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Harry Dwinks?

Really are cringe worthy up there. Singing your support is f***ing shit to fans who have travelled all the way from Swansea/Southampton for example. Do like the odd burst of "Where did you park your mini bus" to people with small away followings from closer to home mind.

Yeap, forbidden when it's a loan deal. Makes sense. Is this a new rule? I can remember being at Portsmouth when the original Lua Lua, not Kazenga, came off the bench to get a late equaliser against us once.

might be better as a striker the way they're playing.

To where? They already have a wall on one side of them meaning less stewards. Unless they build a wall to box them in where else can they go if money saving is the priority? Just a RUMOUR.

Heard a rumour at the weekend that they might shift the away fans to save on stewarding. Please let them go bust.

I can hear that ringing out from beer soaked concourses at away games like. Excellent!

Could well be postponed at the Emirates. The Met police are in for a busy night whatever happens. Play it and there's likely to be troubke due to a lack of segregation. Postpone it and the koln fans will kick off. Can't blame them for travelling without tickets. We've done it. If it's that attractive you often just take your chances.

Michael Martin is a right c*** but that article is true in every word. As was said in that piece, things have been bad in the past but the difference now is that the person running the club isn't even trying to make the club successful. I wasn't around for the McKeag years and I've been unable to read too much about it apart from a snippet from the book Touching Distance. Only thing I know are best players sold for the building of a new stand, stadium in awful condition, s*** team, crowds of mostly <17,000, how different were those years to now? My dad went to games in that period and he still goes now, but he never really talks of it. Although young myself back then, they sure were awful times. The ground was old and crumbling. As a kid i remember the old leazes end being demolished and they intended to build a new stand and join it with the East stand. We got relegated. They got as far as building a small terrace with a wall behind it then the work had to stop as we were skint. IIRC what is now the Milburn stand had to be replaced after the Bradford fire. It had wooden floors and seats and really was a danger. Now we have the stadium, crowds, everything in place, just no ambition. So McKeag actually was just skint? Was he as much of a vile b****** as Ashley? My era mate and i was a kid back then and football so so much more simple back then (old git mode ) .we were s*** but tbh the fans were behind the team then now i think with the passion and to answer your question about Mckeag well i think he cared but greed took over but looking back i really enjoyed home and away with my mates . Goes to show the way football's changed in the modern day. Absolute minging circumstances the club was in, crumbling stadium, s**** team, relegations, yet fans like yourselves were still enjoying following the team. I've still got that enjoyment of following Newcastle to be sapped from me being a younger supporter (although they are doing their best to rid me of it right now, cheers Mike) but can completely understand other people's complete loss of enthusiam for the club and/or football in general. in those days we never thought we could be any better/bigger. took the likes of SJH and KK to show us a glimpse of the promised land. the truth came out. we COULD succeed. McKeag was vociferously hated but if i remember he only owned a solicitors and couldn't have been anywhere near as loaded as Ashley is owning SD. I suppose because we'd been so bad for so long, those heady days under SJH and KK were all the more thrilling. How i'd love a repeat, with a new ambitious owner. Dare to dream eh?

Michael Martin is a right c*** but that article is true in every word. As was said in that piece, things have been bad in the past but the difference now is that the person running the club isn't even trying to make the club successful. I wasn't around for the McKeag years and I've been unable to read too much about it apart from a snippet from the book Touching Distance. Only thing I know are best players sold for the building of a new stand, stadium in awful condition, s*** team, crowds of mostly <17,000, how different were those years to now? My dad went to games in that period and he still goes now, but he never really talks of it. Although young myself back then, they sure were awful times. The ground was old and crumbling. As a kid i remember the old leazes end being demolished and they intended to build a new stand and join it with the East stand. We got relegated. They got as far as building a small terrace with a wall behind it then the work had to stop as we were skint. IIRC what is now the Milburn stand had to be replaced after the Bradford fire. It had wooden floors and seats and really was a danger. Now we have the stadium, crowds, everything in place, just no ambition.

Even more disappointing than the result tonight is the realisation that i'm almost not bothered anymore. That's what his 'running' or should that be ruining of the club has done to me. Worked a 2-10 shift tonight and in times gone by i'd have done all i could to get away in time for the match. Not now. My enthusiasm is draining rapidly. He's making so many people, some of them fans for decades, apathetic and i hate it.

Michael Martin is a right c*** but that article is true in every word. As was said in that piece, things have been bad in the past but the difference now is that the person running the club isn't even trying to make the club successful.

Does my head in that whenever i turn SSN on they're talking about the "top" clubs as if others don't exist. Often turn it straight off again.

Not sure that day but i can remember those sky blue, 3 wheelers dotted around behind the goals at many a ground back then.

As usual, because their own club give them nothing to celebrate they're looking up the road in the hope rafa goes to provide some solace to their sad lives.

Loved the old panini sticker books. Didn't ever fill one but was always a thrill to peel open that packet to reveal the toon crest sticker on a sikver background. On a different subject, I caught a double bill of 'classic MOTD' the other week. Boro v Norwich at ayresome park circa 1981. Justin fashanu got roundly booed and had boro fans shouting 'Roots' whenever he got the ball. Very different days back then. That was followed by the toon on the end of a 6-0 hiding at Stamford Bridge in the old division 2. Waddles early days and Chelsea fans singing 'In your geordie slums'.

They averaged 55,581 in the league last season, unless you believe the figures are being fiddled. The lowest was against (yes) St Johnstone with 51,057. Signficantly lower figures for early round League Cup and Scottish Cup fixtures, as to be expected. Those figures must be fresh from the Sunderland school of crowd figure fiddling considering how empty both grounds look when seen on tv.

Absolutely. European Champions and just look at the amount of mongs they've brought here today. They get about 55k through the door for home games, I'd be stunned if the Tippeligaen gets that cumulatively on a weekend. No they don't. Yes they're capable of it but don't get that when playing the likes of Inverness/St Johnstone.

Farce of a competition. Only good that may come from it is a chance to tick off some new grounds with NUFC. Lower league clubs etc.

last train home is 10pm from Edinburgh... last train home is 10pm from Edinburgh... There's a megabus at 11pm. £13 as things stand.

Makems away at Hibs on Sunday July 9th then St Johnstone on Sat July 15th. Trains would be interesting if we played at Hearts on one of those dates, although it seems our games are going to start a bit later into the summer.

u20 world cup televised in the UK?

Absolute desperation to forget how bad things are for them right now. Scraping the barrel. Talk about a happy footballing memory that doesn't involve us ffs.

Caught the end of the u17 euro champiinship final. England incuding toons lewis Gibson were 2-1 up but conceded an equaliser with about 3seconds of stoppage time left. Straight to pens where England being England lost of course. Heartbreaking.

They do f**k all themselves to make them happy so their only enjoyment in life is what goes on elsewhere. Some of their happiest memories are negative events associated with NUFC. The sad in SMB is more than apt.