Holden McGroin

He wasn't the same player when he came back without having the op. I assume his knee wasn't right so hopefully its 22/23 Botman back.

John Presnott

They do have form on paying silly money though.

My mrs gets her nails done by some Polish woman. She has been here a while (kids were born here etc) but she is moving back to Poland soon as “money doesn’t go far anymore” and “everyone is rude and miserable these days”. You can’t really argue with that.

Realistically we'd have to attract upcoming players or players the top tier teams don't want (or couldn't offer max game time) to get us up around there. It will need an astute manager with clever signings.

Isak is prime age now to decide if he wants to go for titles every season or happy to play for a team trying to get there. Plus he’d get a bumper pay deal in the transfer fee cut. No matter how much we’ve come on in recent years we might not be able to stand in his way. PSR has fucked our momentum where I think these players were thinking we were on the superhighway to success when they first joined.

Yeah, if we had the potential to spend unlimited money there would be no need to sell anyone. I think Isak, Bruno and Botman could play for the Real Madrids and Barcelonas. They are a level above the rest of the team..

Whilst I agree with most of the above, I would actually sell him for a £100m.

The next person on the forum to say “chook” gets a wedgie.

My Mrs works in a hospital (not in North East) and she reckons all the players that turn up for the Xmas hospital visits are absolute dicks and don’t want to be there. Fair play to Gordon. He seems to genuinely do this off his own back and actually cares.

Never heard of him but Wikipedia states he is 5’8. if you believe the height police, we won’t have anything to do with him.

Nice one posting BlueSky Links rather than X. The tide is turning. Goodbye Elon. I've deleted my twitter account today

Tino has been drafted into the England squad.

One of the commentators on Sunday tried to liken him to any other player in the world but failed. He is unique..

I think we was humbled when he first came here. He looked a poor player under Bruce and out of position a lot of the time. He'd run through a brick wall for Howe.

He doesn’t have the quality to play this system consistently yet. To be fair to him he hasn’t had a full revamp of the squad but he has brought in Werner and Johnson (arguably Solanke as well) that will never win you a league. The counter argument he does not have any plan B or a different way of playing in my which all top teams and coaches do. if Van De Ven is out they are absolutely easily picked off.

Never in doubt lads. BDB will be suspended for next game so Kelly should slot in. Botman hopefully should be for before Xmas?

Shite performance but they don’t deserve to be in the lead. I can see them doing us on the counter though 2-0 incoming.

Are they? They never seem to get much press to me. Their plan will dive bomb one day. All it will take is one bad managerial appointment.

they’ve got no CMs. Will Hughes was suspended and Wharton has had to have an op.

Dippers should all be neutered

Let’s be honest. He’d normally have to sustain this level for a longer period of time to get into an England squad. However England have a lack of quality at LB. It’s either play Colwill or a RB there or try Lewis Hall. I heard Leif Davis (of Wallsend Boys Club fame) is getting mentioned as well. I haven’t seen enough of him to comment. Hall also seems to have a good rep in the game and has gone through all the England ladder. I think Tommy T also gave him his club debut which bodes well.

I don’t think people are complaining about you complaining. It’s all light hearted from what I can see. im similar in terms worrying about outcomes but we actually don’t really know what Trump/RJK are going to do exactly. You’re jumping to worst possible conclusion about what could potentially happen. It might not happen so you’re worrying about something that might not even come true.