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This thread would make for an amazing PhD analysis of the human psyche during lockdown and having to interact mainly online. You can now almost time the pendulum swinging between optimism and dread, and you can actually predict patterns in the way posters react to tweets based solely on who they’re from, not what they say.

You’d imagine he’d get a game for a championship side in their run-in. Glad he’s gone though, another really hard-to-flush Ashley nugget finally embraces the u-bend. Looking forward to Charnley’s nosedive next.

It’s so tiresome how black and white it has to be for most people. He has done some good things, but against a backdrop of pretty low expectations and a lot of apathy. However, he’s still what most of us thought he’d be at absolute best - mediocre, uninspiring and lacking in long-term plan. The football is unsustainably bad if you understand most normal modern metrics (we are criminally reliant on our diamond in the rough goalkeeper, for a start). That’s before we get to the fact that no actual Newcastle fan would get into bed with Ashley that gratefully and try to temper ambitions. It was even evident after the last game - “if you’d have told me we’d be just 2 points of arsenal with 8 games left....” - it’s the same banal and really transparent attempts at spin for the purpose of self-preservation you see in the government briefings. It’s unconvinced and awkward and it’s super telling that he has to keep doing it and getting his white English drinking buds from 90s Man United to do the same. I just think it’s a really fair solution: he got to manage a club way out of his league but for Ashley, enhanced his reputation, earned some good money and can now cry off about how hard done by he was and get a few more managerial gigs out of it. Nonetheless, in the interests of balance, I think some highlights have been that he’s clearly got a tune out of Shelvey, the players are willing to throw themselves about and “put it in” for him and he has, undeniably, played some part in making the side difficult to beat in most games. I don’t even think it’s rude or harsh - thanks for being an acceptable steward at the fag end of a largely crap time for the club, you didn’t embarrass us or yourself really and you helped us stay up / got us to mid table or whatever the end result is. Cheers, no hard feelings, but the situation has changed and unfortunately we have higher ambitions that we think we need a more successful manager to satisfy. Here’s lots of money for your inconvenience.

Well put. That’s perfectly analysed - well done.

No doubt about it. It's more of a problem than many people realize. Well... apart from those in power who’ve tapped into it for the last decade or more Loooooooool

Play each other last day n all. Could be canny. Man I really hope that was a pun

Just got to really be honest: that was a very good team performance. Front 4 clicked, Shelvey was everywhere until 80 mins and nobody had a bad game (rose started poorly but grew into it). Helped out by the red (which was a red and well earned by joelinton) and by Dame Edna’s moonshot (inexplicable), but thoroughly deserved win. Almiron and ASM are properly decent players man.

I thought he grew into the game and had a good second half personally.

You're welcome to start it. My keyboard is expensive though so I won't be taking part. Luckily mine was a free gift when I bought BeoutQ Got a referral link like? I did but they took them all down yesterday, ‘elf and safety gone mad. I’ve heard - rumour only mind - that if you stand in front of a mirror and say “MBS” three times, you’ll never experience the frustration of a buffering stream again

You're welcome to start it. My keyboard is expensive though so I won't be taking part. Luckily mine was a free gift when I bought BeoutQ

Why not just have a thread full of videos of forum members just mashing their heads against keyboards? Will add the same value.

The face of a man who has just seen a Domino’s box with an unclaimed last slice Still at this "I'm this, I'm that, we'll do this, we'll do that," before games. Said it before but it's just totally desperate and smacks of not actually having a plan.

There’s fuck all to do There’s fuck all to dooooo People start getting cunty when There’s fuck all to do

In our hearts Neesy, you’re always playing.

I’m in

It needs sorting before that date. We can't go back into the season with it still up in the air. Can, and will.

I just want to support my football club, man. That’s what nobody in the media remembers anymore: football. Takeover! Murder! Money! Intrigue! Was supposed to be a leisure activity where you could travel about the country and watch people representing a place you are from or like at sports. Something with your family and mates. Now we’re just a lightning rod for a conversation about how awful the world is. I’m not even excited now. Just weary of the next era where our owners receive racist abuse from opposing fans and constant jip from the “liberal and progressive” press. It’s starting to dawn on me: you can’t have nice things anymore.

Wanting to win a trophy (first time in most fans lifteime) is deserving of an ASBO? I dislike Bruce but it's easily 1 In a world where we don’t have irony, yes - fetch me my ASBO gun. Ummmm I certainly think your approach is short-sighted. A cup would be great for sure - wasting yet more time with a patsy dinosaur for a manager would not be great.

Anyone answering 1 deserves an ASBO.

Same with my old man, sending him absolutely batty. Legit considering getting him a parrot or giant hamster running wheel to simulate walks

Nature truly does abhor a vacuum.

I’m up for it! Happy to host again if nobody else wants to. Maybe LFEE[/member] ’s group chat idea?

Aye that’s the abridged version of my post.

I think this post belongs here - the big optimism bit comes at the end! I have thought about this at length and I now know what makes me the happiest about the takeover. For those here who haven't met me, I am from South London but support Newcastle because I was born there (solely because my parents happened to be in Newcastle when I was born unexpectedly early). So when I became football-conscious I chose Newcastle, and because my football childhood started with the early-mid-90s, I got really into it. I liked being into something that nobody else around here knew about, so when I was old enough (the Robson era), I started travelling up on my own to watch games. The unexpected bonus of this was meeting loads of Geordies, and spending time in Newcastle as a city, and not just a place where the stadium is. That's what led to me finding N-O, and making some really great and close personal friends in the process. Newcastle was my first proper solo travel experience, and since the first time I actually looked around the place and spoke to people I have never stopped loving it. The whole place is optimistic, rebellious, always fun, beautiful both in nature and architecture, easy to get around as an outsider and, in my view, culturally unique. The stereotypes associated with Geordies are true, I think. Everyone has always been welcoming, cheerful, empathetic, friendly and entirely down-to-earth. But what I really, really like about Geordies are 3 things: (i) the complete intolerance for bullshitters and cheats; (ii) the ability to laugh at themselves and (iii) that they're generally happy people. I think that's what makes me really love the city and region. I've now travelled to many different parts of the world and Newcastle, easily, still remains in my top 5 places. So what makes me elated about this takeover is that I can't wait to go back and see my Geordie friends, and lots of other Geordies I can't wait to meet and celebrate with, back to their normal happy state. Anybody would have had their happiness reserves drained by Mike Ashley. Just a place where when I walk about, everyone is smiling, laughing, taking the piss out of one another - not like down here in London where everyone judges each other and is scared of each other now. I just can't wait for my first long weekend up there to see my friends, to watch the match, to get pleasantly mellow talking all things NUFC, to stroll around that beautiful and offbeat city and hear that great accent, to play in another 47-goal N-O meet-up thriller, go and take in the coast etc. It's just a lovely thing and I can't wait to get back there and see it and feel it in remission from Ashley.

A beheading followed by a can, I reckon. I'm strongly against the death penalty, but I would like to see Ashley beheaded on the centre circle. I think a stone cold stunner, then allowing a capacity SJP to queue up to kick him in the balls, then a beheading.