You say ST numbers and attendances are dropping but isn't it the case that both are higher this season ?

Speculation from where ?

Along with Kaminski,Pears,Eastham,Dowling and Goddard that would mean 6 goalkeepers competing for spots in just 2 teams.

Hilton will be 24 in October and is nearly 2 years older than Eastham so you would think that Hilton will be moving on.

From memory I think that particular post appeared in a match post an hour or two before kick off. A number of us posted our disapproval; I can't remember if the post was deleted but the poster concerned doesn't appear very often, if at all.

A very good post and as you rightly say there is far too much hatred shown,obviously not just from supporters of our club. Perhaps as a gesture towards improving things the moderators running this board could make it clear that it is no longer acceptable to refer to other clubs and/or their supporters as "scum".

Credit to the Director of Football too whose judgement regarding the recruitment of players like Brittain, Hyam, Szmodics and Thomas is being vindicated.

Yet another hard fought 1-0 win. Memories of the days of Howard Kendall as we are a team who know how to edge the tight games.

I think you're right that for a Saudi citizen to make any money there they probably need to be closeish to the government. I thought their financial problems were cashflow - they couldn't make transfer payments that were due - but that's not an FFP issue as the limits would kick in when the transfer was initially concluded.

Saudi is a country where I suspect the founder will have an awful lot of grandsons. I think if this guy was now part of the government it wouldn't be the case that the club had run in to financial problems.

Yes, I think pretty much everybody recognises him as the most important footballer in the club's history, and given his length of service and success he can reasonably be regarded as the greatest figure in the club's history.

I think the distinction between the ownership of the two clubs is that it is suggested that the owners of Newcastle are a front for the Saudi government whereas nobody is suggesting that about Sheffield United.

Thinking about it, perhaps you were thinking of Jimmy Forrest who did play in all the FA Cup wins in the 19th century.

Harry, Bob Crompton wasn't in the FA Cup winning teams - although he managed the team that won the Cup in 1928 - but he captained the title winning teams of 1912 and 1914.

Having had a look at the fixture schedule it does look like that is the first available date.

Manchester United were formed as Newton Heath in 1878 and changed their name in 1902 so I don't think that's quite right.

The claim for negligence arising under the law of tort, which is separate from the law of contract, requires that the party being sued owes a duty of care to the injured party. I can't see how Blackburn Rovers could be regarded as having a duty of care to either Nottingham Forest or Lewis O'Brien.

Negligence is a concept governed by the law of tort where simply put a case can only be made where one party owes a duty of care to another. That isn't going to be applicable in this case.

Forest have put his career in to regression by signing him and then swiftly arriving at the conclusion they'd rather have Andre Ayew in their squad. I think to be sued by Forest we have to be in breach of contract. If say right at the last minute we had changed our minds and said we don't want him is there anything they could do then ?

I think to suffer financially we would have to have been in breach of contract and the other party would have to prove loss. That's not trolling - that's the law. It's obviously down to O'Brien that he hasn't made the grade at Forest. There was no guarantee that he would get appearance money with us.

O'Brien was passed over for inclusion in Forest's squad in favour of a 33 year old journeyman in Andre Ayew who had been playing in the Qatar league and hadn't scored a goal in the Premier League for 5 years. He would be better advised taking a long hard look at himself and establishing why Forest are happy to move him on after just half a season .He signed a long term contract with Forest so is not losing out financially.

They would have to prove loss to have a case against us.

All games off at the same time in those days so he wouldn't have known what was going on elsewhere. Law was an all time great.

Yes, I suppose I am a cut above...........

Not celebrating against your old club is another sign of a bit of class. That all time great Denis Law scored the goal that relegated Manchester United in 1974 but didn't celebrate.