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Speaking of which, can anyone come up with some swamp related footballer puns for the back of our strips? Examples: David Splatt Tom Puddlestone Lionel Messy Stuart Drowning Boggy Zamora Park Ji Sunk Dungcan Ferguson Wayne Squidge

I'm off playing swamp football in Scotland next week, imagine it may be similarly ridiculous

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Is Lita out of contract at the moment?

Just looks like the normal funk you get around detail from lossy compression to me.

What's the bumbaclart ratio?

I almost feel like I'd bite his hand off, such is my fear of being either trapped in limbo indefinitely or ending up with another clueless berk of Ashley proportions.

Well the joke lasted about 30 seconds before people called bullshit in this thread, another fantastic achievement for SAFC fans - for an entire generation of mackems this last month has truely been the highlight of their footballing lives.

We simply fucking CANNOT start the new season treading water under Hughton, still trying to sort shit out and assume we can just catch up later. That's exactly what go us into the Championship in the fucking first place.

I love the balls of calling your investment group "The Profitable Group" by the way.

At least we know what we're getting with Shepherd. The others are an unknown quantity and could end up being Mike Ashley: Championship Edition.

Bleeds black and white and that innit

Steven Taylor. Or Sailor if you prefer.

At the club shop in Monument, that huge picture of Owen in the purple away top has been replaced by a big pic of three players modelling the new training gear - Taylor, Harper and Beye. Considering the first two are nailed on as staying and they chose Beye as the third I'm going to take that as confidence from the club we're keeping him.

Getting fucking sick of this now.

Freddy and Shearer might not be too bad, Shepherd's most catastrophic fuck ups have been his managerial appointments. Not saying Shearer will definitely be a success but we're probably going to end up with him anyway no matter who buys us, so barring some kind of friction between them it largely makes that decision for him.

Depends who's in the squad, in the boardroom and in the managers seat. At the moment I can't say I'm particularly confident, at the end of last season we may have been playing Premier League clubs but they were scoring goals that most Championship Clubs would have had little trouble creating and putting away against us - and that's before we lose some of our squad to the wage cull.

For me it depends wholly on who the alternative is of course Should do to most sensible people, but even if it was Mourinho it would be spun as "[Nationality] Mafia shun Geordie's messiah, Toon Army inconsolable as hero Alan forced out of club", something which I'm sure the element who hang around SSN vans trying to get on telly would probably be happy to go along with

Heaven help anyone who buys the club and decides not to appoint Shearer, the media will whip the idiots into immediate boycoutt mode.

Doesn't it seem a pretty pointless exercise negotiating conditions for the coming season with an owner who doesn't plan to be in charge next season anyway?

Well, Everton were one of the last teams to have a black player after all

No-one likes us, No-one likes us, No-one likes us, We don't care, We are Geordies, Super Geordies, We are Geordies, We are Mags.

Went in there today and they didn't seem to know anything about this. Young lad and a lass were working there and I asked if they did any designs or owt to put on the back of a newcastle shirt. The lass offered me Premier League lettering and I said I was more interested in a crest or something, preferably the old one. The lass said they might be able to do it at first, but then the lad chipped in and said they weren't allowed to do any crests. Asked if they did anything else, like Monty Magpie prints or anything and they said no, but they think they used to do stuff like that. So it doesn't sound like that's where people are getting these prints done. You never know mind, I got the impression I wasn't talking to the organ grinder.

I know they're obsessed with us like, but...

Might go along and have a look, see what else that can put on it as well. Amazed it's still going to be honest, last time I passed it was years and years ago. Are their computers all still 486s?