Rayvin

I've been trying to find any relevant news about Owen Smith in the papers but it seems the world has moved on. That must be pretty depressing, I genuinely feel bad for him... Ridiculous and entirely pointless leadership election about to come to a head I suppose. I wonder how long it'll be before the next one.

I keep hearing from people that Brighton (or Bristol, can't remember which) lost 5 games last year and failed to go up. They got playoffs but lost out. Obviously not great news for us. That said, it's a rather basic analysis and doesn't take draws into consideration.

Good news, thanks for letting us know troops.

If he's 5, might he not grow out of it? But yeah, that sounds like a more difficult than normal environment. Sounds like your sister has some unresolved issues as well, mind. This is why I think it's important to address stuff like this while young, so it doesn't bed in and fester, so to speak.

Just got wind of this and thought for sure Wykiki would be up in arms about it. Something embarrassing is bound to come out mind, you just know it. Someone will be caught out.

This comment has no apparent context that I can see (unless it's this Westworld film?) and so just looks fucking bizarre in the chronology of posts

I guess I'm suffering from not really having been able to watch many games here, but I don't have the impression as it stands that Gouffran is going to develop into anything of any real significance. Alright he scored a good goal, but is he really contributing that much? As I say, I'm not seeing enough matches to know, I'm just wondering if a few heads have been turned simply because of that strike. Lascelles on the other hand has been part of a defence that hasn't conceded in 5 games... Again though, he's not been in the team for all of those games I suppose. I think this question would be better answered later on in the season

Wonder what he's so angry about... is the family still together? i.e. dad at home? My head got fucked right up when my dad left, is all I mean by that. I'm better now...mostly

Quite.

We could win every game for the rest of this season 7 or 8 nil, and before the subsequent game we'd all be reigning in our expectations and predicting imminent failure Such is the life of an NUFC supporter.

What's the bit about spotting manhole covers exactly? Is that a thing? It sounds like something CT might get into I guess...

How much longer is this tiresome farce over Labour's leadership going to go on... even after the vote in a few days you just know that it'll rumble on. I imagine there'll be news of some manner of 'emergency meeting' for Labour rebels with an announcement a few days later that a new party has will be/has been formed. They'll come out and say that they have no choice and have been forced to take this action because they believe in 'effective opposition' and 'standing up to the Tories on grammar schools'. The left will be split and the Tories entrenched. May might even call a GE. Far less likely, IMO, is the rebels issuing this statement: "We accept the results of the party leadership election, and will now fall into line behind the current leadership and aim to support them in combatting Tory policies. We acted as we felt we had to, but feel that to take things any further would cause irreparable harm to the cause of democratic socialism in the UK, and is therefore wholly politically irresponsible." Ah of course, there is the possibility that Smith might win, I suppose... I've not heard him say anything in about two weeks though, so I assume even he thinks that's impossible now.

They really aren't great, but I suppose you're right given what went on over the summer. Take them out and they really are fucked.

The Fish in his element here. I'm undecided on many of these in part because it's hard to actually watch the games in this league, and in part because it's still pretty early. The ones I'm sure about are: Ritchie - brilliant signing, delighted he's here. Concerned about him getting injured as I don't know who would come in to replace him, but all of this points to him being a solid addition. Gayle - Is scoring and playing well. Another good addition. Gamez - looks good enough when we play him but am a little surprised we still aren't really doing so... hoping he doesn't turn into another one of those inexplicable transfers who never gets used and then goes on loan back to the team he came from... Sels - hard to argue with the number of clean sheets he's had so far, albeit he's not exactly being regularly troubled.

Tough one as a few on there are playing well. In truth I think it's a bit too early (for me at least) to be able to tell. Gonna go with Lascelles though. Maybe followed by Anita...?

I was tempted to ask actually, if anyone had any experience of being 'on the other side' of this, as it were. I went to an all boys school and I was definitely aware that the 'banter' tended to focus on specific people to the point where it became cruel. You would join in though, as the alternative was that you made yourself a target as well. Not proud of my role in that kind of thing either. School seems to behave a lot like the world might have before civilisation came along. You survive it however you can, come out the other end and ideally become a decent human being.

They don't have a lot of shit left though - they've gotten rid of most of them now haven't they? I can't think of any players who would leave them if they went down, exactly. They'd have the same players and even less ability to pull in decent new ones.

Are Wolves actually any good? Aside from losing 4-0 at home to Barnsley?

Aye the thunder was full on I never wake up during the night but that first clap was a house shaker.

His apology is eloquent as fuck, mind. Sounds like it was an overheated argument rather than a fight in the end: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/sep/15/joey-barton-rangers-fallout-after-celtic-defeat

Aye, I think this is one of the most dreaded threads on the forum now, with the possible exception of the Yes Gemmill thread.

Publicity stunt? Classic Joey though.

MF putting across really well what I was trying to convey. Great post.

Just be careful here as if they're older than 18 they could get in bother if they overdo it...