Rayvin

There are now multiple different kinds of rainbow flag in circulation to signify various gender and sexual orientations. I'm in no way familiar enough with them to know which one this represents, but presumably it's a fairly broad one for the trans community in general.

But why...?

Yeah me either, why have we turned against Jones? I mean he's not team manager calibre but the bloke tried his best and secured us a couple of points.

We have repeated incursions from generally terrible WUMs on here, typically from your neck of the woods. I accept that you're more in the 'Fish' mould, i.e. seemingly genuinely engaging in discussion - but you're gonna have to fight through a lot of Sunderland related stick to get to the point where it's going to be reciprocated across the board. Honestly if I were you I wouldn't bother There isn't really that much sincere discussion on Sunderland on here anyway, you've kind of dipped off our radar in recent years beyond potential takeovers by fellas that look like extras from the Hobbit. You might be better off on NO. If you do stay, you'll need a thick skin.

You're preaching to the choir there, I'm not at all of the opinion that we either can or should start throwing money around. I agree about loans. But either way, we do need to obtain some quality from somewhere.

We're going to beat Brentford, they looked very poor against Norwich and I really don't think our team is anywhere near as bad as they've been made to look. With some proper organisation and confidence, we should win. Season starts here.

Thank fuck that's over with.

Yes, gloating about this recent polling aside, it's taken an awful lot of shit to get us to this point and the year ahead looks incredibly grim. I can't believe so many people voted for this obvious shitstorm.

More importantly, a coalition of the 'let's not fuck over our main trading partner'. The Greens would work with Labour and improve them, the LDs I'm always a bit suspicious of but at least as far as the EU goes you could trust them. The SNP would give Labour anything they wanted as long as they were offered another independence vote. It just takes Labour to have a bit of vision to make this a reality.

56% if you combine Labour, LDs and Greens. More presumably if you add the SNP in there. Yes, needs a coalition though. Totally agree and will not budge on that.

Goes without saying but it would be a good moment for a charismatic and inspired Labour leader to really start twisting the knife... Nowhere clearly - his best hope is that other events come along and people forget.

So Starmer's approach is working? He's clearly pulled people away from the Tories there. I'd imagine that 4% have gone Tory -> Labour and 4% have gone Labour -> Greens. So the left continue to leave Labour but finally Starmer has managed to start capturing some of the centre. It's good news.

Holy shit, some actual good news. The sleaze stuff does genuinely appear to be pissing off the gammons, I'm not sure which of their principles it's violating since it looks entirely routine to me in terms of how we got here, but long may it continue. I actually think the constant war with the EU is probably also affecting this. You'd have to be pretty fucking stupid to back Johnson while he rips up a deal he agreed to while blaming the EU for it.

Maybe he's just reacting to all the banter about him doing just that over the past few days? They aren't going to scupper this for Jones man, he's a decent coach but no one is more important than the club.

As a publisher, everything about that offends me.

I was under the impression they had a solid youth setup, is there not some raiding to be done there. I don't like Barca much as a club so I may be very ignorant of where they are these days though.

Is Pardew still with that Dutch side? EDIT - 'advisor on football matters' to CSKA Sofia apparently. Wonder what the fuck that involves.

Could we not raid Barcelona for that matter?

Does seem a bit pathetic tbh.

I mean he's obviously going to be better than anything you have, you're in League One. You're more than welcome to him fwiw.

Does Sting work for Amnesty or something? Cos if not, why would they be in any sort of a position to make such a request? And as for his criticism of Sting himself, he's going on as if Sting has seen his request, ignored it, and chosen to go on strictly instead. Sting won't even know this daft fuck exists man.

This game was there for the taking if Jones had the balls for it IMO.

So we're still hopeless then. I really hope the owners are expecting relegation at this point and are simply planning around it.

Ok... this was clearly a dark and strange place in the time before I joined.

I remember for Chinese New Year in Beijing, people would actually light what looked all the world like sticks of dynamite in the streets - they would just explode. It didn't have the yield of dynamite (not that I'm an expert) but it looked like a miniature version of it... So y'know, it could be worse