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Hopefully his lifetime ban from football and deportation to Germany will put an end to the darkest day in sporting history. 🙂

Trigonometry

Always been a fan of an instantiated rumour. Maybe you were the spy?

Pretty sure Tonda is behind it; has an analytics background and the handshake from his opposing number on Saturday says everything you need to know how he feels about it, and he will be aware of the facts that most of us are not Irrespective of the efl punishment internally there could be a big issue which questions his future

Newcastle did exactly that. The first game I went to with my now wife. We lost 2-1 and the cheating northerners spent 75 minutes rolling around on the pitch. They also signed about five new players in that month.

The police - every breath you take (I’ll be watching you) Carly Simon - Nobody does it better (the spy who loved me)

James Bond theme.

I Spy - Pulp. "I spy in the worst place, in the world, in the whole wide world"

Just invite them to come watch our training.

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Think most of us saw this coming, aside from a brief glimmer we look woefully inadequate. Getting a solid first innings score is crucial, this is the third season in a row we have been criminally bad at it, but this time we don’t have Abbot/Barker/Abbas bailing us out (for the first two often with bat as well) I’m not sure we can describe all our young players as ‘non-league’, they’ve all shown huge talent in periods, but none have gone on and this season appears to have gone backwards. Whether that is bad coaching/management or simply being found out technically I’m not sure - but the fact Middleton / Prest / Albert / Currie and Turner all now look out of their depth is worrying (with Jack and even Mayes seemingly following suit) Maybe it’s simply that they don’t see a future in red ball and are waiting for the slog fests where the money is at (eg last year the latter 3 were all succesful in short form) As for this year - we look light in all departments, maybe Brown/Fuller/Dawson/ Gubbins / Abbott / Lehman can all fire at the same time for a few wins to keep ys competitive - or we’ll quickly be like last years saints……

Saints should try and get him back. Would be a better signing than larin for the money 🤷

So in summary, still no evidence saints did anything, no material harm done to Boro, and significant harm done to saints in terms of reputation and match prep. At least we won't have to worry about Gibson coming after saints, love to see their lawyers argue they've been materially disadvantaged... If it's true, we helped them sell out and generate an atmosphere for their game of the season, and then we gave them a free hit for the first half... We're in the clear in that front ☺️😌

And people get castigated for expressing sympathy for the Palestinians.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjrpnjpl39po

So surely saints need to create a playlist at the stadium on Tuesday. So any recommendations but importantly what should the team come out to. I think we would be missing a trick if we didn’t come out to Oasis - Fucking in the bushes.

A "friend" uses Xtrememedia and apparently it's very good value and he hasn't missed a saints game all season... 🤔😁

I Again. Genuinely not sure how they would be able to. If we win on Tuesday they literally won't have time to expel us and then hear our appeal.

Ironically Boro did that in 96/97, they failed to turn up at Blackburn citing injuries. Got docked points for not fulfilling the fixture and we stayed up while they went down. Maybe they see this as their retribution 🤣

Today I completely agree. If we’re going to have VAR then it should be to outline clear and obvious errors. I think today was a success for that. But we’ve seen many times before where VAR also goes and looks at offsides and other misdemeanours in the lead up to the goal. Often leading to many minutes of evaluation before a decision is made. That’s where I think VAR veers well off course; but once you invite video evidence into the equation it will begin looking at everything. For enjoyment terms the championship has been wonderful for not having to put up with the video replay shit.

First foul, but the result of the play was a west ham goal - so they're not going to pull it back and give a penalty instead of a goal. If they had decided it was a foul by rice but was not a foul on the keeper they'd have just given the goal.

During covid, didnt Newcastle skive off a game against Saints, citing the illness as an excuse and then waited till their players got better? I thought they were cunts at the time but cant recall Saints fans asking for points deductions and sporting sanctions, unless I missed it.

That’s the general rule as I understand it. The first foul is analysed if it effected the outcome followed by any further fouls. Rice committed a foul but it was irrelevant as if Reya hadn’t been fouled then Reya would have caught or cleared it, had Reya not been fouled then Rices rugby tackle could well have been penalised. It’s fairly simple to work out and does need the “forensic analysis” Some claim. It was a foul on the keeper much as most people don’t want it to be right for once VAR intervention made sense

Perhaps they could stick this on the pre match playlist -

Haha that’s amazing! They were only posting more waffle an hour ago 🤣

Chant for Tuesday: I always feel like Southampton's watching meeee! 🎶 🎶