The Fish

We always run it by the bride & groom first. Be a bit shitty if the bride's dad just got over lung cancer and we offer him a smoke.

I don't know what that would be... but I'm going to say no. Still in the old job, still looking for a new one.

Sorry, I meant that the show will deliver it fairly heavy handed. Like an "I am Ironman" moment.

had to google that

Not with this beard.

Won't that be held back as long as possible?

Owen Coyle is the new Blackburn manager, for the moment, might be sacked before preseason.

Think a lot of that is down to the coaching and Woodman in particular, who ironically he'll rejoin if he moves to Palace.

More like Arthur Daley

That's because you've something of the night about you, yourself. See a World War Z type swarm clambering up the wall? Arya will bump off the Waif next season, wouldn't be surprised if she stopped saying "I'm no one" and reclaimed her Stark name. Isn't it? I thought it had been confirmed? 7 episodes to set up all the dominos for the final (8th) season where all hell breaks loose?

Obviously been dragged up better than you plebeians.

Won an award for being nice and everything

My Mam and Aunt were at the Battle of Jutland commemoration and they met Princess Anne & Joachim Gauck. When she says "met" they probably were just in a crowd of people who stood near them, but my Mam's nice so I'm not going to pull her up on it.

For me there's a huge difference between smoking cigars and cigarettes. Wedding tradition amongst me and my mates, to have a cigar with the fathers of the bride and groom.

Given there's only 1 season left, and a shorter one at that, I reckon the zombies will get through the wall in Episode 10. There needs to be a reason for Dragon Tits to head for the North though, who's she going to meet that convinces her to delay attacking King's Landing to go fight monsters? So many threads to tie up, Sparrows v Lannisters, Arya's list, the Iron Islands, Dragon Tits, and of course The Zombies...

RTG are making out like this is evidence of rats leaving a sinking ship.

That's key for me, we've a better squad than we did when we went down last time and we've certainly got a better manager to bring us up (no disrespect to Hughton who did brilliantly with what he had). Say the gutless wonders depart as soon as they can. Sissoko and Wijnaldum, plus maybe Janmaat, Krul, Shelvey and Townsend. If they leave I'm confident we'll be able to reinvest the £40m-£50m in players that can not only take us up, but players who'll be able to perform in the Top flight too. Even if they all leave we've still got a side of good Championship players.

Krul is comfortably our best 'keeper. Elliot and Darlow have benefited from low expectations, where Krul's been in the spotlight for years.

Really? When we were last down the league looked like this; 1 Newcastle United 2 West Bromwich Albion 3 Nottingham Forest 4 Cardiff City 5 Leicester City 6 Blackpool 7 Swansea City 8 Sheffield United 9 Reading 10 Bristol City 11 Middlesbrough 12 Doncaster Rovers 13 Queens Park Rangers 14 Derby County 15 Ipswich Town 16 Watford 17 Preston North End 18 Barnsley 19 Coventry City 20 Scunthorpe United 21 Crystal Palace 22 Sheffield Wednesday 23 Plymouth Argyle 24 Peterborough United I'd say the balance of power is pretty much the same...

Thing is, for all people are spending more money, the standard of players haven't dramatically improved. Fans of clubs in the bottom half of the top flight are making out like we'll be £100m behind them all, well not really. The Premier League will be able to afford top level players, sure, but the elite clubs always have. That doesn't mean West Brom will suddenly be able to attract Alexandre Lacazette or Mario Gotze. They might spend a fortune on players, but they're as likely to overspend on Ricky van Wolfswinkel as they are to secure top talent. The clubs still have to name a squad of 25, they still have to obey FFP, and selling clubs will still know they can charge Premier League clubs more.

Yep, Arsenal and Liverpool will look to spend to try and keep pace with those teams as well. Spurs aren't short of a bob or two either.

Nah, it'll be Boro, Bournemouth, Burnley, Hull, West Brom I reckon. Palace won't tolerate another post-Christmas slump.

If this is fake it's well done, if it's real I'm not going anywhere near Florida. Ever.

Rumours that Pardew wants him at Palace. Bet Timmy can't wait for some more of this

Nip & Tuck?