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If anyone is sick of their phone/radio and wants an excuse to launch it out of the window, Bruce is currently on Talksport 2 chatting to Simon Jordan. Might be an old interview/podcast.

Forest have been in some great positions but the final ball is delayed too long so that the runners either run offside, or they let Villa get back in. So slow decision making in the final third.

I'm just relieved there wasn't social media in 1932.

We've done it before back in Keegan's first spell. Won 4-2 at West Ham.

On BBC ratings currently Maguire is their top player on 3.94. Longstaff is our worst on 7.09. Somehow Targett has 7.61. 😂

Roughly what I was thinking. Although I suspect if Bruno comes on it may be for Willock who I don't see playing a full 90 on a heavy pitch.

Isn't the ballboy a multi-millionaire now?

We once won 4-2 at West Ham with six fullbacks in the team.

Was at Barrow v Notts County today in League 2. First time at Holker Street. Was great being so close to the pitch. Low quality first half but improved second. Barrow missed a great chance to win it in stoppage time.

I've just had to apologise to my mate from A Coruna for that piece of daylight robbery. Schär is cracking them in against PSG in the Champions League while they are stranded in the Spanish third tier. Up there with Rob Lee, Shay Given and Barry Venison as the best payers we've signed for relative peanuts in my lifetime.

In my late teens/early twenties Venison was my favourite centre-half. Some people class him as a full-back but he switched over and was immense. Got an England call-up at that position too. His performance at Villa when we won 2-0 in October 1993, and Woodgate's when we won 2-0 at Charlton in March of 2003 are the best two NUFC centre-half performances I've seen live.

This looked so much better. Wish we would go back to it.

Not just for us but also Everton and Arsenal, who have had their game switched from 5.30pm on Saturday to the 4.30pm Sunday slot. I guess they took a punt on us being drawn on the Wendesday and Arsenal being the Tuesday. If one of those fixtures had been between two non-Champions League clubs then they could have just got it right first time around.

He wasn't great, but I know someone at the club who said he was an excellent professional, always helping out the kids teams etc. He also took a significant pay cut to leave as he didn't want to sit on the bench. He was never the same after that horrific injury, and we stupidly agreed to pay him something like 60k a week, but we've had some wasters and I don't think he was one of them.

I lived in Istanbul for 3.5 years and Beşiktaş are my team there. I think he'd do quite well personally.

Used to follow them in the early days when I was on Twitter. Someone replied to them mildly disagreeing with something they had written and they launched an attack on them. Unfollowed them at that point. Told them what I thought and they justified it with something like, "the account was being managed by someone in the US at that point and they didn't agree with the response so had removed it". Bizarre. I dropped off Twitter for good when Musk took it over and don't miss interacting with accounts like that.

Had a feeling Venison was a Mackem initially as he went there first, but you could tell in the way he played and celebrated that he was very much black and white in the shirt.

The night we beat Oldham 3-1 away in late 1993 (think that was the game where we first got tagged 'The Entertainers'), we had an entire English team, with four definite Newcastle fans (Robbie Elliott, Steve Watson, Lee Clark and Peter Beardsley), and another two from the area (uncertain allegiance) in Barry Venison and Kevin Scott. I always considered Venison (Consett) and Scott (Easington) as Newcastle fans but not sure if it was ever declared? Someone on here will know. If it's classed as six then I think that's the closest we ever got to Sir John Hall's "Team full of Geordies" in the Premier League era.

Just showing my age. Obscure UK cultural reference from 1971. 😂

When I lived there I couldn't access any without a VPN. Wikipedia was blocked too, although I think that's open now.

I've been 49 for around 48 hours now. Feels no different to 48 if I'm being honest. If you were born in Princess Mary's, apologies for the state in which I left the cot.

I did the Barracks for Fulham last year. Booked around October no problem. Last week I looked to do it again for a match in the new year but there were only singles left for four games, Bournemouth, Wolves, Everton and Sheff Utd. After that you're looking at the next level up, The Park Grill, which is £310. I think they add VAT to that too.

Not directly answering your question here but just to say Tony Green is a great bloke. My brother reached out to him to sign a card for my dad's birthday last month (the card was an old photo of my dad and Tony from back in the 70s), and Tony insisted on calling him on the day too to wish him a happy birthday. Made my dad's day.

Was thinking at the weekend that if we sold Bruno now I probably wouldn't bat an eyelid (like the Cole sale at the time). Not that he was poor at the weekend (he wasn't) but he's not quite at the level he was when he first came, or at the beginning of last season. Maybe it's just that the midfield is so strong now he doesn't stand out so much? If the club couldn't come to an agreement on his extension, or if he decided he wanted to move, then I have utter confidence that we'd take the huge sum that would come with his sale and buy someone as good for no more than about two thirds of the fee received. I'm not sure we'd sell Isak or Joe at the moment though, and Tonali has just arrived. Whatever happens though I trust those running the club to turn it into a positive.