The Fish

If anyone's got ideas on how to improve it, I'm happy to hear them, honestly. End of the day it's 3 London based Newcastle fans who do it for nothing. We're all pretty busy so we've never really sat down and made a plan, or really considered the show's structure. I appreciate this will open the door to a daunting amount of abuse and ridicule, but I'm hoping for maybe one nugget of gold in amongst the gargantuan torrent of bullshit.

Yeah, that's what I'm taking from it too. The guy he wants people to play it for 3hrs straight to get a feel for it. But I'm sure that after I've traveled to my 20th planet, named my 100th beastie and improved my ship a bit I'll be fairly bored of planet hopping and fauna cataloging.

Pretty confident we'll win, but we follow this "easier" home game with an away trip to the league leaders where we'll likely be on the receiving end of a demoralising humping. Maybe only 3 goal margin, but the gulf in quality and application will be vast and depressing.

Wonder how they're going to spin that. I mean, it's fine calling Johnson a liar, he's a convicted nonce, they can't exactly publicly call the police liars.

Yeah, not a lot of Geordie accents going on I'm afraid. Fergus Craig lived in Newcastle until he was 12/13 then moved South. (His Mam and Dad genuinely joined a cult) My accent has never been strong and has only weakened over time. Paul Doolan grew up in East Anglia (or Lincoln I think?) but has actual proper blood ties to the club; His ancestor scored the club's first league goal. Charlie Hunter is American gobshite. I've no idea why he supports Newcastle. At least when Luke Benson is on the podcast he's got a proper Geordie accent.

Inherently moral.

Could this encourage the portly prick to sell up?

Can't imagine anything happening because of it though. It'd take more than a disgruntled director of a local project speaking out in the Gruniad.

Are you Lee Ryder?

Swansea didn't write off their game at Arsenal. Haven't we also performed well against the "big" clubs? Mainly because our gutless mercenaries want to get the attention of those clubs.

For all we're playing shit away from home, we've still as many points as sunderland and Norwich, with a game in hand. Says to me they're slightly shitter and that could well be enough to keep us up.

I pretty much agree with everything here. Might be a little more confident of picking up enough points to survive than you are, but if you're 60% confident of relegation and I'm 55% confident of survival, it's not really worth arguing about.

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But the status thing is a big part of supporting a club. If you fall below where conventional wisdom would have you, you're failing in the eyes of the world, aren't you? Also, going toe-to-toe with the big boys consistently is enjoyable. I agree under Ashley we've rolled over for them more often than not, but competing with Arsenal for 90 minutes is a lot more satisfying than competing with Altrincham.

Will it? Won't he continue to run the club as he has traditionally? He's more likely to revert to the penny pinching approach and continue to employ the wrong people, isn't he?

You think that will change anything for them? I think the only people that will suffer from relegation is the fans, again.

Who to bring in though? Whoever it might be, it would surely be a short term deal? 'Arry?

You worried that you're opinions are in line with mine?

To be honest, we should have sacked him after the Chelsea mauling. 18 days for the new man to get to grips with the team. His away form alone should be cause for dismissal.

Well I'm still about 55-58% confident we'll stay up, but stating something in that kind of detail seems to upset people.

This is about where I'm at. This result has changed nothing and it wasn't a fixture anybody was expecting anything from anyway.

Not sure. Isn't there something about, as long as we offer him a contract, there needs to be some kind of compensation from whichever club he ends up at? I remember there being something similar with Sammy Ameobi.

We'll still be second bottom, but level on points, so not really further behind them. Unless of course we end up on the same points as them at the end of the season and don't improve our goal difference (or see them worsen theirs).

It'll still be better than Norwich & sunderland's

Wasn't Thauvin ahead of him in the pecking order? Before he got injured again? Either way, gpirlo is right, given the option, Aarons isn't going to choose playing for a Championship club ahead of a Premier League club.