The Fish

Also, their fans were mostly bellends.

Hope Swansea go down like.

They couldn't afford him.

Well, I've made the bet now, so we'll see. Because my tuber chomping chum, it's just a hypothetical. Maybe Lloris develops a love of a barm cake? Or he can't stand the arseholes in London anymore, and want to move to Manchester to see what Northern arseholes are like instead?

all this talk of beer's got my wheels turning. Think it was on here someone talked about Left Luggage at Monkseaton, looks right up my street. And next time I'm up I'm definitely going there before or after a match to try a few of theirs

Meant that Spurs would go off and sign a top 'keeper and whomever they buy from will need a replacement. I know what you're saying and frankly if the market wasn't fucking bonkers I'd agree that a fairly raw 'keeper shouldn't command a big fee. But honestly, this is the Premier League we're talking about; Hull paid £13m for Ryan Mason, John Stones went for £47.25m, Palace paid £10m for James fucking Tomkins ffs! Is Jordan Pickford likely to command a higher fee than 27 year old shitheap James Tomkins?

If he's sold he'll go for >£10m. £5 to the SBR AND NOT A FUCKING PLANE

They also knew that Sissoko wanted to go and we wanted to sell. Oh, and the world knew that Sissoko was horse shit.

You're right, but Mourinho might go for Lloris, or Butland, and that'll have Spurs or Stoke looking around for a top 'keeper and so on.

He's good enough, young enough and English enough to command a big fee though. And we can't very well dismiss the likelihood of a club spending over the odds on someone who's been mostly average apart from a few highlight reels, can we? He won't go for the £30m some are expecting, but he'll be the one player that demands a high fee.

No knead.

Yeah I'd just wait for HF's take on it if I were you.

Liverpool are after a 'keeper. De Gea moving to Spain might shuffle the pack too. I'd not be surprised if they got a big fee for Pickford. English, highly rated, young. Plus if teams like Crystal palace can spend £75.5m you needn't restrict big spenders to the "big" clubs.

You drink Guiness quickly? You're a monster. (I've no idea how quickly you should drink Guiness as years at Leeds Uni watching Guiness-centred faux-Irish forced fun on Paddy's Day put me off it forever)

Lager drinkers seem to drink quicker than me, I've convinced myself it's because most Lager is pretty shit if it's not ice cold and fizzy.

I've been on the other end of something similar. Was going to the funeral of a friend's dad on the Saturday, so stayed with a mate of theirs on the Friday. He's a massive Yorkshire builder, basically a viking in a flatcap. I've met him a couple of times before so I thought it'd be fine, but things started to go awry as me, him and his wife sat down for dinner. 3 bottles between us, then he says we're off to the pub for a few. He drinks much faster than me so I was throwing back the last 3rd to try and not be rude, then we go to a craft ale bar and I he insisted I drink a pint of 12% lager, then back to his for a whisky and a port. People at the funeral were dead sympathetic, under the assumption that my miserable face, occasional disappearances & near total silence was because I was devastated about the deceased.

You're wasted on here.

Whichever striker they buy with the funds they get from Pickford and the others. Even though they're knackered, they're still going to be able to attract Championship players, ageing Premier League players and decent young players on loan from top clubs (think Tammy Abraham from Chelsea). Their biggest problem is the size of their squad. Once everyone who wants to leave goes, someone on RTG says they'll be left with: When we went down we lost a significant number of 1st team players permanently or on loan, but our squad was good enough to be the squad we added 1st team players to. Once they get rid of the 'has beens', the 'never were' and the 'might bes', there's very little left and certainly not good enough to form the basis of a squad looking to bounce back.

We should have a referendum.

They might screw their season in the same fashion as Norwich and Villa, but I can't see them ending up bottom 3rd of the table.

Even if we'd gifted them 6pts, they'd still be in the drop zone.

I didn't think it was possible, but Derby managed it. And we gave them their only fucking win of the season, didn't we? Fucking Allardyce.

Like shite, he should be forced to referee loads of games for the rest of the season, while off his tits. Balance it out y'see. I don't want other clubs benefiting from us highlighting his idiocy. By the way, I think HF and I should count this as a 2-0 win.

They were cockahoop at the thought of us being in the Championship and both of them being up in the top flight. Fully taken advantage of that situation, haven't they? 19th and 20th.

Said in the other thread but Hull will likely get c37pts, Sunderland would have to improve their PpG from 0.66PpG to 3PpG to better that. Personally I can't see them getting more than 25pts and if that's the case, they'll occupy 3 places in the Premier Leagues worst 10 list.