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She's probably laughing with you on mute given the wanker sign in front of her colleagues.

It seems like people still think teams can buy and sell as they did pre-PSR. Also, they haven't remembered we've a stack of new (actually professional) people running the show. We're not going to spend willy nilly, we're not going to spunk a ton of money on a risky player purchase. The business done in this window thus far is measured and deliberate. Some of it I can't claim to understand, but I've confidence that it's not some kind of scattergun approach. Like, Ruddy, I'm sure he's unlikely to ever start in a competitive game, but he'll have been brought in on modest wages to provide an experience voice in the dressing room for the first and youth teams. I'd expect him to be moving into some kind of coaching role. Kelly is a top-half-of-the-PL standard utility defender, that we've signed for no fee. Pivas is a young lad with potential, probably on for the U21s, but it's in a position where we haven't much depth. Osula is a young lad with potential, who'll happily play second fiddle to Isak and probably Wilson. Again in a position where we haven't much depth to call on, even from the youth teams. Vlachodimos is an odd one. It's a lot of money for a 2nd choice 'keeper (at best). One who hasn't played a lot for his old club. It could be some kind of PSR fiddle. It could be some kind of thank you for signing Wood and Shelvey off us? I dunno. We've tried to sign some good centrebacks (Adarabioyo choosing to ply his trade in Chelsea's car park, and Guehi). I don't think we're done for the window in that position either. I also think we'll be trying to address the right hand side. Almiron is a decent squad player, but because of PSR we can't afford to buy an upgrade without getting shot of some of the Ashley era players. If early in the window we could have got some money for Fraser, Hayden, Almiron etc. I'm sure we'd have had a new RW already.

".....and so this was the grueling life and work conditions folk had to live with, it was a frankly demoralising existence, if people were lucky enough to escape it they absolutely did. Most people however weren't so fortunate to escape that life." Beamish Guide: "Sorry, when did you say this happened?" Player: "Last season. There's people I know can't mention the 'N' word after the cup fiasco." Beamish guide: "N? Newcas....." Player: "I SAID DON'T MENTION IT!"

PLYP

I’m pleased I went early on this blatant fuckin fraud. Are we sure he’s not a mackem? A unifying blame figure is always handy I find

Only CT could post this in the ASTROLOGY thread. Should have read his cards better tbh.

Not if you're a mackem

Tell Renton how shit Rome pizza is.

Scottish jakey beer is probably considered exotic there, like Peroni Nastro Azzuro was here until for some inexplicable reason fake Italian beer appeared eveywhere. Just wait until you sit down for dinner.

I hope the rest of you are happy with yourselves. We've been reduced to Dave being the voice of reason. For shame!

I think we get good news today

Astronaut 1: "Fucks sake! I can't believe that now we're going to be here till February!" Astronaut 2 the Geordie: "Ah well, just think of the blob, man." [Rubs fingers and thumb together in the internationally accepted sign of coming into money]

Are you wearing a dressing gown at the pub?

Haven’t seen a single Dominos, proper shithole.

In Rome at the moment. Pretty much every cafe and bar sells bottles of Tennents Super, very odd. I think it is considered a craft beer here rather than it’s true purpose of keeping tramps warm.

Well, that's accordion to you.

They were just going to have her perched on a bollard but they decided that would look ridiculous

You spend a lot of time on the Dunelm Mills website then?

Pluto rising in Uranus?

nice black and white collar though.

Has he got a job as a delivery driver now?

Calls himself an astronomer....

No I’ll leave that to the utter fuckin psycho who sits next door but one. I’ve seen him attack fellow NUFC fans twice since 2010/11. One time was when some young shaver was telling him where Rafa was going wrong after Huddersfield beat us at home at the start of our last championship season… he seems to like us though

Lads, deactivate your twitter accounts. If it's not the far right arranging riots, it's reactionary dickheads posting on the NUFC hashtag. You're being radicalised. You're one election cycle away from voting Reform.

And you wonder why Northern Rock went tits up

Nobody fucking did though 👍🏻

We've offered 60. An extra 5 is neither here nor there. And for the 10th time, he's only just turned 24 last month, and if he's still our first choice centre half when he's 32, then £65m will have been an absolute steal.

Wife’s gone to the room and I’m sitting feeling very pleased with myself having learned how to take selfies using my watch to launch the camera Getting some strange looks from afar. TBH, the first few goes were like

Get yourself down to the Convention Centre and unleash your inner Jan Leeming 💃

😂 "Black and white stripes on shoulders,collar and arms!!! Whoever designed this knows nothing about our club!!!! The famous SAFC logo hidden! Worst shirt in the history of our great club! This shirt must NEVER be worn by Sunderland AFC." https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/our-third-strip-must-never-be-worn.1638663/

Georginio Rutter sounds like the nickname of someone who plays in the Thursday night 5-a-side league at Eldon Leisure.

Time to move on from Guehi I think

Someone’s nan is missing a set of curtains.

Sunderland 24-25 Third Kit Released - No More Nike - Footy Headlines

They were only meant to be making a McEwan’s Best Scotch advert

Anyone use Chrome as their mobile browser? When you open a new box you get random news articles to click on?… this popped up on mine. This lies a couple of miles from where I was brought up. Local apocryphal local legend has it that at some point in history the Scott clan were laying siege to the Kerr’s within. A paige was sent in with some demands and the Kerrs were so hungry that they ate him https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/gallery/spooky-abandoned-scottish-castle-near-33429334.amp

Common sense is too boring though

Wasn't he happy how the young lad was doing his side burns or summit? Poor lad we've all got to start somewhere

Amazingly, yes Never been asked to adopt a tiger for a good long while now

It was late

Lots of meetings to sit in and say nowt this morning so I've gone back to this, some of the clubs they've got finishing above us make no sense to me at all. Villa - Lost the lynchpin of their midfield, douglas luiz, who also took a lot of their set pieces, signed a very different player as replacement in Onana, who is good but will change the way they work massively. Predicted to finish the same place as they did last season. Man U - up to 5th from 8th, based on fucking WHAT?! Nothing they've done this summer really addresses their issues. They've signed one child centre half who is now injured for ages, one who hasn't managed to make the step up from Ajax at Juve or Bayern at the biggest clubs in their easier leagues. A fullback Bayern were happy to let go for very little money and a forward whose best goal return has been at Anderlecht. Chelsea - Still signing a billion players but now they've got a less experienced manager who has less than 70 first team games managed under his belt...anyone having faith in them is insane West Ham - Fuck off, new manager with a totally different philosophy, completely new centre back pairing one of whom is just there til he can sign for man u, their 9000th forward off the back of a great season where he scored 12 (twelve) league goals... And then we're in ninth! we've got a better manager than all but one of those teams (I rate Emery similarly to Howe tbf) we haven't strengthened substantially (yet) but we haven't weakened either and Tonali is back before the end of August, our younger players are all a step up on where they were this time last season(Tino, Hall, Gordon) where we finished above Man U and West Ham, and one win behind Chelsea DESPITE one of the worst injury crisis' in the leagues history. Ninth. Fucking joke.

An excellent publicity campaign from the RSPB.

Alright.