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That rebound looks like he used his fist to score.

Because he played own the left when he came on and because of the position I sit in I saw a lot of him when he came on last night. Looks pretty assured with the ball and strong in the tackle, with and without the ball. He is desperate for his first senior goal, that is clear so I hope that doesn't overshadow him being a good team player. At least once, maybe twice, he screamed his name for the Newcastle player in front of him to allow the long passed ball go through to him and he completely missed it when it arrived at him. There is one occasion of that which I was really disappointed with, had he taken the ball he would have been one good touch away from creating a lot of space for him to allow a drive into the box.

The first response started well enough but, then he reverted to us being implicit in "been funded by money made literally exploiting people to death" I had no idea you could make money doing that... requires some deeper investigation!

Some poor soul has died today from falling (reported) from the Multi Story on Percy Street, close to the ground. I don't know if this will have any impact tonight for people heading to the match but, please be aware.

I have had it thrown at me, more than once, that we give away 10k free season tickets a year! Of course Ashley did give away 10k free half season tickets when he was desperate and that was a couple of years ago, if the people who benefitted from that offer wanted to keep the ticket for the next year then they had to pay the standard value..... Seems to be lost with them that was the case. In their small minds it is 10k free tickets for every home match every week. The current volume of people who want to pay for a season ticket but, cannot get one due to there being none to buy seems to be completely lost on them!

I went to see Red Hot Chili Peppers at SOL, it was not great... plus getting home was just a huge joke. Nexus are so bad at dealing with any kind of surge even ones that can be anticipated easily. Also it rained, than can only be blamed on the MLF's

They will find a way to make it seem that SA are sympathisers to the Russian State and this Peace Washing does not fool them!

We are going to need a bigger scoreboard!

Funny, I said they should have Pards or Brucey as well, the media loved those when they were with us. We were supposed to be grateful..... They must be kicking themselves for missing out on Mowbs though!

There are certain teams in the UK that I absolutely cannot stand, I have no logical reasoning for this but, I simply cannot stand them and I always wish bad luck upon them. (There are others where I hate them for very obvious reasons, mackems, Villa etc). You cannot tell me that I am the only one, therefore it follows that referees (inc VAR) have the same albeit for different teams and that "list" may change over time.... Some referees may even hate NUFC and without realising be prone to making - I won't say biased but, decisions that are less favourable....

The VAR was set up to fix any obvious errors I think, or seem to remember being said. They are now basically re-refereeing games from a TV monitor. It was great to see Michael Oliver stick to his decision to award a penalty to Brentford, even though it was probably a wrong decision in my opinion, and I hope that starts to set a new standard that ref's do not have to bow down to the superiority of Lee Mason or whoever is doing VAR. Last week was probably the darkest of times for incorrect decisions, no coincidence that both of ours were at the hands of Mason, he was an awful referee and is continuing that as a terrible VAR. Off side has changed over the years, I can remember a time that to be off side there had to be clear daylight between the attacker and the defender, that was very clear. No trigonometry or sun dial to judge the shadows required for that, just eye sight. Why can it not just be that simple again?

As you all know my lad finished his Grassroots journey at U16 at the end of last season, he has a place at Park View School in Chester Le Street where he will study A Levels and play for their Men's Football Academy. They started pre-season about a month ago and it seems to have gone very well. He has got himself into the first team, it looks like it any way.... he wanted to play as a box to box full back on the left (even though he is right footed) but, the coaches had other ideas, he is 6'2" and very muscular / athletic due to his gym addiction and they liked him as a centre back. They like how he is very calm on the ball and rarely loses it when confronted by attackers as well as his height in defensive heading. The first team will be fluid and change a bit over the coming weeks, probably until Xmas before they decide on their strongest team so he has to keep working hard. It will be tough for him to balance the academic stuff with the training but, he is smart and I know he will do well. First day at the new school is tomorrow so a few nerves are expected, I know he is going to smash it.

I would be very surprised if we sign anyone today, on loan or otherwise. I would love to be proved wrong but, all the deals we have done so far seem to have taken at least a couple of weeks to secure so in reality unless we have someone well advanced then I would doubt we would see anyone coming in today. Probably see a couple leave though, Matty, Fernandez maybe.... possibly even Richie.... Just my opinion, I would love to be proved wrong, our squad depth is horrible... having to bring on gutless players like Murphy as subs and having Longstaff as a starter when Bruno is injured is painful..

Alexander O'Neal was a wonderful 80's singing superstar.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gK5iPbd7Hg

Decent appointment for them, he is a steady manager and although his style is outdated it will be suitable for the Champo. Given the extraordinarily high expectations that Sun'lun fans seem to have and their bizarre opinion of the place Sunderland hold in the football hierarchy I would recon they are all feeling quite deflated about it but, give it a day or two and it will be the best thing that could have happened to them, better than Eddie Howe and the man to inspire them to their rightful place at the pinnacle of English, no, World football.

Injuries can be expected throughout any season and it does hurt when it is a player like Bruno, what makes it worse for us is that the depth of our squad currently is poor and the squad replacement for Bruno seems to be Longstaff and he is really not good enough. Sadly we will need to be an established top 6 team before we can attract good players who would be prepared to sit on the bench or fight for a place in the starting 11. As we sit currently the squad is about as good as we can expect. It is actually a shame about Shelvey, I would have been slightly more comfortable going into the Liverpool game with him deputising for Bruno. Hopefully this week we will see some loan incomings, especially in the midfield positions.

But, surely Wembo.... if no Wembo then they cant have another pat themselves on the back collection for a set of bewildered staff at a London Pub who wondered what the hell happened and what those strange people in red and white costumes were doing there.

Agree, this is the sort of game we would lose comfortably a year ago. We can go into it now with a sense of optimism that we are a much better side and have hope to get something out of it. Brighton also looked great yesterday against a poor Man Utd, we will put up more of a fight and as said above it will be close with a draw most likely but, a narrow win either way also a possibility.

I honestly think he is worth the 60Mil. One hell of a player and just what we need. If we got him and Cornet along with the players we already signed this window we should be looking like a tasty team. Frankly signing players and being linked to good players still feels quite surreal.

Ah man, I miss this like crazy... My lad had an induction to work at Sports Direct today, I know .... however, he will get about 20 hours a week and get paid so a job is a job! We set off at 8:30am and I said to him it was quite reminiscent of heading out for a match or a tournament, he agreed. He misses it as well.

It's OK, it was only their second string team that was fielded vs Bradford... The result has no impact in their piss the league ambitions.

Just for the record. My season ticket number is the same as my membership one. They are inseparable as an entity. However, I feel like I am being an arse here so I will just say this..... I won't be using my membership number to buy any additional tickets so that is the best I can promise you. I wish everyone on this forum the best of luck always to get tickets for the games they want to be at.

You are all making this into something that it isn't. I would hazard a guess that 90%+ of all season ticket holders do not regularly exercise the option to buy a second ticket and an even greater percentage do not ever use that option at all. I have never used the option to buy an additional ticket, repeat never!

It isn't a privilege man, I pay for it the same as everyone else who is a member or season ticket holder.

The likelihood is that a huge percentage of season ticket holders do not try or have any reason to try to get additional tickets, so the whole point about not wishing for season ticket holders to have the same purchasing rights as members is fairly moot. The only time I use my season ticket to buy a seat is for cup games where I have a little time ahead of the members sale to purchase my own seat should I wish to. I would guess that is also the case for the majority of other season ticket owners.