The Fish

But I found it's worth really working at

Lascelle's commitment is more believable. Don't buy Janmaat's wall punching either, he's like a kid punching a wall to prove he's upset about his 17yr old girlfriend dumping him.

They tracked down the kid that Owen embarrassed on that "Soccer Skills" video. https://t.co/eybuWi1XEy

No, my point is that Leeds is adaft example because they've not been a top flight club and just because you (and others) call them a bigger club than Bournemouth is irrelevant to the modern football player. He wants to play in the top flight, absolutely, but I'm not saying that we'll get every target, or that those targets will be of the same standard that we've been approaching lately, or even that we'll 100% get targets that both Bournemouth and ourselves go for. I simply said that there will be footballers out there who would choose to play for us ahead of Bournemouth. Hell, we signed Premier League Champions' Danny Simpson on loan from Man Utd. I mean, by your reckoning, no player would choose a freshly relegated Championship side ahead of Premier League suitors? He was playing for Blackburn, Villa were interested and yet he chose to play for us in the Championship. We'll not be signing the Dutch player of the year, but we'll not be bereft of options just because we're in the 2nd tier. Anyone with half a brain can see that.

Think you've chosen a poor example there. Leeds have been down in the doldrums for nigh on 15yrs, there's players who've had entire careers without seeing Leeds in the top flight. I don't disagree that they have a storied past, but they're a joke of a club now. Especially with the owner they have. Newcastle United are club who've been in the Premier League more than they've been out of it, they'll only just have been relegated, they'll retain a strong spine of talented footballers and they are likely to return at the first time of asking. If you were a 22yr old player looking for 1st team games, would you rather play for a team that'll win more games than they lose, in a massive stadium before 50k fans. Or a team that'll likely struggle against relegation all season, in front of 10,000 fans in a cowshed? One team will be in the Premier League 17/18 and it won't be the Cherries.

Got a text off Fergus (the host) this morning after we asked how it went. "That last podcast is what happens when both of you can't make it. Charlie was Charlie; exhausting"

All right Boycie?

I had us going down on GD. Palace survived. But that was before their Norwich win.

Danny Simpson did exactly the same. Edit:- Sorry I mean 'Premier League Champion' Danny Simpson.

Huh? Gini, Mitro & Mbemba all have 27+ appearances? Gini was Dutch player of the year 14/15, so I'm guessing he played often (44 app), Mbemba made 37 appearances last season, Mitrovic made 51.

Cheers mate that's encouraging. Might grab the name of that agent off you closer to the date. If it all goes swimmingly I might owe you a pint of the most Gloomy-bating hipstery ale I can find. Something with a name that references a comic-book, served in a tin can, by a girl with sleeve tattoos, on a hoverboard.

From what I've heard Didsbury is more likely to be a "casual interest in rugby but wear the shirts when it's an international tournament" kind of town...

fair enough.

If anyone can, you can.

Things are looking up.

Not being funny but if Psycho can wrap his head around it, it can't be that hard?

I'm not surprised they'd not recognise the name "Dave", I go by "El Capitán", or "Aizen-Myoo" Martin'll be livid. He only got bronze.

What did they get you when you gave up being a titan of business for the life of a taxidriver?

You're underestimating our global brand, the lure of English football and overestimating how enticing other teams are. There'll be players who'd rather sign for Newcastle United in the championship than Bournemouth in the Premier League.

you heartless bugger.

Thing is, he has the physique, had the pace, has played along some class centrebacks, he could have been quality, he could have been an apex predator dominating his territory, but instead he's ...

Christ, I'm literally never going to live that down am I?

Nah, even if we lose the likes of Colo, Mbemba, Janmaat, Tiote, Anita, Sissoko, Wijnaldum, Perez, there'll be enough quality left over to get us back up. Even if there isn't we're a big enough club that we could attract promising players to join us, even in the 2nd flight.

Taylor's had more good games than Shola imo