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That's not how you spell Bisto.

”Gandalf, after he had taken elevenses at the comfortable hobbit hole of Peregrine Took, winded down the track to the Green Dragon where he shared a pot of ale with Jockus Shortarse in the snug bar”

Please don’t insult High Priest Wraith.

This is it for me, Bruce's defenders love to bring up Benitez, because it paints us as unreasonable. Purely looking at how Bruce's Newcastle has performed over the last two season shows a team that can't defend or attack well, that doesn't hold onto the ball, nor put in much effort to get it back. Bruce has arguably the best squad since our relegation in 2016. He inherited a top half defence, and a top class 'keeper. Yes he 'lost' Rondon and Perez, but built upon that solid defence could have been a counter attack side with the pace of Almiron, Saint-Maximin and the passing range possessed by Shelvey, and to a lesser degree Schar, Lejeune, S.Longstaff etc. Now he's got an actual fit-for-purpose striker, more options on the flanks and yet we're still a nothing side. We're still too easy to play through, still too easy to defend against, still don't keep or press the ball and still too often aimless during games. That's all on him and something we've seen reported of his teams at previous clubs. But Edwards and his ilk told us we were unreasonable to greet his announcement with groans and negativity. Now we're supposed to be happy that we are a shit PL side that's one game away from a cup semi-final. On that, how fucking lucky has he been with the draws? Rochdale, Oxford, WBA in the FA Cup last season and Blackburn, Morecambe, Newport, and Brentford in the EFL Cup this time around. Safe bet that the minute we're drawn against a Premier League side we'll go out.

Football under Rafa was shite though

Was there.. one of the great days...

Never in doubt

I don’t know. He just needs to do the trick he pulled at Sunderland, ie being the best out of an absolutely shite bottom 4, before fucking off and leaving them with a load of parasites.

He's back.

Its not that bad mate You all at least sound vaguely normal, don't want to sell us anything, don't want to tell us what to say on twitter, don't see yourself as a fuckin cult leader...I'll give you time to develop the last one obvs..

We've taken an organic approach to growing the podcast. No guests, no competitions, no regularity, no fucking ideas, and see if that works.

Theyre podcasters Dave. Surprised you haven't heard of it. Millions to be made. I'd get on it if I were you

Like a lot of his generation he might’ve had time for all the north east clubs but, like you say, it’s the bizarre desperation to associate almost anyone and everyone with their shit tip of a club that is tragic. Especially as it doesn’t seem to matter what the evidence is to the contrary

Bring on Solano, we'll take them 4-3.

The goalkeeping coach doesn't make that call. The head coach does.

That’s a stonewaller tbh

There must be an element with Joelinton of "if he gets injured it doesn't really matter". Looking forward to seeing a full game from Fraser, somewhat an unexpected selection for the wee lad from Bag End. Jamal Lewis absolutely flourishing under Brucey's stewardship.

Another club for the mackems to have a special relationship with now

I have never wanted the baggies to get relegated. Until now.

Bilic sacked and WBA have broken the emergency glass on Big Sam.

The desperate search for relevance in the lower leagues. Everyone’s cup final, everyone’s a MLF, every other club loves us. Except the filthy mags, FTM

The brass neck on this mug

TBF Bruce's tactical changes only won us the game because his tactics from the second minute of the game were so shit he had to make the change. Unfortunately for them, West Brom are a relegation waiting to happen and yet we still allowed them to have the upper hand for large parts of the game. With their fragile confidence we should have been all over them like a rash after going one up so quickly but as per we just continued to pass backwards and failed to take countless opportunites to put the ball into the box until the point where we had two wingers playing fullback. On West Brom's side of things, I did wonder why Bilic took that Gallagher kid off who was pretty much running the game and looked a dead cert for a goal. But if you want to replace Bilic with Bruce you'd be more than welcome to him.

Followed by a 20 year old ad for a shit curry house.

The lack of respect for Louise Taylor is disappointing.

They’re so fucking weird man.

That’s beyond shameful. Absolutely boils my piss that fucking idiots like CT walk around with their heads up their arses, keeping these cunts in power. And it’s only going to get worse…

In lighter news, I saw their crap corner defending and Clark starting and won 60 quid on him scoring anytime so...cheers, Ciaran. Thanks for continuing to be an oddly effective scoring centre half

Cowards I tell thee

Ba(h)

Don’t bring Islam into this.

We should be satisfied with Bruce though

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/16/unicef-feed-hungry-children-uk-first-time-history UNICEF providing food packages to hungry children in the UK - the first time they've had to do it in the 70 years they've been operating. What a pathetic nation we are. @Christmas Tree Is this poverty yet? You were supposed to let me know when we got here

Apparently can can boot someone up in the air in the box as long as the ball isn't under control...

As we go behind Emil Krafth comes on.

Well, they do now.

Jesus titty-fucking wept

Yeah I totally deserved some of that - hands up! Was a bit pissed when I posted and the early bit shouldn't have been added - but I've spent 3 years chasing down the animal serial killer and I saw from the post from the lady from your neck of the woods (and the killer has done stuff up north on occasions and he matched our MO to a degree) that there were similarities. This bast*rd has killed and tortured at least 800 family pets and yeah please ignore my first paragraph but if you find him please say "hello" from me before you give the rest of him to the Old Bill. See yer all next time at St James's

May I suggest that we stop using "Cath word" and use "UM word" instead, appropriately shortened to "UM"?