Rayvin

This starts to feel like the issue is simply that we can't overhaul the whole squad overnight. They're not going to drop 500m in the summer to buy a whole new team. So ultimately, some of the "weaker" players will get new contracts for squad roles. That's fine IMO. Also Dummett isn't bad when fit.

Cowards, obviously.

I am fully on board for the first time we can say NUFC ladies had a higher turnout than SAFC men

Got to be happy for the retiring team captain who converted the first penalty, thus making sure she's managing a goal at St James before she goes out. Lovely stuff.

Amazing, thanks for sharing that. I must get up to the mountains again soon.

You also get the feeling that he thinks Newcastle is on similar levels of deprivation to Sunderland or Hartlepool. He's probably never been up this far. Also don't understand his point unless he imagines that the British government could have bought us and invested in the women's team. Patronising cunt. SA haven't invested a great deal into the region yet, although it'll come. The only difference so far is that we aren't owned by a penny pinching Southern fuck.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/01/newcastle-womens-katie-barker-fulfils-dream-after-breaking-new-ground

I actually have to confess that since the club has bothered to become a sporting institution after a decade and a half, I'm starting to be interested myself.

Any highlights?

I've not really been following this one so for me he could still be reading either "So Left it's Right - A Useful Idiot's Guide to Shooting Yourself in the Foot with your Principles" or "Freedumb: The Classical Liberal's Guide to 'Defending' your Civilisation by Discrediting its Intellectuals, Institutions, and Values."

What is your political alignment?

Well, Leeds it is then

It really has been. Almost every ball has been useless.

Everton deserve the win here tbh. Chelsea have been utter garbage.

It's on Azpi-etc really, stupidly caught in possession as basically last man. Not sure Chelsea would have scored anyway, but I don't think they were likely to concede either.

So Werner subbed off which is good because he was hopeless. Not sure who the front prong of the Chelsea attack now is though? Lots of nice midfield passing but absolutely fuck all of anything else.

Absolutely toothless from Chelsea. They've looked ok in midfield but they've got nothing going on in the final third.

Here comes the biggest bus parking exercise we'll ever see IMO.

Everton not done yet, seemingly.

That really fucking is the gameplan

Everton doing their spoiling routine again - game needs a Chelsea goal to force them to go for it.

Ah, yeah no, fair enough

Strikes me as an overall positive situation mind, taking the daughter to go watch the women's team..? You just not in the mood for it or is there a wide philosophical resistance? Fair play to her for wanting to go tbh.

I wonder how much of it is to do with the Home Grown quota stuff. I always wondered if that was as strict as football manager makes it out to be, but if it's directly translated then he's one of the few players who the club has trained itself. All the other "big" clubs have players like this, our problem is just that we have done such a shit job investing in our youth training over the years that we don't really have much else to show for it.

If Leeds do get a result, that thread is going to be my bedtime reading.