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A lot of our support thought we would win it by Christmas and go the whole season without defeat. Aside from the fact that it was mathematically impossible for us to win it by Christmas I don't know a single person who thought that so I'd doubt very much that was the feeling of a lot of the fans.

It'll be interesting if he ever decides on a night out in Newcastle because he's odds on to get a good hiding. Very silly thing to do.

This has now changed to Sunday, but only just. I agree with what a previous poster said about the 'roar'. Normally it's the whole ground at once, instant noise, but on Sunday it was this strange crescendo that seemed to get louder and louder. Was awesome to be part of it! The noise was deafening when the whole ground realised Villa had scored. I remember looking at the bairn and he was just stood there with his hands over his ears and a bemused look on his face.

Aye they deserve a huge amount of credit for some of those displays last season.

He's been here 14 months now and I still can't quite believe he's our manager. For some reason it's just never quite sunk in properly.

For some reason, mainly because he did it right in front of where I sit, but Dwight Gayles going down, going up celebration will live long in the memory. Fitting that he scored our first and last goals of the 2016/17 season I think.

They have been awarded a ridiculous amount of penalties this season, quite a few of them would be classed as "soft" ones as well. We've been the polar opposite in that we've had a lot of stone wall penalty appeals not given and then when we did get a softish one against Burton the referee disallowed it anyway. Overall though I think the final league table represents a true pucture. We were the best team in the league and Brighton were 2nd best.

The two Barnsley fans I spoke to were actually appalled by the fans that were celebrating the Brighton goal. Said the ones letting the smokebomb off were a bunch of out of control kids. I think we can relate to that element amongst our support like. Looking from the gallowgate up to the away section it seemed to be a minority that were jumping up and down in celebration. I'm in the Gallowgate as well and that's how I seen it. Looked like a couple of hundred or so nearest to where our fans were and someone at the back set off a flare and was arrested for it about 15 minutes later. He must have thought he'd gotten away with it The rest of them didn't seem too bothered about the Brighton score. In fact they seemed like a pretty boring set of fans. Just sat there in silence for most of the match.

Tbf the Barnsley fans we encountered in the town were all spot on and congratulating us.

SJP loudest stadium ever apparently; http://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/volume-at-st-james-park.255855/

Not forgetting John Carver.

You don't need columns and graphs to see the lad just isn't good enough. Rarely looked like troubling the scoresheet once again yesterday.

Why should we forget about them? They've been our rivals for 125 years! The going down, going up song has been tremendous for the past few games but other than that they don't really get sung enough that much. Rivalry is one of the things that makes football what it is and what sets it apart from other sports. I find it staggering how many people on here don"t understand that. I'll take great delight if they struggle badly next season and get turned over by Burton Albion. If that offends you then tough sh*t. Agree about the banner/plane fwiw. I agree about rivalry being important in football and all that. But to me I'd rather focus on or season of achievement then theirs of plight. We can have endless amounts of laughs after this summer if we still have Rafa, he's been backed and they're struggling in the Chanpionship No reason why we can't do both. We've had a great season and their demise has been the icing on the cake.

The place will be like a ghost town man. If they were going to turn, it would have happened by now. They know that they're stuck with him because they can't afford to pay him off and a handful of irate yokels booing him isn't going to be enough for him to walk away and kiss goodbye to a few million quid pay off.

The 2016/17 season. The season that just keeps on giving

They might as well just open up the gates and let everyone walk in. 12 quid man. Gateshead charge more.

Agree with the majority on here. If I were a neutral I'd be more bothered about who gets relegated than in which order the 2 automatically promoted teams go up in.

Why should we forget about them? They've been our rivals for 125 years! The going down, going up song has been tremendous for the past few games but other than that they don't really get sung enough that much. Rivalry is one of the things that makes football what it is and what sets it apart from other sports. I find it staggering how many people on here don"t understand that. I'll take great delight if they struggle badly next season and get turned over by Burton Albion. If that offends you then tough sh*t. Agree about the banner/plane fwiw.

Don't think much of that but it's got the Mackems fewmin which I suppose was the point of it, so job done in that respect.

I'd expect nothing less from an orgaistation that thinks Gareth Southgate is a good manager. Clueless.

Hopefully we'll find out soon enough then.

Would have been better if he'd been pictured giving Shearer a load of abuse as that would have guaranteed the crowd turning on him. As it is, and assuming it's him, he's got a twin if it's not, he would have been at sunderlands academy back then so would have been one of the 10,000 free ticket holders for that particular match.

Suppose I would rather have a couple more Northern teams in the Premier League with us so hoping Hull stay up and Sheff Wed come up with us but as long as we're there I'm not too bothered who is up there with us.

Did they light up Penshaw Monument to celebrate a 17th place finish or because NUFC were relegated? What a strange lot.