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You do know that most of the links are completely fabricated ?

I said exactly that when I lost my virginity aged 15 whilst wild camping in a farmers field in rural Northumberland.

What did your match days look like when you were a season ticket holder aged 6 ? At that age I wanted to be an X-Wing fighter pilot and was scared to ask mother why my wriggler felt funny when I played kiss-chase with the girls in my class at school during lunch break. Was no way I was being taken to watch a football match every other week.

Lewis Hall was 19, had hardly played for Chelsea, couldn't get in the side here on loan and was costing us £35m. Plenty of people were saying he wasn't what we needed and we were daft to be paying that sort of money for him. Hall wasnt playing so it wasn't clear he was better than Burn or even Targett. He was raw potential and sometimes that doesn't become more than that (the Osula syndrome). Tonali was hailed as an example of us having our pants pulled down by Milan, because we'd given them £60m for a gambling addict who'd got off to a lacklustre start bar his opening day goal and we weren't going to see him play for a year. Being better than Longstaff isn't much of an achievement and Tonali wasn't playing so we couldn't gauge how good he would be compared to Bruno, a much better benchmark. Feelings on Barnes were "why we buying him when we've not long spent £45m on Gordon who's a decent left winger and why are we paying £40m for Barnes from a relegated side, we're being ripped off". Barnes was a bit part player and we couldn't get a sense as to whether he'd offer more than Gordon or even Miggy because Barnes was either a sub, had a knackered toe or was largely anonymous if he did start. Conclusion: Most ordinary punters knaa nowt and are too quick to judge. What will be, will be.

Nick Hammond also played a big role in 21/22, don't leave him out of the Ad Hoc transfer team

That's the point I was making. Sometimes signings just don't work out as hoped because that's life. I was just being a sarky twat in the way I made that point.

You're not allowed to mention Lewis Hall, a 19 year old who we paid a whopping £35m for after he'd played a handful of games for Chelsea and couldn't get in Howe's side during his time on loan here. And don't mention that Sandro Tonali, who we paid £60m for, got off to a shaky start in his first few games and it looked like Howe didn't know what to do with him, then he had a year on the sidelines. Or Harvey Barnes, our top scorer this season, who was considered to be a pointless £40m signing, it looked like Howe didn't trust him and there was questions as to how he could possibly add any value to NUFC's attack. They've been £135m worth of good signings and it all went swimmingly from the moment they put pen to paper their NUFC contract. That's what happened so don't you dare suggest otherwise.

AKA even a stopped clock is right twice a day

If this wind keeps up there's a decent chance Leazers Terrace blows away and we can build a new stadium without needing to move location.

Key 2022 Recruitment Personnel: Nick Hammond: Appointed as a temporary transfer consultant in November 2021 to advise the new owners on recruitment, due diligence, and financial aspects of deals for the crucial January 2022 transfer window. Dan Ashworth: Formally appointed as Sporting Director to oversee the entire football strategy, starting his role in June 2022. Steve Nickson: Continued in his role as Head of Recruitment, focusing on scouting operations. Paul Midgley: Appointed as Head of Youth Recruitment in December 2022 to overhaul academy scouting. Andy Howe: Played a key role in first-team talent identification. 2022 Restructuring: During 2022, the club significantly upgraded its scouting department, moving toward a more data-driven approach and appointing specialized scouts for different regions (e.g., Paul McLaren for UK Scouting 13-18) to support first-team recruitment. This is what Nick Hammond has told Training Ground Guru about his time helping out at Newcastle United: “To me, it was a really interesting and quite exciting opportunity to come and work with the new owners, of which there are three groups; with Eddie Howe, who I knew from being in the game for a long time; and Steve Nickson, an extremely good, experienced Head of Recruitment. “Newcastle have a long-term plan, for sure, but they had a short-term problem when we were going into the January window. Quite clearly they wanted to appoint a new CEO, a new Sporting Director and build the club out from there, but in the short term they were approaching the January window and looking for someone who had a degree of experience navigating trough the complexities of any transfer window, let alone a January window. “My job, really, was to advise the owners in relation to the players, the due diligence around the players and the financial aspects of the deals they were trying to complete. “I said to the guys at the start, this will be the hardest transfer window you’ll probably ever have, because you are literally a group of people coming together in a very short space of time and having to hit the ground running. “Fortunately there’s a very experienced Head Coach there, a very clear thinking guy, very precise in terms of what he wants and what he wanted, which is critical for a Head Coach – that clarity that comes from them is massively important. Fortunately Eddie Howe gave that to the people dealing with the transfer window at Newcastle. “My role (at Newcastle) was a little bit more in the background than I would be as a normal Sporting Director, as a Sporting Director over my career I would lead the discussions, lead the negotiations with potential signings. “This role was sort of a step removed from that, doing the checks and balances in the background, having an opinion on the players who had already been identified by Steve Nickson and his team, having taken a good steer from Eddie Howe, the new Head Coach, who had to make very quick decisions in terms of where he saw his squad. “It was a fascinating experience, I thoroughly enjoyed it, but very challenging time for them (the owners). “It was interesting in as much as here you’ve got a group of people who all want to achieve the same thing but they’re new, they’re almost thrown together. “I don’t mean that in a haphazard way, but new group of owners; new Head Coach; Steve (Nickson), who’s been in the building for a long time, and all of a sudden in a very short space of time you’ve got to come together and make some decisions to try and strengthen the team for what is the short term ambition of staying in the Premier League.”

Riddle me this. Given that a team of experts at NUFC had access to: data on our current squad, data on players we were interested in, what funds were available, our PSR position, access to agents, access to selling clubs and an understanding of Eddie's plans for the playing style this season. How come NUFC couldn't see they were making such bad decisions in the summer, when some residents of N-O could easily see that NUFC were making such bad decisions in the summer ?

Was just thinking last night when watching Barry celebrating his goal like a berk with a dance, pulling a confused face and firing a bow and arrow, how did goal celebrations become elaborate youth theatre performances. And my memories were cast back to how class it was when a "trademark" celebration was just Shearer running along with a big grin and one hand up above his head.

All white strips have just got that certain je ne sais quoi

Nah, outfield players in leggings is definitely not better than tattoo sleeves. You’d have to be on glue to think leggings are acceptable in football.

I don’t remember it all, only noticed it recently. Although for many years I’d be going through the turnstile as the coin toss happened and arriving at my seat just as the whistle went, had it timed to absolute perfection from a small selection of city centre boozers. And you’ve now got me wondering what our coin toss xG is and what we can do to improve our xTosser win ratio.

That midfielder for Everton is wearing leggings again Utter woke nonsense

Booing isn’t going to flatten the slope And it’s the booing that does my head in, only seems to have started in last couple of seasons and the slope has been there a lot longer than that

From where I was stood, I had exactly the same view as Buendia did and I knew he was going to have a crack before he even pulled the trigger because we parted like the Red Sea and Pope was in a position which meant there was a massive empty area of the goal to aim for. It was like watching a tap in, as long as he didn't fluff the shot it was a nailed on goal.

Not sure when or why it started, but the booing if we’re kicking towards Gallowgate 1st half is fucking daft. It achieves fuck all other than making us look like clampits. It actually gives the away side a tiny but audible moral victory before the game has even kicked off because we’re booing at the exact moment we should be raising the roof. Does any other club boo if they’re not kicking toward a certain end of their ground for the 1st half ?

Hindsight should dictate our transfer policy

We get beat 2-1

When I was keeping an eye out for tickets this week there was a few £72-93 seats in East Stand and Milburn popped up and I didn’t buy them. I’m fortunate to be in a financial position where I can afford the cost, but I also know when to walk away if something represents poor value for money.

I’m getting to the point now where I can’t be arsed. There’s a handful of seats I’ve been in where I know the people are generally sound. If I can get those seats I will. And I’m not talking about those sound people being soopafans creating the greatest atmosphere evah, they’re just not wankers who piss and moan all game or people who sit in complete silence. There’s loads of seats I’d never sit in again because the neighbours are absolutely fucking unbearable. I’d rather not go than have to listen to the cunts again.

It’s fucking grim in most other parts of the ground. You’ll either get a wall of silence, or some cunt gobbing off all game, usually about how shite all our players are. Today it was non-stop high volume negativity from kick off until Villa scored their 2nd and the cunt walked out. It didn’t go unnoticed that he was able to muster plenty of positivity in the vigorous pre-match handshakes & greetings though.