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Don't know anything about him but he's worth signing cos he has a pure mint name.

Didn't have a problem with that, thought we were OK.

That can't be from when they were put up because the SD billboards in the background are the SD facelift branding

The whole myth about diehard Heed fans hating NUFC seems to stem from when they lost their league status. Can't find the source but seem to recall reading somewhere that the way NUFC voted was to protect themselves because another club owed them a substantial amount of money (possibly Hartlepool). There's also a bit here about geographical reasons On the 28th May 1960, however, the Football League’s AGM had a nasty surprise in store for Gateshead. Eighteen different non-league clubs applied for a Football League place in 1960, but after Oldham Athetic had their place confirmed it was confirmed that Peterborough United of the Midland League had finished in second place, meaning that a Football League club was going to lose its place. Even when Hartlepools United grabbed the third spot, though, Gateshead still had cause for optimism. Southport may have finished a place above them in the table, but they’d had to apply for re-election for the previous three seasons whereas this was the first time that Gateshead had been required to reapply in twenty-three years. Southport won eleven votes more than Gateshead, though, and the Newcastle Chronicle reported the next day: Gallant Gateshead are out of league football. Gone from the tough competitive scene are a team who have always played hard and earned their own little corner in soccer history. They battled in the shadow of the great Newcastle United and Sunderland – for cash as well as points. They were always fighters, but now their ‘colleagues’ have kicked them out. The strong rumour was that the owners of southern clubs were tired of having to travel all the way up to Tyneside, though this has obviously never been verified by anbody in an official position. Two years later, however, when a new club was required to replace Accrington Stanley, who’d folded during the season, the voting saw a landslide for Oxford United, who received thirty-nine votes, thirty-four more than the next-lowest placed club, Wigan Athletic. Throughout the remainder of the 1960s, such landslide votes were the norm, but with very different results – non-league clubs normally came nowhere near the required total number of votes.

Aye - After 15 games, Watford had 8 points. They then made it to 34 points and were out of the relegation zone with 3 games left to play but then lost their last 3 and went down by a point. If we do win on Saturday we'll be 2 points better off, if we draw then we'll be in the same boat as they were but at least we'll have the chance of doing something significant when the transfer window opens. My confidence still isn't that high but for every stat that has us sunk without a trace, there's another stat which shows that it is possible to get out of this mess.

I'm not feeling overly optimistic at this stage, but we managed to pick up 26 points from our last 18 games last season and that was with a fat useless cunt in charge and probably training once a fortnight, so anything is possible. That stat about no wins at the start of the season keeps getting trotted out but I'd be more interested to know what is the longest run without a win at any point of the season, where a team has stayed up?

What was it?

"Al fuckin nut yeh!" What a daft cunt. There must've been something in the air last night, a couple of guys squared up at Haymarket metro and one was twice the size of the other, bizarre spectacle!

That YouTube link at the bottom is brilliant. Juvenile whoppers whenever television camera appears really is a timeless delight, nee blue dildos in those days though.

3rd round draw still gives me a massive buzz. I'm from a generation where the FA Cup was THE competition and this used to be one of the biggest highlights of the season. It's awful to see just how devalued this competition has become, although fair play to the BBC who have been trying to build it up again in recent years.

When I saw that this thread had been bumped I just knew that it would include something like this. Marvellous

Somewhere in Cheshire, a big-boned 60 year old is sobbing uncontrollably into his mid-afternoon tray of cheese toasties.

20th October 2021: "Newcastle fans have made me a broken man, their abuse has finished me. They called me The Ginsters Nonce. I am going to retire because I can't take any more!" 24th November 2022: "I want the Man Utd job, I can do the Man Utd job. Pick me, Pick me!" All thoroughly predictable, and says an awful lot about the type of person he is. Fucking self-pitying thundercunt.

When was the last time we had over 50% possession? Loads to be positive about today, and Darlow probably cost us two points. Under Bruce, Brentford would have had 80% of the ball and would have likely ripped us a new arsehole.

That fat cunt looks like he's been shrinkwrapped at Flannels. He must use an oversized shoe horn to get dressed. Either that, or his mam paints his clothes on each morning.

If them blowing out of their arse after twenty minutes is our squad at peak fitness then we're totally screwed.

Aye, but it's Ok because he's an African chief now...

Absolutely, this is why the whole "the nasty Geordies have pushed me into retirement!" was nowt but a load of self-indulgent horseshite. The very next half decent paycheque that comes along, he'll be on it like a shot.

Massively ambivalent, reading that. It's so good to read that structure, organisation and hard work has been implemented and we'll hopefully see the rewards of this very soon. At the same time, It's just so fucking annoying how much that lazy fat cunt and his band of lackeys stole a living. The 20% possession is one thing, but surely that's not an excuse to degrade the fitness training. Four weeks later and he's still annoying as fuck. I really hope that Howe shows him up quickly for the fraud that he is.

Voted for the Castle Keep badge because I absolutely love it, but I fully agree with most that there is absolutely nothing wrong with our current badge, and there's no real reason to change it. Gordon McKeag got a lot of things wrong, but implementing the existing club crest is certainly something which he got right. Also, the fact that the mackems plagiarised it when they changed their badge soon after, and thought nobody would notice.

See someone has offered £100 to a charity of Wraith's choice to prove that she is a real person, and that they're genuinely friends. Several others have also matched the bet, but he seems to be ignoring it.

Going to watch with interest how this thread develops. Double standards kicking after only a few posts: https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/boycott-qatar.1564612/

First global warming to attract players, and now this: https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/putting-a-roof-on-the-stadium-of-light.1564474/ Someone has to be taking the piss out of them, surely?!

People keep going on about him getting Hull to the cup final as a massive achievement, but it was pretty much one of those lucky draw cup runs. Their most difficult game was the quarter final at home to Sunderland (who were PL at the time). They then faced a League One side in the semis. That cup run is probably the one thing which sets him apart from the likes of Warnock, but to herald it as a major achievement is massively overstretching things.

Are these real quotes from RTG?