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Yeah fair point. Think it was Ricky Gervais on his podcasts said he didn't realise he was working class till he went to uni, totally makes sense to me that.

Yeah but you have assumed that two of those things have happened

I used to like rugby and played it as a kid until football took over. I actively started disliking it when I went to uni. The amount of bellends in pink chinos, brown loafers and a polo with the collar up put me right off.

Crackers don't work like that, Lee.

Congrats both. All the best to all three

Apathetic, again. Which is worse than being angry tbh.

Both Norwich keepers in with a shout, so is Guzan, the bloke loves passing to the other team. Villa defence is arguably as bad as ours so apart from maybe Mbemba, those lot. That's all I have atm

Moving house with a hernia is a fucking joke. As is IKEA and their fucking furniture. Fucks sake

Also everyone else on the course has gone to their room to "meditate" on what we learnt today. I went for a swim and am now in the bar. I will be channeling my college-self tomorrow by turning up half cut and not paying any attention.

A few months ago I posted about a fluffy management course I am on. We have had 5 two day "sessions". Half way through the last one atm. I was sceptical but given it the benefit of the doubt until today but this morning I was made to watch a film called "The Secret" apparently based on a self help book of the same name. It's basically a PMA advert and I was expecting Kris Akabusi (was it him?) turn up half way through. Two things put me right off it, one was a guy whose job title was "visionary" and the other was a woman saying she cured her boob cancer by laughing. I left the room and went for a coffee when that bint was on. Now I am not sure how much this woman running the course is getting paid but I bet it's a good lump and she is absolutely robbing a living.

60k is optimistic like

I don't see our midfield struggling at all in this game. I see our forwards struggling to get the better of a shawcross marshalled defence and our defenders struggling to contain a much more expansive Stoke front three than in previous years. Still think we could squeeze a win if everything goes well.

Trying to prove a formula between money/managers/success is like nailing shite to the wall. There is so much more going on in football than that, it's a simplistic view that changing manager or spending more makes you successful. Pardew was consistently shite however and he should never have been near our club.

Has this week been the best of your life?

Aye. I can't sleep thinking about the random world "news" the guy is going to post next.

Kane Vardy Sterling Alli Barkley Dier There's a front 6, make teams worry about us for a change.

There are all shoe horned as fuck like, was it a pre-requisite to play that formation? England matches interest me even less than the cups nowadays anyway.

That I agree with. It's tough to talk money in realistic terms anymore with regards to football. Personally think the 80 million "massive" spend is gambling. Gambling being in on the huge pie of next season that would dwarf the spending. I hope the premier league and champions league eat themselves tbh.

Isn't Haydn about 15? It's mental to expect someone of that age not to stream/download. He apologised for the spoilers and went to the GoT thread no questions asked.

So I am talking utter shite but you agree with me? Canny

The rest of the league has moved ahead of us because they have spent consistently whereas we made a profit for years (off the top of my head) and did nowt with it, just to spunk it all in one go. By spending consistently you have a chance to bed players in for a year then improve again the next year, we buy 6/7 players in one year and wonder why we are still shit.

How hard is it to understand if a club spends 20-30 million four seasons in a row while we spend nowt then spunk 80 in one go we aren't going ahead of them, we are catching up to them.

80 million is fuck all when we have spent fuck all for 10 odd years. You need to spend 40 a year just to stand still man

Thing that is bothering me is that everyone wanted players with "fight" and "heart" and "Englishness" and all those other cliches. So we bought Shelvey and Townsend. Both have one of those qualities.

I specifically wanted a bulldog and that's what they cost