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I think there are many similarities between Slimani and Mitro but, from the very short period I watched him in his debut for us he impressed me with how quick he looked. He was powerful, mobile and got into some promising positions. I have a real soft spot for Mitro but, he has never shown the form he is playing with currently at Fulham while playing for us, well maybe he had a couple of decent performances but, never consistent. I always felt frustration with Mitro in that while Rafa always seemed to have a game plan for each match we played, when Mitro entered the field it looked clear to me that he was not playing to the system the manager expected. If he cannot follow instructions and worse than that cannot avoid stupid bookings then, in our team with the limited talent we have, he does not have a place. I do wonder if he even wants to come back to Newcastle now, he is getting regular game time and doing well. Something he will not get easily at Newcastle.

A quote from their forum, notice the irony Amazing irony.... Those amazing fans who turn up no matter what... not me though, stream for me like!

If anyone had done due diligence on that financial shambles and not run a mile screaming NOOOoooooo then they deserve everything they get!

Derby were absolute dogshite. I was embarrassed to watch them. Am I right to think that last season the entire Championship was better quality? I recall very few really shit teams...

Well both times in the last 10 years when we have been relegated it has been just awful for us.... Newly promoted teams must have been in dreamland waiting to play us.

I thought it might be a parody... someone from here playing the part of a Sun'lun special football friend....

Who is Magpie 1 on the SMB form? "Mag wishing you Well" post.... following all the same well worn clichés that their own little made up football friends have used and yet he is being told to fuck off left right and centre.... How strange! https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/mag-wishing-you-well.1423987/

Gateshead are expecting around 2000 fans in tomorrow, only planning to open the main stand. They have been told that Bromley will bring about 200 fans up with them. Looking forward to it!

Well that's put all their minds at rest. Their made up Wolves supporting friend has posted the following in response to the well respected throughout football comment: "Too right pal. I know most Wolves supporters respect Sunderland fans for their passion and knowledge of the game. Geordies in general are just big headed twats who Bully managed to score 4 goals against on their manor. " That is so clearly a Sunderland fan pretending, it is word for word what they are regularly saying about themselves...

In all my years of supporting Newcastle (and there are many) we won more times than we were beaten by Sunderland. Those 6 in a row wins for them were really painful at the time and still annoy me considerably. It will take years (because we will not see them for years) before we can correct the balance and shut them up. However, like the 9 - 1 match in the early 1900's, anything that happens in our favour in the future will be ignored so that they can say that they beat us 6 times in a row.

Nice! Great stuff.

Tragically England's Harry Kane seems to have suffered more serious ankle ligament damage than first thought. Pity it wasn't Lejeune that dealt the "perfectly fair" tackle to inflict it. ??

Swap ‘working class’ for 4th world troglodytes (Ooh, get me and my middle class England speak) and I reckon your bellend would remain unstung in that particular wasps’ nest, Legionnaire If the point of the post was to compare the walk through our City up to St James' Park, wandering through historic streets bathed in glorious architecture to walking through an old derelict brown field industrial site in what is frankly an awful part of an even worse City then the point is accepted by me. We also widely accept that Sunderland has some rather unusual inhabitants, much like Newcastle, obviously we are soaked in gravy while they ooze class but, I think point raised about the average fan from either side of the "fence" was quite badly made.

At this stage in a critical season for us I am pretty glad that Lascelles is not in the squad, it would be typical NUFC luck for him to get an England call up with all the ceremony that comes with it and to then receive a season ending injury in training from the mistimed challenge of a team mate that makes our run in and Premier League security even more treacherous....

No he doesn't. He can just put it into voluntary liquidation. Short's holding of the club- both equity and debt are worth absolutely zero. Only once the business is worth more than the debt owed to Guggenheim will Short get a penny. Guggenheim may opt to appoint an administrator if Sunderland fail to meet the financial covenant tests in the loan agreement, at which point they may accelerate the debt (demand it all back) and on the basis Sunderland have no means to pay, then either side could appoint administrators. However this can be done without the need for a costly administration process if Short and Guggenheim mutually agree a debt-for-equity swap, which would hand control to Guggenheim and Short would be left with nothing (or virtually nothing). This is pretty much what I was thinking as well, the external debt owner (Guggenheim) has more to lose than Short and frankly if I was the owner of that debt and such rumours were floating around I would be making some serious moves to protect my investment to the point where I may even consider taking ownership of the club and putting my own people in charge to try to stabilize the rot and then to see what can be salvaged. Kind of like a VC investor taking the bits that are worth anything and scrapping the rest.

Dangermows has been abducted and is currently being bummed by Spacealiens, someone is now masquerading in his place on RTG https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/just-seen-the-mags-goals.1422042/ "As much as they are usually very dull to watch and play with negative tactics their second goal was superb. Defence to attack in seconds to finish the game. Pace, awareness and clinical. Fair play. Didn't think they had it in them. Twats. "

M62 is a right mess around Saddleworth area. Unless there is a serious thaw I would say that the game is at risk due to danger to people traveling from the North East.

That match last night between Spurs and Rochdale was crazy, the ref standing there with his finger to his ear for several minutes waiting for decisions to be made. The BT Sports team asking their token ref what he thought of the VAR decisions such as the penalty awarded to Spurs for a foul that was outside the box and continued into the box until the Spurs player fell down.... "yes, definitely a penalty" The amount of these that are awarded as free kicks outside the box makes that decision alone ludicrous.. I honestly think if the VAR had said free kick outside the box them their commentary ref (Graham Poll I think) would probably have agreed with that as well.. If they are going to do it then it should be like rugby with the conversation being played through the PA System in the ground for all to hear. As it stands right now I absolutely hate it.

Their front three are terrifying... I cannot see how we will keep them out!

I don't think any one of those teams fixtures are any "easier" (in theory) than any of the others listed. Maybe Crystal Palace and Bournmouth have slightly less of the top teams to play but, by the end of the season, or at least with only 4 - 5 games left to play there are generally only a small number of teams at the top with anything to play for. Brightons run in looks awful.... Man City have the league but, there are 4 - 5 teams playing for the remainder of the top four places. The bottom of the league is far more interesting this season than ever before...

Was his stupid statement not more directed towards Newcastle specifically though? Meaning he couldn't see us going on a 4 - 5 game run of wins? The way it is written can be interpreted in many ways, thick cunt that he is!

Yes, the above seems to be the correct situation. Very long term lease on the land that the stadium stands on. I think that some of the surrounding land is owned by Ashley personally.

St James' is owned by Newcastle City Council....

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As hilarious as the current plight of Sunderland really is I cannot help but, feel sorry for some of the fans, I have some mates who are top blokes but, just happen to be Sunderland fans. They are absolutely in bits about the state of their club, these are lads that never once had a go at me about being a Newcastle fan during the height @SportsDirect Arena or the two relegations. Lads that you can have a proper conversation about football with, everyone will know people like this and it is them I feel really sorry for. My mates even sympathise over Ashley when their owner is arguably putting their club into an even more dire position that ours is.... So my point is that every time I see Sunderland have been beaten again I laugh inside, check the table to look at how dreadful their situation is and then remember how my mates feel and suddenly wonder how they might escape the oblivion of a second relegation.... I will be honest though, if it wasn't for the couple of mates I am talking about here I would be loving this, especially after reading and hearing the shite spouted by some Sunderland supporters over us in recent years.