The Fish

I'd be amazed if we signed a Left Back.

According to Transfermarkt, he's played on the left wing 14 times and provided no assists and scored no goals...

Talk of Nolan becoming Leyton Orient's player manager. Love a player manager, me.

Ashley's found us an open top bus to celebrate in. Got a really good deal on it.

Bundesliga arguably has better football, definitely has better atmosphere, some of the best coaches and best players on the planet, and less of the Premier League "Best League in the world™" hyperbole. He's got a good chance of winning trophies every year and despite Bayern cruising to the title most years, they've actually got a good chance of actually competing with Real Madrid and Barcelona when they meet in the Champions League. Hard to argue with him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You're right, he has humiliated a lot of Europa league minnows with Spurs, or International minnows with England.

The Tooms character still creeps me out. I'm not holding out much hope for it at all to be honest. Just a payday, surely?

Fair enough, you're not that old.

I will open your throat with a fish slice.

Course I haven't, you big daft ginger knob. Newcastle United should be consistently challenging for Europa spots and looking to steal a march on any slip ups from the teams above that. Chelsea and Man City have spent an incredible amount of money to usurp traditionally "bigger" clubs and (this season aside) don't look likely to finish outside the top 4-5 anytime soon. It's mismanagement in the boardroom stretching back into Sir John Hall's reign that's lead to our decline. We've had two decent managers in my 3 decades on the planet. We've definitely had the cash, the support, the players, the opportunity to establish ourself at the top, but consistently the men making the decisions have chosen the worst path. Keegan's first exit was a cock up Taking the legs from under Robson was a cock up and appointing Souness was a ridiculous over-reaction to the dressing room Every appointment after that was a cock up or a long shot that barely came off Selling to Ashley was stupid but Ashley not selling to Mansour was worse We get Robson in after Keegan and we 100% would have Premier League titles and FA cups in our cabinet, instead we have a Championship trophy and an Intertoto winner's certificate. I'm not happy with where we are, far from it. But I'm not daft enough to concentrate only on the negative.

Thing is, if we'd sold Tiote before getting a player in (Saivet) people would be livid that we'd risked being left short. Don Hutchison (I know) asks if it's time to praise the board for the last couple of windows and the article is, unsurprisingly, provoking a fairly angry response. But perhaps these are the first season where there is a change of transfer policy?

Shelvey doesn't do Tiote's job though?

Sure, but I rely on my charm to lure them in. Palin has all the charm of a bag of sweets, but when you open the bag it's a heady mix of agitated wasps and bird shit. You could do better Scott, don't sully yourself with an ageing racist. Or if that's your jam, why not see how strong Renton's marriage vows are?

Jesus. Are you both over 40? Is this something that happens when you turn 40? All good taste in women evaporates. You'll be hankering after a go on Denise Welch soon.

Mate, there's a difference between being single and being desperate.

I've never seen anything that sticks long in the memory. Certainly nothing as scathing as the bit about sunderland. He's consistent in his criticism of the culture at that club, and it appears to be supported by the odd story that does make it into the mainstream media.

I pop on RTG every now and then. Normally when it's quiet over here. I try to highlight their hypocrisy or the outright lies they tell each other. Try to do it calmly, ignoring the "FUCK OFF MAG" children, but never stick around very long.

Abso-fucking-lutely.

Thought you said he was lazy?

Nah he just heard the ice-cream van's jingling tune.

If you need to kill some time http://www.worldfootball.net/table_calculator/eng-premier-league/

probably arguing over how portions of rice to get

Looks like someone is keen for a bong party.