Rayvin

Agree, I have high hopes for him. Just think there was some managing expectations in there - not around the club's potential, but around what he's planning to do.

Oddly enough I got that sort of vibe too, but it might be a function of his accent. What I did like, even if it is just standard corporate stuff, is his determination to listen to people in the first instance, and to adapt to a plan that makes sense for the club rather than coming in with a particular vision to railroad us towards. For me at least that feels like the right approach. The warnings about change I still think are key though. Really interested to see where that takes us.

I could have chosen to amend my speech patterns to avoid the ribbing about this, but I refuse to compromise who I am. Sorry.

Sorry mate, I assumed someone would have put it up somewhere but didn't want to go rifling through threads for it. Just on the main site: https://www.newcastleunited.com/en/video/854230

The interview with Hopkinson is interesting. A whole big section on 'change' in that - notable I think because he also touches on the idea that they're deliberating over what to do with the stadium. I think we might shift, but he's clearly got some ideas for taking us forward that deviate a bit from what we've been doing. It sounded a little too fully considered to just be standard corporate bullshit.

It starts to feel like some of these people are just living on an entirely different planet from the rest of us. Or they should be.

I prefer that gif

Ah it's Hamas again. Presumably if Hamas show up in DC Israel will bomb them there too. Fucking mental country with literally no respect for anyone else. Not even Trump on this evidence.

Why exactly have Israel bombed Qatar...? What in fuck is going on over there.

I can't speak for what the left on Labour look like now but it wouldn't be enough for me. Especially since it's a token position anyway.

Its only going to get worse for trans people from here tbh.

New CEO might take a different view since it's largely in his hands, but I agree more generally.

V11 scam? Sorry, I must have missed this entirely.

Doubling down on the shift to the right. I suppose in the end he had to be consistent on something.

If he misfires as a striker, Eddie will just turn him into a central midfield juggernaut tbh.

Sorry but Jackson was good value for a roughly 20mEUR season long loan though?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/06/majority-predicted-reform-nigel-farage-election-predictor/ Telegraph has decided Reform are going to win.

I'm over the whole thing now tbh. I'm more excited by Burn potentially getting to go to the World Cup (It would be worth watching even for me at that point) than any of this remaining nonsense about Isak. We're lucky to have Dan Burn tbh, I wish he was 5 years younger but then he'd probably not quite be the same man yet if he was.

Even so, the numbers for that overlap are likely not that large. As an aside, I saw a report the other day that Reform are polling highest with 16 year olds as well, so that feels like another own goal.

I'm with you now - it's a fascinating area in truth because I very much don't see this overlap between Reform and Labour voters in general. So if Farage is intelligent enough to recognise it doesn't serve his needs to fight that battle, he's achieved something Labour haven't. And indeed if he's adding to that be stoking the division on the left that already exists because of Labour's negligence, then really he's playing this exactly as he should be. How depressing that he can see that but Labour can't.

What does this mean sorry, who does he think he'll take from Labour?

Yep, feels like the only direction it was moving in. Maybe she'd have gotten away with it if she wasn't responsible for housing but as it is... hard to argue with where we've ended up on it. It doesn't really make any difference anyway tbh, she's not exactly someone who was going to change the destiny of the party over the coming few years. None of them are.

If they go then Farage really has destroyed the Tories.

Boris planning his comeback presumably...

Also completely agree with this. Only caveat is that if she was the Tory deputy PM she would doubtless find a way to avoid going. But can't argue with the claim, I would be calling for her head if the shoe was on the other foot.