SouthAussieMag 34 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Thanks Gemmill. Been a mad keen toon supporter since I was little. Mum's from Consett and I even got to go to school over there for a year in 99. Went to St Bede's. Was reasonably active on the old NUFC forum back in the day. I've been lurking here for a few years now. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 5019 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 3 hours ago, RobinRobin said: Can we call him a cunt yet? Asking for Gloomy. 🙂 🤣 Solid first post @SouthAussieMag. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30712 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 7 hours ago, SouthAussieMag said: What is sports washing anyway? I've been lurking here for years, but had to sign in to ask this. I understand the concept, but in practice the idea just doesn't bear out. If Saudi are trying to improve their image on the world stage, buying Newcastle is not helping with that. If anything more people are talking about their human rights abuses as every time Newcastle are brought up a bunch of jealous butthurt Newcastle hating tools start banging on publicly about their transgressions bringing even more attention to the Saudis, possibly even to people that maybe were not aware. To me this doesn't seem at all like a "sportswashing" situation and more like a prestige endeavour and local rivalry with other Middle East and Gulf nations. Every time I see sunderland fans banging on about this crap it just comes of as a huge amount of cope. Like Rayvin said in his beautiful soliloquy their entire world is crashing down and this is the only way they can cope with the increasingly large chasm between us. Over my 30 or so years of being a Newcastle fan it seems sunderland fans have been unable to present an identity of their own without it in some way being tied to hating Newcastle and its funny and tragic at the same time. Sorry for the essay, I'm just tired of hearing the term "sportswashing". Of all the criticisms being thrown around like "oil money" and "buying the league" it seems like the most ridiculous and implausible idea. Sportswashed 👆 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 27367 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 1 hour ago, SouthAussieMag said: Thanks Gemmill. Been a mad keen toon supporter since I was little. Mum's from Consett and I even got to go to school over there for a year in 99. Went to St Bede's. Was reasonably active on the old NUFC forum back in the day. I've been lurking here for a few years now. Welcome on board ya flamin' bunyip! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 9389 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, SouthAussieMag said: Thanks Gemmill. Been a mad keen toon supporter since I was little. Mum's from Consett and I even got to go to school over there for a year in 99. Went to St Bede's. Was reasonably active on the old NUFC forum back in the day. I've been lurking here for a few years now. Should know what Gloomy's like so G'day cobber Edited October 7, 2023 by RobinRobin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 39068 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 2 hours ago, SouthAussieMag said: Thanks Gemmill. Been a mad keen toon supporter since I was little. Mum's from Consett and I even got to go to school over there for a year in 99. Went to St Bede's. Was reasonably active on the old NUFC forum back in the day. I've been lurking here for a few years now. G’day ya cunt. Have you ever seen a grown man naked? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammynb 2930 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 1 hour ago, Alex said: Sportswashed 👆 What do you expect from Radelaide?!?? Fucking bible belt of 'stralia, the cunts! Welcome aboard mate, good to see SA finally sent a representative to help the guy from Hobbiton try to even up the numbers with those east coast cunts! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 9389 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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SouthAussieMag 34 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 I can tell I'm going to love it here. Monkeys fist of course I've seen a grown man naked. It's a coming of age ritual and obligation to do an outback walkabout when you turn 18. When this happens you run into a lot of naked cooked men. It's just a matter of avoiding them. Sammynb knows where it's at. South Australia is the only state not founded by convicts. We are sophisticated and nothing like the east coast riff raff. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 9389 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 17 minutes ago, SouthAussieMag said: I can tell I'm going to love it here. Monkeys fist of course I've seen a grown man naked. It's a coming of age ritual and obligation to do an outback walkabout when you turn 18. When this happens you run into a lot of naked cooked men. It's just a matter of avoiding them. Sammynb knows where it's at. South Australia is the only state not founded by convicts. We are sophisticated and nothing like the east coast riff raff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 9389 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 41 minutes ago, sammynb said: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17985 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 12 hours ago, SouthAussieMag said: What is sports washing anyway? I've been lurking here for years, but had to sign in to ask this. I understand the concept, but in practice the idea just doesn't bear out. If Saudi are trying to improve their image on the world stage, buying Newcastle is not helping with that. If anything more people are talking about their human rights abuses as every time Newcastle are brought up a bunch of jealous butthurt Newcastle hating tools start banging on publicly about their transgressions bringing even more attention to the Saudis, possibly even to people that maybe were not aware. To me this doesn't seem at all like a "sportswashing" situation and more like a prestige endeavour and local rivalry with other Middle East and Gulf nations. Every time I see sunderland fans banging on about this crap it just comes of as a huge amount of cope. Like Rayvin said in his beautiful soliloquy their entire world is crashing down and this is the only way they can cope with the increasingly large chasm between us. Over my 30 or so years of being a Newcastle fan it seems sunderland fans have been unable to present an identity of their own without it in some way being tied to hating Newcastle and its funny and tragic at the same time. Sorry for the essay, I'm just tired of hearing the term "sportswashing". Of all the criticisms being thrown around like "oil money" and "buying the league" it seems like the most ridiculous and implausible idea. This is a great first post. Not a lot I can add, I fully agree. The term only entered the lexicon in 2015, and I can't remember it used until the Qatar World Cup was in the final preparation stages. Like the term woke, I just think it's a meaningless lazy coverall for people people who don't want Saudi investment and influence in the PL or just don't like Nufc. But for the reasons you describe, it just doesn't make sense in this case and the motivations I think are purely to use Nufc as a status symbol and an advertising board for various other Saudi interests, both national and the general PIf portfolio. Who knows, maybe eventually we could even turn a direct profit. I do have some sympathy for people who oppose Saudi BTW, the ones who can articulate why it is not good for the English game in general. Fair enough, I mainly agree tbh. But what I won't countenance is people who purely use it as a weapon to attack our club and fans. Those people can get fucked. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 3989 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Pointless second yellow for dissent for some Mackem cunt just before half time. Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17985 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 18 minutes ago, NJS said: Pointless second yellow for dissent for some Mackem cunt just before half time. Nice. Fantastic save from their keeper there, Patterson. Commentator just said he was from North Shields. Bring him home along with Chris Rigg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17985 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Take that Mackem cunts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 35303 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 And again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17985 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Sunderland have looked shite today. I reckon we"d give them a game. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30712 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Sunderland fans heading for the exits. They really are the most fickle cunts. I suppose it’ll make the atmosphere marginally less poisonous 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 39068 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 1 minute ago, Alex said: Sunderland fans heading for the exits. They really are the most fickle cunts. I suppose it’ll make the atmosphere marginally less poisonous They’ll be fucked if they make the area sound the SoS a clean air zone. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17985 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 (edited) Mackem massacre here, leaving in their droves the fickle Mackem cunts. Looking forward to the bewwwws. Edited October 7, 2023 by Renton 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 30712 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Four-nowt 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13895 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 fowar nowt ahm tellin ya 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 3989 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 Record victory on Wearside apparently. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 6055 Posted October 7, 2023 Share Posted October 7, 2023 4 days is a long time in Sunderland. They would have beaten PSG on Tuesday apparently 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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