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We're 14-1 to win this game and it's still not worth it.

That's top of the league for Newcastle man, what more do you want?

Can't see any way we can get something out of this game, don't have any strengths to try and play to. Be amazed if we don't fall apart in the first 10 minutes.

OK, so the A1973 to Wembley is because it's the last time they won a cup, the A0303 is for the two 3-0s, why are they (presumably) commemorating our 1969 Fairs Cup victory with the pretend road to Newcastle? or did something else happen in 1969, like three mackems fighting off 50,0000 screaming jawdees in pink lane? Or could they not think of anything for that one and just thought "lol 69"?

If the Mirror's figure of his wage being 15k a week is correct then over 8 months we paid this cock-juggling thundercunt half a million pounds.

I honestly expected a statement along the lines of "Just in case any of you cunts were thinking Ashley had realised he'd actually made a mistake, or Joe's ego had allowed him to accept he wasn't actually good enough for the job and should step down, it was for fucking health reasons so don't go getting stupid ideas like that."

He still resigned, he was just told to do it.

Ashley just makes it so difficult to care about the team when there's no intention of bettering ourselves. Yeah, we haven't "done a Leeds" or "done a Portsmouth", we're in the top flight, we're not going to go down this season, but at least most fans are following a club that's trying to get promoted, or trying to avoid relegation, or trying to establish themselves in their division, or trying to get into a round of the cup they wouldn't normally be expected to reach. They've got the excitement of wondering if they'll do it, a reason to cheer their side on to try and win games to increase their chances. They have the highs of when they make it and the lows of when they don't. We're not even getting the highs and lows of success and failure, because we're not even attempting anything to succeed or fail at. And that's why there's not even as much anger as you might expect, it's just this constant drone of monotony. One of out most enjoyable seasons we've had under Ashley was in the Championship because we at least had an ambition and target to strive for, to win the league and get in the top flight again.

Also Although the tabloids could make up anything Joe Kinnear supposedly said and I'd believe them.

Part of me thinks if he was going to be forced out for stupidity or incompetence it would have happened ages ago (or he wouldn't have been employed in the first place) and it's probably down to him doing something either personally or professionally that's pissed Ashley off.

It's funny that a manager who has won the European Cup twice is being mentioned in the same sentence as a manager whose only piece of silverware is the Johnstone's paint trophy. Mourinho would also struggle with a midtable team...or why do you think he never managed one? Maybe Fat Sam was right, give him the Inter or Real job and he'd look like a good manager. Absolutely not my point...but thanks for listening/reading OK, why has he never managed one? Because he's scared of the challenge and would look shit, or because managers rarely choose to go manage Hull when their CV includes Real, Chelsea and Inter? For what it's worth, he earned his stripes taking the rather less glamorous Uniao de Leiria to their highest ever league finish and it was his performance there that helped him get the Porto job, with them sitting behind Leiria in the league at the time.

It's funny that a manager who has won the European Cup twice is being mentioned in the same sentence as a manager whose only piece of silverware is the Johnstone's paint trophy. Mourinho would also struggle with a midtable team...or why do you think he never managed one? Maybe Fat Sam was right, give him the Inter or Real job and he'd look like a good manager.

Last line was probably : ' You have a butt that won't quit ' Three simple words. I am grey.

Well yes, when you're one of three title contenders playing down your chances is seen as being a bit wily, when you're 8th and you start saying that's our top limit it's seen as being pretty defeatist. If Jose was sitting in Moyes' position I doubt people would have the same view.

What's the best way of being notified of fixture changes?

Waking up and remembering this match

Freddy Shepherd was in varying degrees an idiot, an oaf, a twat and a blaggard. But he cared what fans thought about him, even if it was only for his only vanity. And if the fans were pissed off about a manager enough, it would influence if he sacked him. If the fans were pissed off about results enough, it would make him try and sign someone to fix it, even if it might have been the wrong player. Under Ashley the fans don't have any power what so ever, because he gives absolutely zero fucks.

They looked the most likely team to score at 0-0, 0-1, 0-2 and at 0-3.

Liquidise him and feed him to his brother.

A lot of managers would be sacked after that. I'd say he won't be, but he could be, just because his sacking will come entirely at the whim of Ashley and it could be after a 3-0 defeat from our local rivals or after beating Arsenal away. Because Mike.

We've given them a quarter of their total points.

I heard you can get a gun in Zelda if you complete it all the way through without getting hit.

Gis a wave.

Mackems singing "Sacked in the morning"

Players pathetic, Pardew impotent, Santon thick as fuck, Shola waste of a clean kit, threat non-existent, pitch invaders hopefully deaths-in-custody statistics, result entirely unsurprising. Poisonous feeling inside the stadium, understandably.