CB Fry

Glad you have now described it as a city (which it is) rather than a small town (which it isn't).

You've never been to Newcastle then. But nice try.

Pretty twattish thing to say unless he truly thinks that thousands of people who have Asthma or Liver disease were all just about to drop down dead anyway in 2020 or 2021.

You can see Pep wants JWP to marry his daughter.

Absolutely insane that they've been allowed to go. Never have a team so deserved to be relegated.

But it doesn't do that. For a start the estimated final points tally around 17 points which is an impossibility to achieve with wins only and no draws. Secondly it clearly clusters games by difficulty, and assumes in some cases we will get a point or two from some clusters of games. Which can only be achieved by drawing them. For example: one and a half points from Man C/Man U/Chelsea/Spurs/Liverpool suggests we, at best, will draw two, therefore winning none. Which feels fair enough. So it's not really thinking about wins and draws per se, its just doing the old SaintsWeb favourite of "I reckon we'll get 5 points from the next six games" routine and extrapolating it across half a season. It doesn't actually say we are going to win or draw any specific match.

You don't half come out with a load of old shit sometimes.

Recent results have made me much more confident - we need about 12 points from 17 games, so even a horrendous drop in form to Norwich/Watford levels should see us stay up. By the time we play Leeds in April I'd hope we've got most of what we need. The final tally feels like it is going to be pretty low this year. Newcastle staying up with 33 points or something.

Except, obviously, it is nothing of the sort. Calm down.

Except, it's not. It's a considered piece with appropriate inputs from those involved and/or those representing those involved. The Athletic is no tabloid. Yours is a tabloid trash reaction to it, though.

That's the way it is going. My company were hardliners on WFH days in the before-times but have now completely changed so the company wide policy is now 3-in, 2-home a week. I work for a big multinational and it sounds like most companies that size are moving to that. This is the "new normal". We'll leave it to the dins who get all worked up reading Daily Mail columns berating people for wanting to avoid 3 hour commutes and/or eye-watering train fares to add more productivity into the economy. Especially as most of the time those opinion pieces are written by people sat on their arses at home, and in the most high profile cases by people who haven't worked in any office anywhere for 30 odd years.

What do you mean "equally"? The whole thing is set up as a fig leaf, and a means to get off on technicalities in the first place. The reaction you describe is exactly what Boris will want. Provoke enemies to shout cover-up so he and the cabinet can take the new moral high ground of "Sue Gray has spoken let's all move on". Thats two posts now where you have confirmed you are absolutely ready to support that narrative. So its nice to know where you are.

Sue Gray works for him and will hand her report into him. We already know from the information already available that he's done enough to justify his resignation. We know he's mislead the house with his "oooh I'm furious about these parties I've just found out about" routine in December. Sue Gray isn't going to conclude that that didn't happen. It was on TV and everything. He's already accepted parties happened in his office run by his own staff and he's already admitted he was there. Sue Gray just gives him a point in time to do another apology, "take personal responsibility" by sacking people that aren't him and then get his cabinet to go fully into "let's move on" mode. Basically just a tactic to see if the press and the wider public just get bored of the story if it stretches out long enough. The fact that there will be enough saps out there who believe that it is an actual investigation where he could be "found clean" proves that it is a tactic that might just work.

Are Burnley ever going to play a football match again?

Completely exonerated. To be honest this is just the opposition playing politics while we get on with the real work of turning the country around. People want to move on from this.

It's an appalling defence but plenty will swallow it whole. I've seen too many supportive Minister interviews where they say that Johnson is responsible for delivering the vaccines, the furlough, keeping the economy moving and so on and so on. He's totally responsible for all of that stuff but absolutely not responsible for anything happening in his own back garden and organised by his own right hand man. Try not to get hopes up but feel there's an email or a photo somewhere.

Yes and me, Chrome on Android phone. I did the cache/cookies stuff and still there. Laptop I think okay though, although I don't use the forum much on there. Odd.

I remember one of Mark Hughes press conferences. Ward Prowse? Get him out of my sight. A good son in law yes but f**king not what you need in the trenches. Wesley Hoedt, though? Absolute mint.

If the Australians don't like the Novak ruling then they can register their displeasure at the ballot box at the next election. That's democracy etc etc.

I've heard Kelvin does it with his old gloves on.

Just seen the goal and Perraud hitting the woodwork on the YouTube highlights. On another day etc etc. On the highlights they cut to a camera shot showing how far out JWP's free kick was: at which point i said out loud "what a goal" before he'd even hit it.

Absolutely delighted Newcastle fucked up again. Couldn't beat either of Norwich or Watford (or Cambridge) at home with all of their brilliant fans and everything. Pathetic. Leeds away and then maybe a new-manager-bounce Everton at home coming up...

Weird that there's a transfer thread really, if that's the consensus. Maybe that thread is just everyone saying we don't need anyone.

Not sure how this could possibly be a surprise to anyone. If we want to sign him permanently then really we need him to be utter dogshit between now and May. Maybe one more goal, and a sending off for kicking a goalie in the nads.