Lighthouse

One of the more pathetic aspects of all of this is how most of the people bleating about impact on mental health, cancer patient referrals etc. were also the ones fighting tooth and nail against any and all Covid countermeasures they were asked/instructed to comply with. Not only do they have evidence that the vaccines are dangerous, lockdowns are against their human rights and social distancing doesn't work, they've also managed to disprove even the most basic hygene advice for any disease that a six year old would understand. The sheer audacity of being the ones to complain about something they were stubbornly trying to drag out as long as possible is quite astonishing. MLT is probably one of the more severe cases. If a doctor told him to wash his hands after using the lavatory, he'd probably sit there with fingers covered in poo, tweeting about how Bill Gates owns shares in Sanex. At least the Volvic Whisperer has a career of towering far post headers to blame it on, Tiss is just an absolute moon howler.

The thing about all this is that he doesn’t actually have opinions. What he has is a bog standard anti-opinion to pretty much everything. I could have told you his so called ‘opinion’ on 9/11 a couple of years ago, without him ever having to say, type or retweet a single word himself.

Delgado for £3.75m in 2001 would be about £25-30m in today’s money. Cant count him out.

Well, he’s cost us zero points so far this season. If we finish mid table then a lot more than just Baz will have gone wrong.

I don’t know, I’ve heard about a former Bristol Rovers player who reckons water becomes toxic if you say nasty things to it.

I’ll chuck an extra £20, a Curly Wurly and some old Pokémon cards into that wager. I can’t imagine Russel watched the Sunderland game and thought, “we really need to concede more goals.”

A top level keeper could have saved goals 3 and 5 at Sunderland but they weren’t exactly howlers which trickled between his legs. I would have reasonably expected him to save one of those two, so I guess you could say he held us back from the awe-inspiring 4-0 defeat we were capable of. Or you could say he robbed us of a 3-0 defeat, if you weirdly expect him to make no mistakes whilst those in front of him are dreadful. The defence was awful, the attackers didn’t trouble their goal and yet it seems to be Baz getting all the flack. It’s just weird, compared to someone like Alcaraz who’s been crap this season, as he was for many games last season, but gets off Scot-free and is hailed as being a class above.

Declared with a lead of 500 and a bit of loose change. Be good to nick a couple in the evening session.

He continues to be our number one because he is comfortably our best keeper and not the main reason we are conceding so many goals. As for not getting much worse, people said exactly the same about replacing Ralph with Jones. We also said the same about playing McC at the end of last season and he was worse, much worse.

Yep. That's what happens when you change it every game. Let's have six consecutive games of starting KWP, Jan, THB and Manning and see how Baz looks at the end of that.

The common denominator is, ironically, things being different every game.

McCarthy is worse than Bazunu, he came in at the end of last season and conceded 17 in 6 games. His distribution is terrible, puts the defence under pressure and he’s forced into saves Bazunu would never even have to attempt. We concede more goals with McC in goal but whoever we play there won’t stand a fair chance until we sort out the tombola defence in front of him.

Pardew’s team was bottom three at the start of October, even without the minus ten, then it all clicked. This is going to take time, judging our transfer business by results 15 hours after the window closes would be foolish.

I'm actually slightly disappointed that our official account has even bothered to acknowledge one of these tw*ttish, non-event twitter accounts, which are becoming irritatingly numerous. @footyinsider247 isn't an actual inside source of football knowledge? Well f**k me, next you'll be saying that 23 year old hot and horny Jessica from that pop up ad. isn't really 2 miles away and desparate to meet me.

I do, you should see all the sh*te that gets deleted.

What’s strange is that people find tweets by random absolute nobodies on Twitter and share them as if they’re actually worth acknowledging.

Christ alive, you gave me a heart attack bumping this thread. I thought he was coming back.

We should have given it to one of those other players who’s been here for ages, is a good influence in the dressing room, was guaranteed to stay this window and not be replaced by a better player, like err… yeah that other guy.

Cole Palmer gone for £42m. Man City’s academy might as well just be a Royal Mint printing press.

Loch Ness Montella fits better linguistically but he looks more of a Drogba type player. Let’s stick with that.

For the sake of making everything easier to read, Adams chat now moved to the Adams thread, Stewart split onto its own thread.

Cracking name for the female guitarist in a country and western band.

Actually you can have an eight year old diesel, live just outside London, have to pay it and be eligible for nothing.

Piroe was available, affordable, is a proven striker at this level and knows Martin. He ticks every box, would have been willing to come here and yet it didn't happen. That can only mean that there's something more to it than what us internet dweebs are aware of. What that something could be is anyone's guess. Perhaps it was wage demands, perhaps we really are after better targets and thought he wasn't a priority, who knows. I've no doubt at all that we had the resources to push a deal through, if we really wanted to but we didn't, so I won't lose any sleep over it.