David Kelly

Dubravka is definitely a good keeper but is certainly not a world class one. He does make a few too many mistakes for his ability, that I'm sure he will be more disapointed about than anyone else. He also seems to have a rather odd problem with freekicks. But he's probably in the top ten in the country. He's a long way clear of Darlow though. Darlow is a canny back up and has had an excellent season by his standards but he's not a first choice premier league keeper.

Dusk Till Dawn is never off my telly.

That alone puts him in the top three surely.

It would actually be more like not going out on a date with a gagging for it Salma Hayek for fear you might get into an accident on the way.

Unless it was to win you actual cash then I don't think that covers him.

Rio is doing his best these days to eclipse the rest with his alleged punditry but I'll go with Owen. Has no one mentioned Pardew or Bruce though?

That wouldn't take much of an argument tbh. These last two seasons in particular have been purgatory. I can't see there being many supporters who wouldn't rather have the entertainment of a promotion ahead of this shit all the time. Even if it does by definition mean that we'd have to have some relegations to.

Most unlike anyone that has anything to do with that club!

The NFL, NBA & MLB models is exactly what the owners of these clubs want, but those competitions weren't created on the back of a professional structure that has 92 teams in this country alone (never mind clubs in Spain and Italy too). Those clubs that are going to be locked out of this and turned into minor league feeder clubs aren't going to accept this and I can't see many supporters in this country accepting it either. Appart from the fact that it just will get boring watching your team play the same few teams every week it also will become impossible for most supporters to continue to attend games week after week. Their are plenty of supporters who go to every game home and away. That will be impossible when you first of all have to fly around Europe every week and then to America/Chine/Middle East.

I mean it's the same that they are threatening this in order to get more money and power. In terms of what this does to the game if it goes through, of course it's different and much more harmful. Mind I don't know the exact details of what the clubs were threatening at the time of the premier league creation. They may have been threatening to break away from the pyramid completely if they didn't get their way then too. But my point was about it being a power grab rather than about how far reaching the changes are..

It’s exactly the same as the formation of the Premier League really isn’t it. The big clubs wanted more money and threatened to fuck off if they didn’t get it. In the end they came to a compromise. I’m certain this is what will happen but I’d much rather it just went ahead and the real supporters of these clubs fucked them all off and gave their support to FCUM or the like. I’d like to think that’s what we’d do if faced with the same choice. Let them keep the fans from America or China or wherever, that’s where they’ll end up playing half their games anyway.

It’s blatantly obvious why Sky are giving so much negative coverage to this. It’s got nothing to do with sporting integrity or the fans, it’s completely down to their fear of losing revenue.

They've probably just realised that Ashley isn't going to sack him regardless how much contempt they show for him so they've decided to play for themselves.

Yeah I'd say it was an even bigger regression. If we do go down it's hard to believe we'll be in a position to come straight back up. The combination of the decision not back RB and then replace him and continue to back cabbage heed is even worse than the decision to sign Joelinton. Appointing Souness while staggeringly bad had some logic behind it. Robson was seemingly getting shit on by the young players who he'd brought in and it looked like apointing a firmer hand was what was needed, even if that person should never have been Souness. Replacing Rafa with this fucking idiot never looked like even a poorly concieved idea based on logic. It only served to bring in someone who wouldn't fight to improve the club. Even if RB's motivations may have been firstly based on himself, they were also for the long term good of the club. Bruce while claiming to be one of us is motivated purely by money.

I'm surprised that anyone who remotely followed us would be surprised at those results. We've gone from playing dull football but with a well drilled defence and the prospect of improving when we could upgrade our attackers to playing much worse football with a bunch of players who have no respect for the manager, a sloppy defence and no idea how to attack other than through the moments of quality from individuals. The only surprise is that we're not bottom of every category.

What do you mean a large pint!

Yeah that's always the worry with him and I guess they thought that if they just hung in he is also capable of going over the boundary once they were into the last couple of overs. But a bit better communication might have seen them home. Hard to cricise either of them mind. Wood was our best bowler and Curran the best batsman yesterday.

Yeah Wood can certainly hold his bat. The only issue with him is sometimes he wants to just swing. Yesterday though he looked like he was happy to sit in with Curran.

It makes sense to try and safeguard a transfer fee for him. He's done fuck all in the premier league but consistantly proves himself as a scorer in the championship. I'd reckon you'd still have teams willing to pay £10m for him to try and get him out of that league. And of course in all likelyhood we will need him to do that very job next season because I can't see Wilson hanging around in the Championship for us. For him I can't really see the motivation. There would be teams willing to pay him good money, especially if they can get him on a free. And the thought of having to play any more for Bruce cannot be a happy one.

I Care A Lot. Rosamund Pike playing a character very similar to what she played in Gone Girl, ie thoroughly dislikeable but impressive in what she does. Not a bad film and quite topical what with all the Britney Spears stuff happening. Dianne Wiest is as reliable as ever in it too.

Quality from Curran yesterday he probably deserved to win that for us. Maybe he will look back at some of the runs him and Wood didn't take and think they should have gone for them. But you can't really argue with how close he got us. Most exciting game of cricket since Hedingly.

It's the closest thing to logic I can come up with.

The only conclusion that anyone watching that game on Saturday can come to is that these players are not playing for Bruce now. The supposed tactics are beyond ridiculous, since Wilsons injury we've strikers as wingers and wingers as strikers. He's fell out with Ritchie and probably others and he's made ridiculous statements about the likes of Carroll and Murphy. It's absolutely no wonder they don't trust him and and it's plain to see. Obviously there is a sizeable possibility that Ashley didn't bother watching the match at all but given his investment in the club he surely has been asking questions of someone as to what the fuck is going on. He may well like the fact that unlike Rafa, Bruce won't say a bad word against him but surely that can't go so far as to allow him to reduce the value of his asset by £100m? I'm firmly of the opinion that Ashley doesn't give a fuck about the club but he keeps telling us that he doesn't have £100's of millions in cash and that his wealth is just a paper asset value. Reducing that value to such an extent that it either makes selling impossible or hits him in the pocket at a time he seems to want the cash cannot be something he's happy to just go along with. The only sense I can make from this is that he's happy to see us relegated for some reason. Whether that's because he's a cunt with a grudge against us or (far less likely imo) he has some deal struck that will get him the money he wants regardless of the division we're in and he thinks he can get the football league to approve the new owners far easier than the premier league will. The above both seem completely unbelievable to me now but they seem far more plausible than anyone thinking Steve Bruce can save us from relegation now. The only thing that can keep us up now that they've chosen to stick with this disgusting fraud of a man is Fulham somehow doing worse than us for the rest of the season. No matter how badly Brighton or Burnley might do, I can't see us winning another game with him in charge let alone doing enough to overtake either of them.

Seriously doubt there’s worse manager out there than Bruce

The most clear thing is that Ashley has absolutely no interest in the club. If he did he wouldn’t allow cabbage heed to put out this absolute disgrace of a side. He wouldn’t allow a manager to continue who thinks we’ve done pretty well recently. After a bit of promise against Everton and Southampton we’ve fallen straight back into the style (and I use that word very loosely) we were in back in January. The fact he has no interest might actually be a good thing long term in that he definitely wants to be as far away from us as possible.