Mick

I seem to remember Chopra getting loads of stick while he was with you.

I know it's not all mackem fans so I'm not tarring you all with it. Some of your lot seem to hate us more than they like your own team, I honestly heard some mackem fans before the derby saying they would rather beat us than stay up and that's madness.

I'll raise you Bruce, Clark and Chopra. Against that Paul Bracewell, Barry Venison, Alan Brown, Michael Bridges and Jeff Clarke. Not one of those ex mackems were given the slightest bit of stick, even when they were finished and playing poorly.

So, to cut a long story short, our academy is great but our kids are shite.

You may not have noticed but players who have come to us with a mackem connection always seem to get better treatment from us than anybody with a connection to us gets from a lot of your fans.

That's far too selective because things can go right by chance and a one off proves nothing.

I'm surprised that our midfielders aren't all claiming for whiplash.

You make that sound like an eternity. He had his breakthrough 3 seasons ago. Have the other academies of Premier League teams been churning out star players since then? Not every player on our books is going to make it. In fact, if 10% of them did we'd have the best youth system in the country. How many other academies have turned out an England international striker in the last 3 or 4 years? Do only English international strikers count?

We know he's a fraud who changed the way we played against the mackems, he said he was going to change things and he did change them and we could all see the results of that.

It's not quite the same thing as using a child's ticket though. Apparently she accompanies two minors, so if she couldn't go they couldn't go presumably. Look at it this way too: if this was an able bodied person who had passed on their ticket to another able bodied person (for example one parent to the other) to accompany their Toon mad children to the match, because they couldn't go themselves, would anybody have any objection to that? Presumably passing on your season ticket to anyone else is against T&C's anyway? So what's the issue here then? The fact a disabled person's ticket is a tenner cheaper than an able bodied's, and the club is losing out on a tenner as a one off to a group of loyal fans, one of whom even worked for the club in the past? I`d do the same, have done in the past (Used my sons student discount season ticket)but I knew that if I got nabbed they wouldn't just grin, pinch my cheek & call me a cheeky monkey. She got rumbled, simple as that. So you would be OK with them taking your season ticket and selling your seat of to somebody else even if there was half of the home games left, also effectively cancelling your bairns' season tickets because they can't go unaccompanied. And you wouldn't think it was harsh in the slightest? Totally agree. The scrambling of moral high ground on here is laughable at times. I wonder what these people would say if it was their disabled mother who wasn't going and offered them the ticket? "Oh no mother, I couldn't possibly take that ticket, I am not disabled, therefore I would be taking such liberties as the club would be down a whole £3.50 on that ticket. I am quite disgusted in you for offering me it, and willfully trying to have me break the law in such shocking circumstances. I don't care if the kids can't go now, I have ridiculously high moral standards I must never step from". Or would you just say "Aye ok, I will take them along" Yep, too much of the Thatcher's children approach here. I'm alright jack, f*** everyone else. And what a crass generalisation from the disabled supporters association. This may have been the only time she's done it, that doesn't mean she's like anyone who does it on a regular basis. I would imagine that if you were disabled you would be pretty p*ssed off to see an able-bodied person taking the seat. But taking away the ticket and selling it on is still far too harsh for one misdemeanor. It looks as if people are saying it's OK if the ticket was upgraded, upgrading the ticket wouldn't have meant another disabled supporter got the ticket, people are talking shite.

The club have been stupid over this, it's not as if they could have sold the seat if nobody had turned up and an able bodied person isn't taking up more seats than a disabled person. They also look as if they're picking on disabled supporters as skirge was getting loads of shit from the club before the season had even kicked off.

Taking us for granted there I guess . No, he'll rush them back for your game and they'll be injured again for Villa.

Good news, at least we'll have them for the Spurs game then.

Obertan.

It's ironic that at a time when they're trying to force people to keep a season ticket, they're forcing others who want them to stay away.

How much thought do you think they put into it?

Seems a bit strong if it was only the one game. The seat is paid for already. 1 game, they really are a bunch of bastards.

Christ, they just use a template to cut down on the work-load.

I'll have nowt to do on a Saturday once the season's over, do you need a hand?

He probably sells raffle tickets in his local pub.

Exactly, it's people like her fiddling the club that means we can't afford to sign new players.

I don't understand your problem, she should have been locked up and should thank the club for not pushing the issue.

Anderson and Gabbiadini are sticking up for Pardew they're brain dead.

Yes, he's been on so it's safe to put it back on.