The Fish

On the bright side, it means I have a ticket for the weekend of the 21st already, but when I realised it was like Tyson just unloaded his best shot on my gut.

Getting the train back from Leeds to London, checked my ticket and realised that, because I'm an idiot, I'd bought a ticket for the 21st of August, instead of the 7th. Had to pay £120 and hang around at the station for another 30 minutes. While I'm dossing about, I check the price if I'd bought it online; £90. It's my own fault, but fuck me the train companies are bandits, aren't they?

Had to laugh when I saw Villa fans on twitter giving it the biggun. Haven't they ever watched football before in their life? You don't gloat until your team can't make you look like a fucking idiot.

Fair dos

Hopefully Diame will add much to the centre of the park as while Hayden was quality, there wasn't a lot to be said for the creativity from there. Mind you, we also played so narrow that I think we either need to play 10 yards further forward and use the width from the fullbacks, in which case we need to buy a Left Back. Either that or play actual wingers, but if you're playing actual wingers we'll need a threat in the air.

Be stupid to sell him and Rafa isn't a stupid man, so I can't see this happening.

I'm sorry, I'm not fluent in full-retard. Could you have someone translate into English?

Did Looney Toony come in with a prediction after the deadline?

Ok, I'm going to the pub now. Any additional votes may not be picked up until Monday morning...

38 votes counted thus far. Even though the page is saying 39 people have voted, and shows a total of 37 votes.. ) (I've included your TGQ) Now it's saying 40 and shows 38

Is there much interest in this at all?

Course you will, and it a fortnight you'll adjust them again and a day later it'll change again and 45 minutes after that it'll mutate once more.

What's your twitter name?

I am.

Tiote hasn't gone. Ok, I'm trying to think of a way to sooth your concerns. In the following the lower number the better. Aguero is a 2 Wijnaldum is a 7 Janmaat is a player who wouldn't look out of place in a top half of the Prem side, so lets give him a value of 8 Townsend is a mid-table Premier League player. So lets arbitrarily give him a value of 10. Ritchie is a bottom half/ mid-table player so lets give him a value of 13 Gayle is bottom half again so 16 etc. etc. We've a team of 13-19s with an 8 or two in a league made up mostly of 20s and below. We've comfortably the best squad in the league. Who might not be blowing your skirt up, in the context of this season are actually very good acquisitions. Plus we've got Rafa.

That's definitely a tattoo of his mam on his arm by the way.

But by your own admission you don't know anything about the Championship. How can you possibly have an informed opinion about a subject that, by your own admission, you aren't informed on?

Just read that myself, bloody love a George Caulkin article.

I see your point and I certainly wouldn't fancy being stuck behind a massive flag all game, but I suppose the people behind this care more making noise and creating an atmosphere than I am. I'll shout and chant and all that, but I wouldn't turn my back on the game to coordinate a poznan or anything. All that said I think that, if this works, it could be an impressive and exciting facet to our support. If there's a corner of the ground awash with colour and noise and flags and songs, I'm fully behind it. If there's folk in the corner who don't want to be part of this, the club should make it easier for them to move seats to somewhere more sedate?

I really don't understand you. You kept calling for Ferguson to start despite having nowt more than gut instinct to base that on, now you're not excited about the new players for the Championship despite seeing nowt of them. You said that you got excited about Cabaye because everyone else did and now, when everyone's telling you that Ritchie is going to be mint in the Championship, you're not taking the same insight on board? Despite all of this negativity from you, you're predicting a 5-1 away win. Can you not see why everyone thinks you're a contrarian?

You're not as positive as you were last time round, but you're predicting a 5-1 win? Never change CT, never change. I wouldn't anticipate there to be a settled 1st 11 though; our games again Liverpool & Man City were the first without rotation for over a hundred games for Rafa. (I think, I may have the fixtures wrong, but the point remains)

Have we just seen one of the voices in Wykiki's head?

So far, nobody is predicting a loss. @@Christmas Tree is that your actual prediction? (I'm guessing you couldn't vote in the poll because you're on tapatalk.) (Noelie's nightmare isn't what he predicted in the poll)

Dunno if there's any Boro' mags (I'd have thought so), but the best bet is to get in touch with some big NUFC twitter accounts and they'll get the message out. If that fails, get to Darlington and hop on the East Coast mainline, that'll sort you out for a load of the away days.