Interpolic

I dunno why you're expanding on his point for him (well I do). "£250m on dross" is utter bollocks however you spin it.

"£250m on dross"

the constant rage, fucking hell. How are Thiaw and Ramsey dross? If they're not (they're not), can you stop saying this please?

Get in

And bowing out of the domestic cups at the first and second hurdles. There's an extra 5 games we had when we could have done with a breather. We had games every few days for MONTHS. Between 13th September and 12th April the only times we had a week between games were the international breaks. Not exaggerating. 7 months with games every 3 days ffs. Massive games too. Runs like the below where every game felt seismic for our season: It was gruelling, it was bruising, it was relentless.

Still think it's lush and everyone else has lost it.

If it doesn't make much difference then it's probs best not to act like a pathetic little bairn then, eh.

Glad to see this getting the mockery it deserves from everyone except Wallsendmag.

Needlessly catty stuff. We've won plenty of games after CL games this season and last time too.

Anah. "Eddie clearly refusing to walk away from a £6mil a year contract." What about the last 4.5 years says he's not hanging around because he's desperate to put the work in turn it around, and believes he can? He's not here for a payday, he's not stunk the place out with underachievement before this season, he's never a cunt in the press. He's not Steve Bruce basically so why you talking about him like he is? This is the sort of ugly, disrespectful patter people are on about.

What an utterly gross way of framing it.

We were 14 years into Mike Ashley, a grubby little parasite who would do all he could to spite the fans including never seriously looking to sell the club on to someone equipped to run it. For many years it appeared there was no end in sight to that nightmare. I'd have been ecstatic at someone coming in, ripping the Sports Direct shite down and allowing us to spend our own revenue.

Literally your last post before this

It'll probably start with tears and the tears will never stop.

Good job you're not on about fans @The College Dropout cos you sure didn't give a fuck about losing Anderson - see above. I actually agree with you in theory about the (lack of) long term thinking but then it's more difficult when you break it down case-by-case. My head says yeah cool we should have sold Joelinton at his peak but we've seen him bring something intangible the last few years. Us not being pushovers in recent seasons, particularly against the bigger clubs, owes a lot to the physicality and tenacity of Joe. We could have tried to replace that somehow but there are no guarantees on that score and as a fan I'm not really disappointed we didn't.

Not sure I get the clamour for 2 upfront when it's been so rare in the PL since Mourinho really. Worth a go I suppose and may work if the CMs mostly sit back but could quite easily make us significantly outnumbered in midfield, which is probably why most teams dodge it.

too many (mainly online) fans who just want to boast during the good times and bitch during the bad times. True Geordie is their king.

loads had made their mind up on him already.

Hardly any fan gave the slightest fuck we were selling Elliot Anderson tbf. Probably more commotion over Minteh, which was still minimal versus the uproar there'd have been about a Gordon sale. In hindsight selling Gordon for big money would have been great but it wasn't that evident at the time and no fans were calling for it.

"let's buy Bournemouth" might have made a bit sense if we had actually been buying players from them, is all.

Keep on seeing reference to this. So what? 3.5 years of success before this season been tarnished by our record against Bournemouth like?

Paid them zero in transfer fees since Howe took over.

Will be an honour hearing him tell another team's fans how brilliantly he's been playing. I've much preferred him centrally but his inflated ego is a massive annoyance when he has zero guile, consistency issues and struggles to strike a ball properly. I've long been of the opinion if we need to lose a high-value player he's top of my list.

And still somehow misses.

Would love to know where this bitterness towards one of our best ever managers comes from like, it's absolutely bizarre.