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I loved the series, moments of pure joy for sure! Seeing how much it all means to Amanda is fantastic.... having board members who are so engaged in the club can only be good thing! Then the final word from his Excellency Yasir Al-Rumayyan: "We have only just started!"

If these last three results of ours were viewed in isolation across an entire season then I do not think anyone on either side of the North East cultural divide would raise an eyebrow but, because they came consecutively at the same time as Sun'lun made two consecutive wins then some of our fans fall into panic mode and some of theirs get super confident. I hate losing but, I can understand that we will lose games across a season. We have time to put things right and those dopes have plenty of time to fuck it right up!

Episode 3 now available

Cheers. Maybe it will sort itself out later if I get some better WiFi.

Seems now the whole lot is unavailable... at least to me. Anyone else checked?

I haven't started watching it yet but, went in to the Prime app this morning to download onto my phone so I can watch on my flight home from holiday tomorrow. Got episode 1 but, saying 2 is not available any longer... what a shambles .... Never had this problem with Clarksons Farm.... haha

My son is at Park View currently in 6th Form. He says it is roughly 50:50 for Newcastle/Sunderland. He did say that there is an "argument " ongoing about whether Chester le Street and Durham should be Sunderland strongholds..

From my angle watching the incident that lead to the injury I thought Isak had barged into him in an effort to get to the ball. The replays on MOTD seem to show that Mings himself stepped across Isak and barged him but, somehow unbalanced himself to the point his knee buckled horribly underneath his weight. Wish him well for his recovery.

haha, literally in the OP: Group stage Draw: 31 August 2023 Matchday 1: 19–20 September 2023 Matchday 2: 3–4 October 2023 Matchday 3: 24–25 October 2023 Matchday 4: 7–8 November 2023 Matchday 5: 28–29 November 2023 Matchday 6: 12–13 December 2023 So we would play either 19th or 20th but, whether it is home or away depends on the draw on 31st.... All good. Actually hope it is away as I have a trip to Sweden planned that week which would be hard to get out of.

This will have been asked or discussed already but, when is the first CL match for us? Is the home / away dates in a preset order or would it be random based on the draw? I travel for work and just want to make sure I am home for the games.

Derby days were immense. In town early having some beers, the tension building up. Then you hear the chanting from the Sunderland crowd being marched through the streets heading up to the ground under police guard... the counter chanting from our fans... the atmosphere is electric!! Inside the ground you literally cannot hear yourself think... Intensity personified!

Does anyone really think the players for Sunderland are as pathetic in terms of hating "the Mags" as their stupid fans? There is always a chance of being injured on a football field regardless who you are playing against, ask Tyrone Mings.... I highly doubt any Sunderland player would set out to purposely end the season of one of ours. And likewise the other way around. Someone like O'Nien might be a risk because he is a total arsehole but, I would not be worried about playing them one bit. Playing Sunderland in a cup and enjoying a comfortable win would be lovely

Didn't read past the first page of comments but, the general opinion is that this behaviour is bad but, becoming wider spread from a small section of their younger fan base. Other highlights were: Someone moaning that Sunderland fans singing about Crewe support being rubbish while they only mustered about 7 - 8k home fans is embarrassing This violence being more of a society wide issue and shouldn't be attributed to football fans I am sure that if I was arsed to read further there would be more gems of wisdom that reach into the WTF section of my brain.

Fair enough, of course people work and making a 10am queue can be a big problem. I guess if you cannot make it and cannot get someone to do it for you then a ballot is the next best solution. Can not please all of the people all of the time comes to mind!

As a season ticket holder this situation doesn't effect me but, I have been reading the topic out of interest and my main observation is that the previous system allowing members to ring on a specific day and buy tickets seemed to work perfectly well and satisfied everyone involved. This new system of ballot seems stupid and pointless. It is stressing people out and members who have found their way to attend most of the games they wanted to, often in the same seat week in week out, are now being completely randomised and seem as likely to miss out as to win. Complicating things for complicating sake in my opinion.

You would have thought that - knowing the fact that this event was due to take place - that the sewage companies would have at least stopped pumping shit into the sea a week or so before the event. The state of the seas around the British Isles is beyond a joke, not just Sunderland or the North East... it is everywhere. Raw shit, sanitary products and other rotten stuff flowing into the sea daily. Meanwhile the Government allowed the water companies to be sold off to overseas ownership.... like they care about the seas around Britain.... all about the revenue! Shameful.

Literally every one of their players and former players has a little pet name they created especially for them. They even attended a couple of relatively meaningless matches at a place they call Wembo.....

Mackems way too classy to attend any Newcastle game, Fewman rights abewse, support for LGBTQ and all that! Plus that would be proper "MAG" behaviour

We absolutely have to accept that we will sell players. The problem seems to be is that we are all emotionally attached to our better players and cannot seem to face the thought that they could or will move on at some point. I always think that as long as they do not leave to go to another Premier League team, like Aston fuckin Villa then it is easier to take. I will miss Maxi but, have to accept that in order to grow as a club we have to change.

Had an email from club to see if I wanted to apply to move seats to the new safe standing area.... Leaving it all really last minute for the upcoming season...

Our summer holiday this year will be in Corfu, my lad and my daughter have both bought home tops this year. The first time for as long as I can remember (for all the obvious reasons). We hope that we can see a load of mackems in their tops, particularly very young children, so we can point blank ignore them. We will meet with a family of Brentford fans and a family of Wolves fans. The kids are already planning to wear their tops on the same night.... Imagine if that crowd of teams ignores a mackem?? what a story to tell the RTG forum....???

I was in there one evening as it was closing and the manager told me that they advertise themselves as an away fans venue, the police support it as they are all pretty much in one place and easier to manage, the away fans love it because they can have a peaceful drink (not there is barely any trouble with away fans in Newcastle these days anyway) and the pub loves it because they take Thousands in a short space of time. Everyone wins!

Many teams are trying to sign players from teams who were relegated out of the Premier League, Maddison is just one example.... by the logic of the mackem every player in a team that finishes in a lower position than your team must be rubbish and not worthy of consideration.

Sorry if this has been asked before but, which league is the next one for the womans team and how far away are they in the league pyramid from the Womens Super League thing that is on teevee quite reguarly?

I am almost certain he was stripped and ready to come on the pitch at the very end of our match vs. Southampton - only the final whistle saved us from that haha!