Alex

Also, who could forget this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45323426

Aye. That was one of my takeaways from yesterday like. Wilson is obviously no spring chicken and injured so often. There’s only him and Isak that can play CF. So we’re desperate for some cover to manage the amount of game time Isak has.

What has really upset me is them telling us we’ve got a far better team and a lot more money than them. That’s the last thing any fan wants

Latest bit of RTG mental gymnastics appears to be that we’re all gutted it wasn’t a massacre.

Are they no longer the reincarnation of early 1970s Ajax then? Also, has there been any word from that thick as pig’s shit mod on RTG? The one with the Pop Robson avatar.

I mean if they’re happy with that meaning they’re FUCKING MILES away from being an average PL side then fine.

Aye. Ballard dived in but he only had to make the tackle because O’Nien tried to clean out Isak (and made an arse of it) instead of just clearing the ball.

His patter’s fucking desperate.

Charvas, man.

I love his honesty and commitment. There’s a reason 1,500m runners aren’t 6ft6 and built like a brick shithouse. But despite that he tries his best get up and down the wing and support the left winger. He’s obviously limited in an attacking sense but he’s rarely let us down in terms of performances

I wouldn’t say there was much variety tbh

One of my laddies scored two, set one up and got motm today in a 6-1 win. When we got home his grandad was there. When he told his grandad, he replied instantly with: “Who were you playing? The blind school?”

As much as Arsenal get on my tits I hate Liverpool more

They’ve got some player called Roberts who was apparently a huge miss yesterday because of course he was. Never really heard of him but a quick check shows he’s nearly 27, a winger, he made his first senior league appearance about 10 years ago. In that time he’s scored less than 30 league goals and over half of them came during a loan spell ages ago at Celtic.

How could you think that’s a fucking win btw? The cretin even has a Twitter account with his real name. I don’t like the witch-hunts when people end up losing their jobs and stuff but that’s what often happens when you post something like that. What a thick-as-mince mackem cunt

I thought him and Gordon were outstanding.

I like McCoist and he’s definitely got a bit of time for us too. But he seemed to be going out of his way to be inoffensive instead of his normal honest self. Far preferable to Keane and Waddle though who were ridiculously biased.

Think I pointed out recently that there’s only a handful (less than 5 iirc) Championship players that have moved for that sort of fee, excluding those from teams that have just been relegated from the PL. The idea teams would pay that for Clarke (never played in the top flight I think) or Ballard is completely delusional. They’d do well to get a combined fee of £20m. It was funny enough saying it before yesterday’s game. But afterwards? Clarke offered absolutely fuck all in an attacking sense whilst also giving Trippier the freedom to get forward at will. And despite their equally delusional / batshit crazy claims that Ballard had a good game he was shown to be out of his depth against top flight opposition. Funnily enough on the Match of the Day highlights they spoke a lot about how poor Ballard’s performance was.

I looked up his age too after someone on RTG said he’d played well considering his age or something like that. I thought that if he was about 19 or 20 they might have a point. About 7 years older than Miley and they’re going on like he has bags of potential/improvement to come

Aye also noticed on there recently that (in one of their trademark completely made up things) they’ve been claiming that Newcastle fans from Newcastle can’t stand Durham mags. Which of course confirms their belief that Durham mags are the worst football fans in the planet, or something

#classy

Imagine what it would be like if it mattered #Imagine

Aye. Almost certainly bollocks and, even if it wasn’t, so fuck?

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/ballard-and-beale.1624383/ As well as the aforementioned poor judgement re: Ballard’s performance, there are some odd comments in there. I thought they were all purists who derived joy from the beautiful game.

The penalty one. It was a daft challenge where Gordon still had a lot to do to score from there. He lunged in, took Gordon’s legs then grabs onto him just to make sure the ref is in absolutely no doubt