The Fish

Could be worse. Ashley could have thrown a Pardew contract at him. This, for me, is another example of the powers that be showing themselves to be perfectly happy to tread water until the sale to the Saudis is resolved one way or the other. See also loan deals and contract extensions for existing players.

I think the suggestion is that he's always been on a rolling contract and the club have exercised the extension instead of fixing it. So he had 3 years, he's still got 3 years.

Edwards (I know, I know) says he has a 3yr rolling contract.

That ruse didn't even get me the job.

Took a bit longer than that.

Off to the Cotswolds in September, staying near Cirencester. Thankfully all the planning has been done by Mrs Fish, because I know fuck all about the Cotswolds. Edit: Reading that sentence back reminds me that I'm regularly shocked by the ways my life has changed in the past 4 years.

Headrow House is good. Tapped and Brewery Tap are all right. Whitelock off the main street is a real old pub. What Newcastle equivalent are you after?

So, 越变越一样 then?

The fuck are you on about?

Edwards, and his ilk, pin their entire argument on Bruce achieving a similar points total to Benitez, but disregard the context. As if the fans should shut up and be happy that we're not relegated. With the amount that's been spent, and more importantly the caliber of players available to us, we should be able to do better than we did shortly after promotion. We're all idiots, and yet we could all see that the best way to get points with this team was to play a pressing, counter attack style. To use the movement of the attacking players (Wilson/Almiron/ASM) and the solid defence left by RB to ensure we're hard to beat, at the very least. The football under Bruce has, on the whole, been bad. Even with the additions of quality players like Wilson, Saint Maximin, etc. We've been told he's a great fan of running stats, but we don't press. We were told he'd make us play more attractive football, but by and large, we're more passive and defensive than we were under famously pragmatic Benitez, let alone McClaren, Pardew, et al. He's a great motivator, right? Yet we've had numerous stories of discord on the training ground, listless performances and so on.

Last few years they've been offered to everyone by work and, because I've had full on flu before and didn't enjoy it, I prefer to get a little prick, than be a total prick. Proper flu is fucking awful, had me laid out for a week surviving on soup, self-pity and seasons of the West Wing. An unexpected bonus of COVID is that the NHS have me confused for a feeb and I was head of the queue for COVID and Flu jabs. Hope there are more benefits to come. Free cybernetics and shit.

Had to google that.

So the little lad has a bad cough that had him up every hour or so. Here's the thing though, there’s a creepy house opposite us. Never see the owner, unkempt garden, high bushes, dark small windows. The whole 9 spooky yards. Anyway, 3:30 Mrs Fish comes back from seeing to little'un, and half asleep I tell her to stop scratching. She says it’s not her, we realise the noise is coming from outside. There we see an older man hurriedly sweeping leaves from the path outside the house and hiding against the bush every time a car passes. My question is this; Is this the beginning of a) a horror movie or b ) a kids adventure movie where the creepy guy turns out to be an unlikely hero?

Do you not get annual flu jabs? I do. Because I'm really clever and smart and wise.

Jesus! I moved a fair amount in London, but I could fit most of my stuff into a small hatchback. But it was still a ball ache. Now, with all the shit we've accumulated there's no way I'm doing it again. If ever we move from this house, we'll just pay to have some company do it instead.

I have a lot of questions.

Amos

Good. Could do with some of that over here.

You can't trust anything Lord Grimstone says. That bugger's after the Iron Throne.

CAT proceedings are distinct from the arbitration.

Clear delaying tactics by the EPL, I'd wager they've demanded some documents from NUFC, NUFC lawyers are trying to prove or disprove their relevance and that'll take time. I don't understand why a SPAC can't be set up by PIF to provide sufficient separation? Or a wealthy individual related to the KSA royal family? Even if it's conjunction with the arbitration and CAT proceedings?

So you don't pay the license fee, don't watch the output... so what exactly is the nature of your discontent?

It's a shit name and no mistake.

Glad to know our podcast is more popular than GB News.

1. I go to my seat and find that there's already some coked up jibber sitting there who refuses to move 2. I choose violence