MrBlack

All planes land at BHX from that side so not really a detour. The direct line over BMH probably wasn't accidental.

On the ground boys

I'd be surprised if they stopped you transferring a ticket to someone whose fan ID your account is already linked to. They never seemed to have a problem with this before for the odd game.

I'm now picturing you wearing something like this:

Market research that doesn't let the respondee know enough about what they're responses mean is essentially a tick box exercise that is rigged to get the responses the company wants to hear. It doesn't give you a realistic view of what people actually feel. So then it's no surprise that when you deliver the product that was seemingly asked for, it doesn't sell. Purslow taking the blame for this one? It does feel like he worked wonders getting us to this level, but then his efforts to push us beyond it were a all a bit rubbish.

Is a tench coat something I don't know? You used it twice and I'm wondering if it's a genuine thing or if you're just trying to revive the fish puns

Agreed. The new lion is better in my view. Full detail version from the gaslight shield ideally. It just needs rotating forwards so it doesn't look like it's being taken out by the star, and flipping of course.

I thought it was something like that. Given they've got to have it, I guess they can't ask MSC to drop half their sponsor source due to this unforseen addition to the kit. Shame because the Italian flag could make it look nicer if it wasn't already so busy. Not forgetting the sleeve sponsor

Slightly delayed but looks like our man is on his way. Assuming he lands at 12:40 (current eta), do we think we'll get an announcement today? What's left to do? Will his medical be at bodymoor or do we use a local hosptical/medical centre for these? That's going to take a couple of hours I guess. You'd imagine contract wranglings are already taken care of so then just a signature? Could be announced by 5pm?

Could be nice but there's just too many logos. EA7 looks like another advert rather than a kit maker. MSC have got their name on there twice and then you have the Italian flag as well. Not for me

Where's the puke react when you need it

As hilarious as it is that they can't get a sleeve sponsor that will pay them anything, i respect them for taking the option instead to help advertise a local business. It pains me to say it, but I'd rather we had flamingoland than the shitty sponsors we've got.

Nope. City buy back means he'll be back there in a few years

Where do they come from? I don't get it

Looks like a rugby league kit. Yuck.

Duran deserves plenty of patience. But I think a loan to the Championship would be a much better option for him than it would for Archer at their respective stages. Be interesting to see what Emery thinks though.

This is the "other" version lion I was talking about in my post. Its still facing the same way our current one does, but again, it's still only 2 years that it faced that way. I discounted this one and went for the other one as this version has some glaring errors. But either way it does seem our original faced right for a very short time, and then never again. It's just not us really is it. Lion facing left please.

Duran PL minutes came when Archer should have have been getting them so you can't include them in a comparison of who would have used them better. MLS is no better than championship quality, possibly worse, and Archer has looked better in the championship than Duran did in MLS. Those extra two years age and the familiarity Archer has with the English game comfortably give him the edge for me.

According to this, and some others that have a different lion, our original one faced the same way as the new one, but only for a short time. Since then, it has always been the other way.

Really?! I think Archer would have scored if he was given the number of minutes Duran had. Also probably would have got an assist.

They're owned by totally different organisations apparently. And since they made that judgement, they've transferred around 20 players between the two clubs.

Realistically, I'm in favour of multi club ownership being banned, regardless of the territory that club is in. Or maybe FIFA centrally banning transfers between any clubs owned by the same person. But given how the significance of this (maybe a few youth players get opportunities they wouldn't otherwise) pales in comparison to the law breaking activity than Man City did for decades, and Newcastle have already started with their inflated self-sponsorship deals... it just smacks of them trying to clamp down on the threats to the monopoly. How much are they being paid by the Qatar and Saudi governments to sweep their activity under the carpet. It's like their house is on fire and they're choosing to turn off a f##king light switch to stop it spreading. Pricks

We're not owned by a government who they're in bed with about hosting sporting events with. There's no negative backlash for them if they harm us. Not the same if they take on government owned entities.

No. There aren't any tigers in Africa... I thought you knew that.

Bierhoff .. what a blast from the past. He's got a lot in him that you could pick from any number of great strikers of the past. Across his first team career to date, hes got 26 goals in 49 games worth of minutes. He's also got 8 assists. A goal involvement every 1.4 games. And only last season's appearances were at a club that was competing towards the top of its league. Really is time to see what he can do at the PL level. Hopefully with us.