The Fish

Old Tufty is 10/1 for the job, Agnew is favourite at 4/1

Just delete your vote Senor Pissypants.

Schteve & Pardiola dream team?

I'd have him back, because sentimentality in football is more dead than Bruno's baby momma.

Good grief. The tone was a bit unsettling given the topic mind.

I've not seen it. I think it's because everyone on here has become distrustful of MSM at your urging and as such are uncomfortable sharing any news items that aren't 1st hand accounts or funny.

Swansea get to play a fair number of midtable holiday makers and Clement has them playing well, so I'd fancy them to stay up. Palace's run in is daunting with their last 11 fixtures including; Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd. Boro's is similar, but they get to face 3 from the bottom 5 and who knows what the new man may achieve with a defensively resolute squad? Some hard fought draws against the big clubs and beating the relegationeers could drag them to safety? Mackems are down imo, but I don't think it's definitely the current bottom three. Fwiw I'd love Pardew to take over at Boro and fail to keep them up, Moyes to dour his way into the Championship and Palace to flounder against the big boys and Sam gets his first releg... wait, what's that? It's his second relegation? Interesting... Pardew, Allardyce, Palace, Sunderland and Middlesbrough all relegated as we go up. Ahh Bisto.

In unsurprising news Karanka has been sacked by Boro. Not sure it'll do them a whole lot of good, but it does mean the mackems are now the only side in the bottom six not to change their manager this season. Will the others benefiting from the "new manager bounce" set our North East chums further adrift?

That wasn't the one where Shearer scored the only goal of the game after about 9 seconds was it?

Not seriously, no. Just a little gentle ribbing, same as when ex-pros return and we applaud them initially then boo his second touch.

A cabal of nefarious Geordie businessmen?

... anyone? Does anybody have a fucking clue where that came from?

Brilliant win for Leicester, makes you wonder what the could have done in the league if they'd got shot of Ranieri earlier?

To be fair, they're still side by side, it's just they're packed on the bus heading back to Hendon.

The pace he uses to get free of the defenders though...

They've released a new advert where the heights of 1997 are warmly referenced and are accompanied by the line "Through thick and thin, Wearside by side".

True, but he did have a bad half a season that one time, so y'know... fair's fair.

For me it was solid, but not as good as the hype. Made me think that hype was early reviewers who were able to go into the story with low expectations (based on previous movies). Wish they'd been able to have this​ Logan character in all the movies. Same is true for Xavier. Not the gore or the rude words, just the more fleshed out characters. Hope he pops up in Deadpool sequels, which in this time-hopping reality would be easily possible. Because infuriating + furious = comedy conveyor belt. Merchant was shit and clunky, fwiw.

Speaking of ungrateful pricks, did you hear the Chelsea fans giving Mourinho shit and he just kept holding up 3 fingers, one for each title he brought them. Honestly, football fans have fucking short memories.

that's full on, 90mph, proper local radio advert. "Just by the bike shops".

Did a predictor thing Have us finishing top on 97 points, Brighton 2nd on 95pts Huddersfield in 3rd on 93pts. If I'm honest I think we'll need 18-21 points to win the league, 14-18 to clinch automatic promotion. We face; Birmingham (a) 17th, in terrible form since Rowett was binned off, played 16, won 2, drawn 4, lost 10. It's not even like results are improving either. We're better away from home. Win. 80pts Wigan (h) Last win came at Birmingham, scored the fewest in the division and only Rotherham have lost more games. Hopefully Hayden will be back? Disappointing Draw. 81pts Burton (h) Decent form and unbeaten in 6, but another team that doesn't score much (36). Face Huddersfield 4 days before us. Decent if uninspiring Win. 84pts Sheffield Wednesday (a) A good defence, should still be trying to cement a Play Off space. We're better away from home though. Draw. 85pts Leeds (h) Have two tricky fixtures next in Brighton and Reading. After that there are 2 potential banana skins in Brentford and Preston. They're a decent side, and they've a reliable striker in Wood. If they come out of those four filled with confidence we'll lose this. 85pts Ipswich (a) We like smashing the Tractor boys about, (P10 W6 D3 L1, F19 A7 ) they'll be totally safe and nowhere near the play-offs. They aren't great up front so I fancy a comfortable win. 88pts Preston (h) Think by this point automatic promotion will be in our hands. A win against Preston and we'll be up. This will translate to a nervy negative crowd. Luckily, Preston will be out of the running and be good for a belly tickle. Win 91pts and Automatic Promotion Cardiff (a) Gunning for the title vs another mid-table side with nothing to play for. Last away trip of the league. Some players hoping to show that Rafa can rely on them. Win. 94pts Barnsley (h) Last time they beat us at St James' was 1982. We'll need a draw to clinch the title, but the players will go into the summer in style. Big win 97pts and the title.