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The ones that I know, and at work, are quiet as a mouse too. You can tell they are quietly seething though when the office is chirpy with all of the NUFC positivity. They are gagging for something to go wrong for us too, hence when we had the blip against Bournemouth a few weeks ago I had some texts from one of them regarding Howe "getting sacked hahaha". I have actually been easy on him for the last 5 years of their laughable existence but quickly shut him up. It's unimaginable how bad they would have been if the two clubs' fortunes had been reversed over the last 5 years. The mouth on them would have been off the scale.

jlaws is probably the biggest whopper on there actually. Exile1968 is just an unhinged, deranged lunatic but this jlaws prick actually tries to present himself as some kind of intellectual because he has worked with Saudis in the past, or some shit like that.

One year ago to the day when their world fell apart. And cued up over 10,000 posts of delicious Mackem tears in less than a week. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/nufc-sportwashing.1557357/page-352 12 months on, some of them have gnashed their teeth down to the gums.

https://twitter.com/moneymikeashley/status/1445819247133745152?s=61&t=kxzMyjQzli945s4u7vdq4w Just reading through the thread from a year ago and this tweet from Money Mike caught my eye. Will we ever find out if it was really him, or one of his team? This tweet sounded uncannily like it really was him tweeting.

I distinctly remember feeling gutted as I was sure we'd have beaten the dippers that day.

I can only imagine what this place would have been like if it had existed 25 years ago when our game got cancelled after Diana died.

The last time this lot were ahead of NUFC in terms of number of trophies won was at the end of the 1922/23 season. Nearly ONE HUNDRED years ago. Take out the 73 cup win and their entire status, in terms of any kind of success, happened pre-WW2. Since the end of the war though they have been in slow and steady decline, and have done almost nothing of note outside of the cup win (which was also a giant-killing freak result). Relegated 11 times though, which is impressively shit. Their average league position since 1945 is something like 22nd in the entire league pyramid. Making them, officially, a second tier club. The Championship is their natural habitat.

Hahaha, this is absolutely incredible. My last post in this thread was saying that Neil is the best manager they have had for 20 years and that he would get them up within a year or two. Well, they are absolutely goosed now. Its impressive how this lot find all-new ways to be a laughing stock. Never change Sunderland, never change.

Hope so. The guy sounded ridiculously negative, to be fair. But I do have a feeling that expectations should be tempered with regards to what this lad will do for us.

Has anyone else listened to this? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0cwb5cn Not exactly a glowing reference. I hope people aren’t expecting this to be a Shearer-esque signing. I’m confident that Eddie will extract every ounce of ability out of this lad but it seems we have wildly overpaid for him.

From Whickham isn't he? He hasn't changed at all since the late 90s when he was posting on the old Strawberry message board. He reeks of someone who swam against the tide, chose to support SAFC whilst living in a NUFC stronghold...and has regretted it ever since. Wont ever admit of course.

They aren't coming up this season, but if they stay patient with Neil he will get them up either next season or the one after that. He's the best manager they have had since Reidy.

Looking forward to reading the Gerrard thread on Villa Talk tonight.

With the state that Man Utd are in, it's now become apparent that 6th place is very much up for grabs. Even with just our current squad I think we will now be in the running for it. We will undoubtedly bring in more players too in the two windows of this season so it's not unrealistic to expect us to think that we might actually grab 6th now. Lots of things will have to go our way too, of course.

No, I am just highlighting their hypocrisy and duplicity. They simply do not give a fuck about what's going on in Saudi Arabia. Their whole agenda is based on the fact that NUFC are, in theory, awash with money and are seemingly on their way to becoming an elite club.

Exactly. And for that reason, we can have a go at the Dreyfuss family for their involvement in the middle east, the same way others can have a go at our Saudi ownership.

Loads of stuff actually. Including an iPad. I'm well aware too that, by buying that stuff, I contribute to the bad treatment of Chinese workers. I just don't care enough to stop. I care about the human rights issues in Saudi too, but not enough to stop supporting NUFC though. Or actively celebrating the positives for me as a fan that come from Saudi ownership either. Same way I turn a blind eye to appalling workers rights in China so that I can enjoy my ipad. You are no different either, so stop pretending that you are.

Nope. Also, the other two examples are bullshit as you have to wear a seatbelt by law. And no matter what you do, it's impossible to NOT participate in society. Buying an Apple product though is very much a personal choice.

It's not horseshit at all. People who care that deeply about Chinese treatment of their workers shouldn't buy an iphone and should boycott buying Apple altogether. The fact that pretty much everyone still does by Apple products, despite knowing how badly treated the Chinese workers are, is a great insight into how much they actually care, when it comes down to brass tacks.

Just had a quick catch-up on that abortion of a thread, and they are absolutely desperate to see us kick off because we haven't signed a whole new squad of expensive players, but are rattled to fuck that this is not happening, apart from a few bell-ends on twitter. What is actually happening is that the takeover hasn't gone as THEY feared it would. Some of them will genuinely have a mental breakdown if they languish in the Championship while we become an elite club.

We aren't owned by the Saudi State.

I get that. But rating Potter higher than Howe? That is contentious, to say the least.

Very reasonable comments on that Brighton forum. They don't like Eddie though and seem convinced that Potter is better than him. What do we make of that?

This is going to drag on through the month but I do think we will get him.

it’s the way they are looking down on us as a club and area that is laughable. No matter what they do, LCFC will never, ever be bigger than NUFC.