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Put this together cos I wanted to see if there was any mitigation for our away form. Not sure it's been a worthwhile exercise but there's a couple of things. The last column is the days between matches - so if we have a match on the 1st and another on the 4th, days between is 2. Average number of days leading up to a home games is 5.3 vs 3.1 leading up to away games. So a 42% reduction in preparation time for away games vs home games - note: this is quite heavily skewed by international breaks which have all fallen before home games. We did get unfortunate in that 4 of our games immediately following CL games were Away games - we got 5 points from the 4, one of which was the demolition of Sheffield United. From the two home games that followed CL games, we took 6 points. Rest days (if you can call them that) do seem to matter though. The average number of days leading up to a win is 5.4, whilst the games that we are drawing (2.3) and losing (3.6) have a much lower number of days post the previous match. That's it. Maybe some mitigation?

Right then lads, let's at least try and go into Christmas on a high, eh?

Sigh. You make me do this. In Gemmill's imagination. In Gemmill's reality.

Not sure why he feels qualified to comment on a sport he doesn't play.

I suggested last night that one of the "catastrophe queens" start the next thread, and Meenzer misread my post.

This is a bit left field, but have you considered trying Brown's bar?

Aye, the centurion. You can get a pint, and a Greggs and watch some pissed up doylem vomit on the public piano, whilst someone offers you a massive jar of Nescafé they just chawed from the Sainsbury's for a very reasonable price.

Why do you put so many kisses in your emails?

"If anyone wants put out of their misery I'll suffocate them with my pillows."

His head must be all over the shop. Feel for the bloke. I can see a wor flags tribute to him next home game

Trippier is a legend. One of our greatest ever signings.

Tripper is fucking class. We’re lucky to have him

I'd also like to say I thought Trippier had balls the size of Buster Gonad's when he went up to take a pen. Shame about the miss but hats off anyway.

Hope those sick kids gave them absolute pelters for that shit show at Chelsea 😡😡😡😡

Reminiscent of the high point of Twitter

Nice work. You big fucking DWEEB!!!!

If you had bothered to read the thread you might have decided against wasting your time composing such an unoriginal, verbose reply

Seriously? why though? Even the slightest hint of the smell of actual vomit makes me gag. When the kids were younger I didn’t mind changing nappies and I’ve picked up plenty dog shits from the garden. Whilst not exactly pleasant of course. But the bairns’ (or dogs’) puke. Actually just reminded me of going on holiday to Florida one time when I was young. 3 weeks in Orlando with my parents, sister plus my uncle’s wife and kids. My younger cousin, who is still a greedy cunt in almost every respect, went OTT on the ice cream at one of those all you can eat places (Sizzler’s iirc). After his third or fourth sundae (after about four plates of other food), he puked all over the back of the minibus we were sharing for the duration. Cue the next two and a half weeks spent whilst travelling to various theme parks and beaches in there with the gorgeous aroma of vomit, disinfectant and butterscotch syrup

And even if we don’t, we’re still where we have wanted to be for decades: a team that busts a gut for the shirt, plays an attacking game and competes at the right end of the table. A team to be proud of again, even if they do fall short of last season’s triumph.

27 games left between now and the end of the season, including all rounds of the FA Cup. That's a schedule this squad can cope with and thrive and then we go again in the transfer market in the summer. I reckon par performance for this squad is probably 7th or 8th. We've got (ranging from) little to no right to expect this squad to finish ahead of: Man City Arsenal Liverpool Villa Spurs Man United/Chelsea To be clear I'm talking about squads here and I'm including Man United. /Chelsea as a joint one cos SQUAD WISE, at least one of them should expect to finish above us. I'm including Villa cos 2 years ago when Howe took over, Villa was already a professionally run club with an actual strategy in the transfer market. It's now gone on to strengthen from that already relatively strong position and appointed a very good manager. The fact that we're able to even dream of finishing above them with our squad is down to incredible coaching and a great set of lads that are fully bought in to the vision. But that'll change with each passing transfer window as we gain ground and eventually go past these teams. Hopefully trophies come too, but this team at the minute is a victim of its own premature success. You can see it on here - expectations have been raised prematurely, and the reaction to not having them met has been.... a bit weird/hysterical to me.

Absolutely correct.

You don’t become a bad player overnight

Luton 1 (Lorraine Chase) NUFC 3 (Foggon, Burns, Barrowclough)

Lovely tiles as well

Jazz cafe around the corner from Central. I think I've got a pamphlet on it somewhere, a jazz mag if you will.

Tanya and Her Organ are on every Tuesday lunchtime at the Black Garter. She does requests too, as long as it’s Angels by Robbie Williams.

CT sprawled across the top of a grand piano butchering Makin' Whoopee.

And now that I've given a sensible answer, I can make the obligatory comment about there being a lovely pianist or two downstairs at the Eagle

Stealing this. Not even apologising for it either.

It won't be as good as my new bong.

Ohhh- yeah got a new crack pipe as an early Christmas prezzie?

Did Gemmill resign or did actual forum grown up Meenzer stage an intervention?

I fucking hope "we're going stratospheric" isn't the new "Everton are going down"

Back to full strength, we're gonna start knacking teams btw. We were a minute away from winning at Chelsea for the first time in forever, and we were probably just a Joelinton away from a comfortable win. Similarly, a minute away from a win in Paris with just a first 11. If we can get even half of those currently absent back to full fitness, we're gonna start demolishing teams. Barnes, Willock, Joelinton, Isak, Schar back in contention and we're a completely different prospect. Home and away. Add Tonali plus more signings next season and we're going STRATOSPHERIC!

The Reclaim Party's sole MP has just resigned from the party. Andrew Bridgen wants to focus on his antivax campaigning.

It’s still a remarkable season so far after overachieving last season. It’s not uncommon for clubs suffering from the pressure and fixture list when comprting on multiple fronts. We just suffer from a mixture of bad luck, misfortunes and stupidity in the dying minutes of some matches. The PL table as well as us progressing in cup competitions would look totally different if we hadn’t wasted results against Liverpool, West Ham, PSG, Milan and now Chelsea. We have been just seconds ot inches away from greatness.

5, I say 5-0! Winning on pelanties after extra time. Gordon taking them all, I SAY GORDON TEKKIN’ THEM ALL!

Good lads.

Why are you battering CT’s missus?

I haven’t read any of the post match thread so don’t know the feelings on this result. It was just typical of our luck over the years and as soon as they scored (I knew what would happen with penalties), I stormed upstairs to make some mugs. I was absolutely raging, made worse by the fact there was really no one to rage at. Tripps has been excellent for us, the club are on a lovely trajectory and Eddie is pretty much hamstrung (no pun intended) on what team he can put out. It was so frustrating being so angry but really unable to direct it anywhere. Ah well, one day it will be so different.

I did it while on a work call, so you can stick your 7/10 right up your kazoo!

Poor date formatting - for that reason I can only give this a 07/10.

Do you want the original spreadsheet, you lazy cunt?

BOLDON BONGS! CT’s new home grift?

Yeah. But we’ve got to have perspective of where we have come from. There has been some great memories already this season and the injury crisis has given players like Tino and Miley the chance to break through which can only be a good thing long term. im really worried about the FA Cup though. Our away from has dropped off a cliff - and it’s just not the results, it’s the performances as well. Also pinning your hopes on a cup competition when you could get Man City or Liverpool away is dangerous.

Nadine Dorries is on the list. Probably at the same orgy with Milley Cyrus, katy Perry and George Clooney