The Fish

Oh Craig posted it did he? Wonder where Craig found it? Probably on a website Craig made, on the Internet that Craig created, right? Get off his dick, man, he's not the messiah.

I think this bit gets overlooked If we were all to maintain our Points per Game, Newcastle would end up on 40pts, Everton survive on 33, etc. For Everton to surpass 40pts they'd have to get 15pts from the next 9 games. That's 5 wins man! 15pts from 9 games is 1.7PpG, the kind of form that would grant you 5th position in a league season! But sure, this side that has 7 wins all season is going to somehow dig out Champions League form against... CHAMPIONS LEAGUE LEVEL OPPOSITION!

Here's some expert opinion on the relegation chances; 538 They think we have a 6% chance of going down. Six percent. Bookies Longest odds has us at around 3.8%, shortest about 5.6% Team Right We say there's fuck all chance of us going down. So there you go, 3 different groups with expertise all saying you need to go find your big boy pants.

That Andy Dawson oddity has taken exception to Trippier's tweet as well. He does say that he had tickets, but because he's a 'recognisable mackem', he was worried that something shitty would happen among the 'whipped up Geordie fever" and he couldn't be arsed. Setting aside the FUCKING IRREFUTABLE FACT that bot all people would recognise him even if he walked around wearing a sandwich board declaring "I'm Andy Dawson, I do a podcast with Bob Mortimer" in bright fucking neon paint. Why, if this 'Whipped up Geordie Fever' was ever to be a concern, would he buy tickets to watch a singer who is ferociously proud of being a Geordie, at his home town gig?

'Not as positive as we hoped' implies that despite a set back it is still positive. 'Worse than expected' implies the already negative outlook has deteriorated further. Clarity of language is important. e.g. "You're not as clever as I hoped" vs "You're dumb as fuck". See how subtle differences in language can change the meaning?

Because xG measures how many goals he's expected to score, and is not impacted by how many he does/doesn't score.

The point is, you hate fun.

So I've browsed a few message boards of other clubs. Shockingly, the greater the rivalry/enmity/disdain their fans have for Newcastle United, the more assured they are that they'd walk away from their own club if they were bought out by these Bond villains. Everton, Spurs, Villa, and of course the Morlocks down the road.

It's how transparent the whole thing is. So when Panja or Delaney dig out Newcastle, it's largely because of the owner, rather than any real enmity towards the fans. Sure there's some lazy stereotyping or willful ignorance, but I don't get the sense they actually have it in for us, or owt. With Glendenning though, it's clear as day to anyone with half a brain that the driving factor behind his pieces about us is born of bitterness towards the club/fans, rather than how awful our owners are. Same as his embittered rant about England's national team. He's a fucking WUM, and not even a very original one.

I don't think Ginola, Robert, Ben Arfa and Mirandinha are why we've seen the team fail to deliver success. Probably more to do with Boumsong, Bramble, Taylor, and their ilk...

Precisely the same as mine.

I should have spotted that, sorry. I've no excuse. My browser Aztec that will help me next time.

Here, @Christmas Tree you can use this website to make it easier; Premier League Calculator (thefishy.co.uk) (No it's not mine, just a co-inkydink)

In my defense, I didn't come up with the joke, it was my wife's. But you're right, it's awful, she's got to go, I'll have tequila.

Maybe they were Mexicans. After all it is League Juan.

We're switching from this to Google Data Studio at work. Also trying to learn enough SQL, that I can make a business case to send me off somewhere to sit exams in it. Which has fuck all to do with accreditation and everything to do with having a jolly on the work dime.

Wife's got it. But, like so many of the fine young men on here, I appear to be immune to it.

I've decided not to get too attached to anyone who was here before the January window. They're all a standard we should want to improve upon. Bruno might become world class, or he might not, but the rest of them are not getting to his level, let alone beyond him.

We're safe, but I'd like to see 7-9pts from the next five games. We're 6pts ahead of Everton in 17th, and 9pts ahead of Watford in 18th. Say we only get 4-5pts from the next five games. Everton have; Burnley (a) Man Utd (h) Leicester (h) Liverpool (a) Chelsea (h) Watford have; Leeds (h) Brentford (h) Man City (a) Burnley (h) Palace (a) Where are Everton going to get the 10-11pts, or Watford the 13-14pts from? I could easily see Everton beating Burnley, then losing the rest and losing heavily, widening our gap to 7-8pts. Watford are a fucking enigma, they could win all of their home games and only lose to Man City and Palace on the road, that would still put them 4-5pts behind us.

Where were they when we were shit?

Just had a look on whoscored.com. It took them 90+ minutes to get past Gillingham who rest in *checks table* 20th position. Prior to that, they drew 0-0 with Lincoln in 18th. Before that an emphatic 2-0 win! (both goals scored after the 80th minute, against rock bottom Crewe). In fact 5 of their last 7 games have all come against sides in the bottom 7. It's not looking great, is it?

spoil sports Probably wise mate

There's not a lack of drivers, it's just taking them longer because they're all enjoying the views of the Sunlit Uplands.

CT man, this is a family website!

Aye, similar for me. Sometime there are no green peppers, other times there's no cherry tomatoes, there was a week or so where you couldn't get a grab bag of Beef flavoured hula hoops for love nor money.