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Correct. You blame the monumental cunt that appointed him iyam.

You're half right, but it all comes back to Ashley for me. He's largely responsible for us being perceived as a "stepping stone" club and the players attitude is quite often fuckin appalling because of it. As someone said, we haven't got the 3rd worse squad in the league, but we are where we are because players with ability like Sissoko largely just go through the motions. The other thing is McLaren himself, who's record shows he's a pretty average coach. Ashley isn't going to show ambition and appoint someone a couple of levels above him though, and you can't blame McLaren himself for that.

He threw his shirt into the crowd in the away end at Anfield last weekend....guess he was thinking he wouldn't be seeing them for a while...

I was given an iPad mini 8gb as a introductory gift by the accountancy service I use which I promptly took,still in its cellophane wrapping, to the local JL, who allowed me to use it as a "downpayment" on a 32gb full sized iPad with cellular, which I am writing this very post with

Red Lion Alnmouth is ace

That's what was getting me when were there the other week...we were staying on Broadway (between mid Polk and Van Ness, fuckin noisey! I think it was vaguely between Russian Hill and Nob Hill) and all the dive bars appeared to be full of regular blue collar Joes & Josephines all pissed up well beyond the time for heading back to Oakland or wherever its cheaper. We looked at property prices and rents out of curiosity and theres no way any of them could be living locally.

If he'd been working in the public sector or in any corporate set up am thinking he'd have been suspeneded as soon as he was charged? There's probably hundreds of teenage girls go to Sunderland games. What a shower of morally bankrupt cunts.

Not a duff track on it tbh, he's never really done anything better...neither have Massive Attack either iyam (not to say that they haven't done some good stuff post mid 90s too) looks like theyre collaborating again... http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/massive-attack-reunite-with-tricky-on-new-ritual-spirit-ep-20160128

Not working for me,which is a shame because for me its in my "all time top 5 of all time"....can a cover be better than the original?

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Everton are likely to be sold soon to some yanks for around 200mill, who you'd imagine would then have to build a new stadium, so you can probably treble the price tag at an absoloute minimum. Looking at it like that, the money is out there...somewhere...

This is it...what if theyd nicked a goal from a set piece before we'd scored?...recent history tells us that is a. likely rather than not and b. a point is all we'd have got from the game at the most. Pleased with the win, one swallow doesn't make a summer though. Shelvey had done a disappearing act for 3 months at Swansea before he signed for us and I thought he'd done the same last Wednesday at Everton, showing for me he's as inconsistent and frankly shite away from home as the rest of the bravehearts that play for us. If we're staying up its home form that will do it.

Illuminating.... http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm Never had a season where they've averaged 50k+ Won the league in 81: 34k Finished 11th in 82 but won the European Cup: 26k Played in divi 3 in 71 & 72 I think he's always had it in for us since his mate Wisey was sacked and fed him a load of fuckin shit about us. Shouldn't really rise to the bait but he's still earning a wage from the game and should fuckin know better.

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He's fuckin wrong too. We do have quality, in most positions. We don't have much in the way of leadership, heart,fight or spirit though. The stuff that brings the quality to the fore. Everton have been shite this season but have done the double over us with no goals scored, similar to the over achieving but still very mediocre Watford. We've got the lowest points total in early February than any of our other premier league campaigns. Our points per game has us on target for 33 in May which no club has ever stayed up with. £130 million spent since May 2014. If Leicester win the league ( I sincerely hope they do) and us, the mackems and Villa go down then 2015/16 will be known as the season that the English Premier League finally fuckin ate itself.

Am saying they all needed addressing. Am off to Everton at half ten. I am actually looking forward to see how Townsend and Saivet perform. I'm very happy to be going, less happy that we're still not addressing all areas that needed strengthening but hey ho. That's Ashley's NUFC.

Or rather how there is a premium on those who score rather than those who stop goals. Goalkeepers in general are the most undervalued position in terms of importance. But that's another debate. That it doesn't matter to you, that we can have any old lumbering centre back playing for us out of position in defence when we're sat third bottom tells its own story.

So seeing as they were chasing a left back and a striker seemingly until yesterday, for you the point remains that left back wasn't as big a priority as a striker, in spite of the evidence pointing towards the opposite, and basically because you've said so on the internet

So we've signed a notoriously fragile enigmatic striker with no premier league experience.....and they wouldn't pay Enrique's wages, the Spanish lad got a better offer, we were linked to Gibbs and the Argie lad at Valencia. It would strongly appear that McLaren thought a left back was a priority too, but was let down by the brains trust upstairs. So that's the manager and most of this board who thought a left back was a priority,but not you. As per fuckin usual, captain contrary

Dummett is a centre back being played out of position, Haidara is injured. Theres no one else. A modern top division side without two ball playing full backs is lacking in balance. We don't have one and we've seemingly signed a right footed player to play in front of the non-existent left back. Pleased you're happy with all that.

So you're ok with not having.a fit senior player for one of the 11 positions on the pitch? You'll have to forgive me for wanting a bit more than the usual make do and mend drivel we usually get,

The secret footballer is Dave Kitson who Pulis signed for Stoke. They fell out badly and Kitson barely played under him. Basically drove the player into retirement. Looks like he's serving his revenge & chips cold....

McLaren is a footballing conservative, he's not going to play a teenager in front of Dummet, having established that his often ponderous displays are still better than Haidara, even before his injury. We apparently couldn't agree personal terms with Enrique which I think is code for we wouldn't pay him the money that would've perhaps kept him here in the fuckin first place. Criticism of a limited yet honest grafter like Dummet is a bit unfair in this case iyam, it's as clear as day left back was a priority in this window and they've failed yet again. The blame lies with the recruitment process, as per fuckin usual.