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@chiefdave spoke about the need for ‘integration’ without considering the willingness of some groups to ‘integrate’ and whether or not there are any cultural differences that may be irreconcilable. It’s the same naive thinking that lead us into disastrous conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The...

Immigration is the issue that’ll sweep away the Tories and Labour. Serves them right, it was entirely avoidable.

Hitting 50 points from home games is the magic number. Only Leeds in 23/24 hit 50+ points and did not get automatics, the only season in recent years where 3 teams hit 50+ points at home. In recent years, the only season where the two automatically promoted team did not reach 50 home points was...

What do we even need 5 players for? The only teams bringing that many players in Jan are generally desperate. Sends all the wrong messages to the existing squad and that’s before integrating players. 2 players would be ideal, 3 would great. Right now, we definitely need one winger as a bare...

EMC is a quality player and when he’s not played, we’ve missed his directness on the ball, even when he isn’t playing particularly well individually. Fair play to Sakamoto too, both our wingers have stepped things up a notch and chipped in with important goals in recent games.

Well, the team was only behind Leeds and Burnley last season after Xmas. A marginal improvement on that over 46 is pushing automatic promotion. Cards on the table: I don’t believe we’ll win the league. Ipswich are still favourites in my eyes and thankfully? We play them twice in December and...

The only spanner in the works is Ipswich being on the Saturday beforehand. Two long away days consecutively is knackering. I’ll be going to PNE but not yet decided if I’m taking any time off for it just yet.

A win at Deepdale will truly be a ‘where were you’ moment…

Does anyone else feel like this is a repeat of the 19/20 league winning season? The season it felt like we’d beat everyone home and away after we got going. WBA and Boro are two tough teams but I just think we’ll beat them both. In fact, to run the risk of being called delusional, this is the...

Dived on the ball after a slight spill iirc, but I’m yet to rewatch the highlights!

That’s a valid concern it’s fair to say most, if not all Prem-Champ clubs are too big to fail. The clubs most likely to fail are teams in L1 and below where FFP is largely out of scope. FFP won’t stop clubs going bust, at best it’s a road bump. What has done is ring fence the financial...

I’m the opposite, let things be the Wild West again. If Newcastle want to spend £1bn in a single window, let them crack on. All it’s done is consolidate the Top 4-6 teams and Man City have got there and essentially pulled the ladder up. Salary caps would most likely see clubs give out huge...

That almost definitely isn’t true because legal action against King would’ve been taken. People haven’t lost trust in King at all, his employees like Dr Roberts and Austin got dogs abuse online that King called out publicly. Frankly, most fans just didn’t want or couldn’t accept that things...

FFP having unintended consequences. As many financial analysts point out, teams don’t need to sell match day tickets at all to break even… so why are prices so high and raising? 1) the away price cap 2) the balance sheet for FFP Well intentioned, but FFP is not fit for purpose.

Ballard is doing alright in the Prem, you’d be surprised at how many players could make the jump up. We’ll be changing the tactical setup and that may suit certain players. For all the praise Grimes gets, he’s a player who could potentially struggle a lot in the Prem. It’s been obvious for...

The best thing for us this season is a good FA Cup draw v a big Prem team and bow out quickly. I’m optimistic about Feb, 3 home games against teams we have good records against and unless WBA and Sheff U turn things around, we should get points from. Thinking ahead to rounding off Nov, we have...

Interesting. The table looked much tighter last season with the profile of teams in and around the Top 4. Ipswich will emerge as the main contender again and we’ll know by Dec 30th exactly how we stack up against them. With Edwards going to Wolves, I don’t see how Boro continue their form...

@shmmeee did something on this. A team top after 20 games has a c. 85% chance of getting promoted automatically. The number after 15 games is still 65% or thereabouts. A lot can happen but we’ve played a lot of teams who are currently in the top half (6/12, 3/5 top 6) and have beaten teams like...

My prediction: WBA - 3 Boro - 3 Charlton - 1 Ipswich - 1 PNE - 3 Wishful thinking on my part to back a win at Deepdale (cursed place), right now I’m backing us to beat anyone and everyone in this division.

Is that official? He's back on the grass now so my assumption is that he and EMC will be cleared to take part v WBA. Which is a big, big game because it's one of the 'easier' games we have between now and Xmas.