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I'm surprised he didn't launch a FIFA investigation into himself and then declare himself completely in the clear, I've not really been keeping up on it but wasn't the new head of FIFA names or in some way linked to the Panama Papers as well? At least they're consistent in their questionable morality.

46 out of 80, some fucking odd ones in there

I genuinely don't think that is far from the truth.

This is what gets my back up most about Charnley, you know for a fact he hasn't bothered starting any sort of planning for relegation and he's saying it's because he wants to be positive. You can make a contingency plan in case of relegation without effecting any 'positivity' you are sending, whatever the fuck that does. He should have a list of potential managers drawn up and already have scouts looking at potential buys depending on which league we will be in so we are ready to go either way.

Aye I must admit the pens impressed me too, shows a lot of confidence to step up when the score is tight and score a pen especially at his age. What I particularly like about Mitrovic is how he always shows for it, even after a poor miss he doesn't shy away he still wants to be on the ball. He was on a one man mission against Norwich and the team clearly reacted to his energy, if he does stay he'll be a very important player for us in the Championship (or in the Prem if we somehow stay up).

:lol: Aye slightly different one

Carroll was nearly completely unproven. To such a point that when he broke Taylor's jaw people wanted rid of Carroll. Mitro has proven himself capable, 8 Prem goals (he could quite easily make double figures) is nothing to turn your nose up at. You want the owners to find "one or two Jamie Vardy's"? Pack it in man, that's what every single club in world football wants ffs.

Wooshed me here I'm afraid.

I think he will due to the price we paid, I can't see Ashley wanted to take a loss on him when he's only 21 and could comfortably get 15 goals in the Championship.

He doesn't, despite the fact basically no one in that league has scored as many Premier League goals as Mitrovic in a season, let alone in their first season and in a relegation side to boot. Got another example, Abel Hernandez come over at about 23/24 and scored 4 in 26 as Hull got relegated he currently has 16 in 33 games in the Championship.

Aye the VW badge gives it away, probably after a 5-0 loss to Bayern.

Watched the Hateful Eight and Captain Phillips over the weekend as wor lass was away with friends. Really enjoyed the Hateful Eight, funny throughout and interesting enough twists and turns. Captain Phillips was okay, I guess Phillips seemed a bit calm for me but it was more down to the writing than Hanks who was very good, to be fair though I was messing about on my laptop so only half watching.

Had one decent season in Ligue 1, not exactly the sort of player you should still be bigging up 5 seasons later. Marveaux is shit, I'm fairly sure CT doesn't rate Ben Arfa and he is currently having a better season than Marveaux has ever had.

Was that after Chelsea?

Those 8 weeks were a right laugh though weren't they? Don't say Big Mike doesn't give us some good times.

I do get the point though Troop, I agree it'll be a 3-0 style battering. I think the team will be even less arsed now that there's not much hope of stopping up (as if they tried much before hand).

True, maybe he'll grasp that in his first full season in the PL Luis Suarez scored 11 goals in 31 games, to put 8 in 27 in a better perspective, it's also worth noting that Suarez had half a season before that to settle in and the side created a good amount of chances (they finished 6th in the league in the season he played 6 month and 8th in his first full season). Now to be clear I am in no way saying I think Mitrovic will ever be in Suarez's class but it shows that 8 goals (with 6 games left to play) is not some paltry number.

Aye think we've been in it basically all season.

I always forget we had Rossi.

Of course I do, I've said he's a canny player WITH potential. Ranger had nowt but potential he was completely unproven but had raw talent. Mitrovic has 8 goals in the Premier League, he could quite easily end the season with 10 goals which is a decent haul for a player in the Premier League let alone a young lad in his first season. I find it ridiculous how you are just writing off 8 Premier League goals as if it's nothing, how many do you expect the lad to score? 20? 15? those are the numbers of players like Kane and Lukaku, go and have a look how much they are supposedly worth. Where have I said he would automatically be the best? I've said he'd be good, which he will be. I've given you a name of a player that Mitrovic has outscored this season who scored 18 goals last season in the Championship, I'll give you another one, Daryl Murphy ex-mackem who scored 3 goals in 54 PL appearances for the Mackems scored 27 goals in the Championship last season. You are calling people ridiculous for suggesting a player who has scored 8 in 27 PL games will comfortably hit double figures in the Championship yet you are suggesting a relegation from the Championship next season is a possibility? Don't be fucking daft man, go and watch some Championship football please, it's a massive drop off. Comparing Mitrovic to Ranger and Bigi btw? Just being daft now, neither of them showed anywhere near what Mitrovic has in terms of immediate impact. As I say look at players like Cameron Jerome to see the drop off in the Championship to Premier League scorers, look at how many goals Michael Chopra scored in the Championship compared to him struggling to score half of what Mitrovic has in the Prem.

Do you know who Cameron Jerome is? Currently has 3 goals in 28 Premier League games this season, he got 18 last season in the Championship. Mitrovic at 21 is already far better than him, it's not wishful thinking it's just an understanding of how poor the Championship is and that Mitrovic is actually a canny player with a lot of potential. Discussing Perez is pointless as he wont be here, but if he was he would rip the Championship to pieces. Unless you genuinely think Peter Lovenkrands was a better player than Perez is you'd agree.

We'll lose this comfortably, Southampton were aggrieved about the loss to Leicester thinking they should have had 2 penalties so they'll be ready to make a statement against our team of total fucking losers. Pelle also does well against us and will probably get 2 as we lose 3-0, I expect Mitrovic to be the only one that looks like he gives a shite again.

The Championship is fucking shite man, Carroll had scored 3 goals in 14 when we went down, Mitrovic has 8 in 27 in his first season in the country at 21 leading the line alone. He's going to go from playing Premier League defenders to playing Championship ones (at best) and League one level ones at worst. You keep saying we had a team when we went down but we didn't, we were a total fucking mess, it was probably stronger on paper than the team we have now and it was such a toxic team that they still went down but a team come out of it in what is a total shite league. We've also got a young lad who has been scoring for fun in League One and would probably get 10-15 goals if he played a full season alongside Mitrovic. If you genuinely think Mitrovic is a terrible player and wont do better in the Championship this is a pointless discussion. The lad has 8 goals in his first Premier League season, aged 20/21, up top alone, in one of the worst chance creating teams in the league, it's impressive that he has managed basically 1 in 3 ffs.

Aye, I think there's a fairly good chance it'll be Cathro. If not Cathro then aye it'll be some no mark that half of us forgot about half a decade ago, the hope would be someone like Moyes as Tooj brought up the other day but that isn't likely. A lot said at the time that if we go down Rafa will go and we'll see a return to the same ridiculous appointments that have seen us get a bunch of winners like McClaren, Carver, Pardew and Kinnear, and that's what I'd be comfortable assuming will be the case.

That's not the first time I've heard someone say he deserves an England spot this season. Shows how little work a lot of Journalists do, maybe the knight Ryder deserves more respect.... Nah.