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My favourite 'close' getaway city. Got it all - climate, beaches, stuff to do and fantastic beer. Yellowstone National Park is most amazing. Sulphur pools, geysers, friendly buffalo, etc. Highly recommend a visit before it blows.

What's that pink thing in Redmond's hand? No wonder Hughes is smiling. Kelvin looks happy too.

Not necessarily deliberate, but survival certainly not the priority? Although the income derived from Premier League membership far outweighs the Championship, to function as a club in the Prem, you have to spend an awful lot of it in wages and purchases. After the summer player sales (adding to the 75M for VVD) and the onset of parachute payments, what's to say that the first year's Championship status (albeit reduced supporter admission income) is any less lucrative?

Is there any plausible scenario that it's possible that Gao wanted in on a club who were about to make £75 m, asset strip in the summer, receive parachute payments and then either bugger off when it suits him or sustain a cheap to operate Championship club? I'm looking at this very pessimistically (and possibly the above plan doesn't work like that at all) but how can this colossal fook up really happen if the agenda was to survive the drop? If this is all about Reed insisting on sticking by his appointment, isn't he going to look even sillier if we were to be relegated (which has looked likely now for some months). All so avoidable, yet here we are.

In other (unrelated) curling news..... Phwwwwwoooooar! Her husband curling partner tested positive for a banned substance though, bye bye bronze medal. Oh you silly Russians.....

If Trump wanted to get one over on the Democrats (that's his favourite thing), he can push hard to repeal the legality of the bump stock, the device that turns semi automatic rifles into machine guns (like the Mandalay Bay murderer used). The ATF (Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) under the jurisdiction of the Dems were naively duped into ratifying the bump stock as the manufacturer sold the design that it was intended to aid disabled shooters.

All part of draining the swamp and giving the country back to the people. No more pandering to lobbyists, etc, eh? No problems here! Move along. He's doing a schhhhhhhwell job.

Wishful thinking. Unless we are demolished by WBA, a point or a narrow loss (demonstrating we have potential) will keep Mauricio in his job, surely.

Looks like a damage diagram of what happens if a nuke goes off in Texas. (The website is called Statsbomb afterall.) Hope Carrillo is da bomb...

It's sarcasm. Gallagher will still be loaned out.

This is a pretty good thread, once you get past the silly opening post. Finishing 8th and a cup final was decent. (There were 3 points separating 8th and 14th, but we still made 8th.) The board clearly are looking to improve based on what we were being served at home for the final third of the season. In hindsight they made the wrong decision in appointing Pellegrino but not necessarily in sacking Claude. No one can say for sure what situation Puel would have had us in though. He might have achieved midtable again. He might have ironed things out during the summer - strengthened how he wanted, ditched his dour tactics, won the confidence back of some of the players, etc, but no one can be certain based on his early achievements at a different club, a team who won the league two seasons ago. IMO Puel wasn't showing the signs that he would be able to adjust and push us forward. But as others have pointed out, the board might do well to learn the lesson, that finishing midtable should not be punished. Time will tell on how the board react from here on.

Yeah I miss all those 4-1 away wins last season. What were the board thinking.....crazy mofos

Anyone planning a sleepover in London?

Piers didn't have a problem with Trump's stance on Muslims here... Jim Jefferies making him look a ***t was great TV.

Thats Ok whatever, but he's still a c#nt. Can we not get him in as next manager please.

Don't laugh, he might come here.

Although I can't sit through a game as a neutral watching two teams that mean absolutely nothing to me, I enjoy watching Green Bay Packers with my son who's a diehard fan, especially when it's a close game...as was the game away to the Cowboys last Sunday. Took me years to attempt to see what it was all about, since it is so far removed from proper football....it looked dire! Agree that it is a perfect TV spectacle (unless you have seats costing hundreds of dollars in the stadium). Was at a game in nosebleed seats a couple of years ago (Cardinals vs Packers in AZ) and whilst the atmos was great, couldn't really appreciate what was going on pitchside.

Rui Fonte for Fulham!

Ted's Twitter feed history is really cringeworthy. He really is a turd. Ah, yes. I think it was more..."well it won't be that bad will it, we'll get plenty of LOLs along the way". Yeah........right. I had certainly preferred him to win the primary. Him or Ted Cruz as president. I think I would have been vomiting more if the latter had won TBH.

Thanks for that Ted, you should become a songwriter. Time to realize what the flag stands for instead of blindly worshipping it and complying. This clearly isn't a protest against the armed forces anyway....FFS! The president telling people what to do and think...AGAIN. Distract and deflect, rinse and repeat.

Ah you see you didn't whisper enough encouragement while she was in utero. I did, and he popped out on mine. Enjoy and good luck.

No, not at all. I had emailed them when the season started to tell them that this whole app thing was a bad idea. Maybe they made a note of it. The email I got on 24th Sept -

Got an email the other day from NBC Gold apologising for the recent shoddiness of their service. It was an invitation to log any grievances, which I did. Got a response offering $10.00 refund on the service (which I will take) or to cancel for a full refund. I'm not going to cancel but am surprised at them offering it so easily. Either they are serious about their pledge to make it a better experience or they are going to be half arsed about it with the attitude that "well, we did offer a full refund".... Let's see how it is for Stoke on Saturday.

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Slash the price of beer and double the outlets in the concourse. (More toilets too). Install breathalyzers at turnstyles on entry. Anyone not over the limit can be funneled directly to the bar.