Howay

And people are shocked he didn't hit his potential, the massive fucking charva.

Sorry to hear that NJS, good luck finding your next job mate.

Aye, I wasn't suggesting he should just that it'd be no skin off his back if he did chuck a bit in for just a bit of fun if nowt else. The fact is the club easily generates enough to fund player purchases and a decent amount of ambition, I don't think any of us would moan if we were addressing areas of need (within reason) each transfer window using money the club generated itself (through profits and player sales), installed a competent manager who could work within those tighter financial constraints (like Moyes) and the team was allowed to compete in cups and the league. If we actually sought out good sponsorship opportunities and didn't have so much free SD advertising, we could generate more income than Everton (I'm assuming we do already anyway) so there's no reason we couldn't work in the same way that Everton do, instead of fucking off the cup competition, actively trying to survive in the league with as few players as possible and having no ambition to chase European spots. (I know you weren't suggesting the opposite of any of this btw Gemmill, this was just me going off on a tangent).

I'll have a shot of it the night.

They do that? I'll have to get some of them, I just thought they keeled over like they do with any of the other ranged weapons so never bothered with them .

Belta I'll have to have a shot of one tonight, I really like that you can do a chain of executions now it's really sped up the fighting over waiting for each bloke to attack so you can counter. The crossbow is lethal too.

He's worth what? 3.6bn? that's 3,600,000,000 he may as fucking well chuck in some money man, what an utter boring bastard he is man. 5% is about 180m, imagine if he invested that over 4 year, we'd be far better to watch and attractive to buyers, not saying we'd be a CL team or owt but at least we'd be entertaining ffs. He'd easily make more than that over the next 4 years between his other assets and interest anyway. Not saying he should/will do it, it's his money, but what a fucking boring nob.

Aye, you'd think he'd want some enjoyment out of an asset like a football club, like what other Billionaires do. He simply just sees it as yet another vehicle to make more money, but he's at the point of wealth where it's just money to move up the rich list and not about increasing his standard of living. I'm not saying go round spunking 200m a year like others do, but he may as well hoy in 20-30m a year and watch some decent football, it'll not even dent his wealth.

Goldeneye and ISS were fucking class like. Golden gun mode 4 player, there's not been tension like that in a game since . Aye Super Mario cart's a good'un like, my mate had the Wii version and we used to play drinking games to it, drink if you fall off the track, if you get overtaken, if you get hit by a shell etc, and of course the amount you fell off the track increased the amount you drank.

The club makes enough now that it can afford to buy a few players now and again, he shouldn't have to put in his own money but should at least let the club spend at least some of what it's generating. How much profit have we made in the past 18 month? including the sale of Cabaye? put it all together and we should be able to afford a decent amount of players, especially considering a lot of the contracts players are on have already been fully paid for by previous player sales (like a good amount of the Carroll money going on new deals for Krul, Tiote etc).

Following MF's lead and playing through the AC series, I picked up AC 1,2, brotherhood and revelations for about 10-15 quid in game last summer and I've barely bothered with them till now. I clocked the first one a while ago and got through half of two but can't find it, so I'm on brotherhood. First time I've ever played it and it's quality, I keep getting my assassin mates killed like as I sneak into a Borgias tower and set them on the main guy, they kill him but then get a right kicking from the rest of the guys. It's a far bigger game then I thought it would be. Just picked up the 3rd one for $6 used off amazon, I know you all say it's shite but for about 4 quid I can't complain. The fourth one is about $20 on amazon atm, I'll wait until I've clocked these 3 to bother with it but I might have a PS4 by then anyway.

Aye, he's spot on. How depressing man.

Ken sounds radge as fuck like Deaders.

Even more apt if you stick an L on the end of Trivia.

Surely people wont show up for cup games now? They've pretty much come out and said they're throwing the games, so it doesn't even matter if it's a fiver to get in may as well just get another pint in the pub and (depending on the pub) a go on the trivia machine.

I wish I could have one, I occasionally go through spells of wanting a team to do well if they're good to watch (like the Dortmund team recently) but I still don't get any excitement from them scoring. It's what I've always wondered about glory hunters, do they really get any enjoyment out of watching? Like I've known lads grow up toon fans then at 12/13 suddenly announce they were Liverpool fans and when Liverpool score they do the most pathetic showing of fake emotion I've seen. The saddest part is I felt nowt when Shola scored against Cardiff in the final game, I hope that doesn't continue into next season, if it does I'd like to thank Ashley for totally fucking destroying my interest in the game.

More reason why it was so utterly pointless to keep giving the shitter games when we had Bigirimana playing in the reserves.

Aye true enough Aimaad, just need to get through 20 or so games then coast the remainder of the season. If we're struggling then we can bring in a few in January to avoid relegation. What really astounds me though is that someone like Moyes could easily hit Ashley's goal of survival every year with even less risk + investment than Pardew, surely it'd be worth investing a bit more in wages to bring him in? Then again Moyes is a risk of getting highly unfasionable sides into Europa league contention, something Pardew has accidentally managed once which almost cost us!

So I guess that explains the dog shit performances we've seen in the cups under Pardew, the next statement could address how we now get turned over by the mackems everytime, or is that simply just to try and further kick any passion out of the fan base.

Five signings are needed eh? Then the article goes on to mention eight players possibly leaving (including the loanees) so we're planning on thinning possibly the thinnest squad in the league by another 3 players ffs.

Especially considering 33 points and our GD would have kept us up! It's disgraceful how they can say that and expect people to go "aye fair point, look at Wigan and Birmingham" They're shite, and were shite, the fact that teams as bad as them have gotten to cup finals is evidence against their argument of not bothering. If the winner got 10m and Semi-Finalists got 5m I'm sure we'd be trying, but as it stands there's not enough money in it for them, they've owned up that they're not interested in the cups they may as well of come out and said it's down to money and not some shite research about how Wigan Athletic got relegated when they won it.

Yup, they've turned us into the most uninteresting thing in an industry that is meant to be entertaining. We discuss budgets and balance sheets more than any other fanbase (maybe apart from clubs that are going through administration), I understand it's very important but it's still depressing how much it is forced down our throats by the club, like Gemmill pointed out our cup runs are now decided by fucking research teams who weigh up whether it's worth bothering. Even League two teams give the cups a go man.

I think the saddest thing is it's not even a case of us being just shite, we've been shite before and people rightly backed the club and the team to try and turn it around, but the ownership and management are now fully set on simply securing Premiership position for the foreseeable future and nothing more or less than that. I'd seriously rather us just be fucking shite and at least have the desire or ambition to want to turn the club around.

Aye, think the renewals are already in now in all. Mike must be annoyed that he can't just petition the FA to let us be 10th for the next decade and not have to bother with the actual football nonsense.

Aye, couple more million for Mike to hoy in his pocket.