The Fish

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.

Didn't link CT's post to Quiff's. That'll larn us

Manage your expectations man, we're in the Championship.

Could be Anita, or Tiote, or Shelvey with Perez in the AM position and on the left; Aarons or... Gouffran

I was honestly just being an old romantic, and a gif of Shearer breaking the club's goal scoring record is about as romantic as I could muster. Chill, Winston.

Sels Janmaat Mbemba/Hanley Lascelles ...Dummett? Hayden Colback Ritchie ------ Shelvey------ Perez Gayle

Tell you what when they put it online, I saved hours of dealing with papercuts.

You can turn some of them round, but it's the ones who stick their heads in the sands that have me thinking; Also, the posts don't take that long, certainly not enough to eat into my day. I'm a quick typerer

BAMFU

I wonder if Sissoko will be in the squad? There's apparently been no bids and Rafa is happy to work with him, and for all his faults he remains a player who can change a game if he can be arsed.

Oh the level of debate on here is far higher than that on the RTG football forum, but there's plenty of flavours of arseholery. The sunderland board suffers because lax moderating, so there's 8 or 9 threads on the front page about the same 3 or 4 topics. There's also a large number of active posters, so the 1 sensible mackem gets lost in a sea of "Fuck off mag"-ness. I think there's a lot of young lads on there which brings the level of debate down another level.

Is it just the length of what I type that pains you? I'd have thought 20 short posts trying to get a point across would be more of a pain in the arse than 1 longer post that you can skim past?

That's not true. The snarling morons are entertaining in their own way. I've never understood the last bit of your post; If you know what I'm like, and you find it painful, why don't you mute/ignore it? It's the internet, by and large you're free to view or avoid whatever you want.