Rayvin

I mean I'm right there with you, it was just tongue in cheek really.

Might even watch this one. Also Dougle is absolutely not Quiff, no one one here presently is remotely close to the level of dishonour associated with that account

Rees Mogg losing his seat would be glorious. It would almost make the economic Armageddon worthwhile.

Was there not some suggestion that Truss might go for an early GE for some reason or another? Probably just wishful thinking and I can't for the life of me think why she would, but still. Either way at this rate I don't think we're going to make it 2.5 years. There'll be unrest long before that.

It's either a lie or he never went to a concert after the age of 5.

I'm going to add this from the Guardian's MBM report on the matter: How often do teams score from a short corner? I’d wager even less frequently, on average, than from a corner sent into the box. On which point, I wonder if data will ever insist players stop shooting from free-kicks, as that hardly ever yields a goal, and have them cross or pass instead. City scored from a short corner. We scored a free kick.

Thanks for checking in, was hoping you would. City look incredible and I think most of us are delighted with how we performed to be able to come away with a draw. I still think you'll win the league fairly comfortably this season. Don't really dislike anything about your club personally, and I hope we have many more enjoyable games with you in the future. At some point we'll start winning though

You know what, that's an impressive fucking interview. You can tell he's a purist because even with all the pressure for him to win, and to constantly succeed, he fucking enjoyed that game for the spectacle of it. Guardiola has gone up in my estimation here tbh.

Will other teams come to St James' more defensively now? Think this is a real statement actually, doubt we can expect many other opponents to be this open.

Superb lads, fucking superb. Thank god we hung on.

Holy shit...

Come on lads, you can do it...

Aye imagine if we ever won the Europa League man, there'd be parties for days. It'd be spoken of for years.

Think I might just have to stay in bed all winter tbh, not sure I can afford this

Some of them saying Bruce was better. That's fucking damning

I don't even know what Villa fans thought they were getting with Gerrard. He's a 'Liverpool of decades past' tribute act based on who he bought for them - no one particularly decent and plenty quite old. That said mind, that's entirely the sort of club Villa set themselves up to be. They're a club of wannabes and for all they might level that at us as well, we at least had a period of relative dominance in the Premier League whereas they have always, always been an makeweight. No club of Villa's stature ever becomes good through buying the way they have - they're a poor man's Man Utd. Sit down and shut up, Gerrard's level is your level, Villa.

Agreed, I think he's going to be an incredible player - I just don't think he'll be here all that long before he heads to Madrid.

It'll be his fleet of Roombas.

I think we need to quite quickly and urgently come up with some genuinely creative solutions around this before winter or people are going to die. Medium to long term we need to invest heavily into renewables and get as close to self sustaining as we can - not sure where that percentage hovers around at the moment but still.

Yeah, no getting surly.

Lost some weight maybe?

I think we've missed our main targets in this respect and we're now looking for a reasonable cover option for a bit of depth. This means our main problem of linking up in the final third doesn't get resolved this window. Honestly I think that's fine. Get the cover in, we're more than good enough to get top ten - hold what we've got and go again in January or next summer. 5-10 years we were told to actually win the thing, we don't need to be in Europe on year 1.

I understand where this thinking is coming from tbh but I also think it's fair to say that the owners and management team at the club have done more scenario planning, strategic thinking, player expectation alignment and general management of the situation and likely outcomes for the season than most of our fans have probably ever done over anything in their entire lives. Do we think they are incompetent, or competent? If it's the latter, then we have to trust that they have weighed what you have just said already, and are operating in the club's best interests across the balance of that situation. If it's the former, then you're right to mention it but honestly we have bigger problems than just who signs...

IMO his game wasn't as bad as people might think - the temptation is to think he was passing to no one a few times because... I mean he was. But 3 separate occasions in there, he carried the ball into the box and passed to midbox where a theoretical onrushing midfielder might be, and no one was there. Now, yes, maybe he should put his head up and check for that. But equally, if someone had made that run all three times I'm pretty sure we would have gotten something from it. Starting to think he relies on where he thinks people should be, more than where they are.

Yep, take that for sure. Clean sheet suggests we're getting things right in that department, just need to fix the disconnect in the final third. Which, tbf, is squarely what the club are focused on.