Chris_R

Don't keep them out too late Eddie, they need to be back in tomorrow for 06:45!

He forgot to mention Bruce, one of the most important managers in the last 100 years. How could he make such a mistake? Of course it fucking won't. We hated southerners until Rob Lee and Les Ferdinand came. We hated everyone not from the region until Rafa came. We only wanted Geordies until Bruce came. Then we just hated Bruce because Sunderland. The media will always find a shit stereotype they can pin to us. It's easy, lazy, and sells papers. They'll just change today's stereotype to fit in with whoever we last disliked (sorry, HOUNDED OUT).

They have to ask. Fans of other clubs would be rightly annoyed if they didn't even ask about it. It's an important topic. But asking is a box-ticking exercise - They have to ask, he has to say he's just here to talk football. But the box must be ticked so that everyone can see that both sides have done their job. Now we move on. It only becomes an issue if both sides don't do their job - Howe starts talking about human rights all the time, or the press start hounding him about it at every press conference. Today was fine though, get it out the way early so that both sides can do what they need to, and move on.

Indeed. They're absolutely right to ask, but he's absolutely right in how he's answered it. Both sides have done their job and now we can move on and focus on the football.

What the fuck is wrong with you, you maniac?

Well for balance here's a Bruce training video.... I looked at a couple (though there's not many to find, I wonder why?!), they all seem similar. He stands on the side like an enthusiastic dad, shouting things like "GO ON, GET IT BACK!" a few times, but nothing that none of us could do if we were parachuted in there, there's no actual involvement, no "coaching" from him, no passing on of advice or assistance to them. He just stands there with his arms behind his back, watching from a distance. Kind of looks like he's been sent there to inspect the players similar to the Queen inspecting the troops, just kind of looking at them without really knowing what he's looking for, there because he's obliged to be but not really offering anything useful. Now watch Howe again.

The number of games we were absolutely battered in yet snuck points out of was incredible. It was never sustainable, as this season has shown.

The last sentence actually made me well up. Bloke seems a class act, we've gone from a complete waste of space of a manager and owner to some really top tier people. I'm proud to support the club again, and after so long it feels amazing.

Please no more of these videos, I'm not sure my body can take it. If I masturbate any more all that'll come out is a blast of warm air and a whistling noise.

It'll be like a fucking expedition into the Amazon rainforest for half of them.

Someone'll probably snatch it off him and frantically kick it into a bush thinking they're saving his life because it's about to explode.

I wanted the full thing really, but could only find it in parts. Here's the other 2.... But honestly I think that's what we're all like now, desperate for anything at all from the club after the last 14 years.

I think we're all just desperate to hear nice things after over a decade of silence, incompetence and the club treating us with utter contempt. Now that's gone, we're now desperate for even a single word from them.

Aye, them wheelie bins aren't going to fill themselves with water.

This won't catch on, sounds almost like we're functioning like a proper football club.

Ah, thanks. Busy morning haha.

Maybe if you explain what it is, you might have a chance. I'm not here for a game of "give us a fucking clue".

We're "Schrödinger's supporters" - We are delusional in our aims, thinking we're going to win the league every year yet at the same time we're pleased with Howe when we should be annoyed that we've not got a "marquee" manager - We just want some "Jawdee hero" at the helm, and hound out good managers just because they're not from the area like Pardew. But simultaneously we loved Benitez. And hated Bruce. We're not perfect, clearly, but the amount of shit just made up about us to fit whatever today's agenda is can be quite ridiculous. It's hard to keep up whether today we're being too delusional in our expectations of winning the league or hero-worshipping mediocrity like Rafa or Howe. Makes your head spin.

Come on, link us up. You know you want to.

Nobody's stopping them sleeping, they can just go to bed earlier. You can still get 8 hours kip if you're in bed before 10.

When Hope said "today", did anyone check which time zone he was posting from? He might have taken a trip to Alaska.

So we'll get the honour of looking at some other fans standing in 3 of our matches. Oh good, I can't wait.

I don't believe any of the rumours surrounding free transfer players. Agents make loads of shit up about who is in for their clients in order to expedite a deal with another club and push through higher wages. I imagine Milan probably hadn't even heard of him.