Gemmill

Nice one Dave, great news.

I'm beginning to think Frank Hester might be racist.

Pleased we're not on the cunt list. Forest though. Might be stealing from their future selves at current rate of going.

Lads, he just sometimes says things that racists would say, but the thing that separates him from the racists that say the same stuff is that he just actually isn't racist. He just says the same stuff. And honestly it's really upsetting for him at the minute that people have leapt to the wrong conclusions about him.

I also enjoyed "he's not a racist, he just SOUNDS like one".

Just to be clear, I was simply lumping myself in with the thickos to make them feel better about themselves. OF COURSE I didn't think it was repeatable this season with all the extra games. I didn't think it would hammer us as badly as it has, but then it wouldn't have had we not had the ridiculous set of injuries.

New version of I can't be racist cos I'm friends with some black people. Just fuck all of this lot.

Totally agree with this. I think expectations have got all fucked up because of the success of last season. All any of us should expect at this stage is for regular progress to be made at each transfer window, within the ridiculous confines of FFP, and for continuous investment to be made on the NON-FFP infrastructure stuff. That means that, at a zoomed out level, you see progress for the first team WITH BUMPS ALONG THE WAY, which we've had loads of those season. It's gonna be a really slow process though. And slow requires patience. From both fans and the owner. With fucking EVERYTHING. Fans turning on the players, the manager, the owners at this stage is probably inevitable cos people are thick arseholes, but everyone needs to fucking cool it and realise that you're not gonna turn this around in a matter of two years. It took Man City four years or something and they had none of the financial constraints we're operating under. If we start the revolving door with the manager now, I guarantee you it won't stop with Howe's replacement. People saw CL qualification last year and they thought that was the speed of growth they could expect from that point on. We all got carried away, myself included, thinking it was repeatable straight away. It's not and it was totally unreasonable to think like that. We ARE making progress and we'll do it again this summer. But it's gonna be slow as fuck for a while yet.

It depends entirely what we spend in the summer. We've absolutely no right to be challenging for top 4 with this squad, and I think the owners know that. If FFP prevents us strengthening, then punishing the manager for that is how you install a revolving door on the manager's office and buckle the whole project.

Belter. Listen to Neville's voice. He's fucking GUTTED. Just fuck off if you can't be enthusiastic about anyone outside the "big 6" you prick.

Anderson just handing them the ball back completely unchallenged.

Lads, seriously, take a break from this place and get some better patter.

Murphy's put some great balls in the box tonight. Deserves more from those in the middle, no one has even got close to attacking them.

I was just listening there and he sounds like he's bored as fuck and he thinks all this is beneath him. WELL FUCK OFF THEN GARY. Cos none of us are enjoying listening to you either.

IT'S YOUR PATTER!

Completely careless in possession. These aren't even in the top ten away sides we've played this season. Lucky it's not 3-1 there.

Pleased Sterling is a greedy prick.

Willock should've scored there.

Fancy us to go on and win this now. Anyone planning a "uhuhuhuh well that's a guaranteed loss then" response, have a shiny SHIT PATTER AWARD in advance.

Get in! What a finish.

Didn't they pay over £100m for this Enzo dope?

Knee fucked. This could be a lengthy one.

Not when we give away a corner.

Are they gonna book that little cunt?!