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Just to say I have my own 'small time football blather' moment going on. My team are currently top of their league and have to play 3rd, 2nd and 7th away from home conversely. Might not seem much but when I took over 5 years ago they were 3rd bottom in the bottom of 3 divisions, happy if they didn't get thrashed 8-nil and over the moon if they scored a goal. This season they've played 13 and won 12 of them - the one loss was a 2-1 defeat when our goalkeeper was missing through Covid and one of the outfield players took his place. Might seem little to everyone else, but it's an achievement to these lads. I took over 18 months after they were splintered off the main team in a definite A & B split with us being the B-team. And now we're confirmed as top two in the league and got to the last 16 in the county cup.

A mathematical hat, yesterday

Here’s Craig, NH2CONH2ing on everyone’s chips.

The more pertinent question is how many points to make the playoffs next season assuming, as we all should be, that we go down.

But can he knock a passover

Putin looks like he's dying tbh. Fingers crossed

He has found it challenging tbf but not for the reasons Burley was thinking. I noticed he’s injured for their Europa League match tomorrow so had a look and he’s played 224 minutes of a possible 900 in the league for Rangers since signing. He deserves the crock tag. When you look at the likes of Ramsey, Van de Beek and Dele Alli we were incredibly lucky/shrewd to end up with Bruno.

I don’t think I did…

No idea where to post these, so I picked the most pointless thread I could find on the first two pages.… Aaaanyway

It’s true about the attendance thing. Very few clubs capable of getting that many fans ever play in the third tier of English football.

Nails it

Is Jesus any good at getting on the end of a cross ?

This also applies to people for them

Aye but that's only cos you guys are stinking up League One

Im crying 🤣😂

I knew South Shields was further north than Newcastle city centre as Happy Face used the fact to wind Stevie up

You missed the best one

As it happens, I’ve got tickets on Saturday right next to the corner flag. Naturally wanting to be on TV, I’ve upgraded to this.

The likes of those fucking daft enough to buy into Morgan’s latest grift are the biggest snowflakes going. They also want to cancel any version of history etc that distorts their comfortable view of a benevolent Blighty that the rest of the world should be grateful for

Is the lad who scored trying to claim he was offside?

"Quackem."

Michael Owen is such a fucking little disrespectful winnit. 'Jurgen Klopp would've been sat rubbing his hands if you told him he'd be playing Villarreal in the semi final' followed by a 'no disrespect' all spoken in that fucking boring monotone voice of his. If they held a surprise birthday party for him in a phone box it would probably be a bit too roomy.

Fuck me, this friends obsession with every club even trumps the FTM mantra.

'Brits' missing the entire fucking point.

It was always Carlisle being East of Edinburgh that got me.

Here’s one for you @Craig If you could sail in a perfectly straight line, you could set out from New York and arrive in Perth, Western Australia. You’d arrive in Perth from the south, too.

ffs

Its Tom, isn’t it?

Not so much dripping as at saturation point

How many games to be mathematically safe from relegation next season ?? If Burnley stay up they could go on a run (assuming we stay up this season, obviously).

This ref hasn't got the memo it's supposed to special at Anfield 😂

Think he’s bad, I’ve got some Irish channel on and fuck me, you’d think they’d been handed down Kloppaganda. They’re livid that Villarreal are defending and visibly getting annoyed at every Liverpool mistake

Mag behaviour.

That's an interesting point. I did some fag packet calculations. According to their accounts for 2018/19 (the last full season unaffected by covid closures) they raised £8,600,000 in gate receipts which is a lot of money. That was done over 31 home matches and their official average attendance that season was 32,157 which is excellent for a third tier side. But when you do the calculations that works out an average of £8.63 a ticket. Maybe that's how they're getting them through the turnstiles?

I've only read this page, so apologies if this has been mentioned, but 90minutes are saying we're close to signing the young French lad Ekitike from Reims, on a loan with an obligation to buy season after next, plus we plan to bring Targett on a perm for 15m which is hardly a surprise, and Lingard on a free. If we could get those three for an outlay of 15m on transfer fees for the 2022/23 summer transfer window, we'd be off to an incredible start. The room that getting Lingard and Ekitike in on a free and initial loan respectively could give us, could be crucial in terms of getting the big money centre half and centre forward in that we're also looking to get. Newcastle transfers: Hugo Ekitike, Matt Targett & Jesse Lingard headline summer plans (90min.com) Edit. Of course Ekitike is a striker as well, but I'd be surprised if we put all our eggs in his basket given he'll only have turned 20, and not even played a full senior season in France in terms of apps by the time we sign him. Which is likely why, if the article is accurate, we are trying to get him in on an initial season loan.

Cool kids want to be outlaws, not Sheriffs.

desperately, desperately poor knowledge in here of the greatest striker the 3rd division has ever produced. especially disappointed in the fish, diego would know.

With Eddie Howe, Newcastle is getting 1'68 points per game in Premier League. This means that in 38 games in the regular season he was proyection to get 63-64 points. With 64 points, in the lasts seasons, the team finish in: 2020-2021: 7th (Conference League, the Top Four was in 67 points) 2019-2020: 5th (Europa League, the Top Four was in 66 ponits). 2018-2019: 7th (Europa League, the Top Four was in 71 points) 2017-2018: 6th (Europa League, the Top Four was in 75 points)