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Aye he's 22 now like. He's not a kid. Not sure how long he can get away with the "a bit raw" excuse. From what I've seen of him he's a trier, and a bit mental, but ultimately I don't think he'll be good enough. Played well v Birmingham. Maybe that's his level.

It's likely been like that since football started. Certainly always been that way since I started going in the early/mid 80s.

From both sets of fans as well.

That's just bluster tbf. We don't even have a recognised CF in the squad man

I never thought I'd hate a Newcastle player as much as Michael Owen. Then this cunt comes along.

Agree. Can't judge after one game but you can only beat what's in front of you and they've scored 3 goals and kept a clean sheet today. As I said a few weeks ago I do expect West Ham to be in relegation trouble this season.

Scored 3 goals though and kept a clean sheet. Possession means absolutely fuck all in the grand scheme of things.

Fair play to them. They've went out and had a go in the summer. They'll be frantically screenshotting the league table about now! In saying that I think this will be one of their easiest games of the season. I said a while ago on here that West Ham are one of my tips for relegation.

Or 2 goals in his last 6 games, both of which were penalties. Depends on how you want to dress it up I suppose, but his overall performance since the League Cup Final was well below the standards he'd set himself previously. No doubt about that.

Got to say I couldn't really give a fuck what they do now as I'm as good as priced out as it is, and definitely will be once/if it ever gets built so it's gone from a topic of high interest to me a couple of years back to very little concern of mine now.

So their 2 home friendlies pulled in a combined attendance of around 19,000 and our 2 home friendlies pulled in a combined attendance of around 83,000. When it comes to support we're in completely different stratosphere tbh.

What was their crowd today like.

Not for me. 33 next month. Best days behind him. I'd be disappointed if that was the profile of player we were going for these days. Can understand Sunderland going for him as they are massively short of PL experience but I'd like to think the next midfielder we bring in would be better than he is, and with scope to improve.

And I wouldn't take a single one of their signings.

Think West Allotment play at Morpeth now. Always been a bit of a Nomad club. In recent years I can remember them playing home games at Whitley Park, Druid Park next to the Airport, Palmersville and now Morpeth. Not sure if I've missed one out as well. Impossible to build any sort of fanbase when you're constantly moving around. Ideally one day they could set down roots in West Allotment Itself and then start interacting with the local community and start to build a support.

Another kick in the teeth for members who can't get any luck in the ballots.

Providing a suitable replacement had already been signed.

I get a free season ticket off them every season as my son plays for one of their junior teams. Well technically he gets the season ticket but since accompanied U16s go free anyway he's allowed to take 1 adult in with him for free. It is pretty grim. A soulless venue and if you are near the front which can sometimes happen if you get there last minute as they tend to not open the full stand and put more people into a smaller space then the sight lines are atrocious. We probably only use the tickets 3 or 4 times a season, if that. They played some really good football under Mike Williamson and Rob Elliot which did make it more bearable and you can sort of forget about your surroundings but the 2nd half of last season was terrible. They play Carlisle on Boxing Day. Quite fancy that one. Carlisle could easily bring 4k+ fans if they're going well. The other 2 games I'd be interested in v Hartlepool and York are both on Tuesday nights so probably won't bother.

Going to Orlando City v Inter Miami on Sunday. Messi injured apparently which is a bit disappointing, especially for the bairn as he's never seen him play live in the flesh before. We're in the Orlando Ultras end so that should be an experience

Don't know why we're looking at allowing one of the cartel clubs to offload their shite onto us.

Kenny Dalglish got us in the Champions League. Doesn't mean I've got to like him.

Club really go for it, spending best part of £150m to give it a real go this season and still nobody turns up to back them. Always the same at that place outside of League games when they can’t pad the place out with heavily discounted season tickets and dole out free tickets to schools, Universities etc left, right and centre no bugger turns up. Bit of a shame for KLD, nobody shouts about how good their fans are more than the mackems themselves and he's been hoodwinked, but no matter what he does they won't turn up in consistently big numbers unless they are given the incentive of cheap or heavily discounted tickets. If they charged what we charge that crowd they got yesterday wouldn't be too different from their usual League crowds.

Tynemouth Morrisons? Seem him in there once before and seen him in Tescos on Norham Road 2 Sundays in a row a few weeks ago as well. I clocked a bloke a bit older than me looking at him and then clearly saying to his wife "I'm sure that's Supermac!" As I walked past him I just smiled and said "Aye it is".

Same league. No relegation this season either as the leagues are being restructured. They've had a decent start, beat Cowdenbeath 2-0 on Saturday and drew 0-0 away at Tranent on Tuesday, them and Clydebank are the 2 favourites to win the League so that's a great result for them. Started well last season as well though and it went tits up so nobody will be getting too carried away yet.

I massively prefer the Non League scene these days. Can get a season at Berwick for less than the price of 2 games sat in the East Stand at Newcastle and the overall experience is just so much better. Since last season an elderly chap has been coming up to me at Berwick and intigating conversation, asking if I'm enjoying it, how I think the team are doing etc etc. A really lovely bloke. Came straight over to me on Saturday again, shook my hand, asked how I'm doing.....then I seen him again at the train station coming home where he stopped me for another chat. Found out on Monday through a Facebook post that he's a bloke called Eric Tait, he's Berwicks record appearance maker, and record goalscorer. They even have their corporate lounge named after him. Absolutely smashing bloke he is as well! Aye I certainly think that's where I'll be getting my regular matchday football fix from now. I'll watch NUFC though the Firestick.