale, momentum. The 0-0 showed what we can do with everyone fit. We all knew that scratch the surface and and were talking Murphy, Miggy, Dubs/Karius, Lascelles, Longstaff hang overs from the Ashley era which wouldn't be the case without ffp

Gowell

Took bad myself at the same time. Might have been off that performance, might have been off a kebab te following night. Didn't eat anything from Monday until after we beat Forest the following Saturday, which is worth baring in mind.

Hard to see us performing like that in the same circumstances last season but at the same time we didn't have those circumstances last season. Four purples, one's half fit, a reserve keeper and a Pardew cup tie midfield of Cabaye+2 generic squad guys. Excepting the players Howe himself improved. Results/performances aren't running counter to that and we don't have the personnel or lack of expectation to play like Dyche. Keegan in similar circumstances got turned over 3-0 at QPR with one forward, injuries and a reserve keeper. Same time of year.

Can't be judged yet either way probably. Daft game like that. Not much different to Dubravka at Liverpool. It's whether he plays better in the bread and butter games than Dubs. I'm fine to go with it since we know we're getting nowt beyond average from Dubs there's no harm.

With ffp it's worth recalling he probably made a profit that year doing that.

Longstaff looks okay when a team is buzzing and a waste of a shirt when it's not. More games where we're not firing expose him. He's classes above McClen and Kerr but good teams carried them just the same.

I mean, Arsenal who were raving about, had zero shots on goal at SJP iirc

In the farcical situation of any club getting tax payer funding its a better investment for all to have City's ground extended as it will be easier and cheaper and call that the Norths Wembley. Wonder what Ratfink makes of that.

Hope he gets the opposite of that mouse that used to clear up that blokes shed and gets one that instead pulls everything out it's box and place... And shits everywhere to boot

Done. As its such an audacious joke that shouldn't even get off the ground, I fear its just the sort of stupid thing that will happen

As has been said - its very Man United of him. Reminiscent of Ferguson over the Sutton/Blackburn affair - money was silly, bad for the game etc. When what it really was was a spoilt bairn wetting himself about not getting his own way.

Players have turned Man United down for pre success Man City, Chelsea and Blackburn when offered enough money. Unless there is relative chump change in it money is the prevailing factor not romantic reasons, it's why most players go anywhere and why they were scared of us and hence all these new rules otherwise just let us compete

That's where I went with all this. Brighton, Bournemouth. What's the difference really? Both are having the best spells in their history, both punching above their weight, one's naturally bigger than the other and as such is a bit higher/better off.

Mackems finished 15th the one full season Keane was there, behind us, and 16th the next ,where he left halfway through. Not disputing that that still counts as one of their best seasons though

Club listens to it's fans and has for years. Unfortunately their fans are toxic and infantile thus bowing to their whims every time they bay for blood is a major reason why they're in this state, which as pointed out, is basically their natural position anyway.

That's the galling pervasive vibe for me. These c*nts have tied our hands behind our back and they're now pick pocketing us (as they did with the bloke from City).

Thanks for nothing Dan, worst of luck in your future endeavors

That's oxymoronic. Its matters greatly who is in goal because other teams get shots off whoever you are.

Never seen that but would happily have pointed out how ineffective a player as good as Rob Lee was playing there in a very good team and how we battered Blackburn off the park in that infamous game but didn't have a striker and didn't score.

In fact I remember the referees name being booed when the time lineups were read out

The crowds been on referees long before half time before mind, though it depends on people's time-frames here. Especially if there was some previous.

I expect nowt else from games against these. Its like Charlton were for so long. A game that should be good and that you fancy winning comfortably on paper, like a Coventry say, based on logic. But after enough seasons its just one of those fixtures you just want to bludgeon the points out of and get out the way

That's my experience with no attachment so fair play. Go in there once a week and the city itself is worse than I remembered from working there (actually for the club) years ago with demolition/construction. But have always found it agreeable going north from the hospital to Shields. Hate the snobbish London oriented attitude. It's the last place I'd want to live. Pretentious arseholes like that are a big part of the reason. Reckon the proportion of 'canny' people there is miniscule compared to anywhere else