Rayvin

Sounds like Corbyn gave May a hard time today over the EU. She's now backtracking on hard Brexit. She has no clue at all what she's doing, mind...

If we'd not had that string of midtable finishes between Keegan and Robson I think we could have claimed to have been established top 6. As it stands, I'd say we were established top half on the balance of things. EDIT - those 11 seasons come to a 6.6 average finish.

I reckon 2-0 to us. Don't think we'll concede.

To hell with the children we're corrupting!

Due to run at least another couple of games yet IMO. Still think Hull will be their first chance to pick up 3 points.

The 3 match ban is presumably the most significant statistic to date concerning his Spurs career then.

It is actually kind of funny that we started doing this just before we went down to the Championship where we were much more likely to win every game

Do you reckon the penny's dropped for them yet? More seriously, has he got any goals or assists to his name yet this season?

Is it not just that you're missing the time slots? I wish we'd put money on this, the complaints would be even more vitriolic

Dunno mind, I think Rafa taking the job has probably raised our stock with other managers. At least once we've been promoted it will have. I don't think we'll be looking anywhere near to the Pulises and Allardyces of the world. I reckon you could reasonably expect we could pull in a Koeman. Just depends on whether or not we go up in the end. Curious to think how the current team would handle the PL challenge mind.

To a degree that's true, but it'll be interesting to see how far that keeps up. What the big clubs have arguably done this year is bring in superior managers to the rest of the division - I reckon that's making the difference presently.

What's a Flossy...?

Thats a good shout for Peter. I assumed it would just be a write up of the games. It sounds like absolute drivel.

It's Monday morning, I'm tired. I think I started writing that, lost interest, tried to soldier on and then came up with that.

Depends if you considering tweeting about it to be the same as actually releasing it. Wikileaks has presumably released the files overnight or something.

A solitary one star review

In fairness I've seen a good number come out and say that they didn't want mourinho when he was signed. I think they've had it now. Too large and bloated, not competitive enough, full of malaise. They needed to let the Fergie era die and then approach the next step. Attempting to sustain it has seen them crawl on without achieving anything. Just drawing out the inevitable.

And the other half are accountants.

Aye, noticed that. He's the record holder for the league now. Approaching a full season worth of games started without winning any of them.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/anichebe-tweet.1289108/

On paper Villa should threaten. I know we run them down a lot but they're good enough to challenge for playoffs IMO if they sort themselves out. That said, they're not exactly playing convincingly even if they have won a couple. I genuinely think Norwich could miss an auto slot, they're mentally weak and keep throwing points away.

Why do you think Sheff Wed are going to pull ahead of some of the other contenders?

McCarthy's post match comments - I have some respect for him but fucking hell he's dour as fuck. "We were beaten by the best team. If you see a better team than that this year I'd be surprised. "I've just spoken to the players and there's not a lot more we could have done. We tried everything to stop them. The one pleasing thing is we kept it at 1-0 for 70 minutes. "All three finishes were fabulous. They were better than us, they are better than us, and they will be champions in my view. "We tried everything and nothing worked. They are a very good team and we got what we deserved. We tried to press but we didn't do that particularly well."

Curious as to which teams people think are likely to be pushing us. Norwich are probably most people's guess but they don't look much less shaky than either Huddersfield or Brighton. Villa have also now won a couple on the trot, and while they're a long way from being a problem, I think they'll be resurgent from here. The pessimist in me thinks we've overdue for a defeat soon which will see us sink back into the chasing pack again, but I reckon if we can keep our run going for another 5 games or so, we'll not be caught. I actually think that if we ended up in second place, I'd be genuinely disappointed.