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This. If you could catch it and have no immediate or long term effects we sure as fuck wouldn't be 458 pages deep into this discussion.

And the answer is no, of course it's not better to catch the virus! There's a slim chance you might die, and a higher chance you might be long term fucked by it. You asked for the references and he gave them to you.

With what I've seen of Woodman so far I wouldn't be in a hurry to sell any of our other keepers. I've seen vampires who are less afraid of crosses.

Another “yep”

Not the first time. The Knight's obviously gotten under his skin.

Shouldn't have done. You have pointed it out enough

Just about every time our form has picked up slightly under Bruce, there’s always been the sense that the players have managed to galvanise themselves. Can’t imagine they have it in them to do it again, especially when the likes of Ritchie and Lascelles are clearly worse than they were a couple of seasons ago.

I’m fairly sure we’ve also registered 4 goalkeepers, and he has registered Matty Longstaff who he doesn’t play or seem to rate. I struggle to believe we couldn’t offload Gillespie or Darlow and loan Matty out to a championship side, I question the level of interest in doing so as this way we use this as an excuse and just don’t bother improving the squad. Most other PL clubs clearly carry unregistered players btw, if we had to carry Matty and Gillespie for 6-12 month while trying to offload in order to improve the team that wouldn’t be a crippling cost ffs. This is the frustration, I don’t mind us being poor but could we at least give the fucking semblance of trying? Having to watch the worst manager in the league make constant fucking excuses on why having a 4th registered keeper who makes maybe £4K a week is what prevents us from improving our side is so fucking tedious. I see no way we stay up this season tbh, I know it’s early doors but as HMHM pointed out we’re playing our best 11 and still offering way less than last year, couple that with the squad clearly being unprepared and lacking fitness. Ashley is such a fucking parasite, if he wants to be a tight cunt and not invest in the squad he can get away with it but to do so he needs to pay a manager that can get something out of a squad, Bruce gets nothing additional out of players in fact I can’t point to a single player who has improved under his tenure.

No, he's just going to stick to the rivers and the lakes that he's used to.

"Well done, they're 13."

I still don't get it. Why are we forced to name four goalkeepers in the squad because two of them are injured? Surely the one who looks like he's going to be out the longest gets left out of the squad until January?

I've never spoken to a single supporter who thinks Ashley has saved us from anything mind. Certainly not in the last five years or so. I'm sure there are some but don't for a second believe they number in their thousands.

True, I've never played at a very high standand but I know how much harder it is to play in goal behind a defence that is all at sea. It can seriously effect your own confidence and from personal experience, when that happens it's things like comanding your box that becomes the most difficult. But it's difficult to be impressed with much that he's done so far too. He's certainly shown nothing to suggest that he could be getting a game ahead of Dubravka or Darlow at this stage.

Shhh Lads, we missed an opportunity there.

well spotted. precisely. (with the emphasis on 'we')

So if Willock had turned us down, we’d have had space for precisely one player? Bruce has regressed these players so much that nobody will even bid for them

We aren’t in a position to be turning our noses up at Rodriguez.

Didn't we say the same about Michael Owen? The deal would have to be right but even then, if he looks like he can't be arsed or doesn't fancy English football life then I'd avoid him as we've seen how it goes in the past.

Everything sounds like a euphemism to a DERANGED FANNY MUNCHER.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by hung up? I think our support is fractured, possibly to the point of it being beyond repair, but I hope not. we've got thousands who probably share my views and who've walked away. we've got thousands who probably share my views but remain. we've got thousands who probably think mike ashley is doing a good job and saved us from financial oblivion. we've got thousands who've jumped on the opportunity for a free ticket to provide a backdrop for keith bishop's crisis management pr exercise. we've got thousands who tolerate steve bruce. we're all co-exsisting but it's not particularly harmonious or even healthy is it? I feel angry, bitter, resentful but mostly saddened that ashley has managed to achieve this. does that mean hung up? I've no love for leeds united but I quite enjoyed reading this article on the bbc the other day... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58294478 as it stands we've had 14 years of ashley's football purgatory with no real sign it's about to end any time soon and if I held my hand on my heart I'd rather we replicated leeds and ashley lose tens of millions on his version of nufc then profit by even by more by selling to the saudis. it's what he deserves. we'd bounce back as leeds have and maybe then like them our support would be united and have some hope? it's fucking tragic.

What to even say at this point? They're more trolls than they are a govt.

Setting aside the wage aspect, he can't be arsed at Everton. If he's moved on it will be because Rafa doesn't want him based on attitude and not ability. Not someone we should even consider.