The Fish

You say that, but that league is absolute tinpot and really hard to get out of, and they'll have to replace all of their best Premier League players with Championship shite so that they can piss the league because they've spent a fortune on players that're too good for that league, oh and Moyes won't cut it in that league because he's never managed at that level apart from the times that he has... fwiw I wouldn't be surprised if they survived, Moyes is an ok manager and teams like Swansea, West Ham and Hull are having terrible starts to the season, by their standards.

My forum name was chosen for a different reason but has become apposite. I find it very difficult to see an ill-informed/inaccurate opinion expressed as fact, and not try to correct it.

It's the same as what you said earlier about the players. They're all too good for the Championship because we spent a fortune, but not good enough for the Premier League because they're in the Championship. Gayle is a shit striker, and the only reason he's got 13 goals is because he's too good for that league. If they do go down, surely they'll smash the 100pts mark record?

Personally I like to hear opinions from fans of other clubs and while the overwhelming majority of Ready to Go can't have a conversation with a Newcastle fan without devolving into a furious dispenser of cliche and nonsense, there are a few times you can actually have a considered conversation. Same is true on a few other message boards, and I'm sure it would be true for an opposing fan on N-O.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/rafa-to-wist-hem.1300092/ They're fewmin and I don't know why.

Saw that, was it the Northumberland cup or something?

Many good opportunities to slope off unnoticed and go and hang out with your actual mates instead

Thanks for this input Commodore Sarcasmo, but was that not a common criticism of Cisse and other "instinctive strikers"? Oh, wait, yes it fucking was.

Maybe that's the problem? maybe Perez is better when he's working at a faster pace, operating on instincts? The goals that stick in the mind are snap volleys or first time takes.

I also think he benefits from playing with Mitro more so than with Gayle.

Usually when compared to the other top leagues.

Why do you think that is? The physicality? the pace?

Pretty much, although he has a better beard.

Aye, that's where I am. He can play better and needs to either improve his technique, or make quicker decisions. I felt I had to defend him because he'd been singled out for criticism in a 2-0 away win against Leeds United who're pushing for the play-offs.

Echo what everyone else says, go and see a GP. But also, talk to your partner/a trusted friend, if you can. I know having people who know what I'm going through/am trying to avoid has helped me massively. As has the aforementioned CBT. As an aside, it's great that we're living in an age where it's easier to talk about depression and the like. I know that a lad who's only in his early 40s,who has struggled his whole life with it and it's only the past year or so that he's been able to talk about it openly.

Got one of those plates of glass that people use in films to scribble equations on.

Gayle hasn't shown me anything that suggests he can play deeper. He's at his best playing off the shoulder of the centre back. He hasn't the vision or passing to play the deeper lying role and we'd miss his disruptive movement further forward. I'd like a better No.10 than both Perez and Diame to be honest.

Hard to see anything but a comfortable home win. Sam Gallagher has scored a few for them (7), but keep him quiet and they don't have much else (18).

That's the crux of the matter.

Partly watching his movement when he's on screen but not necessarily involved, partly hearing 1st hand accounts, partly looking at data, partly guesswork based on the role.

I think I'm more interested in it than the average fan, for sure.

Maybe, he's entirely capable of turning a narrow loss into a draw, or a score draw into a win.

Forster is better than anyone we've got between the sticks.