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Good luck mate. Have they said anything about whether this will help you to understand statistics any better?

Toonpack going to pay for his parking on his way out of the hospital.

It won’t it’s not a sense of humour bypass

This. This to all of the daft, entitled cunts like this waste of his dad's sperm.

Why don’t the fans club together and buy them out? Pretty sure I’ve seen that suggested elsewhere

Liverpool team staying in the hotel next to the wife's office. She said you could see the whiteness of Klopps teeth.from the 3rd floor. 😂

That sounds a bit like my mates guarantee whenever they've done a job for me. It's called 'The Driveway Guarantee' it's only valid till they walk off my driveway.

One of the diet books he read was called Carbohydrates of the Caribbean.

So, tomorrow, going under the knife, having two “warthins tumours” removed (benign non dangerous) but one is an egg under my jaw and uncomfortable, so they gotta go. I will be sliced on the side of my face from top of ear down my neck so I shall expect, on my reappearance, to be known as Von Toonpack. Any links to purveyors of monocles would be appreciated.

I mean they’re 9th in the division below. And 6th would be their highest top flight finish for (I think) 69 years. Nailed on tbh

Bollocks. SOrry, I was wrong, they'll be straight into the Europe places apparently.

The Loch Ness Drogba (from Irvine) would batter us marra.

Bottom 9 ffs

Great family day out for anyone with nippers. The atmosphere is "in development" much as the team is , but I was really surprised by the attendance. Amanda and co were in attendance and gave a good presentation at half time. The match had to be delayed by 15 minutes due to the box office still having a queue of hundreds.

WYP

I must admit I got a bit excited until I saw who the author was.

CT tried his one hundred and twelfth thousand hobby and fad by booking a weight watching class with a lass from Jamaica. Her company was called Diets of the Carribbean.

Only read a couple of pages here. But for me, this was purely fitness / tiredness and them playing almost exactly the same way we do. I don't think it was a poor performance by us, more as a remarkable one from the opposition (which I suppose is how teams must feel about us!) They were quicker to the ball - Gordon looked slow (and he isn't its just in comparison) and we missed Longstaff imo - once again teaching me a lesson that I don't know anything about team selection. I have questioned his inclusion so many times (same with Willock and murphy) and everytime I do the lads have a screamer. We had glimpses of this against Brentford (I watched that match) where if the team plays to close us down as aggressively as we do, we seem to lose options to release the ball very quickly. For the first half it looked like Brentford had "learnt how to deal" , but then they collapsed in the second, thankfully. From my view Toney should have had 2 goals by half time , not even counting the pen. Last edit - Also, I thought we saw something different from Howe in the Brentford game - he lost patience and made some pretty drastic changes compared to what I've seen before. Wilson and Isak seem to have had a great understanding coached into them already, they were immense in the second half. All that said, we've won away from home in London more than once - these in themselves are points I never would have expected - We'll bounce back at home, no bother.

I went to an anger management class in Jamaica. Irates of the Caribbean.

My Chinese flight instructor lives in Jamaica. His company is called Pilots of the Caribbean.

The big 11

Yep. Also not a problem when they were the ones with a financial advantage.

Half of me wants them floundering in the lower leagues but the other half wants them promoted this season.........and get absolutely battered every week going down with record low points as well as £100+ million in debt

I used to run a mime school in Jamaica It was called Pierrots of the Caribbean

Fuck knows. On a very basic level, we're apparently boring and turgid to watch, and we've averaged 1.60 goals per game in the league. Compared with their 1.43. Obviously we've a much better goals conceded ratio which frankly I can't be arsed to calculate, but keeping clean sheets must be boring? To be fair though, their league is a much higher standard. Wibble.

Where has this mass delusion that they're suddenly purveyors of beautiful football come from? I know they been turgid dross for years and maybe three passes put together is that much of a huge leap but I've watched a few of their games and while there is some youthful enthusiasm and effort there's absolutely nothing special as their results illustrate. They've had some strange delusions over the years such as being "classy" and their support being something special but I think this latest one is the strangest.

We could make a good guess…

Shameless. just like the 'top 11' that included 11th placed Liverpool a few months ago.

Another jazz great, RIP Ahmad.

Watching a drama about fop, on ITV this week. Canny enough.

Aye, it's pretty much win win for us. I'm happy for them to miss the play offs. I'm happy for them to get to the play offs and miss the final. I'm happy for them to lose the final. I'm happy for them to win the play off final and get humped for 38 consecutive matches. My absolute favourite scenario would be for them to lose to Boro on penalties at Wembley. For the obvious hilarity and I would actually like to see another NE team in the Premiership, plus always quite liked smoggies. Be nice to have a sort of derby again without the edge tbh.

fucking fuck right off thats total horseshit

Who the fuck on here has integrity?

If only they’d played a competitive game or two against premier league opposition this season. So you could gauge the level they’re at more accurately

Sorry marra but the Premiership is shite we are the Barca of the Championship and we're coming to get you.....watch out the Mackems will gatecrash the party cos we're everybody's second fav team with best fans in the world.......FTM🤣

I wish I'd never started this now. 😭

the kind of result/performance we saw against villa on saturday used to be par so it was surprising because we've been mostly brilliant all season. it's no fluke we're up in 4th.

It’s vital that we get a result off Brighton whenever it is we play them. Could be a midweek game sandwiched in between Arsenal and Leeds if they reach the FA Cup final…

Aye. I do wonder if it's even that simple though. I think to make that work, you'd just have to give up on Premiership survival before you've even kicked off. Which would be pretty demoralising. And not guaranteed, look at Norwich struglling this year in the CL. To have a chance of survival, you have to invest, Sunderland would have to pay over the odds, and then if you're relegated, which you probably will be, you're up shit creek again. This would be the current Notts Forest model in action. I kind of have some sympathy for them tbh because the pyramid is pretty broken. But then again, there are plenty of clubs I would regard as at least as "big" as Sunderland also competing down there.

They'd more likely spunk a decades worth of money on over the hill the players that don't want to be anywhere near Sunderland then be in financial bother. A bit like Forest with less appeal.

Both. Our poor performances would have been irrelevant if Villa weren't on it, and if we were on it, their performance wouldn't have been as impactful. e.g. Bruno and the Joes in the middle were passive, disjointed, wasteful and unimaginative. Had they been anything like their usual levels than Buendia Ramsey and McGinn would not have had the time and space to cause our back line so many problems. If our back line didn't look knackered Watkins' movement wouldn't have been so damaging etc.

Looking at the lineup I can't really see what he could have changed. It sounds (I didn't see the game) the tactical error was not making changes earlier. I am not sure if you don't think Gordon should have started because of his tantrum or because you thought someone should have started in front of him. But I think Gordon has looked decent and effective since coming off the bench so deserved his chance.