Ayatollah Hermione

I reckon our reluctance to spend this summer lends some credence to the rumour.

I see it said that he has potential but he basically hasn't improved a lick since he got here tbh.

This kid is the shittest Duncan Ferguson the world has ever seen.

Makes Ashley's insistence on pissing him about even more baffling

Not sure about selling him, especially this late on in the window. Those reservations don't come from me thinking he's quality, it's more I think we'd be leaving it too late to get anyone and most of the options we've been linked with have already moved on. Coupled with Charnley's inability to make a deal quickly (unless he's selling someone), I think there's about an 80% chance it would leave us with Mitrovic and Joselu all season, with Perez as your de-facto 3rd choice and I'm not too sure about that.

His one final gag was continually banging on to Ant about upgrading the board and then never using it once he did.

Reckon it's swung back with Dummett to the point where he's getting undeserved criticism. He's a country mile ahead of shit like Haidara and gets on and does an unglamorous job with little fuss. I'd like him to bomb on more too but I think people are stuck in their 2015 appraisals of him and, whether through not watching him live last season or previous bias, refuse to accept how he's improved under Rafa.

Not sure I can remember the last time a player looked immediately impressive like Merino did on Saturday. Shelvey's debut was good but this kid gave a complete midfield performance; winning tackles, winning headers, setting people up, going box to box. I sincerely hope it wasn't a one off.

Sometimes, you sign a player and it just doesn't work out. Maybe they struggle to settle or they have injury problems or the manager leaves just as they arrive and the new one doesn't fancy them but you leave saying "aye, you can see he has something about him" I have no idea what anyone saw in him. What a load of shite

Aye, he scored after 3 minutes on Wednesday and spent the rest of the time standing still. Not to mention the shit last season where he seemed like he couldn't be arsed to jump for headers a lot of the time

I'm 26 and I know all that. Sounds like you should have hit them both with the old Left, Right, Goodnight and went off into the wind

Fired through my rewatch and found myself enjoying Season 2 more than I did the first time around, especially as the later episodes do contain a fair bit of info about The Black Lodge going into the movie and the new season. I still love the movie, like, once the baffling first 30 minutes are out of the way. As for the new season, I'm about 6 episodes in and enjoying it though I am

They've went out their way to stir up the shit with this one, like. Almost like they think we're not deserving of Benitez and it continues to piss them off that he's still here.

Just have to get him over the line

The bloke next to me calls any opposition player who goes down after a tackle, a "fucking puff" so I can see how that might be off putting to our gay friends in the audience.

I like Lynch's surreal stuff, it's just a jarring shift when applied to Twin Peaks. I'll probably enjoy it, coming in fresh

Fucking pack it in, Fish

Been rewatching Twin Peaks before digging into the new one and was really surprised at how strong Season 1 is, even when you know where everything is heading. Season 2 definitely drops from the first episode but is still good but there's really no way to describe just how fucking shite it gets halfway through. I remembered it being bad but, since the new season apparently references some of that shite, I'm going to have to power through. Still, Lara Flynn Boyle used to be absolutely fucking lush and that helps.

Do people still not understand how this telly deal works, fuck me

Listened to The 59 Sound for the first team in about 5 years. Still one of the most life-affirming rock albums ever written tbh.

Mods, change Rayvin's name to 'Glayvin' in honour of the Jewish lads.

Stoke fans reckon that he just hasn't been given a fair shake but has looked decent when he's actually played

Aye, you'd think he'd have saw how we spent money last season and see that you can still do half decent with transfers by letting Rafa crack on. We got, what, £2 million for Murphy after paying £3 million? I'm certain that when some Championship teams have a shit start, we'll see Hanley go for around what we paid for him. Reckon Rafa would see us pretty much break even every year on the transfer front if he was allowed. Though, that assumes Ashley would learn something which he clearly hasn't. He's like a kid playing The Sims. One moment, his house is running fine, his Sims have all got jobs and wives and then the next, he's trapping them rooms and making them set fireworks off in the house because he's bored.

It's comforting to know that, in a land of complete lunacy, we have the most sensible man of the lot managing us. Which, of course, is why our retard owner wants to stir the pot.

Reckon the only saving grace with Stoke is that Hughes has proven, time and again, that he can't get the best out of those players. Very direct and cautious when they're losing and totally wasting Shaquiri. If he makes it past Christmas, I'll be amazed