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Went to watch Berwick v Nairn County in the Scottish FA Cup the weekend before last. Nairn are in the Highland league, around mid table I believe, and I thought they were really poor so don't expect much in the way of a good standard! They were still far too good for Berwick mind

3-4 now! Blyth had a man sent off on 53 mins. Blyth hit the post in injury time!

Don't even think the MOTM was announced over the tannoy. Definitely not during the match.

I noticed that. Put it straight out for a throw in by the East Stand. I was in the NE Corner and everyone around was up applauding him. You're right if Longstaff did that there'd have been absolute hell on reminiscent of when Scott Parker Al had a full on argument with the East Stand inhabitants

No there wasn't. Tbf he played what 60 or 70 games for us in the early 60s and I'm not demanding a minuted silence for every single ex player who passes away but Willie McFaul played almost 300 times for us, managed us and was one of our 1969 Fairs Cup Legends. He deserved more than black armbands.

Him and Thiaw as a centre half pairing is just ridiculously good.

Love him. Scores goals and his all round play is just incredible. Scary thing is that I think he'll get even better.

Tbf you can only comment on what you're actually watching. He was shite today. No point in trying to dress it up.

Was shite today. That's about as much as we can say.

Really annoyed we didn't recognise Willie McFauls passing with a minutes silence today considering his connection and achievements with the club as a player and manager. He was a club legend. With all due respect we had a minutes silence for Diego Jota and whilst that was tragic he had no connection whatsoever to Newcastle United. Willie McFaul played nearly 300 times for us, including playing an absolute blinder at Ujpest Doza and also managed us after that. He even lived in the area in area in his later years such was his connection to Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Aye there has to be. We've had minutes silences in the past for players who had no connection to us so for a player who played 290 times for us, including the Fairs Cup Final, and then went on to manage us, so he's a club legend basically, a minutes silence should be the vey least tribute he's given.

There has to be.

Just seen something on Twitter saying Willie McFaul has died. Hopefully not true 🙏

It's bizarre stuff it really is. I just cant see the problem. If you were clogging up the matchday thread or the Tonali thread with anti mackem sentiment I could see his point but this is the "Sunderland" thread on a NUFC forum. It's hardly going to be sweetness and light. Actually it's very tame if truth be told. And aside from that there's always the option of not clicking on a subject topic if it doesn't interest you or blocking a specific poster if they upset you so much. Constantly complaining is just a bit weird and actually only serves to take a thread off topic. Anyway the mackem cunts are still 2-0 down.

Seriously though why even let something like that bother you, and if it does bother you so much, just press ignore ffs

They were 5/1 on Paddy Power yesterday!

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B6oUnaZov/ Interesting at 3.45 Sir John Halls mentions ballots a away of allocating tickets.

Just managed to bag a ticket for this after about 2 mins of pressing F5. Same as against Wolves. Leazes East Corner. Think this is where you get the real benefit of membership. Other than for all but the biggest games, if you miss out in the ballot it's pretty easy to get a ticket. There was actually 4 available together in the Leazes East Corner.

Watched Leverkusen yesterday. They struggled against a PSV team that is absolutely ravished with injuries. We can definitely go there and win that one.

Just bring this lad on for the last half hour of every game.

There was a fair few on there calling for his head after they lost to Burnley the other week

Got to say I've been to most of the big German grounds and even on the terracing behind the goal there's only a relatively small % of them actually join in with the songs regularly. The rest of the ground pretty much sits in silence as more of an audience as well. Dortmund as the example. The South Terrace, aka the yellow wall, has a capacity of 25k yet there's only the fans in the centre and towards the front that really join in with the chants, maybe 5/6k. The rest are more reactive to the game, like we are in England. Been to other grounds with big terraces behind the goals, Schalke, Frankfurt, Koln, Monchengladbach and found it the same at those places.

Aye it's ranked 8th strongest league in Europe (Dutch 6th). I watched their game against PSV and they were very, very good. They're already well clear at the top of the Belgian league as well. Hopefully we can start on the front foot for a change, put them under a bit of pressure and see what they're made of.

Can't say I am like. Never been a fan of it since the 2000 extention and I absolutely despise being up in Level 7 because it's such a detached and soulless experience. The only time I seem to get a ballot win is when I apply for up there with my son as well! I was far more attached to my first ever house that I'd scrimped and saved to get a deposit for a mortgage for tbh! Unfortunately the time came when we needed somewhere bigger, and we moved to a bigger more modern one that suited our needs more.

Don't think there's much between him and Barnes at all in terms of ability. We can expect more to come from Elanga based on what he did at Forest you'd like to think, and hopefully Gordon can find some form again and if he can I'd also rank him above Murphy but in the bere and now he's certainly our most productive wide player. As has been mentioned that's a pretty damning stat when we've spend £150m on wingers in the last few years.