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In general the best way to develop a young player is probably to keep him away from NUFC for as long as possible.

We all know what happens when we sack managers midseason under Ashley. Look, if you hate the club now and just want to see it burn (as I do), by all means call for sacking McClaren. But I certainly wouldn't if I had any interest in the club staying up.

We're visibly better than we were last season and for the most part, desperately unlucky to be where we are. Yes, we're still utterly shit, but we're merely "safe-and-sound-13th-place" shit. Not "foot of the table" shit.

9 shots on target

Seriously, take Mitrovic off. For his own safety.

We've been so shit, it's been a while since we had one of these good 'ol fashioned "we played well but it's just one of those days" days.

Not that I want to see Cisse play or anything, but Mitrovic needs to come off immediately.

Shawcross wants in on the fun too

Seriously, Mitrovic and Wollshceid are going to kill each other. Soon.

They're both dickheads

Have we all forgotten how amazing the club is at finding managers mid-season? Sacking him will leave us rudderless for several months and assuredly relegate us. I suppose I want us to sack him then.

On paper we have more likable players than I ever remember us having. Perez, Mitrovic, Windjalum, Mbemba all seem like good hard-working lads with the right attitude who, incredibly, are also good at playing football. I'd be thrilled if I wasn't so confident that we'll sell/ruin all of them in short order.

Playoffs. Not enough. I want playoffs, a draft, a Europe-wide salary cap, the whole shebang. Look at you. How would the draft work? Draft occurs when each academy class hits age 18. Each team is allowed to "protect" 2~3 of their prospects, and the rest are put up for draft. Using protections forfeits the same number of draft picks. (For example, assuming a three-round draft, a team that protects two of its players would only draft in the third round.) All professional football clubs who operate academies above a certain level are permitted to participate in the draft. The club with the lowest league placing picks first. All undrafted players are returned to their original academy. Each team which has lost players is compensated for the cost of development with a pre-set fee. Specifics can be tweaked to change incentives accordingly. That would take absolutely ages One evening would be sufficient. Depends on your criteria for academies above a certain level No reason for it to take more than a few hours even if it's all eighty football league teams.

Playoffs. Not enough. I want playoffs, a draft, a Europe-wide salary cap, the whole shebang. Look at you. How would the draft work? Draft occurs when each academy class hits age 18. Each team is allowed to "protect" 2~3 of their prospects, and the rest are put up for draft. Using protections forfeits the same number of draft picks. (For example, assuming a three-round draft, a team that protects two of its players would only draft in the third round.) All professional football clubs who operate academies above a certain level are permitted to participate in the draft. The club with the lowest league placing picks first. All undrafted players are returned to their original academy. Each team which has lost players is compensated for the cost of development with a pre-set fee. Specifics can be tweaked to change incentives accordingly. That would take absolutely ages One evening would be sufficient.

Playoffs. Not enough. I want playoffs, a draft, a Europe-wide salary cap, the whole shebang. Look at you. How would the draft work? Draft occurs when each academy class hits age 18. Each team is allowed to "protect" 2~3 of their prospects, and the rest are put up for draft. Using protections forfeits the same number of draft picks. (For example, assuming a three-round draft, a team that protects two of its players would only draft in the third round.) All professional football clubs who operate academies above a certain level are permitted to participate in the draft. The club with the lowest league placing picks first. All undrafted players are returned to their original academy. Each team which has lost players is compensated for the cost of development with a pre-set fee. Specifics can be tweaked to change incentives accordingly.

Playoffs. Not enough. I want playoffs, a draft, a Europe-wide salary cap, the whole shebang.

Wah wah wah. If you're enjoying yourself that's fine. I'm just saying that I'm not.

I used to think American sports was ridiculous. Now I'm pretty sure it's the only way.

The Premiership itself, indeed, is quite pointless. Even if NUFC were the best version of itself (i.e., smartly run, spending 30m a year in transfer fees, good manager, collection of best players outside of the Champions League), we'd still only be able to hope for 5th-7th most years with maybe a miracle season once every decade or so where we finished fourth. There's no point trying to compete unless you're Man United, Arsenal, or a club with an owner to whom money is no object. For a club like NUFC, your best case scenario if every single thing goes perfectly right for an entire year is maybe fourth and probably not even that. This is not sport. There's no point.

I'm not from Newcastle and I voted yes. I'm miles beyond giving a fuck about somebody thinking I'm a "bad fan" at this point. Honestly, that statement would only be inaccurate because I'm probably no longer a fan of this club at all.

I'd actually find this rather entertaining under normal circumstances because we would at least get to see what Darlow is all about, given that Krul is well established as mediocre at this point. But of course Darlow is injured too. Probably forever. Fuck this club, put it down and turn off the lights.

Yes. In fact, I would rather the club go out of business and a new phoenix club to take its place. Something revolutionary would be necessary for me to give a s*** about NUFC at this point.

that's the same korean with a track record of massive embezzlement or fraud or something, is it not? EDIT: sorry his bro, sure he's clean tho http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/17/football/south-korea-chung-mong-joon-fifa/ Not a particularly nice guy either, but we're meant to believe that whatever he's done within FIFA is 24x worse than Blatter? Really?

Blatter, Platini and Valcke all get 90 days. Then, in the same report, they go and hit some Korean dude with 6 years. Given what Blatter has done, I'm just going to go ahead and assume the Korean dude committed genocide or something.

Maybe he's just homesick or has personal issues. It's not necessarily a referendum on how players perceive us as a club. We are, of course, a worthless pile of shit - but most others seem to be happy to continue earning a wage here regardless.