Wandy

The fucking defeatism on this thread is pathetic. The manager is learning about these players the hard way but the team spirit will be galvanised by tonight. I am sticking on a 7. The odds are against us at the moment but there is a long, long way to go yet.

Apparently Exile has been banned from RTG.

If Fergie truly wants Bruce, then I really do think that the brain injury scare he had a few years ago has messed with his head.

Yeah right.

Was at an 8 before today and yet now think we are at a 7 after that. Forget the league table, the performance was what mattered. But we are going to need to get points in unexpected places over the next 8 weeks, I think.

Both of them took the job in the full knowledge they would be doing Ashley's bidding of talking down the club. I dont give a fuck who else would have taken those jobs in the same circumstances. They both damaged NUFC by their actions and therefore deserve all the contempt in the world for it.

Wonder if they have a zoom call set up in the dressing room? Not even joking either.

You have got to be shitting me.

Bruce took the manager's job for the very same reasons....a job available to him whose requirements were way beyond his actual abilties... and we rightly berated him for it. So nah, fuck the baldy little cunt.

Just had a gander at their thread for the first time in a week. I just love that all they have left to get any amusement out of NUFC is a few bell-ends on Twitter. The actual football stuff is done and dusted and they have absolutely nothing left in their locker on that score.

I just love the way these dominos continue to fall. Off you go, to manage your nearest Off Licence if your lucky, you useless little cunt.

Just watched the press conference and he impressed again. He doesn't seem at all phased about the size of the job, club or task ahead. In fact he looks really, really happy to be back in management. Can only be a good thing for us.

Shelvey's ability when he feels like it has never been the issue. It's his completely lazy cunt attitude that is the problem. Drill that out of him and there might still be a player there.

I haven't even checked, but let me guess....is it MackemX?

I feel sorry for the majority of people commenting on this thread who clearly must not have been around from 1985 to 1988, because if you had then you would be putting Paul Gascoigne down as your first choice. After that I guess Shearer is the obvious second preference. Third is a genuine toss up between Chris Waddle, Peter Beardsley and David Ginola. All game changers in their own unique way.

Because, unless something dramatic happens, it's all they have left of the rivalry. Spending every day, trawling the internet in search of a few twitter dickheads amongst our support who might embarrass themselves. The "real world" stuff like who is the biggest, best, richest and more high profile club...and whose future is the brightest, is a debate that has now been settled for seemingly a very, very long time. Maybe even permanently. So, carry on Mackems, keep on trawling the net for meaningless shite that absolutely nobody outside of the online Mackem echo chamber cares about.

This one is better. He even tells it to get up.

So it's rumoured he's getting a juicy bonus if he keeps us up. What do we reckon? A couple of million, tax free? Wouldn't begrudge him a penny of it if true.

I reckon that they may have spoken to Gerrard informally before Howe but it went no further than that. Gerrard may turn out to be a top class manager but he wasn't right for NUFC at this moment in time. I imagine that both parties realised that after their discussions

They postponed the game themselves? How is that even allowed?

Yep, we are finding that out very quickly. And especially from our not-jealous-very-much neighbours 12 miles down the road.

We absolutely should not be accepting anything less than being able to match the current maximum sponsorship amount for each relevant deal. Won't the incoming independent football regulator have an authority on this kind of stuff stuff too?

Our manager yesterday said it as clearly and as plainly as it needs to be.... "My focus is football". Succinct & straight to the point. That's all that we as supporters need to think too.

It's the manner in which it is expressed that rattles me. I was the same, growing up. Completely obsessed with football & NUFC, as were my mates. I am still like that now, as are those same friends. But the idea that NUFC is the only thing going on in our lives is frankly ridiculous. I have loads of hobbies and interests outside of my NUFC obsession, which is why I was able to pull myself away from it all over the last two desperate years. I'm sure there are some people out there who literally don't have anything that interests them except football, but the idea that most Geordies are like this is total nonsense. There is a difference between having the club at the centre of life in the city, and actually having nothing else in your life if that club isn't worth supporting.

Cheers for that. I've spent a lot of time lurking the forums of the other big teams and I have to say I've found City fans to feel like comrades in arms against the "red shirts" as they are known on the Blue Moon forum. I'd like to see more City fans on here tbh. Very similar club to NUFC both before and after our respective takeovers.