Rayvin

Why do you think Defoe will leave? Can't see another club paying him what Sunderland are...

What has your brother made of him so far?

Amazing how we're all pretty happy for once. Most of us enjoying NUFC doing well, Essembee getting the same kick out of sunderland's attendances, it's all good.

3-0 down at home. Ouch

Dammit man, I want something much more illuminati-esque than that! That's just fucking mundane Although entirely in keeping with British politics, come to think of it.

Aye, all he wanted to do was serve the people, clearly. Fucking pillock. That said, why now?

You mean like Sanders? That's probably the best outcome for the whole sorry thing. That said, Trump will win if she exits now - there'd be pandemonium.

Ah ok. I was hoping he'd played the entire of a 4-0 victory with nothing worthy of mentioning We'll see how he gets on I suppose. I have to say, I have a similar impression of Wijnaldum at Liverpool but I gather he did actually have a good game at the weekend.

Huddersfield haven't had a crack at the PL yet as far as I can remember, so I'd be up for them coming up with us. Totally indifferent to Villa as long as they don't get in our way, really.

Just checked the match report for the Stoke game. No mention of him. Did he even play?

I wonder if he'll be like he was for us, or if he'll turn it on.

Isn't it nice to have options

I read on their forum that they're very much of the view that it has to be this year that they go up. Apparently if they don't (same for us obviously) they suddenly have to deal with another 3 flush PL sides vying for promotion. It's a fair point tbf, it'd be much harder to escape on the second attempt when you consider that we might not be the big guns in the division next year.

Good analysis. The signs are there for sure but they really seem to crumble under pressure. Mentally, they might be the weakest team I've seen. Edit - although Arsenal probably still hold that honour.

That's a classic Chinese motivational technique. Criticise remorselessly.

She should have chosen Elizabeth Warren. I'm amazed that she didn't.

I'm struggling to think what the world would look like if he did. There's a part of me that almost wants to see it, mind. Especially since we all know exactly what we'll get if the establishment wins instead. It's beyond depressing that the anti-establishment candidate is such a fruitloop. I still think Hillary will win it though. Trump has been strangely quiet recently (insofar as the media seem to be reporting on him less) and I suspect she's still winning comfortably in the polls.

Assuming she recovers I reckon she'll get some manner of sympathy vote. Then again, as you imply, it does rather suggest that she can't handle the stresses involved.

Happy Birthday fellas

I think you might be spending too much time on here Wykiki

True enough. Agree on villa too. Not a threat.

Merson must fucking hate us, seriously. And Villa sound just as bad as last year.

I think they're quite into the idea that they do have a good squad but to be honest, I think it's mostly based on the idea that 'they're a big club'. I saw a few mentioning that they'll be able to spend their way to promotion in January as well. There's a good few on there who think we'll win the whole thing as well mind (for some reason, none of them are talking about Huddersfield), but they also seem to think they have a genuine chance of putting us back in our box, so to speak. They thought Derby would take us but after that they'll be counting on themselves and Norwich for the next few games.

Was just looking over the Villa forum - quite a few on there believe that they're going to be above us by the end of September, and will then finish champions...Have we seen anything from Villa yet to suggest that this is possible?