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It's two years from 18th August 2020 when the IPO was completed/they started trading.

The couple of people I’ve spoken to who make out they know something about the takeover think it’ll be done by March but won’t say why then or who is involved, so could well be BS.

Stephens and Lyanco will be back for Newcastle so little worry about Bednarek picking up another yellow (he shouldn’t be first choice anyway).

They're struggling to score so as the league's perennial charity cases, I'm sure we'll kindly fix that for them. 2-0.

I agree that it's the correct decision at the moment and the current restrictions are about the right balance, even if the messaging has created a lockdown by stealth. The biggest spike appears to be London which is not coincidental considering their relatively low vaccine uptake compared with the rest of the country. 9/10 of those in ICU in South London are unvaccinated which begs the question quite how long we can continue to throw a protective blanket (restrictions) over these people for their decision to not get protected (as much as is possible) via jabs. I'm not saying don't treat them if they become ill because that's opening up a huge can of worms that people then could argue could the same for treating lung cancer in smokers, heart attacks in obese people etc. or that we should segregate them, but something has to eventually break the chain of twice-yearly lockdown in reaction to new variants. Hopefully vaccines which are configured based upon numerous variants rather than the original strain that we are using currently - in the form of an annual booster programme - and placing a heavier reliance on life-preserving medicine proves to be the answer in time to getting back to 'normal' for good.

He was never going to 'cancel' Christmas two years in a row, especially with just a few days' notice. He's tanking in the polls already and doing that again would have been the final straw for many, especially in his own party.

If we don't beat them on 2nd Jan they should automatically demote us.

Zero chance of this being played as they already had about 6 players out with injury.

Without a takeover which provides some meaningful transfer funding, we'll likely be outbid even if he did want to stay here. If he carries on his current form, Chelsea will want at least £20m for him with 4 years left on his deal with them by the end of next summer. A shame, because he's exactly what we need at the top end of the pitch.

Wasn't a foul. Didn't do much wrong apart from show him inside, you mean?

Something-nil.

8/1 with Betway now. Leeds bizarrely are 5/1 and look to have far more quality than us and also coming out of their injury crisis whilst we’re now in ours.

Or Carson I guess if we’re including third choice keepers from across the Prem.

I suspect a lot are the missing 3,000 or so from the attendance every home game but that’s not to say there isn’t an anti Ralph sentiment in the ground - the boos at full-time were very much a reflection of seeing the same pattern for 3 years.

Tough lot to beat. Hard to see past another draw for both based on current form. 1-1. Tino looks jaded and will presume Bednarek won't be ready for the weekend. Will need Broja's aerial presence up against their giant back line. Forster KWP Lyanco Salisu Perraud Redmond JWP Romeu Tella Broja Adams

Must be that Bill Gates microchip yeah? Back to the Facebook comments section.

He had this corker of a scoop last weekend: ”Understand Eddie Howe will still be following the game remotely from his hotel and likely to be in contact with his coaching staff throughout the afternoon #NUFC” Bloke just makes it up as he goes along.

He's retired from refereeing but is still doing VAR. After the Villa/Man United game debacles with us and then the West Brom v Brighton free-kick goal incident he should be nowhere near the Premier League.

Tino did have strapping on his left calf on Friday night so it may be linked to that.

Great attitude to have that's he happy to drop down to get some minutes. I do wonder if it will eventually lead to us loaning him out in January if he's still not broken in to the first X1, although I hope it doesn't come to that.

Apparently their record is 7 wins in 30 which isn't too dissimilar to ours over the course of the calendar year. If I was Ralph, I'd be looking to target the left side of their defence - Targett and Mings. They've looked all over the shop this season and Tino, hopefully accompanied by S.Armstrong, can certainly get at them and cause them no end of problems.

Friday night under the lights at St Mary's, on TV, when all is pointing to a home win. We know how this ends....

Deserved win even if it should have been more. Adams only seems to score the spectacular and Armstrong seems of the same ilk with the amount of efforts he has from outside the area! The two full-backs were outstanding. Usually when KWP is on the left we lose a bit of balance and don't attack well down that side but he gave Ngakia a horrid time. Performances at a decent enough standard, just need to be more clinical. Watford were piss poor and with their upcoming run of fixtures, I'd be amazed if they're not in the bottom three soon enough.

SURELY giving S.Armstrong the captaincy last night is an indication that he's going to play an important (starting) role going forward. If the manager plays Walcott over him again I'll go f*cking loopy. It won't be this, but I'd like to see: ---------------Forster------------- -Liv-----Lyanco---Salisu--Perraud- -SArm---Diallo----Romeu--Djenepo- ----------Broja---AArm------------

Dropping Djenepo for Walcott was moronic, just when the former and Perraud had started building a semi-decent understanding/partnership down that flank. Subs too late yet again. How many times over the years does the opposition manager, especially Dyche, make the first move before Ralph when a game is in the balance? 4 points ahead of them but should have been six. Unfortunately though, we’re going to have to accept this lower-mid table medioricity whilst we have only 1 out of 5 good enough players in the 10 role who can’t finish/create enough, a CB (Bednarek) that continues to get bullied off the ball, a goalkeeper that concedes far too many soft goals/can’t kick a ball straight, a manager who’s game management is piss poor and an owner who won’t invest so that we don’t have to accept any of the above as the best we can get. On the plus side, if Livramento keeps up his current form to the end of the season we’ll be looking at £40m at least for him. What a player.