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Reply | Top Three UK Acquisitions?
at 09:43 6 Feb 2025
Never mind that, Jelly. What land would you be grabbing if you were the UK? |
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Reply | Top Three UK Acquisitions?
at 21:45 5 Feb 2025
He's a complete crackpot and completely amoral.
But at least we don't need to take too much he says seriously, given that 99% of it is performative (or simply the first thing that pops into his head). |
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Thread | Top Three UK Acquisitions?
at 14:36 5 Feb 2025
With Trump offering to buy Greenland, incorporate Canada as the 51st State, and now adding Gaza as 'Miami Beach' on the Med, what 3 areas should the UK be pitching for?
Andalusia would make sense in terms of removing any Gibraltar tensions with Spain and it's a Brit home from home already.
Then I'm very fond of the Dalmatian coast and its always strategically sensible to have a foothold in the Balkans.
And finally, Iceland probably makes sense in terms of geography and promixity to the US (i.e. Greenland). |
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Reply | Adam Armstrong
at 11:01 5 Feb 2025
Can second what Grumpy said at the start of this thread. Lots to thank AA for, including Wembley.
But he is not a PL player. That much is obvious.
So, the answer to improved performances this season does not lie with him.
Maybe it doesn't like with others either, but it definitely does not lie with him.
A loan to WBA was therefore sensible.
The unforgivable thing was not getting anyone else in to try something different with. |
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Reply | Adam Armstrong gone to WBA on loan
at 14:51 4 Feb 2025
He's a great Championship striker. Has proved it all over.
But he's not at PL level and we should have know that from last time around.
I remember watching Solak talking to him and pointing at him when they were picking up the play off trophy and could just imagine the 'you're man, you're going to do so well in the PL' comments.
And he deserved all the praise in the world for his contributions last year, but it was foolish or sentimental to involve him again this season.
But same goes for so many of them. We haven't really tried to build a team that could compete in the PL, and Armstrong personifies that failure.
And letting him go out on loan without replacing him this window just confirms what we already knew about these terrible owners. |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 13:22 28 Jan 2025
Good conspiratorial stuff, Jelly. I'm glad you're still keeping the flame burning.
I suppose it would be silly of me to ask who will be telling them to hand over the batton to Farage? Or is that the point, we can never know. We know 'they' will but we can't know any more than that.
She's a good actor Rachel Reeves because she never mentions any of that when she's interviewed, the little minx.
Don't take your eyes off the moon Jelly. |
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Reply | Le Tissier Bringe Political Protest to St Marys Stadium
at 11:50 28 Jan 2025
Adopting a Thatcherite 'austerity' response to the financial crisis, taking us into a futile Bexit sideshow, appointing a clown as leader, then (it seems to me) a complete nutcase who crashed the economy, meant that for 14 years this country treaded water at best under the Conservative Party (and the decisions of its stupid members as to who should lead the country).
Labour has a massive majority so is not bothered by infighting and trying to stay in power like the Conservatives were.
It had to balance the books in its first Budget which was painful but now at least they seem to be trying to focus on growing the economy, without too much infighting or other distractions. It isn't all about tax.
They've got 5 years. They haven't even had 1 yet.
I'll judge them after 2/3 years to see how they're doing. They're not going to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse in 5 minutes. [Post edited 28 Jan 11:50]
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Reply | Juric
at 13:37 27 Jan 2025
Wake me up in August 2026. |
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Reply | Walker-Peters - off to Galatasaray??
at 21:20 26 Jan 2025
I've seen few players as comfortable on the ball as KWP.
He's not got the tricks of Boufal, but his close control is sublime. |
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Reply | Newcastle Game Matchday Thread
at 20:45 26 Jan 2025
That sounds nasty. I guess it could be worse, she could be sitting behind you.
Sitting behind me is a grown man with a soprano's voice who whines like a baby girl about everything for the whole of every game. |
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Reply | Soft centre
at 12:37 26 Jan 2025
I couldn't go to the game yesterday and my youngest who was there texted me this straight after:
"We have this stupid tactic where one of our centre backs steps forward and it leaves us so open"
Deliberate tactic? Juric-ball? |
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Reply | Newcastle Game Matchday Thread
at 10:49 26 Jan 2025
You’re right. The broadcasters like controversy but with almost every game having a VAR issue now, I wonder if they’ll get bored of it.
And they also wouldn’t like it if they were broadcasting games from empty stadiums.
I’m hopeful that eventually more clubs with side with Wolves and what the Norwegians have done.
Or if Farage wants my vote he can promise to ban VAR! |
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Reply | Juric
at 10:40 26 Jan 2025
One of the biggest criticism of Ralph. Would make them far too late and often go for the weird over the like for like swap. |
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Reply | Newcastle Game Matchday Thread
at 09:54 26 Jan 2025
It’s good to know that someone is profiting handsomely from everyone’s matchday misery.
This is the nub of it. The only winners at the moment are those with a financial stake in VAR.
Follow the money… |
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Reply | Juric
at 23:12 25 Jan 2025
You're getting soft.
We're not a charity for Serie A rejects. |
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Reply | Juric
at 21:53 25 Jan 2025
I'd like better owners, obviously.
But for as long as these clowns are here, I want them to keep trying to find the right guy.
It's not my problem that they keep losing millions by appointing duff managers.
They keep gambling on people without the right credentials. Don't gamble if you can't afford to lose your money.
If they'd got in someone decent when Ralph left instead of gambling on a mentalist, things might not be so bleak now. |
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