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Well I watched it and that would not be my opinion, they ran about a lot and were better than last season, well it appeared better anyway, but it was still somewhat dogshit. They probably were made to look better as well because Arsenal were awful.

#HHGH

Favourite Gyokeres moment (apart from when he tackled himself) first half gets to the byline and pinged in a cross, when I say pinged he lathered it out for a throw in halfway towards the halfway line on the other side of the park. Glorious.

Absolute bargain 😂😂😂

Stamp posted it in, RIP

This game is garbage, awful watch.

Yer not wrang

[Shopkeeper in Welsh] Yes, the sheep are very frisky just now [/Shopkeeper in Welsh] Ting (shop door bell) [Female shopper in Welsh] Oh customers, Oh!! what the fuck is he wearing [/Female Shopper in Welsh] [Shopkeeper in Welsh] It's paisley pattern shirt Gwyneth, oh and trousers and, good lord, shoes !! to go outdoors in the valleys looking like that he must be very rich, or eccentric, or touched. I'll be polite and we can hope he just goes away [/Shopkeeper in Welsh] [Shopkeeper in English] good afternoon, how can I help you [/Shopkeeper in English]

As well as the amount of loans allowed being ridiculous, that clause needs to be made illegal, "aye we'll sell you the player but if he turns out to be mint, we'll have him back thanks".

Come at me any fucking time you like AND SUFFER MY WRATH

Must admit the pitiful slap the face reaction emoji was NOT the chomp I was hoping for ☹️

Well per: https://www.newcastleworld.com/sport/football/newcastle-united/does-worrying-joelinton-injury-stat-force-newcastle-united-into-transfer-rethink-5152160#:~:text=An under-the-radar start,Magpies limped over the line. Its: An under-the-radar start is how Joelinton has missed 29 per cent of Newcastle’s league games since August 2022. Using the last two seasons alone, that figure rises to 36 per cent.

Supply and demand mate, way of the world. Season Ticket prices (and we all accept that season ticket holders are the real supporters AND LIFE BLOOD of the club) have gone up 3.3% year on year, eminently reasonable.

Present a case backed up by facts not just wishy washy vitriol, I'm not doing your work for you.

He's not really fleeced the fans either despite TBD's assertions (or TBB = The Broken Ballot).

Quite a bit https://gregcordell.substack.com/p/newcastle-united-202324-financial

Nice post, but on Big Joe, whilst I love him to bits, he's missed 38-ish% of possible games due to injury/suspension, that's a gap that needs filling. Am all for bringing good players in though, the more the merrier.

Could be a reason, massive organisations set their budgets projected for years, if they say sign a one year rolling £10 mill deal but then say it could be £50 Mill in year two they'll budget the higher number, but if because of some reason it stays at £10 Mill, that's £40 Mill money they ringfenced in the budgets that was not available to have been be spent elsewhere. They'll want certainty and over the longer term the better.

I just think the sponsorship thing appears to be such a blatant "tap in" that there's got to be a reason we're not doing it, hence my theory, as that's just about the only plausible thing I can think of, outside of utter incompetence - which given we've been nigh on increasing our commercial revenues by 50% year on year that doesn't smack of "we haven't a clue what we're doing".

Willock and I think big Joe is next on the chopping block (not imminently but he's moving up the queue).

No I'm not sure but I think it's a plausible reason, you've got to be able to prove loss in court. The stadium sponsorship will be waiting on the City case IMO, no point signing something for £10 Mill/year when you could maybe get five times that, sure you could sign something with escalators built in but those would be subject the fmv test and likely binned off, better to wait to see what happens with City's challenge. PSR is shite but for as long as it gets voted for by the clubs can't see it changing, the 6 vote for it to protect themselves and they get support from those owners who just want to remain on the gravy train without being financially exposed to having to put in really big wedge to stay in the game. PSR should be about making sure owners don't milk a club to death but it does none of that.

Thought the free kick/set pieces looked interesting yesterday, poor execution (corners still shit) but some interesting wrinkles, be good to see that develop. A lot more nuanced than Arsenal's 8 men around the goalkeeper at corners bollocks.

That bit, I think there's little we could do outside of voting against the rules, we don't have legal recourse because we haven't suffered a material loss that we can argue. That's why we're supporting City in their case as they did have a contract knocked back so can demonstrate/substantiate a loss. That and the fact City's case is years ahead of any case we could start, even if we could.

Stole that ring, didn't you ?

I actually think (hope) if we don't get offered top dollar that the owners will make him sweat, am sure he won't get reintegrated unless the group are OK with it and if they're not, he will remain isolated.