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#369201 2016/17 Barclays Premier League Thread

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04 Feb 2017 18:35:13

9 goals at Goodison, Sunderland inexplicably pasting Big Sam, a 6th minute red card for Burnley, Liverpool and Arsenal continuing to say goodbye to their title dreams... there's been worse MOTD's this season.

#368983 London City FC - A City On The Rise

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03 Feb 2017 17:08:12

Isn't it always the way the one game you would lose in that month would be one of the more winnable ones?

Still, doing excellently well so far this season and indeed in the UEFA CL. KIU

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By Poe | On 03 February 2017 - 00:08 AM GMT

Not really, we've not been doing too bad in the league.

I'm more concerned about what happens at the end of the season if we don't back him properly.

The raft of articles suggesting departure at the end of the season doesn't help.

By VP. | On 03 February 2017 - 11:25 AM GMT

Have to say i probably enjoy watching the Championship more than the Premier League, quality is good and anyone can beat anyone though i won't include Rotherham in that.

For the last few seasons, yes. But I'm enjoying the Premier League more and the Championship less this season. Funny that.

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By Poe | On 01 February 2017 - 23:10 PM GMT

Alarmed with Benitez' post match comments about how he 'doesn't know' why we didnt sign anybody and that he's dissapointed.

Be the biggest mistake of all Ashley's huge monumental mistakes if he lets Benitez slip through his fingers

Clearly January does seem to be a wedge between gaffer and owner. Which bodes well. While the consensus is that he's not quite prepared to walk away, its certainly an unwelcome and potentially destabilising thing.

I suppose the events of the last 48 hours do make it easier to look at the thing and wonder if it might be about to unravel. Again. The first emergence of "Rafa considering future" stories doesn't help. Granted we're in a more desirable position than others - most wins and goals of the division, similar points total and gap to third as in 2009/10 with what increasingly looks an arguably weaker squad, have points on the board, and doing better than the other 2 teams who came down with us - but it would be nice if, for once, things just went fucking plain sailing. Clearly I've learned nothing from the past 15 years plus other historical examples.

#368766 The Lower League Thread

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01 Feb 2017 21:41:22

What the fuck was Ciaran Clark doing?

Between no signings, own goals, lethargy and all the rest, we're doing our best to throw this shit away.

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01 Feb 2017 21:28:19

Bit of a strange one, this one so far.

Dunno about Lascelles and Gouffran, but Perez has been very shit.

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31 Jan 2017 23:15:54

Dunno why but I wasn't sure Townsend would come back. Even if it initially sounds more like Palace than us being the problem.

#368634 2016/17 Barclays Premier League Thread

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31 Jan 2017 22:29:59

Its genuinely odd that Burnley have such a great home record, but such an appalling away form.

Then again Leicester seem to be doing an excellent job at rivalling them in the "Shite away" corner.

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By Shola | On 31 January 2017 - 15:30 PM GMT

Feel like in the summer Villa will sign Chris Martin for £8m, Rhodes to Derby for £9m and McCormack to Forrest for £6m. None of the clubs will be improved any.

Huddersfield, Brighton and Leeds the three outstanding Championship teams seem to have avoided this trap.

Looks increasingly like Townsend is coming back. Which is good.

Sheffield Wednesday have apparently agreed a £10m deal for Rhodes. Tbh Middlesbrough didn't really need him last season and a fair few Wednesday fans seem to think they don't need him either.

By Marc. | On 31 January 2017 - 17:04 PM GMT

Bristol City signing Bristol Rovers best player

So I saw. First move from Rovers to City in 30 years. Judging by Twitter their fans have taken it well, and even moreso when City posted up photos of his unveiling with #WelcomeToBristol and #MakingBristolProud hashtags.

#368568 The Lower League Thread

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31 Jan 2017 14:57:40

Derby are very bad at that - loaning out Martin to sign goal-shy Vydra in particular looks a fuck-up - and judging by their current main incoming rumour being a Wigan attacker, so are Norwich. Villa's attempt for Hogan by the looks of it is less accumulation and more Ross McCormack not being arsed at going through his gates. Bit of an odd quirk they're at Brentford tonight and leaving with their main striker. Be a bit more comic if Brentford keep the points.

Meanwhile, Tiote looks like he's leaving NUFC and joining the Chinese club that signed Cisse. Feels like the end of a weird era, that one, filled with so many errant shots because the crowd kept hoping that Arsenal goal was not a one off.

#368486 2016/17 FA Cup

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30 Jan 2017 19:28:50

Sutton v Arsenal... well I did call a big gun on the plastic pitch. Assuming that it doesn't get moved like that game Arsenal had against Farnborough in 2005.

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29 Jan 2017 22:19:24

Top 4, EL Quarters... very good stuff.

Too soon to think of a title challenge next season, or at the least evaluate what you might require for such a thing?

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29 Jan 2017 21:17:55

I'd be interested to see a big name Premier League side on Sutton's 3G plastic pitch.

#368324 2016/17 FA Cup

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29 Jan 2017 16:05:48

Blimey both Sutton and Lincoln in the 5th Round.

I don't know if it would be anticlimactic if they got drawn to face each other in the next round, or an excellent thing as it'd guarantee a Conference/NL side in the FA Cup Quarter Finals.

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29 Jan 2017 14:25:08

And thus the progression continues. Good to see the team take to both European football and the added demand of its presence like a duck to water.

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28 Jan 2017 16:49:37

... I mean, I know we're frequently shit at best in the FA Cup but this is pathetic.

#368140 London City FC - A City On The Rise

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28 Jan 2017 11:08:06

Wow superb season. May well dones to you.

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By K3VO | On 25 January 2017 - 13:18 PM GMT

Knockaert would be a quality signing for Newcastle.

I think we did try in the summer and Brighton told us go away.

May well have been less tight a race with them if they'd said yes, but ho hum.

By terriersmad | On 25 January 2017 - 17:48 PM GMT

"So it shouldn't have been a red card?"

"Nope."

"So the ban's overturned?"

"Nope."

"But you just said that he shouldn't have been sent off?"

"Yeah, well. Fuck you."

Wolves keeper ban cut and not overturned - despite the fact it shouldn't have been a red card.

FA in weird irregular and quite possibly wrong logic shocker. But even so, that's a very baffling call.

#367820 London City FC - A City On The Rise

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24 Jan 2017 22:11:37

Well its always incremental tbf, so nice to see the progression upwards continue. Onwards and upwards for season 18, despite being Fulham's temporary lodgers.

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By terriersmad | On 22 January 2017 - 17:32 PM GMT

Excellent way of skating over the fact he should have been off for a blatant professional foul in the same incident

It was a subtle brush but he got closer to the ball... Least in this instance that's also how the ref felt.

#367433 2016/17 Barclays Premier League Thread

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22 Jan 2017 00:47:06

I mean, Lloris is a great goalkeeper, but that's a spectacular way to have an off-day.

#367414 2016/17 Barclays Premier League Thread

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21 Jan 2017 19:50:19

I swear Klopp did that 2 or 3 times last season with the even weirder pseudo-striker Steven Caulker.

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21 Jan 2017 19:47:55

Despite falling face first over the finish line, you've done excellently well to keep them up. Now to continue the adventure, with any luck.

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21 Jan 2017 19:07:00

Routine-ish by the sounds of things, even if Darlow nearly made things more eventful by setting up his own wondersave, and then getting taken out by his own team-mate.

Although Reading losing and Leeds (currently) losing helps make it a rosy day.

#367299 Transfer Rumours 2016/17

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20 Jan 2017 21:49:07

Stoke sign Berahino

Maybe it would've been easier for WBA all round if they'd accepted whatever it was Spurs offered. Granted it was in a cheapskate manner, but may still have been more than £10-12M.

#367296 London City FC - A City On The Rise

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20 Jan 2017 21:45:40

Was always going to be tough but not looking too bad so far. With any luck it shall continue.

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19 Jan 2017 22:35:59

The NUFC club statement said the EFL rejected it as well as Brighton tbf.

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By terriersmad | On 15 January 2017 - 20:03 PM GMT

I'm very rarely sympathetic to anything he does. On this occasion, though, I agreed with him. Not normally an issue for us when we're pootling around lower mid-table, but we're going to have at least 7 on telly this season. Norwich away on a Friday night and Bristol City away on a Friday night take the mick for fans - I'm not saying we'd have taken huge numbers to either (1,000 to Norwich, perhaps, and maybe slightly more to Bristol), but it does hit numbers. I doubt we'll manage to get 700 down to Bristol now. At least Brighton's game up here was a Tuesday in the first place so people from there would have struggled due to the fixture list anyway, for what little it's worth. Always worse for the 'glamour' clubs, too. You coming here on a Saturday evening isn't so bad, but I'm sure you'll be able to think of half-a-dozen examples of inconvenienced fans this season.

Until just now, the big inconvenience for NUFC fans looked like the Brentford away farce when it got pissed around with under one week's notice. But the EFL & Sky have a bigger joker. I could accept the fact the team's Brighton away trip was going to be on a Tuesday due to the original game being scheduled for FA Cup 4th Round weekend, but seemingly at Sky's insistence, its been put on the day that FA Cup 5th Round replays would be held, which would mean another rescheduling with 10 days notice if either team required a 5th Round replay. On top of that, if it stays on that day, its then followed up by trips to Huddersfield and Reading, which means way over 1,000 miles of travelling for someone going to all 3. I can see why the club wanted a different date, which makes it annoying both Brighton and the EFL said no.

We're probably not even the worst example in the last few years either. Monday night games really always come across as a pain in the arse.

#367114 2016/17 FA Cup

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18 Jan 2017 22:01:28

FA Cup victory for Newcastle in Round 3? Blimey. Only been 5 years since the last one.

Although our luck away in the Cup means Oxford away in the next round isn't the best of rewards.

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18 Jan 2017 18:24:15

Excellent stuff.

Now for the assault on the top 4