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[Tom 13819]

Yeh - sometimes it carries over to next season but I think we're early enough in the year for this season.

[TheGingerQuiff 2412]

They might be holding out until they've got 12 points to be deducted. January/February maybe.

[Howay 12450]

 

As shite as we have been for nearly all of Ashley's ownership it is a blessing to have a local rival as incompetent and ridiculous as that lot. 

[StoneColdStephenIreland 74]

Yeah I wouldn't say I've actually ever hated them lot. I pity them more than anything because they only exist to compare themselves to us.

[Leon 13]

9 hours ago, Tom said:

Yeh - sometimes it carries over to next season but I think we're early enough in the year for this season.

 

It's something like the third Thursday in March which is the cut off.

[Tdansmith 2068]

11 hours ago, StoneColdStephenIreland said:

Yeah I wouldn't say I've actually ever hated them lot. I pity them more than anything because they only exist to compare themselves to us.

I must admit, i hate the fuckers and I'm delighted to see them right in the clarts.

[Alex 30260]

I've met and worked with a canny few sound ones but all the same, I tend to agree in a collective sense. Also, imagine if roles were reversed and any hint of feeling sorry for them tends to dissipate

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

Will they turn to ratboy after Xmas to take them down because I'm sure the gurning season starts in January and Grayson won't want to miss that.

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

1 minute ago, Alex said:

I've met and worked with a canny few sound ones but all the same, I tend to agree in a collective sense. Also, imagine if roles were reversed and any hint of feeling sorry for them tends to dissipate

I've had the odd sensible conversation with makems but only when both teams are doing shite.

[Tdansmith 2068]

2 minutes ago, essembeeofsunderland said:

I've had the odd sensible conversation with makems but only when both teams are doing shite.

It's got "mackem" under your user name, is this some in house forum joke ?  Honest question like.

[Alex 30260]

2 minutes ago, Tdansmith said:

It's got "mackem" under your user name, is this some in house forum joke ?  Honest question like.

He's pretty much obsessed with them to the extent he's largely regarded as being just like one and it's admin having a little joke at his expense.

[Alex 30260]

7 minutes ago, essembeeofsunderland said:

I've had the odd sensible conversation with makems but only when both teams are doing shite.

That's probably about right like

[Tdansmith 2068]

Just now, Alex said:

He's pretty much obsessed with them to the extent he's largely regarded as being just like one and it's admin having a little joke at his expense.

 

 

i see 

[Ayatollah Hermione 12737]

Sheffield's second goal was shambolic from a Mackem point of view. Hit on the break and in about 5 seconds, they'd scored

[David Kelly 1115]

Hilarious threat on RTG at the minute where the opening post says they under estimated the championship and everyone else is replying saying they all thought they'd struggle.  This all seems very different from the predictions I was seeing from most of them pre season.

[Leon 13]

37 minutes ago, David Kelly said:

Hilarious threat on RTG at the minute where the opening post says they under estimated the championship and everyone else is replying saying they all thought they'd struggle.  This all seems very different from the predictions I was seeing from most of them pre season.

 

Maybe 'tin-pot league' was code for 'we'll struggle'

[Tom 13819]

58 minutes ago, David Kelly said:

Hilarious threat on RTG at the minute where the opening post says they under estimated the championship and everyone else is replying saying they all thought they'd struggle.  This all seems very different from the predictions I was seeing from most of them pre season.

 

All the mackems I know have gone missing or "lost interest" so I'm just going off last seasons predictions. It's a pub league and they should be pissing it.

 

As it stands - Relegrayson

[Alex 30260]

Pub league tbh

[Alex 30260]

Jinx!

[Ayatollah Hermione 12737]

It's been a vintage few months for mackem delusion, like. They're the only people on Earth that could convince themselves that Simon Grayson is a better manager than Rafa Benitez. I wish I hated anything that much, where the mere presence of Newcastle United on Rafa's CV made them completely ignore everything he's done in football.

[Tom 13819]

After a not too bad opening two games - they seemed confident of at least the playoffs too. At least - 

 

Nice to see teams like Sheff Utd/Leeds turn up to a half empty Crisp Packet Emporium and take the piss like.

 

 

[Rayvin 4949]

1 hour ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

It's been a vintage few months for mackem delusion, like. They're the only people on Earth that could convince themselves that Simon Grayson is a better manager than Rafa Benitez. I wish I hated anything that much, where the mere presence of Newcastle United on Rafa's CV made them completely ignore everything he's done in football.

 

I think the thing is that if you disregard all of the information about why our club is an objectively superior and higher profile entity, which they do, they won't be able to understand why anyone of Rafa's calibre would be here.

 

And the fact that they guy has embraced the city and its people will make it even worse. So obviously he must be shit. It's the only explanation they're psychologically able to handle.

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

Gobiadini on Total Sport tonight.Criticising the fans for booing and not backing the team 100% after admitting he hasn't watched the full game yet and he regularly leaves games early,when he makes his infrequent visit to the sos on a freebie.

[The Fish 8954]

1 hour ago, Rayvin said:

 

I think the thing is that if you disregard all of the information about why our club is an objectively superior and higher profile entity, which they do, they won't be able to understand why anyone of Rafa's calibre would be here.

 

And the fact that they guy has embraced the city and its people will make it even worse. So obviously he must be shit. It's the only explanation they're psychologically able to handle.

 

I expect for a few of them it's just bluster. I cannot fathom anyone thinking of us as anything other than the more relevant(?) of the two clubs, all but the most blinkered would surely concede that? Which is why you'll hear them use indefinite qualities like "classier", "proper"  and the like.

 

For some there's a reliance on twisting the facts to create a reality where; all Newcastle players are shit, all Newcastle managers are shit, all ex-Newcastle players are shit unless they do well at another club at which point it was the aforementioned shit managers that did for them, all ex-Newcastle managers are better than the incumbent, all points are lucky, all losses thoroughly deserved, all penalties are soft, all red cards are blatant.

 

Our Championship team was both utterly shit and way too good for that league. But only because we spent more than anyone else (we didn't) and kept our best players (we didn't). Our c£30m surplus is irrelevant to our expenditure. Also the number of players brought in for that £55m is irrelevant. Players must be bought for the 1st team, if that's not the case they're a waste of money. We were shit at home (we weren't), were too defensive (we scored plenty), while also looking shaky at the back (we didn't). Only a few of that title winning side would get in their team that is currently around 20th?  Grayson was a better option than Benitez because the former is experienced in that league and the latter isn't. 

 

Oh by the way, Benitez' managerial ability wasn't responsible for any of his many trophies, all were due to inheriting good sides, luck, or spending a fortune because he's a chequebook manager.

 

It's bizarre. There are plenty of real, actual, truthful things to have a dig at Newcastle United (and some of our fans) about, I cannot for the life of me understand why they'd try to take positions that are so simple to demonstrate hold no water?

 

 

[Howay 12450]

Aye that about sums it up Fish. 

They're hilarious mind. 20th ffs  how fucking shite are they, they got battered at home to Sheffield Utd (not on scoreline but on performance). I hope Burton Albion give them a right hiding.

I genuinely hope they go down to league one. I think there's a good chance they will as I can't see that dick head Short coughing up the money to fuck Grayson ( still find it hilarious that no mark is their manager, and they STILL try and have pops that Rafa Benitez is our manager!) off. If he did sack Grayson, where do They go from there? Vanarama Conference North managers?