Howay

Brighton 2 up now after scoring from a fairly soft free kick. Not really a shock mind, QPR are fucking dross.

You mean to tell me the immensely exciting, ground breakingly fluid and interesting Brighton side are currently drawing 0-0 in the same fixture Rafa's bores won 6-0.

:lol: Makes you really feel for the fans of some of the title winners over the years. Must have been woeful for Liverpool fans trudging through their massively successful period. Obviously it's not worth questioning but it does make you wonder what amazingly interesting and fluid football they saw under the likes of McClaren, his games were horrible to watch and we only won 6 under him! Fwiw I really enjoyed some of our more 'functional' wins such as the one against Huddersfield, as they were the exact sort of games we would have got humiliated in in recent seasons, to each their own I guess.

That's probably for the best HF. It's bonkers how some people are reacting to this man, as I've said before I've always defended our lot against those ridiculous "they would rather lose 4-3 than win 1-0" deluded jawwwdee claims but this season I think we've seen there is an element where they genuinely think that. We won 9 games last season and that bloke sat through that and would have probably renewed either way, now we're on track to win the most games by a Championship side for yonks (4 out the past 5 years iirc) he's thinking about jacking in .

:lol: Then they'll fail some work permit test and be shunted out to some farming village in Belgium for three years.

Aye I mean I'm sure nerves about future regulations in the area probably is what's driving Man City's owners to do that. It's like the Lampard deal, everyone thought he was a New York player on loan to Man City but it turned out he was always a Man City player and then was transferred to New York City FC. Not much you can do about that unless you stop owners owning multiple clubs which is nigh on impossible as people would just start using holding companies etc, and honestly it's not like corrupt cunts like Uefa, FIFA, etc are going to really be that arsed about doing something like that and I'm not sure the FA have the jurisdiction to put that sort of rule into place. This was always inevitable with the money in the game really, I still think there's a fairly good chance at one of those European super league things actually coming to fruition.

Fair enough, although with a name like Hugo I'm still skeptical. Think you naturally get drawn to them crowds when your name fits. Whatever the case I bet the Spurs players are loving it at the minute as they'll be ahead of the Arsenal players for queues into the clubs.

Rumour was that Pickford was in the boozer most nights of the week when he was injured.

Aye that's it like, it's a fairly strong side that and that's only from Chelsea ffs . They've got to try and do something about it, I know they've tried doing stuff in the past but so far most of it seems to target clubs getting players on loan rather than loaning loads out. The worry is that they get so much TV revenue and most of that interest is down to sides like Chelsea etc the FA might be fine to just go along with it, the argument is though that if this is detrimental to the other sides in the league it'll surely get fairly boring to watch for some of the markets they target.

I hope we fucking batter these after the fucking shit show last game where they just kicked our lot off the pitch and the ref let them do it.

Nowt to do with my age it's all to do with the clip of that Swanson tip. Bringing back 1900's problems. I do always try and eat some steak or chicken if I'm mortal so the first part is probably right.

Either way it's fucking lifting, you'd end up with trench foot if you carry on like that.

Could always try the Swanson method of a 12oz steak and putting on a pair of wet socks.

It's all perspective, often a good drink seems like a bad drink the next morning.

It was fucking hilarious that mind, giving it the big one that they won that and then acting like they just won it again after beating us which took one of the worst refereeing performances I've ever seen. Quick switch from being miles better than us to acting like minnows.

Just having a look at the league table and didn't realize how completely fucking shite Notts Forest were doing, in fact if it wasn't for that nightmarish display of refereeing that handed them a win over us they would be in the relegation zone (we'd have beaten them that day imo so they'd have 39 points and be a point behind Blackburn). No relevance really just sort of shows how much these incompetent refs can fuck teams over.

:lol: Aye it's always the best when you have 5 seconds before a completely buckled looking Lee Ryder pops up going "aye well anuvva win there Chris, I reckon Rafa will have a few surprises for wuh in the transfer window". Cheers Ronnie Gill, I'll click play if I want to see that fucking bamp start gassing on rather than have him just randomly start droning on when I'm halfway down the page if I forget to tell the thing to stop.

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He's called Hugo man, he must love it in London knocking about with blokes called Tarquin and people with two surnames.

Aye it was fucking shocking eh, had historic losing streaks in the seasons leading up to it and only bothered trying to do anything about it at the last possible minute.

There is a lot of dross. I was talking to a mate about this the other week and I was wondering if the way the top clubs are hoarding talent and youth is lowering the quality of the lower sides. Chelsea for instance have won the Uefa youth cup a couple of times in the last few years, Manchester City's academy is so good they're drawing kids away from everyone including Manchester United, then those kids are stifled by current superstars that those teams are paying 30m+ for. Meanwhile everyone else has to play Gosling, Colback, Rodwell, etc in midfield. With changes in rules they've even been hoovering up some of the usual mid-table level English players like Delph. Maybe I'm chatting shit here but when you have sides like Chelsea with squads deep enough that they can afford to loan a lad as talented as Christensen out, then decide he's finally good enough to bring back in the summer but are still targeting to buy a player like Ben Gibson it must be detrimental. There's rumours of Gibson to Chelsea, so if he goes there he'd barely start and instead of a side like us having him and playing him every match we'll have someone likely not as good in the role.

I think Fish is holding out hope for us to buy Gylfi if they go down. Unless he just has a random burning hatred for Swansea.

Exactly.

Chuffed to bits with it, horrid club. I think they'll probably survive and then bring in that Silva if Hull go down.

I know what you're saying but they're all outfield players, the market isn't quite as mental for goalkeepers. Spurs would likely go abroad or get Butland (like you mentioned iirc) and then Stoke would probably try and get Begovic back or go abroad. Teams have money but I think they'd rather spend it on outfield positions. I'm just saying I don't think a lad who has let 35 goals in 21 starts is going to break the British leagues record for a GK signing, I get the market is mental and dross like Sissoko goes for well over asking but Sissoko plays in an overvalued position and had a Euro Championship final performance that for some reason was raved about, Pickford isn't getting that type of hype or exposure and plays in the only position that has up to now been exempt from this mental market.