Saint Keef

Yeh it's a good point Turkish. I guess when they start splashing the cash though, there will be some mercenaries out there who will take a big pay-day for the risk of relegation, but either way it'll be fun watching it all unravel!

I guess with Newcastle, and the timing of their takeover by their "extremely rich" owners, it may well have had a completely adverse effect on the current players, because once those owners start spending, half or maybe even more of that current team know they won't be getting a game after January. They probably also thought they'd be getting in a top "multi trophy winning coach" only to find they've got someone (Eddie Howe) who led his last team to relegation.

The Infinite Monkey Theorem. This states something like....if you give 100 monkeys (Chimps) 1000 typewriters over an infinite amount of time, to hit the keys randomly there is a reasonable probability that sooner or later one of them will write the complete works of William Shakespeare. I don't "indulge" in Talksport and have no idea who this Crook fella is, but based upon the posts above this might be one of his efforts.... "Flimdim, bus stop whim, alligator, wiffle piffle Talksport, moon balloon Diego Mara doner kebab Chelsea bun blah blah Talksport smackaRooney for Aguero Bolero Paul McCartney and Wings Mings Villa and Ings probably not What? Hot off the press horses for courses got sources Adams Armstrong Adam Armstrong Stuart Armstrong Che Adams Stretch Armstrong, ITK RAC Talksport. Boom! Told you so."

Yeh but that's a long way from the Itchen and Kingsland to Hillsborough. 😀

Good to see him back. He was having a good run of games when he got injured so it gives us another option.

This is a strange one. CHELSEA have appealed against Harry Maguire's sending off........apparently they want him to play against them next week 🤣🤣🤣

Probably not suitable as a "football song" but as we're talking about songs for and about England, I think this takes some beating. Ralph McTell's "England". Just a beautiful song. Hope you enjoy it.

Some of you may already have read this, but I thought I'd stick the link here anyway. I thought it was an interesting read. I foresee mayhem looming for "The Toon's". Kind of makes you think it's a good thing that our owner leaves footballing matters to those that know something, well....... about football. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59225679

Absolutely agree.....I was saying it would be hilarious if they offered that......I'm not saying we would accept......nor should we. Thanks, but no thanks!

I get what you're saying, but I reckon you could add Palace and Leeds in there. And actually, I wouldn't rule West Ham out, who only really have Antonio as an out and out striker and and as they progress through Europe they may well need more cover. Moyes likes hard workers! Haha....and of course, if Danny Ings doesn't work out at Villa maybe they would want a "swap" deal for Che (only joking before you all jump down my throat!) Danny + ££££ for Che would be hilarious.

Che is fast becoming a Scotland legend. I know there are people on here who think at best he is Championship level and only ever "scuffs" his goals, but for every goal he scores whether it be for us or Scotland, his value rises and that can only be good news for us. And he has the knack of hitting "Worldies" as well. Congrats Che!

"Don't tell him Pike!"

Right......it's risky I know, but I'm going to put my head on the line and say that Eddie Howe won't be our manager by the end of October. Based on two things really. 1) It's now 8th November and 2) He's now gone to Newcastle. 🤣

No, I totally agree. I did say if the money is right. I have no evidence, but I wouldn't mind betting Gao will have "higher forces" above him, who will remind him of his duties as a respected Chinese businessman and in no way must he lose face. (Oh I do like a good conspiracy theory)😀

It would be nice to have some decent investment, but Chinese selling to Japanese? I guess the right money would make it happen, but generally they're not the best of mates are they?

Yeh.....and I think I heard one of the marching band hit a bum note in the "Oh When The Saints" bit. Disgusting. Get rid of.

After tonight, the ones I really feel sorry for are the "Ralph Bashers". Compounded by the fact that they haven't been able to blame Jack Stephens for anything for a number of weeks, they now can't have a go at Alex for keeping another clean sheet, they can't blame Redmond for anything because he's got Covid and didn't play, and Adam Armstrong's goal proves he is obviously only Championship level. I mean, how on earth are these people going to occupy their minds over the weekend and into the International break?

That's good news. Being an expert in these things, I can tell from the photo that both calf's (or is that calves?), and the hamstrings look fine. The Achilles look ready to play, so my medical report concludes that he looks alright to me .......apart from that dodgy index finger though. 😀

I wonder where Big Sam is on their list. 🤣

Strangely, based on me having nothing better to think about, I was wondering this afternoon if Ralph might be somewhere on their list. I suppose the questions would be, if they offered a decent enough deal would he go? Would we let him go, and if so, how much would we charge Newcastle for the privilege of having him.......knowing they are "holding the folding"? I guess we could pretty much name our price unless he has stuff written into his contract about leaving if an offer comes in. I'm in the "keep Ralph" brigade but I guess if the compensation was too good to refuse...... All hypothetical of course.

Fish without Chips. Morcambe without Wise. Beatles without Lennon. Villa without Grealish. None of it really works does it.

Referring to the OP on this thread. Just checking as we're now in to November.......... Has Ralph gone yet?

Yeh - I wish we'd had VAR that day. Mind you - had it been Mike Dean on VAR he still wouldn't have seen it or said that "his hand was forming part of his head".

Swings and roundabouts. Yes, we know Newcastle are "minted" so we could hold out for £50m. But then, when we try to buy someone with the proceeds of that sale, teams will know we're "holding the folding" and will automatically put their prices up once they know we're interested. And if we're still sitting around 17th (not saying we will be by then, but.....) decent players will be reluctant to come. Stick with JWP at least until next summer I say.

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