The Fountain

Villa winning the FA cup and not finishing top 7 will also alter it.

Bedding him in. There's a talent and I think he'll be a regular used sub next season.

Love Wilson but surely he'll not be here to be behind next season.

Villa could win the FA cup and finish 8th

0-0 sounds like a cracking match.

94/95 at home to Southampton (I think) word got out that Watson was playing CF. He was still 18/1 for first goalscorer, we all lumped on and he duly obliged

Talking to mates last night and the theme was Man City will hammer Palace on Saturday while Palace will be a difficult game for us the next Wednesday. I suppose even with a great team our pessimism never goes away

Everton have to play us, Forest, City, Fulham and Chelsea. They're gonna have a big say

Great weekend, need to make hay tomorrow

1991/92 was the last time being in the play off final would have been a good season for us. Since then we've been too good to play in it. When they won the pizza cup a mackem tried to rub it in. I told him I genuinely wanted them to win it every year for the next 20. His face dropped when he realised what I meant.

Before Christmas their comfort blanket was that we were a mid table PL team even though we were always only a few points of top 5. That's now been taken away from them.

Get 11 in the 5 matches we'll be odds on in the betting, Leicester, Man Utd, Palace, Ipswich and Everton and 5 points in the 4 games we'll be odds against, Chelsea, Brighton, Arsenal and Villa. That'll be enough for top 5

Personally I wouldn't give a toss if there was wall to walk coverage of a mackem Boro final. It would be well justified. I certainly wouldn't be mad that we weren't mentioned.

I'm 55 and they spent more time out the top flight than in it in my lifetime.

Yes 8th in 1988.

If we get 7 away pints then 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat at home will be enough. As long as the defeat isn't Chelsea

In Bruce's last full season he played Clark and Fernandez more then Schar. I thought Fernandez was okish .

COYS

I wish there was fewer there as getting the bus back was a nightmare.

Managed to have a read before it did. Sporty needs to calm down, he's doing himself no favours.

That'll be them left with a £500m a week bench warmer

Tavernier, Rangers?

Don't want them to go up but they'll get promoted eventually. When they do they'll be pissed off when we want them to beat Liverpool, Arsenal etc.

Under PSR swap deals are dead. If it happened (god forbid it did), they sign Isak for £250m and we sign Quansah and Kelleher for £50m each. Helps both parties with PSR.

Don't mind the speculation. If the so called big clubs are drooling over our players it's because they're fucking hellish.