Ayatollah Hermione

I keep thinking this. Like, we have to beat them eventually Can’t be many longer losing runs between two sides in the same league. Well, not losing runs but can’t be many other teams who haven’t beat another in 17 attempts

I’ll be getting quite drunk to celebrate any win and praying that the sheer jubilation of lifting a cup will help override the depressive effects of the alcohol. This is a foolproof plan

Turns into a Deano post halfway through, man

Caulkin has went so far downhill, it’s outrageous

In the interest of balance, I can’t shake the feeling that we’re going to get shafted by the officials

Got to keep the paymasters happy

Our new 65k, state of the art, super stadium will surely still pale in comparison to their 25 year old flat pack monstrosity that was built on the cheap and has been outdated for about 15 years

That’ll definitely be what she’s referring to Cheers, boys

at “Balou” I’m stealing that

Also, my lass swears blind that, in the early 90s, Monty Magpie used to be drawn with a cigarette in his mouth. Google is coming up with nowt and I can’t remember it so seeing if you old bastard can instead

I’ve no doubt you’re right about them being shit tbh. Just was wondering if you could excuse a bit of the physical side of it. I think it’s the crop at the U18 level and below that are more highly rated but I’ll be amazed if we see more than 2/3 of them get their game for us going forward

Renton doing more to kill the planet with ChatGPT and AI than Silicon Valley is

Are they all still playing a level above where they should be? Sure we put the 18 year olds into the U21s to give them more of a challenge but no idea if that’s still the case. Saying that, Kuol has to be about 20/21 now

Greggs are so proud of being from Newcastle that they’ve promptly dropped everything on the menu that could be considered from up here. That’s before you mention their “social media game” which is just Paddy Power but somehow even more annoying

Couple of broken toes will do, lads. Christ

Howe masterclass incoming. Just hope it’s good enough to also beat VAR

Murphy trying to slide Wilson through on goal when their keeper was in our box pretty much summed his game up tbh. We just had to win there though IMO. Kind of performance where we had to dig in and win but you can build on it. Clean sheet should give them confidence into Sunday too

To get him up and on with the game to reduce the added time maybe?

Aye, needs to get this nonsense out of his system.

Pacqueta coming on for one last bit of spot fixing. Brings a tear to the eye

Finally, someone takes a bit of a risk and we score. There’s a reason these are where they are

This keeper has been sent by the lord to test me

I’d say we’ve been the better team even if we haven’t exactly set the world on fire. We’d have been in front on another day against another keeper IMO. Our defence is painfully slow though and it’s going to cost us more points this season

Glad we’ve went strong since the results went against us and it’s tighter than a penguins sack around us atm. Positive momentum is so important for Sunday

I can get through 5/6 books when I go away for a fortnight but that’s because I tend to just grab a load of 200 page spy thrillers. I bought the Silo books recently off the back of the TV show but haven’t even started them yet. Not sure how many I’d say I read a year but like Strawb, it tends to be when my lass fucks off to bed and I can get some quiet. But then I just end up falling asleep on the settee so it defeats the purpose really