benjii

I dunno. West Ham game is key. If we pick up a win there and manage to win one of the three home games then we've got a reasonable chance. Frankly, the next two games are huge. Feel good feeling of a semi final on the horizon or dumped out of the cup by a third tier team and then a six pointer against a team having their own crisis.

I was sat across from Dusan Tadic at lunch. Fact.

As you say, unless Austin is fit then our best chance of scoring some goals is to find a way to get Gabbiadini playing in form. Whether that means a change of shape, a change in attitude or something else, that's Hughes' biggest challenge. I expect us to remain porous at the back because our defenders really aren't that good so the attacking challenge is the important one.

So Tillerson publicly supports May regarding a strong stance over the Russian chemical weapon and gets fired the next day by Trump.

Do people actually think MP wrote that statement?

Have a bit of pride FFS. Saggy Chops - I’d rather have Pellegrino.

I’ve never been a fan of Hughes the manager but, as others have said, he’s where we’re realistically at, short of offering mega-money to an old, higher profile manager. Part of the problem with Hughes is that people remember what a bellend he seemed to be when he saw played for us.

Who's out on the lash in Wigan on Saturday night?

Cheers for posting. I don't think anyone will criticise this sort of #ITK post. It's the cryptic ones that are not falsifiable and don't actually contain any information that wind people up, along with ones that are clearly bull.

Yeah, that's a classic. Those aren't pillows.

And currently the manager of Belgium.

I'm hearing snippets that we'll have a new manager in soon. I can't say any more for now.

West Ham game is critical. I think it's curtains for the loser of that.

Indeed. This makes more sense. Maybe he's willing to spend £200m in China to make £100m in the UK. At the end of the day his silence is pretty telling IMO.

Replacement cost isn't the same as worth. My car would cost £30k to replace with new. It would sell for about £14k. It's worth £14k.

In what parallel universe is SMS worth £100m? **** me! If it was that much of a slam-dunk business case then there would have been a queue of people willing to put up the money and Kat wouldn't have had to wait for months while he cobbled it together and convinced the PL he wasn't too dodgy to be an owner. Maybe he is ambivalent about relegation. Maybe he's dodgy as ****. Maybe he's a great guy whose heart is in the right place. Maybe he just thinks MP is the best man for the job and is making honest mistakes. Who knows? Either way, if turning a quick and easy profit on the £200m was a sure thing then it seems odd that he was the preferred buyer.

I think keeping Shelvey quiet is key to keeping Newcastle quiet. They rely on him to create and haven't got much else to worry teams at this level (apart from perhaps set pieces, given our aerial weakness). If we get a grip of midfield then I fancy us to win. I'd be tempted to start Long upfront for this one instead of Carillo to give us that bit more pace in behind.

Bloody good planet, that.

This.

The Liebherrs didn't buy a Premier League club.

People live for decades with that now. Look at Magic Johnson.

To some extent I agree with that. Pellegrino could be doing so much better but the players cost us the points yesterday.

She hasn't asset stripped at all. Far from it. However Gao seems far from an ideal owner.

This is no worse than usual. It's exactly the same as usual. Which is why it's mad to have kept this manager and not tried to replace Van ****. I await the inevitable Stoke header later on.

Drove here from Cornwall. A-roads absolutely fine.