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We must just spend half time flaying them with hoses.

My favourite non-NUFC player in the prem, think he's absolutely brilliant. Got a bit of Pedro about him.

HT special is about Kevin Davies. As if anyone watching knows who he is

Too small and weak for this league

My little boy was going mental at the TV in that scramble. He's one and a half

Howay the lads

Brown Ale, Bombay Sapphire and Tanqueray, a gentlemans medley .

It's the Newcastle way.

Scored against Barcelona in the champions league at the Nou Camp.

Like a Lee Ryder article

Gonna be really hard to make decent songs in a few years

Nothing like a massive exaggeration now and then. Its absolutely true. One of the only goals he got, maybe the only one was when he kicked the ball off his other foot and it somehow looped over the keeper in front of him There was another one on his debut (I think) where he shot from about 6 yards out and it went out for a throw in

He has great potential but never seems to give a shit. Comes across as a pure shop window player. He'll never be loved, he'll never be remembered, he'll simply fade away like the others.

Great, I was starting to worry Colback might not play.

Think the club has been on a downward spiral since John Hall stepped down as Chairman, we had the couple of years renaissance under Robson but the first killer blow was the appointment of Souness and since then we have fallen from grace at an alarming rate and now we are at the shipwrecked stage. Ashley had the chance to steady the ship under Keegan but blew it big time and now we are in a hopeless position with second rate stooges running the operation of the club and we are now a pitied shell at best and a laughing stock at worst. That's why some people on here really boil my piss as you just don't get it and don't appreciate how serious the situation is. Then again, if you take a longer term view of things which acknowledges the club existed before 1990s, you might come to the view that the Hall/Shepherd/Keegan era was just a beautiful, ecstatic, extraordinary but fleeting aberration the allowed us to dare to dream. Bit like having an amazing affair with your dream woman, but ultimately having to recognise you were just a jammy git for a while and you have to return to the maudlin old battleaxe you actually married. Aye, that six times FA cup winning, four times leagues champions battleaxe. We're not Crystal fucking Palace ffs.

Fuck off We're fucked.

Should have employed a decent manager.

Didn't even know we were playing

Bloke on talksport at the minute saying Marriner had a good game. Nasty Newcastle were going out to kick poor little Arsenal. Mitrovic clear red card and it's the fans fault we got so many cards because we were shouting too loud and scared poor Andre.

Does your free season ticket work? It's been like this for ages, increasingly so all the time. Whenever we play one of the better sides, home or away, the crowd goes home absolutely buzzing if we do anything other than get absolutely obliterated. It used to be just the top couple of sides in the division. Now if we play Swansea City and don't get f***ed up the arse, it's treated as a moral victory. Meanwhile West Ham have already won away at Liverpool and Arsenal. As a support, we write these games off and are delighted to do so. One of the many reasons I can't be f***ed with it any more. Yep - the Ashley propaganda machine has done a fine job on NUFC fans...or what is left of the genuine ones. He set out to lower expectations and because many fans have nothing but SJP on every alternative Saturday/Sunday to look forward to, he has probably even bettered his aims. The club will never do anything whilst people are prepared to accept mediocrity - I'm not particularly referring to Saturday as there were mitigating factors, but even so, a more ambitious owner would never have allowed a club of our size to start a season with such an inexperienced CF with a reputation for being physical or without PL experience. Its all about investing in young players in the hope that they will come good and make a profit when sold on. Maybe my expectations have been lowered but while I wasn't happy with the result I was happy to see the team perform with some heart and effort and something that in a good light might resemble an actual plan. I don't think anyone's saying we should be happy to lose but there are undoubted signs of progress under McClaren (I didn't want him as manager fwiw). Just a case of recognising that there are a few positives to be taken despite the result.

My dad used to play in the same side as him. Said even at 16, playing against 20-30 year old men he never looked like he was running but nobody could ever get close to him.

I hope we're not going to have to put up with Obertan for a few months until McClaren works out he's ball sweat.

CISSSSEEEEEE!

Is McClaren turning into a unicorn?