The Fish

Elland Road hosted LEague 1 football for a few years. I know it's 8k short of the Stadium of Light's capacity, but that's still a huge stadium for England's 3rd tier. The average attendance in that league so far is 7,600, but that's skewed massively by the 17,000 and 20,000 pulled in by Portsmouth and Bradford respectively. Bradford pull in nearly 7 times the amount Fleetwood do.

Yeah might give that a rewatch. Cheers

It'd be great if I was hampered by a crippling agoraphobia, or something like that. I think that can be bested by trying things. But when you're afraid of failing, the very act of trying is part of what you're afraid of. How do you defeat that?

Went to visit a few mates last weekend. One couple brought their little laddy, who's been sick. Now the rest of the group are sick as dogs, throwing up and pissing out our bumholes. So I need a film to watch this afternoon as I have a little pity party on the sofa. Any suggestions?

Tempted, sure, but what if I try to resolve it and I fail and my life is over?

He's certainly up there for me. Can't think of too many who'd be ahead of him in the list of people I'd like to see publically humiliated. From lording it over some 13yr old 'keeper to rubbing his hands against us, to the way he was with us, his helicopter tour video and now his punditry. Actually is he still doing punditry or has he been benched?

Absolutely I do. The big obstacle between who I am and who I could be is "yeah but when you fail your life is over, so don't try and you'll be fine mate."

Which is exactly why so many Brexiteers are the way they are and vote the way they vote.

By lodging a bid for Rooney to open the door for Man Utd? I thought that story was just people trying to sound ITK?

When the last of them to try and use "6 in a row" to win an argument realises that it just makes them look fucking stupid given the situation they're in. When we went down we were derided for our arrogant belief we'd bounce right back up, but objectively we had the best manager in the league, he'd spent well on a squad, rather than buying big names, we had a core spine to the team that was at best lower Premier League, at worst top Championship and most importantly we had few arseholes and a good number of hard-working solid professionals. It then transpired we had one of the best strikers in the league, the best right winger (Knockaert can suck my plums), the best Central Midfielder, the best defence in the league and so on. Our "gambles" paid off on the whole; Atsu, Clark, Hayden, Murphy, Yedlin, with only really Lazaar and Sels being total failures. They've gone down and are now stuck with their 3rd choice manager who is bang average in the Championship, a man who's not been backed anything like enough, regardless of their healthy transfer income. He's signed fairly well known names, rather than addressing key weaknesses in the team. After relegation they were left with a team that was at best top Championship, at worst League 1. Only Lamine Kone is good enough for the Premier League on his day, and he clearly couldn't give less of a shit. They haven't a reliable striker, any real creative spark and a leaky fucking defence. None of their "gambles" have paid off. All that said, I still think they've enough in their squad to survive, but that that is even up for debate is a damning indictment of the way that club has been run into the ground for years. The warning signs were there, flashing stark cautions into the wearside gloom, but every season those signs were eclipsed by the spotlights shining on the derby wins, the relegations or whatever else was happening at circus that is Newcastle United. "You finished on 39pts and would have gone down if.." "DORRRRRTY KNEEEES! Horse Punchers!" "You failed to get 40pts again and all your points came in th..." "Borini is class marra! 3 in a ROWWWW!" "This is the 3rd year in a row that you've failed to get 40pts, aren't you worr..." "HE SHAGS WHO HE WAAAAAANTS!" "4yrs out of 5 you've been involved in a relegation fight." "Wis sent yiz dooon! 6 in a row! Yis are gutted! Yiz'll be down for years, Benitez won't stay and it's a pub league." "You've been relegated, there are persisting rumours about administration and you're in the bottom 3 of the 2nd flight." "6 IN A ROW!"

If you describe it I'm sure I'd be enthused, but their own site makes it sound a bit shit. Hadrian's Wall 1/2 Marathon sounds an awful like "London's" Southend airport.

Urgh, we get it you have a Partner I saw a counsellor at Uni and I have regular chats with my GP. I was lucky that the counsellor offered advice about triggers, about mechanisms to deal with my depression, and so on. She avoided steepling her fingers and asking me to talk about my childhood. Forgive me if I've misread it, but this sounds like you're rooting around for a central problem? And once you find and address it, there won't be anything between you and the you you want to be? Obviously if you don't forgive me, we'll have to fight and we know how you feel about confrontation, ergo I win...

"Taste" defeat? Are they not full up already?

Don't get Rooney's association with Shepherd like.

A slight poacher who scores but doesn't contribute hugely to the rest of the team?

He had good movement in the box and I figured him for a bit of a poacher in the Chicharito mould. Don't think he has the technique to play #10.

Getting things wrong on the way sounds very much in keeping with the Uber experience.

I'm not convinced, I think we'd lose a vital part of Benitez' strategy by removing Joselu from the sharp point of the spear. I agree we need something other than Perez (or Diame) in the #10 position, but I think Joselu up front is better than Joselu in a role he's not familiar/natural at. Of the squad we've got available I'd prefer Merino played further forward and Joselu retain his role up front, to be honest.

Mitr

Isn't it too much of a significant change to the system to risk and the hope that it will be better?

Square pegs, round holes aren't they? fwiw I'd give Gayle longer against Liverpool, but I'd stick with Joselu up top. I'd be tempted to play a 4-1-4-1 Hayden sat deep, Shelvey and Merino in the centre with Joselu given the unenviable task of relieving pressure, winning freekicks and so on.

Yeah, all we're after is consistency. It's not some kind of anti-Newcastle agenda, and I get why the stamp wouldn't be as interesting given they've recently covered one, but we don't seem to benefit from these kinds of things as much as we suffer for them.

Maybe. He's not played there before though, has he? Isn't this similar to when people see a centre back who can trap and pass a ball, and people call for him to be played as a defensive midfielder?

He's safe until he goes after Nascar, gun owners and Simon Legree.