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Thing is before his big injury he and Reid had a Cabaye/Tiote kind of deal where Reid was very much the ball winner and Bracewell the footballer/creator. It was only post injury that he became more defensive. Similar to how Rob Lee went "backwards" in his last couple of years when he couldnt do the running anymore.

You have to have paid 12 months NI to get benefits btw.

"Finished" is a bit harsh. Certainly he wasnt the player he was before he fucked himself against us but he still did a job for us in the first season up.

Wonderful.

Watching a stream for Leeds which I think is a Middle Eastern channel and Richard Keys is presenting the show - still shit though.

Expect to be charged 20% VAT - the sender has to put a value on which commercial senders I'm guessing would be correct. Also if they use any form of the US post office it will come via Parcel Force who will charge you a tenner "admin charge" (Fine for daring to buy from abroad).

I think leaving him as captain is designed to encourage him to stay beyond the summer which isnt a bad idea tbh.

Twice - 84/85 and 93/94. From 80 to 95 I missed at most 2 or 3 games a season. 96 - 09 that went up to about 10.

Then why is there a boom in food banks? Or do only those who work count? BTW do you think the rich have accepted that their lifestyle will stagnate which of course it wont.

I see the propaganda is still working. Theyve convinced you that were fucked and to expect misery for years while the rich just rake it in. If they just imposed a 25% tax on INCREASE in the wealth of the one percent since the crunch it would clear the deficit.

Just watched it and he actually waved a card Le Beouf style. Barton is right -he should have kicked him harder.

If 500k "proper" jobs had been created I would have expected to see a huge increase in tax receipts. As this hasnt happen the only conclusion is they are mainly shitty jobs. Another two million jobs wont help if it means no more tax. Of course I want to see more people in work but not as virtual slaves.

The anomaly is that its mainly shit jobs being created - ones which are the aim of quitting the EU.

SSD firmware? Ive never had to bother with hd firmware but have noticed it mentioned s few times in relation to SSDs.

I'm assuming the worst.

Yes but minus two crucial players and counting.

We need a ball holder/upper if that's what Stevie meant - very underestimated part of Ba's game. I'm counting this bloke as a better version of Obertan going by his YouTube thing.

Signing this Gouffran sounds okay to me as we need more strikers as long as we still sign a better/bigger name as well. Probably dreaming though.

I think we'll go down now because at a basic level Pardew is a cautious, defensively minded manager. For me the game was lost yesterday when he brough Perch on at 1-0 - he'll do that again and again and in the end it will cost us dear. The only two successfull battles against relegations in my lifetime (87 and 08) were characterised by managers and teams who prospered through attacking football (though McFaul would have been fucked without Gazza's return from ingjury) whereas the three relegations have all featured negative, dour teams with no confidence and manager's who'd lost the plot. Currently we resemble the latter and I don't think Pardew has it in him to change quickly enough to what we need.

And funnily enough given this thread as I've said before when I forced myself to watch the full highlights a few years ago we absolutely pissed on them and Green laid on about 3 or 4 open goals for MacDonald who missed the lot.

I remember a couple of my mates who think as highly of the man as I do questioning him over the 2008 walkout saying he should have stayed and worked it out - I told them to wait for the compo trial and fair enough they told me they'd been wrong for doubting him. I've said before the double edged sword for me was his last comeback restarted the flame of my love for football which was barely fluttering at the time but sadly how it ended had the result of pissing all over that - not because of him directly but because of how it showed up how shit football has become since he left in 97.

Kenny Wharton was a hero of mine but in hindsight I'd tend towards your view. Having said that I never thought he was a great player - he was just a geordie through and through who got stuck in and was occasionally a righteously dirty bastard.

It would be funny if he came out with "Fuck the money I'm signing for a bigger club".

This reinforces my view that British players should be given thirty seconds to decide whether to sign for us and foreigners a day at most. It's how football is now - and yes I do hope hes a complete failure. I also think there's an element in signing him of scuppering us as well which I wouldnt put past the twat. It's like when Rangers and Celtic sign players from lesser clubs just to ensure they aren't challenged.

It won't happen but I'd quite like Man City to score seven.