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Also this place will be a handy stop off for an emergency piss. Increasing problem for me as my prostate grows. 👍

Sure I know Larr well, great fella. Though I don’t know what he’s doing in Philly. I thought him and Paddy were working on wyki’s extension?

fuck off mr 929th

Ashley was reviled because he took the piss out of the club. It was never about his ethics or the treatment of staff at SD etc. That was a convenient smoke screen for people like Chi Onwurah to platform on. If he had managed the club well and ambitiously, nobody would have had a problem. But he didn't, as tbd has listed. PIF are taking the club to another level and have their PR spot on. But they're going to need to maximise revenue for FFP reasons, I doubt they are that bothered on the returns. That's inevitably going to make some people unhappy. We all know that the regime PIF represent is not compatible with our own ethical code, but for inverse reasons to Ashley, we turn a blind eye. That's because we decompartmentalise things we can't control (club ownership) with things we can. I'd make the following points: People can get to fuck judging anyone else. Call me a scab for retaining my ST is ridiculous, it's only football ffs. Similarly to boast or gloat because you have an ST is equally stupid. And personally I fully agree that a substantial proportion of tickets should be held back for non-ST holders, but how they are distributed I don't know. If you're lucky enough to get a ticket, you'll know the atmosphere is fantastic and there is a strong sense of city unity that you probably have to go back to Keegan to match. Nobody wears tea towels on their heads though, and many people will have no sympathy for the MBS regime. So this demonstrates that people seperate the monetary ownership from the communal ownership in their minds. Saudi is a corrupt state with values significantly different values from the West, of that there is no doubt. But it's not "whataboutery" to discuss states with equally vile human rights records or question why people have no issue not boycotting other parts of the PIF investment portfolio. The fact that people don't again just underlines that these facts just don't matter to them in day to day life. Of course, its quite typical to try to hold football to a higher standard for some reason. Why? Whilst there are many issues with Saudi, most opposition football fans, especially mackems, are completely ignorant about them, like the Yemen civil war. Or worse, outright conspiracy theories about 9/11, or lies about paedophilia. I find the way mackems fetishise this completely undermines their point, and worse, says a lot to who they really are. Saudi are currently a big disruptor in European football and I am personally uneasy about their setting up the Saudi pro league and creaming some of the best European players. I think UEFA need to closely monitor the situation.

Thats my cousins hummer and I’m the Tom in the article (now in the right thread)

That's unbelievable! I've got an ACL too. A Crucial Loveweapon.

Anyway, I turned the WiFi off earlier on and just came for my bait, was going to try later tonight when I finish work but put back on to have a look and it put me straight through to buying one. I got one for me and my daughter. It might be £74 wasted but I'll take a chance for this season and see how it goes.

I suppose the other thing is we’re never off the tv anyway so loads of our games could be shown #magedia

The planet is on fire. The ex prime minister is a totally corrupt completely dishonest traitor currently free of any consequence for his behaviour The current PM is tweeting stuff that should get him arrested for racism The country is on its knees with failing energy water health housingand transport, all sold off for profit. The highest tax burden for 40 years Personal debt is completely out of control The media is consumed with......some rich cunts personal bank account The country is done - we are over

Aye, this is the problem. The BBC have apologised, NatWest have apologised and their CEO has resigned. These institutions are playing by rules that the other side don’t. Can you imagine Farage and co. ever apologising for anything or correcting the record after telling a lie? This is the battle that the civilised world is up against.

Indeed. Apparently, the red and white headscarves only became really popular after STID.

Don’t forget to say hello to CT.

Fam, Blud and Manchild ?

Just extend the Gallowgate please. As for ‘Fan Zones’ - fuck off. As for a one next to a ground within walking distance of dozens upon dozens of places to eat and drink - double fuck off

I should fucking hope not seeing as you were there with them paying fuck all.

Celebrate good times with Kuol & Garang I'll let myself out

Urghh. Horrible news. Dolores a few years back and now Sinead. While cunts like Johnson and Farage are still stealing oxygen. RIP Sinead.

Aye but I bet you’re sick of Saudis telling you how the watched STID and are now MLFs.

Seems like a hell of a grift though. Most of them only write one article a week and talk shite on a podcast. True Faith do that for fuck all, the clowns

He was scintillating against Brighton. I was at that game and he was a joy to watch - he was absolutely everywhere. My motm in that one without a doubt. I don’t think he’s world class, his lack of a right foot is a massive flaw in his game. Ideally he would be a squad player rather than first pick but Howe trusts him to execute the game plan and it’s striking that he was reinstated as first choice toward the end of the season despite healthy competition in wide areas. If we fail to sign a new RW I think he remains Howe’s first choice for the first game of the new season but I guess we’ll see

well like I said last night when I went on a bit of a ramble I was always gonna come back once ashley went, if it meant starting again with a nufc i identified with from the lower divisions and doing a bournemouth I'd have been happier with that than the saudis, especially if it meant the fat cunt lost every penny of the £1/4b he spent creating the abomination he did. but that's just me. as far as the saudi's themselves go, I've said before I don't consider it my job to be the guardian of footballing morals, sport sold its soul a long time ago. besides, I was 61 on sunday, it would be nice to see us win something..... before I'm no longer here, for that reason I can live with them and you never know, I suppose there's always the chance their involvement over here might bring about some changes in their own country. fingers crossed.

Wor lass doesn't like him because he gets balloons for every single occasion.

10 per season

He’s been shite since he left the Times and went to The Athletic seemingly. Not sure what happened. He always came across as a good lad too. I guess sone writers need that guidance in terms of being told about the angle expected or the focus of their work. And can go off on one without that

Nice to see them incorporating Deano’s shrubberies formations next to the lasses pissers.

I see the NatWest CEO has resigned over the Farage debacle. Likely due to breaching confidentiality when talking with a BBC journalist. But Farage and the Tories that backed him will no doubt champion this as a win over wokeism

Disagree. The goals dried up a bit toward the end of last season and his form dropped off a little after his injury but he was still generally excellent and one of our most improved players. His performance against Brighton in the run in confirmed he is an important first team player and his form in the first half of the season wasn’t just a purple patch. He was the best player on the pitch by a country mile that day, against a quality side in a must-win game. Howe backs players who have delivered for him and I think RW is still Miggy’s position to lose.

Let me help

as regards the highlighted bit above..... in what respect? the football? we were getting crowds of 30,000 and averaging twenty odd thousand (of which only a handful were season ticket holders) during sustained periods in the 2nd division, when the odd gem was routinely sold, the ground was falling apart but more importantly the region was on the bones of its fucking arse. blokes were making it to the match despite fighting to save their jobs down the mines, in the shipyards, the steelworks or all the engineering companies who relied on the above to stay in business. we had 25% of the male working age population on the dole but folk would still find a way to get to sjp despite this and the abysmal football on offer. the ashley years changed that for people like me and a shit load of blokes who'd previously trawled up and down the country through really shit times following this club. you couldn't have got me to put a cross next to the tory candidate in a polling station if I'd been dragged down there with a gun at me head, would've been a shit self sacrifice mind when the rest of the country was seemingly hell bent on voting thatcher back in. but I could do something about ashley, I could stop paying the fat vindictive cunt to tell lies about the supporters making death threats to his family, treating club legends with utter contempt, renaming the stadium after his tat shop, letting it fall apart other than the thousands of shiny new sports direct logos from foundations to roof, employing lickspittles like llambias, kinnear, keith bishop, lee charnley, pardew and bruce to lie through their teeth to the supporters while he ripped the soul out of the club and took the piss out of the city with a smirk on his face. I walked away and it broke me fucking heart. even now he's gone as long as I can still draw breathe he or anything he's associated with will never get a penny from me, there's many like me. been done to death on who was right, those who stayed or those who walked away and I can't be arsed with it anymore, but I know I was always coming back when he fucked off. given the choice of rich saudi owners with the possibility of winning trophies or spiralling down the leagues and playing forest green rovers and acrington stanley whilst ashley lost every single penny of the £134m and £70m of debt he saddled the club with due to his own malice and incompetence I'd choose the latter every time. be a lot easier to get a ticket anyway.

Just looked at their squad. What a superb name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flip_Klomp

Fixed it for you

“Let’s fucking give it to them” 🍆🍆🍆🍆 You would run through a wall after that

I'm happy with all that HMHM but no fucking way are you having my phone. Just realised 10 is obviously more than half the matches, that's fair enough. Wonder how many people I am allowed in my "family"?

Looking forward to it. The part where Howe is saying “if they want a quick game we will give them one” is apparently ahead of the Man U game we absolutely pumped them after Ten Hag whinged about us saying we time waste .

I'll get a hat, a false moustache and fake glasses if you want to pass on any tickets for games you can't make outside of your allocated ten.

Logged in just to see where I’d be 40 mins in, 66k

Not a massive fan of these kind of things, the one at Man City is soulless corporate car park for use by day trippers. But, it’s a way of growing revenue I suppose. Which we need to do

Quality I used to be a fan of Caulkin but his writing is increasingly pretentious

I think it was teams sitting deeper against us that meant he didn’t perform as well second half of the season as much as anything else. I think that’ll be a problem going forward if he’s a regular starter. That doesn’t mean I don’t like that lad or recognise the job he’s done, etc. If that wasn’t a purple patch though you’d be looking at a truly world class player. It clearly was / he isn’t

New favourite beer. “ What do you want? “ “ Pair of Bollekes please! “

Stringer Bellend.

".....and while we were playing Seahouses U-23s at the academy of light you were WATCHING THE FUCKING MAGS TAKE ON CHELSEA!!!! IT FUCKING STINKS!!! MAGEDIA CUNT!"

Judging by the clobber the likes of Luke Edward's wear, sports journalism much pay fucking peanuts tbh

I don't really know if he's working with the club. Officially, I think nothing has been announced. A few days ago, it was announced that she would do a kind of meeting-clinic in the US, so maybe that's why she was with the guys on tour. Perhaps we will find an official announcement around the corner, if they decide to give him a position. Or maybe they're just doing this to bring everything to do with the club to that sense of belonging that we didn't have with Ashley (like they've done with Shola). https://experience.jugo.io/newcastle-event-meet-shay-given

I remember having a very similar argument last season with people when I said I wouldn’t sign Targett. As Alex says a lot of the goal scoring wasn’t just a purple patch he was also playing against defences that played into his strength, the back end of the season teams sat deeper against us and he struggled not just for goals but in his overall game as he’s not that good on the ball. I couldn’t disagree more about him being the best player against Brighton, he wasn’t even close to Joelinton and others in fact at 2-0 up him missing a total fucking sitter almost cost us as Brighton made it 2-1 immediately after. He’s improved but that still doesn’t make him close to players like Gordon. His pressing side of the game is good but it’s overblown in terms of effectiveness because of how much he runs, I saw OTF mention Gordon’s pressing in comparison I think it’s a tough compare since Gordon is adapting to our system and we’ve not got a huge sample size from him but I’ve posted his stats below and you can see last season per 90 Gordon was among the best in terms of pressing type actions. I also think you’re being unfair on Barnes OTF, I’ve added his stats below as well from the season before last - it’s a hard compare because Rodgers doesn’t play a press he’s more possession based and wants his forwards to remain up top which was made worse last season as they struggled so Barnes stayed forward. Players like Almiron and Murphy missing so many chances at the back of the season is what started to make the end nervy, that’s why I hope Gordon plays as he’s a far better player than Almiron and we’ve spent significant money on him. I’d keep Almiron as a squad player as he can be a useful player but we need to improve that position. I disagree with your last point too Gloom, Howe backs his players but he’s also ruthless - Lascelles, Targett, Fraser, and Ritchie all were effective players for him in the takeover season and he basically dropped all of them when we’ve improved on them. Maybe he will start Almiron but as I say I’d be disappointed as I don’t think we will get anything more out of him next season and tbh I think we will get a drop off. Almiron last season: Barnes 2021/2022 Gordon last season A lot of the defense for keeping Almiron as starter seems a bit sentimental to me, which is fine obviously but as I say I’d prefer we improved the position and kept him as back up. It’s similar to how Southgate plays Maguire and Pickford over objectively better players in that they’ve performed for him so he won’t take a risk to see if things improve - I think, and hope, Howe will take the risk.

I mean, the fact he simply won't use his right foot is a massive flaw in his game tbh. It isn't simply that he's not as good with both feet.

I once had the pleasure of hearing ten minutes of his show when a Chelsea fan rang in and the Roger Noveau and the twat mellor were having a chinwag about the game at 'the bridge'. It was a few days after they beat us in the cup in midweek, thirty odd thousand there including about seven thousand Geordies. Us in Div 1, them in the new shiny PL. Anyway, mellor states how he was a little bit disappointed with how few came down from Sheffield for the game on Saturday. The next day it came to mind whilst reading the paper so I looked at the results page. There was fucking 13,000 there on a Saturday afternoon premier league game and this absolute throbber was having a pop at the Sheffield United fans? (Wasn't he a Fulham fan before licking John major's arse and defecting to 'the bridge'?)