Lighthouse

54/3 on a wicket prepared by your own ground staff, against the worst team in the division, on a weekend when every other team in the country is hitting tennis balls for 600 is really quite something.

I vaguely remember it being about £10-12m for him and Larios, combined, on deadline day, so sounds about right. Adjusted for transfer inflation he was probably cheaper than Mayuka as a bit of a punt, so hardly a financial disaster. If it came to it, we could comfortably make our money back on him IMO.

Her music or her photos?

Surrey 605-3, they could easily post a grand if they don’t declare.

You guys are overthinking this. 'Magic 8' is clearly a hint towards a new six year contract for Will Smallbone.

Onuachu, Lumley, Lallana and KWP.

His goalscoring record speaks for the fact that he's 30 years old and neve done anything outside of Turkey and Belgium. The fact that he did very little under four different managers, then none of the other PL clubs snapped him up this summer also speaks for itself. Why haven't Leeds, Sunderland or Burnley bought him, he was obviously available and for only £6m?

Possibly. It’ll depend on form, allocation, pricing etc. nearer the time. There’re clear a few less desirable Northern trips that might not sell out.

Jesus, give it a rest.

For all the tantrums and the, "no way I’ll be renewing new season!" After every inevitable defeat, the uptake was always likely to be high. Attendances have been trending higher for years and we now seem to sell out almost routinely, even in spite of appalling results in two of our last three seasons. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Blackburn was the only away league game which didn’t sell out this season.

The timing does seem to coincide with the official changeover into next season at the end of June, so I wonder if there’s some contractural clause involved with their new bloke, like we had with the delay in appointing Martin last summer.

When have we ever done that? I can only ever remember us getting decent fees, selling our better players to the top sides.

Farewell Paul. I guess we’ll always have that rebound off the keeper at Ipswich.

Onuachu specific chat has been moved to his own thread

I remember my first crack pipe.