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I'll tell you now if Al Quaeda bought Newcastle and made us successful I would be blown to bits. FYP hehe I think if they were having a debate in their cave in Afghanistan, which club should we bomb, and which should we buy. The Mido thing has to have put us top of their list. I mean what other clubs fans have done anything which was reported to be racist against muslims?

I'll tell you now if Al Quaeda bought Newcastle and made us successful I would be thrillied to bits.

omg, ref this and your post further up the page... I take it you think - as per the other thread - that Mike Ashley will come good ? You said that about Souness and being bankrolled to the hilt until the day before he left. Not bad for an accountant. Maybe Souness would move next door to you and thank you for your support Then one day Souness comes to visit. Fucking Graeme Souness! On your street! And he's carrying a Koran. What now? wearing a t shirt saying bacon sandwiches are evil

I'd ask them how long they supported Liverpool. I don't think you should define people by their religion anyway, view them as people, if they're mugs just ignore them.

Happy Birthday Darrel

I work in London quite a bit, see loads of toon fans, have had chance encounters with plenty too. There are more Newcastle fans in London than any other provincial club, outwith Man Utd and Liverpool. At the end of the day worldwide fanbase doesn't count when this worldwide fanbase doesn't put any money in to the club. A clubs local support is its' support as far as I'm concerned. People from around the country can class themselves as fans, and the ones who go to games ARE fans. Where Newcastle and Liverpool differ is local fanbase, when things go wrong here, we stand united. At Liverpool they just don't go, 34,000 at a few league games under Hodgson just this season. It's insulting that a Newcastle fan, albeit one who won't really understand the club, can even compare that plastic blood stained organisation to Newcastle and our fans. Worldwide support is a nonsense by the way. If Tottenham won the Champions League this year they would gain 20m new fans around the world. None of them count, and few could name more than five players. You're a fan if you go to games, or have a history of going to games even if you've made the effort to just go to 3 or 4. If not, like 99% of Liverpool fans you're not part of the true fanbase, and our true fanbase is bigger than theirs.

I'll win quite a bit if they beat Belgium tomorrow night. I'll be waiting of England and Eire for £550. The two home nations will piss their games, so mon the Austria. I've been to Austria, fucking great country, so hot when I was there, then you go to the mountains and it's freezing. Beautiful country. They don't feel like proper regimented krauts neither. Aye, it's supposed to be a lovely place. They've had their share of wronguns though, Fritzl, Priklopil, Adolf... Mag Pog at Boro, and that Sharner at West Brom, he's always struck me as the type of bloke to shave NIKE signs in his pubes. Apparently they really are a bit mad Austrians like.

I'll win quite a bit if they beat Belgium tomorrow night. I'll be waiting of England and Eire for £550. The two home nations will piss their games, so mon the Austria. I've been to Austria, fucking great country, so hot when I was there, then you go to the mountains and it's freezing. Beautiful country. They don't feel like proper regimented krauts neither.

The keeper is an absolute plum.

You posted this at 1101, then edited 30 seconds later at 1101. The story seems as plausible as heatonlass95 being a real person. You've hunted for it all day, then 30 seconds after you post this it turns up. Aye "souuuuuuuuuund" as yeez would say.

I've scored better goals than that to be honest. Gazza used to dee that in his sleep. Is he still playing beach football?

fuckin what a tune, many memories of this

People have been saying this for years on these boards NO here other boards, and I've been contradicting them. People said when we went 28000 would be the norm, I knew for a FACT, we wouldnt get less than 42000 on a regular basis. Our average turn oot of 44,000 is unparalleled in the modern era by any club on earth largely speaking, and to be honestly. I would say without question that is OUTSTANDING. A club nobheads class almost as big as us Leeds United get 20,000 less than that, and most of their support can remember them being English champions in 1992. Newcastle are phenomenon by any standards in any sport, in any country, in any walk of life. This season and I'm repeating myself we will average 48,000 people, that is OUTSTANDING, with a bastard owner who will sell when the price is right, who makes decisions so bad it appears his sole aim is to wind the supporters up, and still we fuckin turn out. You are saying for some unknown reason our attendances will go down? I can't understand the logic, we have 40,000 daft cunts like me who have said fuck you Ashley the toon are part of our lives we're not gonna stop going. That number won't go down. The club has been in decline for 7 years since we sacked Robson and replaced him with the biggest arsehole in world football. Shepherd made his mistakes, potentially could've rectified them, but the rug was taken from underneath him by that over celebrated arsehole Hall (and his son) while he was lying cabbaged in hospital with pneumonia. I don't agree that the club is in decline I think we hit rock bottom losing at Scunthorpe last season, and since then people like Kevin Nolan have helped drive the club slowly forward. We're stagnating in some regards but if you'd told me we'd have Ben Arfa here, and £35m in the bank from the sale of Carroll, 12 month ago, I'd have been questioning your sanity. Our attendances will go up next season and I'm prepared to bet £200 now on that.

They weren't at all. Well I heard some commentator say words to that effect, may have been a bit longer. Doesn't answer my question as to why we're rank outsiders though.

I know fuck all about cricket. Answer me this though, Australia up till a few month ago were regarded as the best side in the world? We absolute bum them in the Ashes, so surely that means we should be regarded as a canny side. The reason I make this point is, why are England 10/1 to win the WC when there's only six sides left in? I don't understand? I'd have thought we should be favourites.

I can see this becoming difficult. How do you define it ? There is an obvious link between acting big and becoming successful, attracting supporters back, and being seen to be big by others as a result. The problem is, if a club acts like a small club [like we are doing], does it mean they aren't a big club anymore ? Or is it just that you are a big club being run badly ? That's the thing though, people not going to matches isn't just about success on the field Lots of our fans have stopped going because they aren't happy with how the club is being run, sick of having to get by and then there was the 2 failed stadium moves (1 of which none of us wanted) I think we'll get less season ticket sales next season because people seeing that we are being left behind if we don't get investment so are boycotting Newcastle are obviously a big club and have a fantastic support, you could see that with the protests etc but I don't think support equals everything I have to disagree with your first comment. Success on the pitch is everything. Win and your crowds go up, at any level of the game, at NUFC a winning team is a full house. 2nd sentence - most people have forgotten about those stadium moves now. Personally, I think we should have moved to Leazes Park and forced the issue more. We will get less season ticket renewals next season because the team is struggling on the pitch and there is little optimism for improvement. 3rd sentence - I don't think any club would fill a 52000 stadium anywhere in the world having put up with what we have for so long to be honest, although it is going down now, it will still hover between 30-40,000 even when the damage inflicted by Mike Ashley increases, and no club in the world would get that either, especially when even a few wins in a lower league will send it back near 50,000 again. Just my opinions of course. Oh, and what have you been through? One relegation in 20 years? A few Champions League campaigns here, a few UEFA Cup runs there, a couple of FA Cup finals thrown in for good measure. I worship at the feet of 1 relegation in 20 years you lucky lucky lucky bastards. I don't get all this shite about Newcastle fans being long suffering, we're the ones who have been long suffering, staying up this season will see us reach our 5th successive top flight appearance for only the 2nd time in half a century. We finished with the record low for points in 2003 and then broke it in 2006. We've been through more shit than enough and to still get 40,000 coming through the turnstiles most weeks is fantastic, its what makes Sunderland a big club. As it happens, I agree with you, if you are talking from recent memory, which you are. It is others who you need to convince the last 2 decades [most of it] have been so bad. I am quite aware we had one of the best clubs in the country which is when this level of support was built up. Unfortunately, when I try to tell this to a few of who are supposedly NUFC fans, like me, they don't believe a word I say and insist we were run by people who were shit, robbed the club blind, were only in it for what they could get, and only did what is our divine right by qualifying for europe and buying top players. What the fuck they think Mike Ashley is up to, when they defend him until they are blue in the face, only they will know. The culprits are obvious, in fact one of them has also replied to you, and another is allegedly his dad. That's just wrong that like. Our support would be the same as it is now, with or without Keegan or anyone else give or take 5,000. Every club in the country had their gates double regardless of success over a 10 year period. Even Man Utd. Keegan, The Halls and The Shepherd's largely were tremendous for the toon, but what they created wasn't the main factor in 36,000 gates then 52,000 gates, it was football culture. No one would've dreamed a club like Boro, Leicester or Derby would average 30,000 but they all did, because of the new wave of fan, women, ethnic minorities other bandwagon jumpers came from no where on the back of Sky, The Premiership and Euro 96. Newcastle HAVE ALWAYS had the 3rd or 4th biggest true fanbase in England, always have had, always will have, and odd seasons of boycot people quote won't change any of it. We were the third best supported club in the country in Division Two in 1984, as we were last season in the Championship, it has nothing to do with success, lack of it or anything else. Sunderland are a prime example of the new age fan in your cosy all seater stadium. Their last season at Roker Park they had a capacity of 22,500, watching Premiership football, do you know how many sell outs they had? THREE. Three years later in the Premiership they were averaging 42,000, highlighting my point the surge in attendances had everything to do with shocking (in my view) change of football culture, the mass marketing that surrounded football, and improved facilities. Sunderland average 40,000 now because it's so cheap if you were on the dole you could probably afford it. At their prices we could get 80,000 regularly. Most expensive match day ticket TWENTY EIGHT QUID.

He's a tory stereotype from a shit sit com. Was listening to 5 Live today and they were struggling to get anyone on the phone to say this had been a good budget for them. I used that Sun calculator and apparently I'll be £310 better off.

Put anthrax on her g string

A naa! We'll be stickyin Kevin's made up nights out next.

Yeah summink like that. So should we expect them to look like David Attenborough, when they walk down the ramp with that brilliant white light behind them? FWIW the majority of them look just like us. Some a little taller 7ft and some smaller 5ft. The universe seems to like the layout. Oh goody, Peter Crouch, David Attenborough, and Dennis Wise walking down the ramp then.

The planets relationship with the sun is changing and the magnetic fields and solar winds are affecting the planet. In turn this is affecting the tech plates and also arousing volcanic activity. More like David Icke every day tbh, just hope you don't evolve in to Dave Koresh.

Yeah summink like that. So should we expect them to look like David Attenborough, when they walk down the ramp with that brilliant white light behind them?

Oh and btw, it wasn't the fat lad who pulled me on it, it was some thick lass passing by who said I shouldnt make such racist comments. As it happens, the lad in question works with me, he isnt actually that fat and is I think from Bangladesh (and Hindu?) The majority of Bangladeshis are Muslim (it was called East Pakistan after the break-up of India post-independence, before Bangladesh itself became independent). He could be a Hindu though. Aye I think HF used the right phrase, when we made these countries, a lot of the muslims fucked off to Pakistan and Bangladesh from India proper due to persecution because it was like a haven for them. Still there's 150m muslims in India to this day about the pop. of Pakistan and Bangladesh which are both 99% islamic, and every day towns and villages get torched in India simply because they're muslim. I know this because I have an Indian mate who obviously knows the crack. I think if you look beyond classing LM as a racist there are some very, very valid points in a lot of what he says, but one thing you can't do is put everyone in one basket it's more complicated than that, unless they're scouse, mackem, or Aussie of course.

I think we'll probably be alright for a remarkably long time. 2050 before anything completely mental happens, and I'll be 72 moaning about what a shit board of directors the toon have, sat in the East Stand listening to fans singing 81 years won fuck all at us.