David Kelly

I thought his answer made perfect sense. Which premier league manager has time to watch every tinpot club in the country? I've heard of Maja because he's scoring quite a few goals for our local rivals. But I've got no clue who most of the rest of their team are apart from Max Power (because of the name and the fact he keeps getting sent off) and I've got absolutely no idea what players from other clubs are doing well in that league. As he says it would be his scouting team who would bring someone like that to his attention (just the same as it would be for most players in other leagues).

Well I'll never know now will I. I didn't really know anything about it before hand, I just saw Black Mirror and immediately stuck it on. It wasn't until after that I found out how it was supposed to work. My mate watched it properly and said he just got bored with the multiple endings. It sounds like a really good idea that could end up being used for really bad money making purposes in the future. But it just wasn't that good a story in the end.

That's the whole point of it. Its' based around one of them.

Yeah if their batsmen could cope with the moving ball better then it would have been a much closer series.

It was absolutely awful on Saturday like. The only ones who didn't look completely out of their depth were Lejeune, Schaar, Ritchie and maybe Longstaff (possibly just because he wanted to play). And to add the pitiful performance none of the usual supporters were there round where I sit so I had to listen to morons behind me who didn't know what league Blackburn were in, didn't know who half of our players were and couldn't understand why Murphy would be low on confidence when he hasn't even been playing! And there were bairns who also didn't have a clue and just shouted out rubbish and made up their own songs. I know we need to encourage young supporters as much as possible but they really are irritating during the match.

Hayden is dogshit. I don't have a clue what role he thinks he's doing but I'm certain he's not doing it. He also looks very disinterested now which is a shame because before Rafa wouldn't let him leave (which is purely down to our total lack of a squad) he came accross as a good kid.

I see a load of them are fewming that Roy Hodgson doesn't watch them or have a clue who Maja is.

I managed to watch it on a steam without the options so it just played through them all. Thought it was interesting as usual but not one of the better efforts but I'm sure I would have got more from it watching it as it was intended.

Australia's batting never looked that great last year, it was just that Smith was completely out of this world and he managed to carry the rest of them. If he hadn't been playing I think we would have won even without Stokes. Without Smith and Warner the Aussie batting line up looks fucking dreadful. Fair play to the Indian bowlers though, in particular Bumrah who seems to be giving batsmen all over the world nightmares at the moment.

Of course when you try to have a squad on the cheap these things are always likely to happen.

Sounds like it’s a good job no one answered this.

Does anywhere in the town have the match on these days?

I think he means they're our reserves biggest rivals. Whitley Bay aren't up to much these days!

He looks like he has pace, a good left peg and the knowledge that in order to beat a man you can just run into him. Which puts him ahead of all of our attacking players.

It's got nothing to do with Rafa has it? It's the bloke who's covering Pedro while he's suspended who'll be picking the team. Not that it matters because we aren't allowed to play 1st teamers. Not that the mackems are known for letting facts get in the way mind.

So I take it at least a couple of boxes must have recently been sold? Anyone noticed any sheiks in them for the last couple of games?

I'd much rather have Diame playing than Perez or Kenedy who are both fucking pansies who rarely do anything other than give the ball away. Ritchie is our only attacking player who can remotely be relied to play consistently in a slightly positive manner. Unfortunately he's only average in this league. I can't get too down about losing (especially a game that we could have actually got something out of if we had took early chances) after three wins on the bounce. To do better than that is extremely difficult for even the best best teams in the league, and we are certainly nowhere near the very best. It is still disappointing to see how a club like West Ham can financially blow us out of the water and it was blatantly obvious on Saturday that spending decent money gets you much better players. All we have is the manager keeping us in this league.

Watched this yesterday, I thought some of the segments were better than others but as you say it's certainly a compelling watch. What isn't a compelling watch is the new Robin Hood film. What it is, is probably the worst film I've seen all year. It makes no real sense, looks stupid, and has Ben Mendelsohn looking completely bored of playing pretty much exactly the same part that he played in Rogue One and Ready Player One. I'll try not to spoil it for anyone by recommending no one go to see it.

Yeah superstitions are nonsense. I'm going for 2-0 win again.

Jennings could probably a useful cover bowler too at some point. I think it's good to see what Sri Lanka have done today, it was looking at one point that they wouldn't be good enough to make a game of this but they've come back well and you'd have to have them as favourites for this match now.

Curran's start to test cricket has been pretty sensational. As a left armer he gives us something different and his contribution with the bat is more than anyone could have hoped for. Its quite possible that he could be selected for his batting in the future and that would give us the opportunity for some great balance in the side.

I wouldn't dare.

2-0 again.

Not that much of a surprise given the last match and the bowling requirements. It'll be interesting to see how Stokes and Butler do higher up the order.

Muto makes no difference as it's a dead cert that Perez would have been in for him anyway. I actually think it might help us having to play Ki instead of Shelvey. Voldemort hasn't been in great form (I got told last Friday he'd been carrying an injury for weeks but wanted to keep playing to try to help the team) and Diame upped his game a hell of a lot when he went off. I'll go for another 2-0 prediction.