The Fish

https://twitter.com/D_Mellooo/status/845193281176690689 That'll be Julio Arca then.

Got an amazing 5 star review for the podcast;

Think we've got a better chance of getting Joe Hart.

That's the thing isn't it. Everton are currently much better than us, they've an all right chance of European football, he'd be playing alongside much better players, it's his "home" club, they'll be more willing to pay wages he's willing to accept etc. etc.

Rooney won't want to come is another reason.

I think you're all forgetting that he was quite good at football.

Terry and Big Les from Spalding cannot fathom why people would take a chant on the terraces seriously, 20 minutes before losing their shit because Chocolate eggs don't have "Easter" on them.

He's undeniably much, much better than Diame or Perez have been, but there's more chance of Carrick coming to Newcastle than there is of Rooney. Too expensive, we're not the level he wants to play at, there's no sentimental factors... Sigurdsson would be brilliant, Cairney would be exciting and both are much more likely than Rooney.

Zero chance of this happening

I get why people use that term, but it does make me chuckle. Like they're a maverick copper in an 80's movie, rather than a dickhead.

How do you stop an isolated, disenfranchised, radicalised lad in Solihull hiring a car, driving down to London, ploughing through a crowd and stabbing some people? There can't be as many warning flags in his behaviour prior to the incident as there would be for a more complex, coordinated attack? I mean, obviously the plan would be to stop them becoming radicalised in the first place, but once they are...

Rather spend that money on someone who's building a career, rather than one who'se waving goodbye to it.

It's the "dude" that makes it.

Just think Shelvey struggles to impact the game if he isn't getting plenty of time on the ball.

I know you can, but you've not been bemoaning the style of football, stressing about what the chasing pack are doing, worrying what might happen if the wheels come off.

And is he?

One trouble I see, is that there's a few players who've been integral this season that might not be up to scratch in the Premier League; Gayle, Shelvey, Yedlin. They've been good in the Championship no doubt, but it's not like it was last time, it was clear than Jonas, Coloccini, Enrique, Harper Taylor et al could do the job in the top flight. Because there are so many new faces and so few with lots of Premier League experience, we may need to buy players from the Premier League and I can't imagine Ashley being ok with paying out for that.

I might have had some ideas...

Not much we can do about their results though. Maybe it's because I look at our rivals' boards and see how much they're panicking

But if we're not playing brilliantly and we're still​ top why the concern? People say "what if we drop points", well sure, but Brighton and Huddersfield are as (if not more) likely to drop points than we are. And given our wobble coincided with an absence of key players, wouldn't it be more reasonable to expect their return to be reflected in better performances and better results? People need to stop worrying about the worst possibility and concentrate on enjoying the fact we're winning games, and we're top of the league. Unless we're relegated again next year I can't imagine we're going to have many seasons with as many happy Saturdays as this.

Don't ask question on here, just google, this lot are all cunts.

SUCK MA PLUMS THOMAS, SUCK THEM LONG AND SLOW.

I absolutely understand being frustrated with Dummett going forward, with Perez's inconsistency and Jack Colback's existence, but I cannot understand the negativity. The criticisms haven't been X was shit, it's "we're shit", when we're clearly not.

And missing 1st choice players in key positions. Look, I'm not pretending we're playing brilliant football, or arguing that you shouldn't be allowed to criticise poor performances/results, but I am baffled at the air of negativity. We're top of the league, we've scored loads, conceded few, we're playing effective disciplined solid football (just as we did under Hughton) and when everyone is fit and firing we can play some really nice stuff too.