Gemmill

Read my posts from this morning in this thread. He's undeniably correct in the sense that it is unsustainable in our current PSR context. I'm not saying we've made poor signings, and I don't think that's what he's saying. He's saying you can't do what we've been doing on a consistent basis in our specific PSR situation.

Anybody know how Ant's doing btw?

Pig farming is not big business. It's pig business. As to the rest of your point. Aye we should bring in more commercial revenue, but is the context in which we have been operating? No. So Mitchell's point still stands.

I'm not remotely suggesting we should sell our best players. I'm saying that ewerk's argument that we spent a lot but they appreciated in value is irrelevant to the context of being PSR constrained. You can't keep spending big and bringing nothing back in. That is the crux of Mitchell's point and he's right.

All true. As is the statement "AND IT'S NOT SUSTAINABLE". In other words, it's not fit for purpose in a PSR constrained context.

I think it's very unsavoury for a man that is KNOWN for only driving the absolute tippity top of the range (with blacked out Audi sign) to be punching down on others less fortunate than him. This must be what the Hamster felt like when Clarkson ate his lunch out the Top Gear fridge.

Aye I've seen that one. The one lad out of those that was a bit more vocal seemed a dead canny kid too. Pretty shite that visa bullshit fucked them out of the trip.

We broke our transfer record buying Isak. Ewerk: Yeah but he was young and he got better so that doesn't count. Get fucked. That only helps if you then sell him. Unrealised profit doesn't contribute to your PSR.

You're not taking anyone to school. Our PSR situation doesn't allow us to consistently buy at peak age and peak price. It's not sustainable. That's why we had to sell £65m worth of youth talent on June 30th. That's all the evidence we need to see that the bloke is correct in his assessment. A lot of people on here had a good fucking whine about that and would do the same again if it happened next summer, but someone coming in and going "well we can't keep doing that" is somehow "mostly nonsense". You can split hairs on peak age and peak price, as is your wont, but what he's very clearly saying is that we can't keep making big money signings because we are PSR constrained and it is impossible to balance the books.

Also journalists are predisposed to look for a story and a narrative. That they all left the room with one, which they've all run with, some to the extreme, doesn't necessarily mean it was there. Certainly not to the extent that some have spun it. Don't get me wrong. Whatever the intention, it's clearly caused a rift, and it's the job of the man above the pair of them to ensure that it's resolved quickly now.

His first paragraph sets the scene for everything that follows imo. We can't buy at peak age and peak price. You could take a lot of what follows out of context and say that it's direct criticism of Howe and his predecessors, but with the context of the first para, I'm not sure that that was the intention.

Really, I thought it was absolutely shite. Slow as fuck.

I think this is exactly what he meant fwiw.

He's a sex god, not a soccer mom. He'll get the Focus and he'll look good doing it.

Look we can't all drive top of the range Audis.

Yes! Join the focus club. That's what I cruise the mean streets of Wideopen in.

Aye it's very good.

Ah fuck that's really sad. I'm just one episode in to S2 atm. I almost didn't want to watch S2 cos I didn't want to see all the stuff with his crash and that. That's tragic about that young lad though.

6 month suspended sentence for Huw Edwards. "SUSPENDED SENTENCE?!"

I know most of you lot have cancelled your licence fees cos the BBC is full of fake lefty news, but for those that haven't the Flintoff Field of Dreams thing is a canny watch. Be warned though there is an asylum seeker on it, so if you haven't cancelled your licence fees yet, this might push you over the edge.

Just tell her. She knows.

Belligerent with a hard G btw. Doesn't even know what the words he's reading out means.

Strong recommend for this little thing if you're wanting to dip your toe into amp/effect modelling. It's got 7 of the full Helix's amp models on there, and then four each of the full Helix's delay/distortion/modulation/reverb models. Piece of absolute piss to use. Turn the centre dial to pick the amp you want, then turn the four effects dials to pick a distortion / delay / mod / reverb or combo of the above. Once you're within a certain effect (say boost), the more you turn clockwise, the more boost you get until it flips into overdrive, and the same again. There's even a 30 second looper on there if you turn the delay knob all the way to the right. It's got stereo line out and also a headphone jack on the side. Also a USB in so you can plug it into your phone / tablet / PC and the sound from that will come through the headphones too. All for the absolute bargain price of £180. There's an edit program where you can go in and tweak all the amp and effects settings just like you would on a real Helix too, if you can be fucked. But it's the simplicity of not having to do any of that to get a good sound which is the best thing about it.

I think we can leave the private jet tracking until January, Dave.

Paul Merson is one Sky contract extension away from posting one of these.