Toonpack

Aye, 3 points clear of...erm... 14th

Did you see him play ? He's the only one I would ever consider ahead of Messi, Pele also played in the days defenders could set about seeing how fast you could limp

It’s absolutely no big deal. As for owners piling in equity, that would have to be done in line with the shareholding, PIF’s pockets are bottomless but the others aren’t.

What a player cost in total is not the amount of your budget that total figure accounts for, it’s what the player cost divided by length of contract (amortisation). So Paqueta for £50 million if on a 5 year contract takes up £10 mill of your budget. You could still buy 5 more £50 mill players within your £60 mill budget.

Gemmill won’t be coming, he’s had a flounce due to lack of worship

Dude Abides ??

Only if the paper fails and the brown ballerina makes an appearance

You calling Gemmill a nonce ??

Whilst sitting, the rift remains open

*tuppence 🙄

there’s this thing called being civilised, you may have heard of it.

You’re asking for a drive by fruiting you cunt

Utter bollocks, Quiff is not a little cunt, he is an enormous cunt

Cheers

thank fuck Diego made it 👍

What a pisser, Toontastic murdered and my user name here bastardised 😔 Can a Mod set it back to Toonpack, pretty please 🙏

He's a cunt but that's not Johnsons quote, he was editor of the spectator at the time but he didn't write that.

Clattenberg and Oliver are the best refs by a mile but they're both Mags so we will only ever get the shite ones for our games.

The hope that it means we must surely progress will make the inevitable disaster that fucks it up all the harder to take.

They are, on other forums

Well this is it, total watershed moment, if Benitez can't turn us into a proper football club occasionally challenging for one of the tin pots, we are well and truly consigned to perpetual shite

I agree with this - IF Benitez signs, he will be faced by an incredibly difficult situation. Not only have the dumbclucks in charge left it too late(he should have been in after the Chelsea game) to give him a fighting chance but he will be dealing with a bunch of players who are probably the most spineless he has had to manage in his whole career. Not only are they spineless, but some are already making plans for themselves at what they consider to be better clubs than NUFC and have zero reason or motivation to rouse themselves for the fight ahead. Also, as this mackem says, Allardyce has had much experience of facing possible relegation and the players he has at Sunderland may not be as talented as some of ours but they DO seem to have more stomach for the fight - we shall see how much Newcastle players want to stay up when we watch the Derby very soon and we CANNOT afford to lose that. Given 2 sets of similar players in a mid-table situation, you would choose Benitez over Allardyce every day of the week, but these clubs are not in that position. IF NUFC stay up, Benitez would do a great job given time and finance to get the players he needs, but he faces a really tough gig if he becomes manager. Nobody could condemn him if we still go down because he has very little time to sort things out and that is not his fault. I would never chose fat Sam over Benitez under any circumstances. If we do get him, and I think we will, our unmotivated players will all get a bounce and I can see the players improving enough to get us out of trouble. I think the derby atmosphere will be very similar to the first derby after we were promoted and that will also boost our performance . This might sound daft but a fit and motivated Cisse could keep us up on his own, we just need somebody to find that player. Exactly that, Benitez has a major reputation within the game and probably the contacts to match, even those players wanting out are unlikely to want to p*ss him off/not try because there's a decent chance whoever is considering them will talk to Benitez (if the useless f***ers in charge manage not to f*** the appointment up - which I still believe is a high possibility) and the players won't want to seen as t***s and future negotiations coloured by "even Rafa couldn't get them to play to their best" thoughts. because that'll cost them real £££'s in negotiations.

Charnley has offered the job to RAFA http://www.dudleynews.co.uk/resources/images/2508962/

Yeah Penn is genuinely ITK. His ITK reputation is now very much on the line then He's got a 100% record. He was first to break the news that Pardew had left. I'm tempted to have a huge bet. Hope his run continues.

Yeah Penn is genuinely ITK. His ITK reputation is now very much on the line then