oldtype

We need some familiar faces who can restore the fan's connection to the club. So, time to bring Nile Ranger and Sammy Ameobi back.

I don't know any names but personally I'd like someone on the younger side who can stay for the long term and grow with the club.

Shay Given has black and white sofa cushions

Our Wiki article literally just ends after the Bruce Appointment

The club has been a miserable piece of shit for close to two decades now and somehow this place is still quality

Wish there was a statue of Ashley somewhere people could topple.

Regardless of how well the club does, I have a feeling that we are somehow going to end up all hating this person within the next... let's say two years or so.

To be fair, they were probably too mesmerized by the "oldtype in public" thread to get anything done here

Who's the forum's most hated player now. Because I have probably never seen him play. It would be like someone coming to me in 2007 and telling me that they'd been away for a few years and didn't know who Titus Bramble is.

Hughes was at least seen as vaguely competent at the time. I haven't seen a single game coached by Steve Bruce but based on the reactions from this forum I'm assuming that he is... not.

Imagine if the richest people in the world bought the club and decided "eh, let's keep Steve Bruce for a season and see how it goes." Would be typical NUFC

I'm in the mood to crack open some beer and watch some Shola highlights.

Haven't decided yet whether to exile him to Siberia or Alaska.

Man, it's just not going to feel like NUFC anymore. We could be like PSG by 2025 and I'll still be looking for us in the league table by reading it from the bottom-up and not top-down.

(Stares at Medium-sized 06/07 Martins shirt and sheds a single tear.)

@Disco why don't you go bump the Relegationometer thread while you're at it.

Happy to be back, hopefully for real this time.

Spending hours on WIkipedia trying to figure out what's happened since Rafa left.

We should all take one day to just celebrate that we'll never have to see or think about Mike Ashley again for the rest of our lives. But to be honest, I do wonder if I'll ever be able to fall back in love with the club to the extent I had previously. I've deliberately not watched a single match of football aside from the World Cup for... I guess close to four years now? Life has moved on and there's so much I have to catch up with. I barely even know who any of these players kicking about on the pitch are.

Okay, maybe this time I finally have to get around to learning the names of our current players for real.

Would have preferred that they embarrass themselves relentlessly for a few more weeks before caving, but oh well. This will do.

I've only just now remembered that me showing up on the broadcast at Stamford Bridge when Cisse scored that ridiculous goal and the "oldtype in public" thread are two entirely separate incidents. They had merged into one in my mind.

Thanks Kanji! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside to find that basically nothing on here has changed.

These are going to be very difficult to explain to my infant daughter when she's old enough to use the internet.

I wouldn't know. I haven't watched a minute of Football for years. I had to google Sunderland to find out they were relegated.