Chris_R

Well it's got Milburn as our record all-time goalscorer, so it can't even get the top 2 right. Interesting site though, and if they can sort that then it'll be a useful resource.

An interesting site, but very odd that they're including goals scored in the WW2 Northern League in goal tallies, which is a bit bonkers and undermines it all a bit as nowhere credible counts these goals or appearances as "official". It even says: And then goes on to count them anyway. They need to change that, nobody else counts those except as uncompetitive/friendly matches.

Thanks. Some surprisingly low numbers in there. I know it's "league only", but still. Only 13 players to score 50, which given three 15+ goal seasons pretty much gets you there is less than I expected. Maybe strikers getting 15+ with any regularity is far less common than I thought but I'm my mind I'd have expected our top scorer to be there or there about most seasons.

Where is this list? Would quite like a read.

Was fantastic. It should never again be a question of who starts if him and Wilson are both fit.

It says everything about him that one of my highlights in 30+ years as as a Newcastle fan is him celebrating like he'd just scored a 30 yard screamer after just winning a tackle. Absolutely glorious stuff. Love him.

Maybe I'm missing your point but what's wrong with that? if you're busy at the weekend, is the seat supposed to just sit empty? Surely everyone gives their ticket to someone else occasionally? Be stupid not to, and stupid of clubs to prevent it or we'll never have a full house again. I imagine very few people can absolutely guarantee they'll be available for every match. Holidays? Work? Sickness? Other life events?

Yeah the guy has a point, he should be able to get a non-electronic ticket. We're not at the stage yet where everyone has smartphones.

This. I've been his biggest fan since he got Bournemouth out of L2 but I'm getting frustrated at the lack of change to our first XI. Keeping faith with players is one thing but you've also got to give the players on the bench some reason to think they might get a run out. If they can't get a run out during such a tough time, it must be very disheartening. Some players have done nothing since Christmas and deserve some bench time - Almiron, Wilson and Burn being three who should be rotated out and who we have very good cover for. Should add I still love the guy, but that doesn't mean we can't look to improve.

Still not scored in a Wembley final in my lifetime, and I'm forty fucking five.

Would be nice of us not to completely shit the bed in another Wembley final, but here we are.

Disgraceful lack of pictures so far. If I can post one from 36000 feet over the Atlantic, surely you fuckers can manage a few from Trafalgar Square?

I'm in London. Sadly that's because I'm in the British Airways lounge now for a flight to Madrid, then on to Cuba where I'll attempt to watch an illegal stream on whatever WiFi I can get whilst halfway across the Atlantic on IB6621. I expect about 1 frame per minute. ? However I have already started drinking, so there is that.

He'll probably prefer Manchester to win, surely?

If that was us, it'd be a skid mark season.

Fuck. Hoped for a miracle.

A fucking nightmare, more like.

Exactly how and why we got him from Burnley.

My nerves about wanting to play sunderland have nothing to do with the likely result - I'm far more worried that one or more of our best players would get seriously hurt by is it O'Nien? or one of their other cloggers who'd get caught up in the "pashun" of a derby. They'd have a full house of baying Neanderthals screaming at them to "get stuck in" and it could be unpleasant.

His refusal to play this the following season after Ba had a strop is one of the most frustrating times I remember as a Newcastle fan, watching Cisse instead pushed wide because Demba insisted on being #9 and watching us struggle week on week. That and HBA struggling to even get in the team. Absolutely infuriating stuff.

Why do we have to do this every year or two? Yes we finished 5th. Yes we won games. But we were incredibly lucky and if XG was a thing then, ours would've been terrible. We were outplayed by almost everyone and fluked loads of our points. We did well in spite of Pardew, not because of him, with some amazing players signed on his behalf by Carr.

Comes with a free polystyrene tray for them to throw onto the pitch when they're finished.

Well yes, but also no. They won't be allowed to spend with us because that would be 'cheating', whereas the Qataris would be immediately able to throw untold billions at Man U, even more extreme than Chelsea's new owners. So it depends if the Saudis are after success or profit.

Well I'm sure he 'can' play as a goalkeeper, but it would be fucking awful if we had to rely on him to.

Thankfully we've already played Forest at home. If Chris Wood recreated his Sheff Wed chance on that pitch, he'd have to swim 5 miles out to sea.