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Shame that fell to him so soon after coming on. Unlucky.

Change at right back not exactly what we needed. Looking forward to seeing Willock smoke Walker in a race down the wing though.

Brilliant from Pope there.

Greg Norman in the house. Loved him in Crocodile Dundee.

Getting space in behind them here. More chances to come hopefully. Ugh, someone has to attack that from Murphy ffs.

Dive but I couldn't give a fuck.

Blatantly just copying my post and preemptively claiming you haven't read it.

What the fuck is going on at the met. I know you get bad apples everywhere, but these are turning up the worst kind of wrongun every few months.

We might go on to get beat by two or three here as we try to get back into the game, but if we take this level of effort and performance into the rest of the season, we'll do class. The press has had them looking properly ragged at times.

Lynsey long-legs. Phwit phwoo.

We're dead unlucky to be going in behind here. Big improvement on everything we've seen so far this season.

Haaland didn't leave as much on Burn as Burn left on Haaland, did he, Fletch?

Here comes the blame game. I think I preferred it when it was quiet.

Bollocks.

Very quiet in here. Nobody wanting to break the "we're doing OK here" spell.

It was a big banner saying "STRAIGHTEN YOUR FACE LA"

"Australians wouldn't give a.... Castlemaine 4X for anything else."

You been on the Castlemaine XXXX?

Stat up there. Man City have lost or drawn more than 1 in 3 games when Rodri isn't playing. We just need to be the 33% lads this afternoon.

A phurturrrrr wi Brunurrrrr. And never mind "she's not from Yorkshire". I simply do not care.

Aye good team. We're probably still in for a paggering though.

Me and Billy are now looking for some seats even further away.

I agree his attitude has been lifting. I do think he has reason to be put out if we've been taking the piss in contract negotiations though. And he came with this sort of behaviour in his locker - we know he all but went on strike towards the end at Everton.

You know I'm right though. Your situation and Gordon's aren't remotely comparable. Even if we agree this is about pay (we don't know that it is), the much more realistic scenario is that he's been in contract discussions for a while with the club. He's supposedly been on 60k a week, which if true is absolutely a piss take. He goes away to the Euros and mixes it with lads that are all openly talking about their 6 figure a week salaries etc. He's not getting a game and he's fucking steaming about that and the fact that Newcastle keep coming back with 75k (or whatever) as their new contract offer. After the shift he just put in for us last season. Then the Liverpool story comes up and that doesn't happen, and STILL we're taking the piss in the contract talks. Given that (completely fabricated) context, I think he would have a right to feel that he's having the piss taken out of him a bit. I made all of that up and it was still a more reasonable effort than "I don't do this at MY job!" Now me and Billy have found two seats together, so if you'll please excuse us....

no offence, but that's the sort of patter where if you turn up to the match and the bloke in front of you is saying it, you're scanning for empty seats elsewhere. "You know yourself this isn't how things work in the REAL WORLD. Do you think you'd get a pay rise if you walked around with a face like a smacked arse at your job?................... I'm asking you a question, Billy." "*Billy reluctantly indulging him* Errr probably not no." "EXACTLY! It stinks!" Where fore art though, empty seat?! Fuck off Billy, that one's mine!