The Fish

I do, I've not updated it in a bit because I've been moving house, job hunting and the like. If you've got a sheet that you could toss my way, that'd be great. Then I can C&P the predictions into my sheet, refresh and fuck about with slicers and graphs to my hearts content.

Agree with Howay and DK's assessments. re: the Mitro thing, I've never seen him moping, in fact, every time we score the big mad bastard streaks down the pitch to go celebrate with the lads. Hardly the behaviour of a Sulky Serb. To be honest, I think Mitro is suffering a backlash; his pashun and rhetoric won over a lot of casual fans and a lot of the younger crowd too, older more cynical seem to take umbrage at this and insist he's done nothing to deserve this adoration. The truth lies somewhere in between, he's a decent young striker who's only got an ok goal return, whose discipline record at St James' isn't brilliant (a lot of his cards have been reputation cards imo) and whose attitude has been exemplary. I'd start him against Preston, if he scores again, or even if he just has another excellent game it gives Rafa a nice headache.

Mitrovic has become quite the Escape Goat.

They damn near tore their cocks off when their reserves embarrassed ours.

Get shot of them before the Transfer Window? Month to assess the squad, month to find replacements/improvements?

njm soccer has it

Wolves have sacked Zenga after 87 days in charge. 5 out of the nine new managers in the Championship have already been sacked.

Yup, gave rise to Bobby's moon quote. Journalist "If you beat Arsenal and Man United don't beat Leeds, you could be top for Christmas" Bobby "Aye, but if I had wings I could fly to the moon" J "Sure, Bobby, but would you like to be there?" B "What? The moon?" something like that, anyway.

I was meaning more in terms of Bobby Robson working with Peter Beardsley, David Ginola, Les Ferdinand, and a 26yr old Shearer. Instead, he inherited Marcelino, Goma, Domi and Maric.

If we'd transitioned straight from Keegan to Robson, I think we could have claimed to have been an established title chasing team.

It's certainly their best chance of picking up all three points, but all of Hull's wins have come against teams in the shit and there's no team more in the shit than Sunderland. Hull have shown they can win games and that's why I reckon they'll get something from the sunderland fixture.

QPR have the longest winless start to a PL season with 16 games played without getting all 3pts. If Sunderland fail to win any of their next 4 games they will be joint 3rd. I reckon the below isn't overly creative either. H Arsenal (L) A Bournemouth (D) H Hull (D) A Liverpool (L) H Leicester (L) A Swansea (D) H Chelsea (L)

Christ you're right, feels like it's been ages since we've been much cop.

it's fair to say we weren't an established top 6 side.

Preston aren't too bad y'know. I wouldn't expect them to roll over for a belly rub. 2-1 To Rafa's Athenian Gods though.

Brought in a few young lads that the scouts say have the potential to be Decent -> Good Premier League players in the Christmas window as my promotion push is stuttering thanks to injuries.

Norwich will be promoted automatically, I fancy Huddersfield to stay around the play off positions, with Brighton, Birmingham and Sheffield Wednesday. Villa might make the Play Offs, but I think it'll be too soon for a lot of their delicate egos.

The biggest issue is of course the restrictions on broadcasting live football 3-5pm on a saturday. As long as that restricts UK viewers from watching live tv on a Saturday afternoon, but non-domestic markets have the stream there'll be UK residents viewing it through the stream. And if they've got working streams for the 3pm kick offs, why would they pay for the lunch and evening kick offs?

They're losing viewers to a free service, what price would entice them back? They need to find a way to secure their broadcasts against streaming.

And if that transpired you'd see the same kind of imbalance in TV money in the Prem as you see in La Liga, as Man Utd, Liverpool et al would get a shit ton of viewers and nobody would tune in for sunderland v Burnley.

Surely they'd prefer to have you tied down to a contract?

Part of it is the standard of football, but a lot is the freely available streams, surely?

Even if you forget about the opposition, that was some of the most scintillating football I've ever seen. A brilliant match filled with incidents, great goals and great play. Always remember the goal that should have been, came from a move involving Beardsley, Ginola, Batty and Ferdinand and if he'd scored Batty's would have been better than Albert's imo. Here it is. https://youtu.be/ofK3WwdUZHo?t=432

Also was offered £7m rising to £10m for Colback, but couldn't find a decent replacement for him.