Rayvin

I don't think we have time for this. Nick boles said yesterday that he now thought no deal was basically inevitable. All Johnson has to do is let us crash out.

Truthfully I'm not 100% sure I even credit Ashley with enough intelligence to do it. Maybe he's made it Charnley in order to avoid personally implicating himself in the failure, who knows.

My old boss used to believe the best way to conduct a negotiation was to send someone like Charnley in first with a set of parameters. If he can come to terms, great. If not, a further meeting can be organised with Ashley, who essentially becomes an escalation point. It basically gives two chances to come to a deal. Not saying that's what is happening, but its the kind of game playing I've seen before if it is. If Ashley goes into the first one, there can be no escalation.

Nice to see an underdog team triumph occasionally.

God, not Charnley. He'll sit down with Rafa and will somehow come out of the meeting having hired Tony Pulis.

Well fucking said.

I suppose that's true.

That actually is a silver lining to a degree. The people will have no one else to blame.

At least it's a clear mandate if it does. I mean it would be unarguable from our point of view. Part of what is so frustrating about this chaos is that there is no mandate for anything.

Wouldn't it just split the leave vote?

I can't quite believe it but ITV did the right thing and canned Jeremy Kyle. Permanently, with all previous episodes removed. Absolutely the right decision, was a dismal show at the best of times.

They should go full DnD with it now and change her middle name to 'The Uncorrupted' or 'The Breaker of Chains'. Then those kids with a bit of darkness in them can be 'The Fallen' I mean, if they're going to be stupid enough to name their children after someone who starts the series off with murderous violence and has ambitions of dominion over all men, and then be surprised when those ambitions are manifest.

Is that actually how that conversation went? What the fuck do Sugar's baftas have to do with some poor bloke killing himself?

The polls - I mean the only reason Sargon got involved with this is because he thought he could ride the UKIP wave to some kind of political career. Instead, Farage has risen from the dead like some kind of undead zombie dragon, and stolen the entire limelight.

I am enjoying this season and the fall of Dany I mean, I hate 'perfect' characters, so this is enjoyable. Jon Snow gets away with his stuff cos I think he seems genuinely quite northern in his outlook, and I'm biased af.

I think the dragonfire was a bit mixed up. When it hit people, it him them like fire. When it hit bricks and mortar, it hit them like a missile. Has it ever been shown to be that powerful in the past? Also, any possibility that Dany will try to torch John Snow and he'll live through it with his Targaryan blood? How does Sansa get onto the throne btw? That's a hell of a jump for one episode.

I will greatly enjoy that, if it pans out that way.

I dunno about that last point - what's the point in seiging a place if you're just going to flatten it? That's something you do to obliterate an enemy, not conquer a city.

The one thing I'm enjoying about Farage's resurgence at the moment is that he's knocked Sargon and the online 'public intellectuals' within UKIP off their perch altogether.

Really enjoyed that episode

Maybe he can secure a percentage of revenue then. Either way, I'm going to remain optimistic because I think he wants to stay. Its not like it'll be the first time I'm wrong if it turns out that Ashley's cuntery gets the better of his dubious business acumen.

I know but... I mean maybe I'm being overly optimistic but I reckon with investment over a few years and Rafa continuing to develop the team, we could get into a position to win things. Not the League, but a trophy maybe. And if there's any logic in Ashleys mind he'll be aware that £50m a season, paid for by TV money, is worth it compared to risking a loss of £100m every time we go down. I'm just going to hope.

Dunno, sounds alright to me if added to the young player development/sell plan. Even in this day and age. How many PL clubs are exceeding £50m net spend season on season?

I think he'll stay. I really don't think he wants to go and if he can just extract a commitment from Ashley for spending, it doesn't matter if they share the same vision or not. If he gets a commitment that he thinks he can make work, then he'll stay even if Ashley doesn't give a fuck where we finish. £50m a season maybe?

They were dead forever under New Labour as I recall. Then the coalition would never last and the government would fall apart. Then they would never get re-elected. Then they would be torn apart by Brexit. Then they would be torn apart by incompetence. Then Brexit again. Then not actually leaving. And now by Farage. Brexit will be settled by the next GE, the Farage enthusiasts will return to 'hating the left' with renewed zeal, since that's who they think this victory is over, and the Tories will be returned. Labour will fail because they've abandoned the middle class vote, and the left in the country will be split in two.