ianovthetoon

Cos he's shite

More and more every day NUFC is an acronym for no use fucking crying. I first attended games in my teens in the dark days of the late 80s when things were bleak. We had the roller coaster 90s where we were able to far exceed expectations and the golden years of Robson where we again exceeded expectations. Ashley has proven to be bad for us. He's struck gold in persuading Rafa to join in the first place, and sadly all of Ashley's chickens are coming home to roost after years of mismanagement. Players on wages that they wouldn't get anywhere else because they're dogshit and now we have to wait until their contracts run down or wait until someone is mad enough to take a chance on them. Thing is, and I hate to say it but the snippets we've seen from Ashley's interview are right. We got promoted from the Championship by pretty much sustaining a Premier League operating model. We've probably now got a couple of years "transition" where we get rid of the deadwood and get back on a more level playing field with the rest of the division. And anyone who doesn't think Rafa knows this is crackers. Yes I think he probably thought there would be more cash and it doesn't help that Penfold is inept but he sees it as a project. I do reckon the problem is more to do with the wage bill than anything else though. Time to leave the bedwetting a few weeks. Get the transfer deadline out the way, see what we have then. For what it's worth I think we will be fine this season. Hopefully we will then kick on.....

When Tinder are paying 12 million quid a year to have their logo on Man Uniteds sleeve and Western Union 5million for their logo on Liverpools sleeves it's totally fair to say football is screwed. Money has gone mad

A few Mackems on my Facebook are going with the "one more point that the Jawdees spin". Have kindly pointed out that we took six points off Derby last year. Seems to have quietened the fuckers down

Sam Clucas again in the Sun

More chance this is the reason why he wants to sell up so he can use the cash to finance more retail acquisitions...

Do you know how disappointing it is to see this thread rise to the top and the cunt hasn't been sold yet. My night is ruined!!!

I'm in no doubt we will bring the players in to fill the positions Rafa wants fill. I also think because of past experience there's a lot of putting two and two together and coming up with 5. Rafa is a pragmatic type of guy. We're newly promoted, do have some money to spend but the target this year is to consolidate. He will know our limitations for this year. The problem will come once we don't meet his ambitions to improve. Rafa will of course be trying to get the most money he can so will be playing the game cannily. I might just be being blindly optimistic but Rafa always talks about the project. No way were we going to blow our stack on having a go this year.....

Faecal Trainstation Mackems

Huddersfield are pretty much going shit or bust. Don't blame them really. At worst their fans get one year in the premier league. For them anything better than bottom 3 is a bonus....

From what I can see the family are actually taking some solace from the extended coverage their little boy is receiving on Social Media. If they get some comfort at such a sad time when they're basically waiting for their son to die I personally can't see the harm in it. Irrespective of what people think it's a 6 year old boy who isn't going to last much longer. I was quite moved by the obvious affection that Defoe has for the little lad. There's only a handful of kids in the UK suffering from this rare form of cancer. Hopefully the awareness raised through little Bradley's plight and the funds can go part of the way to giving some others a fighting chance

Lee Ryder's just tweeted he's arrived for his medical ??

Aye, I'm sure he's really bothered who he sells it to (if any fucker is even remotely interested in them). He won't give a flying fuck who buys it from him should he somehow manage to find a buyer. "Ellis Short is determined to make sure that the best interests of Sunderland AFC are at the heart of any decision regarding its future." ;D Ellis Short wants to make sure he gets as much of his money back as possible....

I'd even condone changing the words of a well known song I'm coming home Newcastle I might as well have been in Jail I'd walk the streets all day and night For a bowl of chicken chow mein

New sponsor for us?

Geordie Jeans

I'd not be surprised if they're waiting until promotion is confirmed before they release any detail about who the sponsor is as that's likely to be a factor in the size of the deal and will have a bearing on name/numbering styles.....

Helicopter flying over which drops a shit load of black and white beach balls in to the shit pit

Haven't scored for two months either apparently according to the BBC

I understand how you feel - none of us want to leave SJP - but if the club was to have any hope of matching the PLs top sides we need a bigger stadium when the time is right. I certainly WOULDN'T want to stay at SJP if it meant capacity limited to 30,000...its small club thinking. Arsenal had to move from Highbury and that must have been just as much a wrench for their fans too. If we moved to get something bigger and better it would be hard to argue with. The club will be here longer than any of us and if I'm not going to see us win anything I'd much rather one of children/grand children did

To be fair there's some sensible comments on the Nonceson thread on ready to groom but either the rest are WUM or are all on the cusp of being nonces themselves. Just build a big wall and add HMP and be done with it

Was thinking the same.....

Good shout. Probably not - they're merging with Ladbrokes and will be going through a rebrand. Paddy Power perhaps? Other left field one could be Ryanair? Recently launched shed loads of new flights from Newcastle including a direct flight to Madrid

There'll be plenty of tickets going. We could enjoy it with them in their hovel.

Nice little gap opening up..... Hopefully these fuckers get their just desserts this year