thomas

Oh you poor martyrs. Saints should be made of all of you Wrapping yourself in this protective blanket of depressed rationalization, the "I've suffered as a fan so anything I do is in order" mentality ... it's just pathetic. This thread is cringeworthy.

People on this board have a bad habit of trying to put words in peoples mouths. Nowhere did I say anyone could/should/would prefer it. The point I was making was that losing is losing no matter the spin and that it's just the results that matter. People would NOT be happy if we looked slick but were in the middle of the kind of run we find ourselves in now and you know it. Defending it with "it's just unlucky run we'll turn it around" would be met with "fuck luck and fuck big sam. I don't give a toss about looking like Barca I want the 3 points. Bring back the long ball of Bolton, at least it ground out results". Now you may not like it but you know deep down that's the exact kind of response 99% here would provide. It's the results. Looking good is secondary. Right now, we're doing neither but I have faith in Sam to turn it around. Furthermore, everyone clamoring on and on with their version of "this is the most diabolically bad football what ever been played on a pitch" is being blown out of proportion by the effect of an early sour patch in Sams tenure. People had this great image of Sam built up as some kind of savior and to hit this skid so early it's forced some of the deep seated fears to bubble up and they're made manifest. I think everyone needs to stand up, take a step back and take a deep breath.

Pure, uncut horseshit . If the bad results were "entertaining" 4-3 losses there'd be just as much complaining if not more.

And what if it's easy/lazy journalism to make a shit-stirring article about a Newcastle manager after a few poor results? God knows that's a dead easy article to write -- internal unrest, owner unhappy, manager feeling the pressure ... the f***ing thing writes itself. And it's the easy thing to believe as well because it echoes some of our worst fears but only now they're in paper form and of course that lends credence to them.

Hopefully with the regime change we've also lost the demonic drive to find new and better ways to make ourselves look like laughingstocks. Sticking with Sam through a bad patch would go a long way to convincing me we have.

songs, mongs, shoes, boos this board reads like dr seuss

hahahhaha carr on; the substitutive equivilant of two fingers back to the crowd from sam

holy fucking shit, sam has lost it.

of 2050 if there's a god.

Truth. you monster

what if he kneecaps gerrard with carr? I'd have to give him full points for that.

b-b-b-but he's not as fast as a gazelle in full stride. STRING HIM UP!!!

N'Zogbia Martins Beye

I thought it was all PR and there's no such thing as genuine actions only hamfisted manipulation of the weak minded through insincere pandering and blatant showmanship.

It disturbs me because he doesn't even look to see where the fucking thing's gone. I realize now it's the hunched shoulders and drooped head what does it for me. It's like he's a situational narcoleptic.

Harpers followthrough on goal kicks disturbs me for reasons I cannot yet pinpoint.

We've been patiently waiting to win something for almost 40 years, we've been patiently waiting to win a domestic trophy for more than 50 years and it's getting closer to the 100 year mark since we won a league title, I would think an 80 year wait is quite a while to be able to claim we've been more than patient. not sams fault though is it. we've been waiting to win something under sam for around 4 months. previous history should count for nowt. Good point. And what's 2 more years when you've waited 50 already? Bit academic at that point really. Of course I'm not guaranteeing Sam will win something, but if he is it was never going to be the first year; it's going to take time and getting this upset this early on is ludicrous.

Before they bleed to death, I'd like to ask something of all the mongs slitting their wrists at the result: given our recent away form why is this the end of the world?

God in heaven why is he let near a keyboard?!

Well fuck you too.

Real change takes time. There will be peaks and valleys until the ship is steadied. But when it comes to the Sunderland game, if we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate!

http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/2514/tacoti7.jpg ?

Well it's not gone unappreciated.

never met a fan of theirs I liked tbh, and the last few years with the results under Jol juxtaposed against ours under Souness/Roeder they'd become massive uppity cunts. So this just feels good.

Really I want to see how the January window is spent. If we improve where we need to and still don't manage it then yes I think he will be.