Wallsendmag

Standard Southampton away defeat coming up.

Don't really like the name much but it is only a name and the displays they organise and the continuous improvements they're making to the overall atmosphere are more important than what they're called so I'm not really bothered.

They're 2nd bottom of the Championship, haven't won a home game for 10 months, are staring into the financial abyss, most the fans have stopped going to watch them and they have a manager who looks like Sloth out of the Goonies but at least their stripes are whiter than ours; https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/white-stripes.1395470/

The Chimbonda effect kicking in already!

In real life Wraith is nowt like how he comes across on the internet. Met him a couple of years ago in the Walls End pub and had a canny crack on with him for a good 15 minutes or so about NUFC and a more sound bloke you couldn't wish to meet which really surprised me because I always thought of him as a right tit. Still, he wanted shot for that mock funeral he did like!

Aye definitely. He's been getting a bit of stick on Twitter and him and his TF colleague Alex have spat the dummy.

Not sure. Something to do with foliage would be my guess.

Can't see that going well either. Didn't they get battered off St Johnstone and Celtic in Pre season?

I'd love a gan on that mind.

There's no money to be made out of owning Sunderland though. Niall Quinn and his consortium lost £millions trying to keep them ticking over and Bob Murray had to sell the club to them in the first place because he could no longer afford to keep them going. Now you have Ellis Short there who has to bail them out to the tune of 10s of £millions every year just to keep them in business.

Atmosphere this season is as good as I can remember since the 92/93 season. Even our first season in the PL in 93/94 wasn't as good as it is now. Massive credit to Gallowgate flags and Wor Hyem because they've totally transformed the Gallowgate which in turn seems to have given the whole ground a new lease of life. Quite a few times on Sunday all 4 stands were up singing and even under Keegan (1st time) that didn't happen all that often. Good to hear both managers mention the atmosphere as well.

Great. The more the merrier.

Yesterday's match was sold out weeks ago. It didn't even reach general sale. Looked packed from where I sit in the Gallowgate apart from up in Level 7 where there are always some empty seats dotted about for some reason.

Stick it up on Twitter mate. There's loads of people desperate for tickets on there.

Meh. Used to play on Xmas Day and Boxing Day in the good ol' days.

Hmm. A couple of days ago there was talk of him wanting to extend Rafa's contract and today the talk is of £60m being made available for transfers in January. To say I'm sceptical would be an understatement.

I very much doubt there's an uglier breed than the mackem. Look at the clip of that lot man

Tell them to f*ck off and create their own Super League with the likes of Barca, Real, Bayern, Juve PSG etc and then we can all sit back and watch it die on it's ar*e.

How many of these "hardy souls" made that trip because after watching the highlights, it's like a library when they scored their two goals ? 700 although apparently only around 200 of them were based in the North East and the rest were Southern based Exiles.

Well they did tell us to enjoy the Championship and to tell the truth I've been enjoying it for 2 seasons now.

You'd be wasting your money. They won't get beat tonight.

Gave us more memories that Ashley ever will.

Liverpool at home didn't make general sale and I very much doubt Arsenal will either. Get a member to get them for you.

Yep that magnificent 52,000 seat stadium that we sit in every other week is largely down to him. At the time of it's expansion it was the 2nd biggest in the country only behind Old Trafford. One thing you couldn't knock him for was his ambition.