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I was expecting us to be patronised a lot on ITV in the midst of their ususal Man Utd bumfest, but I didn't realise Villa were going to get insulted too. Roy Keane thinking its a massive step down to leave midtable Unitd to go to a Champions League club

The audacity of a Man United fan comparing us to Arsenal as an insult because they haven't won the prem in years, whilst completely lacking the self awareness to realise we've won the Prem more recently than YANITED.

Get the authentic KP toilet experience at home, by finding the largest dustbin in your house, then placing it directly in the middle of your bathroom doorway. Then move a bookshelf so half of it sticks out over the door.

Remarkable stuff, finding the one possible way to both weaken our own defence and strengthen Wolves, in a sea of endless possibilities including the possibility of doing nothing at all. That's the kind of leadership that will lead to a second successive relegation achieved whilst trying to avoid psr points deductions, because, err, they might get you relegated.

Loum Tchaouna, what a wonderful phrase Loum Tchaouna, never seen him play But we've got Jon Rudkin, and it's transfer deadline day.... We've got a signing-free, philosophy No chance of Tchaouna

The long awaited return of "Tonights going to be a good time" blaring out the pa system following a 0-5 defeat to Arsenal, while the stadium announcer reminds us for the 15th time not to forget to sell your season ticket on the resale platform for the Man United game.

I thought staying up wasn't a terrible idea, given it was starting at 11PM, was a Saturday night and only a 4 match card. At 3:30AM when it finished, was when I realised I'd made a big mistake At least it wasn't a Logan Paul win, with that would have been a real slap in the face, especially given the flat end of the Women's rumble. Whoever does the newer wrestler's theme music needs booting out, so many entrances just greeted by silence by the crowd as it takes them 20 seconds to work out who it is because the music is so crap, generic and unrecognisable.

The upstairs expansion to the Super Game Shack is a big improvement, makes the upper floors seem alive again.

Did hire two consecutive heads of recruitment who managed to help Sunderland on their way from a prem team into a League One team though...

Fun fact: It was Al Nassr we sold Musa to, and we ended up getting them a transfer ban when they failed to pony up the last 400k. We'll never get that 90 million bid for Ayew now. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66188707

Chasing cars by Snow Patrol

Now there are emails going around reminding season ticket holders they can sell their ticket for the Arsenal game, with a step by step guide to using the resale platform. Christ, they really, really, don't want any normal supporters to come at all do they? Clearly want us all gone to make way for day trippers.

Sunderland had terrible recruitment for years, wasted loads of money on duff players on big wages. I'm glad we haven't done anything that stupid. I mean, how daft would you have to be to hire 2 consecutive heads of recruitment with that Sunderland downfall on their CV. Oh, wait...

If Ruud goes and we are definitely going down anyway, we should make Steve Bruce the new manager for the rest of the season, under a strict contract that guarantees he writes another "Steve Barnes" mystery novel that is in no way based on anything real, about goings on at Louchester City, and it's owner Tap and dogsbody DoF Ron Judkin. Could be an absolute literary masterpiece, can't wait for the opening chapter about the fine features and heated seats available in the standard package option of Barnes jaguar, as he parks it up at the Watergrave training complex.

This is bang on. For starters, Ruud out now would mean captain speedy and his fax machine would have to start working on a new manager search to go with all the transfer business he's already not doing, so you are looking at at least 1, if not 2 games with the caretaker team that brought us the 4-1 battering away at Brentford. Then, after a long and exhaustive search involving ringing the few football agents they actually get in with, it's #WelcomeBrussell

The argument is: some people believe Cooper would have gotten us more points in the current run because he would have us harder to beat and conceding less goals over the same fixtures with the same squad. My point is - Cooper let in lots of goals. This cup game is an insight to how he might have gotten on presently, without hermanson. Answer - badly. I don't think all those players are "first team" but they are all first team now, because there are no other good options because of injuries. They've all had to start games in the current bad run. So unless magical fan fiction cooper man can magically fix Mads Hermanson and could magically make VK not ill against Villa, he'd be stuck with these players. Back in the world of reality, Cooper had an appalling defensive record in the prem with Forest as well, and up to the 2 game Bournemouth and Southampton win streak, had been on a run across the two clubs where he had gone 19 odd games without a win.

"Reserves" Danny Ward Started Vs Wolves James Justin Regular starter Caleb Okoli Regular starter under Cooper Conor Coady Started many games recently Luke Thomas Started Vs Villa Oliver Skipp Cooper regular/started Vs Newcastle Boubakary Soumaré Regular starter now Bobby Decordova-Reid Actual reserve Bilal El Khannouss current best player Kasey McAteer Started several games lately Jordan Ayew Regular starter Apart from bdcr, every player who started that game has started in the current bad spell that Cooper would "definitely" have "improved defensively", yet when he played them here, somehow contrived to concede 5 goals. Given the luxury of a first choice lineup about a week later, with hermanson, he still conceded 3. This idea that Cooper was better defensively is an absolute fiction. His team were appalling at the back.

Cooper lost twice in a week to a very poor Manchester United (conceding 8 across the two games) who are worse than Man City. Cooper already lost to Villa once this season. Cooper already lost to Fulham once this season. Plenty of arguments to go the other way too.

There were ads on the billboards at half time on Saturday, encouraging people to sell their season ticket on the resale platform for the Arsenal game - club must be itching to get a few bus loads full of extra hospitality bods to the tigers for a meal and then cram them in to the normal seats to get those extra pound notes in.

Agreed. And he was a player who we let go for free. Yet we deemed it worthwhile to drop loads of money on Skipp, a guy with worse ball control and wayward passing ability

For the money we paid for him, for the financial position we are in, spending this much on a player must be based on a potential of resale value, ideally a profit. Skipp will never be worth more than we paid for him. He's not a player on an upward curve, he won't be attractive to moneybags big 6 clubs in the future. He's as good as he ever will be, so from here on in, we've lumbered ourselves with 4 million of amortisation minimum for the next 4 years, for a player who is basically a worse version of Nampalys Mendy. Spending the money we did on Bilal might pay off handsomely in future if it result in a big sale later. There's no way the Skipp transfer will do the same. This is the kind of player that is worth picking up dirt cheap, or on a Bosman, but a permanent PSR basket case like us has to be very careful where we spend our transfer money, because moves like this is how we ended up dropping 90 million pound losses.

Vomitting and Diarrhoea tends to go away after a few days. That pair will be hanging around for at least the next 3 years.

Watching Bournemouth vs Newcastle before heading out to the game, and its been noticeable how much of the threat from both teams has revolved around utilising pace in attack. That line up has zero pace whatsoever. For the period in the second half when Palace took control, their defence pushed all the way up to near the halfway line, because they knew there was zero danger of anyone getting in behind them, even if they left the whole of their half for Vards to run into. And to compound that, we've dropped Facundo for Ayew, a man who cannot actually run at all.

Ref that once gave a goal when a ball didn't go in the net, gives a booking for a tackle he didn't think was a foul at the time.

Friendly reminder for anyone writing their next piece of Cooper was better fanfiction on Saturday if we lose: Steve Cooper's Leicester City lost against Fulham. Easily.