geordiesteve710

Every fucking year we play sunderland away on or around my wife's birthday (25th October) and I get an ear-bashing for basically her having to fit her celebrations around me going to the match. Thought at least that wouldn't be a problem this season. Well, I can see what's going to fucking happen here!!

I think by now it's time to get over the whole The Guv thing. Bit confused by our fetish for goslkeepers at the minute. I get why you'd want the likes of Elliott as a solid 3rd choice given that we've had to do things like play jak alnwick vs the mackems in recent seasons, but not on such a long contract when woodmans coming through as well. Also indicates to me that we've written Krul off which seems a little premature/odd to me. Maybe he has an agreement with the club that he can have a transfer for a certain price next summer hence why his extension was just for one year? Just speculating like but I know who I'd have wanted to tie down long term out of the two of them!!

Bear in mind, people are constantly being fed a media line that the premier league is the biggest and bestest league in the world and being in it is the be all and end all. Combine that with the bizarre hero-worship dished out by the likes of Merson towards the likes of pulis, allardyce, pardew who always finish just above the relegation zone and, if you're an armchair fan, that's the frame of reference that you'll see football through?? Therefore anything that contradicts that must be wrong. Also, I'd bear in mind that while it's all fun and games now, hypothetically if in 3 years we are still in this league and rafa is still here (I said hypothetically!) then I imagine there would be a fair few who would re-visit that preference!

absolute fiction from start to finish that, man!!

The fact they regularly have 10 threads about us, state we don't matter because we are lower league and they paid for a plane to fly over our landfill, yet they claim it's us that's obsessed. We are the deluded ones yet they are predicting upper mid-table with that squad and believing fully in Moyes, yet Rafa relegated us and is clearly a s*** manager. Claiming Anichibe is a class signing while proclaiming every one of our signings s***. Loving Yedlin then claiming he's s*** because he signed for us, but Manquilla and Ndong are class. Ludicrous small bitter obsessed club madness Wouldn't let it wind you up. Self-awareness is not, and never has been the forte of sunderland fans. I admire the front every time I hear them.accusing NUFC of being "obsessed" without a hint of irony. It's like a five year old with a new insult he learnt off the older lads- no idea what it means but damned if he's not going to run around shouting it at everyone else!

The irony is that if we'd been displaying the kind of behaviour they expected, being gutted, low season ticket renewals etc then the RTG narrative would be along the lines of fickle mags have been found out, the myth that newcastle fans are loyal has been shattered etc. And they'd mean it just as sincerely And why is it always about "the rest of the country" with them? There seems to be an unhealthy concern about making sure all other football fans in England hate us and love them. Why?

Why would they include that in there? Anywhere else: 'Urgh, don't spit on the pavement you bamp'. sunderland: 'Urgh, she's got spit in her hair'. Why do sunderland girls have spit in their hair? Often enough to use it as a quote for context in their dictionary? Must be a nonce thing.... It's not spit mate...

Presumably this is a reference to him not being picked for England. Some of us are quite pleased he's not in the England squad. After years of seeing players from the 'top clubs' being picked, regardless of form, I gave up watching my national team. If Defoe played for Man U and Rashford was playing for us, Jermain would be with England and Rashford would be on his jollies. This has been what's wrong with the England squad for years. Back when there were more English players at the top clubs, you could pretty much judge how an england squad would change from season to season based on who had been bought or sold from man utd or Liverpool. I wouldn't mind if it had been a successful policy aka Spain picking predominantly from two teams, and sweeping the board but it's been quite the opposite.

By the end they were pretty good defensively, only lost 4 times since the turn of the year. Kone was an excellent buy Were they, or was it just a case of more bodies back gives the impression? I think any team could "look good defensively" playing 7-2-0-1 We didn't at times under McClaren, Pardew or Carver. We got loads of men behind the ball but they just looked disinterested. Allardyce at least got their lot running about, chasing in packs, tackling and that's ultimately what made them hard to beat and kept them up. Our lot just meandered about watching with colback tripping people who had run past him being the sum total of any effort until rafa arrived.

Comments on articles sometimes make me want to go and live in a cave. Some mad c*** there ranting about how we have pre-season plans before we've done anything in the transfer market. Comments sections are the worst form of social media. How would you even go about trying to debate or argue with someone that stupid??

Jesus, the comments section on that man. I didn't think they still went on and on about the fairs cup not being a proper trophy. Well I was very fucking wrong wasn't I!! Surely when you're still ranting on against prevailing opinion 45 years later you'd hit a point where you think fuck it, I'll not bother anymore.

The reason why the Welsh teams are allowed in us because there isn't a professional league in Wales, or the conditions for a financially viable professional league structure to exist. There is in Scotland so any move to bring the Old Firm in would fall foul of FIFA rules.

We have plenty of well supported non-league clubs and developing clubs hoping to get into the league. You just have to look at the likes of Doncaster, Fleetwood, Wimbledon, and York to see how their are clubs who are viable league clubs. Doncaster came all the way from the Conference to the Championship in a few years, Fllwtwood are devoting into a decent league team. Last night we had Acceington Stanely and Wimbledon in the League 2 play offs, both clubs who are replacements to their original clubs. In Wimbledon's case their rise has been rapid. York city are on the verge of building a new stadium to house increasing supporter numbers. Closer to home we have Gateshead who ideally want their own stadium to house their steady following. England is unique in the sense that we have hundreds of well supported clubs and are possibly the only country in he world that can support then. It's are duty to continue supporting them. Nah. More games = more revenue. Money that will be used to pay the wages of the Stewarts at Fllwtwood and Acceington Stanely.

There's generally compensation due to the club. Traditionally the manager's new club pays this, presumably agreed as a formality in their contract talks with the manager.

Nice to see Mike moonlighting as guest American writer for the Chronicle

We had 3 points from 9 games when Sam came in. We've averaged 1.25 points per game since he arrived. That kind of return would get you about 47 points for the season. I'd be more than happy with that. Also his signings have been brilliant. Kirchoff for £750,000 is an absolute steal. Kone is a beast and Khazri has been immense. I understand why Newcastle fans slag off Allardyce, you deemed him not good enough, but for us he seems like a great fit because our expectations are less. Trust me, if his signings had been of the ilk of cacapa, geremi and alan smith instead of the 3 you've name-checked your lot would be wanting to hang the fucker off that fake tyne bridge you've got!! Expectations wouldn't come into it!! He's done a decent job there with his signings and getting the best out of Defoe, at Newcastle he was bloody awful. If you're comparing his record against Keegans in the same season it must also be taken into account that Allardyce had the easier run of fixtures as well as the benefit of a full summer and pre-season to get prepared.

This all day long. Obviously there are financial considerations and cloth will have to be cut to an extent, but if we're serious about going for promotion* we need to be giving ourselves as much of a headstart over the other teams in this division in terms of squad quality and not be shy about it. I don't think, for example, we need to be pissing about going into the season with Armstrong as the first choice striker only to realise by October he's not good enough and we're writing the season off because we don't score enough goals. We'll also need players with guts and character. Our away record last season was horrendous which points to a lack of mental strength and if that's not sorted it could be our downfall. *goes without saying this is a big "if" with these jokers in charge.

I think you'll find it's original, witty and hilarious. And if we don't say so, it's just because we're bitter about going down. Obviously.

Typical mackems. Wouldn't necessarily say typical. For starters, it looks like they live in the nice bit, and they can at least afford some clothing that isn't made by kappa.

was waiting for someone to pipe up with this!!

Don't think we're gonna get a quick announcement on this one. If Rafa is thinking about it, he might want to "think about it" until we see how Spain do and what happens with their managers job. The board will just be happy to keep him here as long as possible to squeeze out extra season ticket sales, and each day longer is a day closer to next season's excuse of "By the time Rafa decided, all the good managers had already been hired. We're lucky to have Laurie Sanchez really."

Fuck that, it's going to be an embarrassing, uncomfortable day on sunday, even for this sackless duo. Make them experience every torturous minute on the pitch I say. Get Captain Coward out there on his crutches and all.

Does he drive it at 30mph? Just to be on the safe side? Everywhere in reverse Round and round in circles going nowhere

A match of the day facebook post which is just a picture of the Newcastle badge and the word "relegated." Solely exists for the "hilarious" bantz brigade to be tagging people in.

It wasn't bitterness, it was schadenfreude. It's all part of football. The time to worry is when you go down and nobody bats a f***ing eyelid. People go on about 'the banners' but they're talking about two banners which could have been brought by one person for all we know. It's not like we were all riding around the city centre, sat on top of our cars, bibbing our horns and waving flags at 3am in the morning because you'd got relegated. Anyway, we know what it's like now - we've been slowly tortured to death in front of the entire world for one entire season now. We have had loads of p*ss take and media coverage about it and to be honest, it just makes me feel better - that us getting relegated is still 'a story'. Unlike pointless yoyo clubs like Albion or Norwich, up and down so often people forget where they are from one year to the next. This fixture is a great opportunity for you lot to take the p*ss back, and we're going to have to suck it up. The only problem is: 1. Your current league position which may render p*ss taking inadvisable before the end of the match. 2. The fact that that banner posted here is proper s****. Tbh Brummie, it was worse than you probably saw, although granted "bitter" is probably the wrong word to describe it. I've been to numerous away grounds down the years and never experienced the amount of abuse, threats of violence, w*****s taking their turn to get in my face and eyeball me etc as on the train from aston to new st that day. Loads even followed us onto our platform to wring every last bit of p*ss-taking they could out of the day. That is not banter, it's really really odd behaviour. Heard stories from more than one group of fans I see regularly that villa fans were driving up the motorway taunting coaches by waving flags and beeping horns. The banners and singing in stadium were fine and all part of the crack imo but it was after, outside that a large majority (but I would stress not all) of villa fans just seemed to collectively turn into a pack of rabid zombies. That said, it was SEVEN f***ing years ago. That people still seem to be genuinely upset baffles me, and as for the banners in this thread well, Jesus f***ing wept!! Personally, I'd turn up and not even mention the whole thing- as Brummie has alluded to, no-one likes being ignored or feeling unimportant. I resent that the whole Villa thing has basically become part of our culture as a fanbase now. I hate that every time we play Villa the same articles surface in the mag and true faith. It just comes across as very bitter and we used to be bigger and better than that. Those banners were designed to get a rise out of us- 7 years later we're still biting, you couldn't make it up. It's a massive game for NUFC on Saturday, all efforts should go into supporting the manager and the team. And as for the opposition, f*** giving them the attention they want. Aston who?? Any group of fans would dislike another set of fans who acted like such c***s. We aren't bigger and better than that and we never were, no group of fans are as its really part of Football. Having said that yeah we shouldn't be pissing about with banners in this game, we need to concentrate on supporting our side above all else. I do understand where you're coming from, but one day as a fanbase we're gonna have to move on from this. For me, coming back up, beating them 6-0 in a game they thought they'd win easily and having a laugh at their stunned faces probably did it. I see why it took others longer, but it's seven years and they haven't exactly set the world on fire since. Where do we draw the line? Cos if we're still grumbling on in 10, 15 years it'll be like the mackems and their silly one-way rivalry with Coventry. Who wants to be that small-time?? We're giving Villa far more attention than they deserve and they think it's hilarious. As I outlined above, Villa fans went way over the top on the day. But part of football is also accepting that people will take the piss when things go wrong and not getting too upset by it. Our fans were pretty merciless when we sent Birmingham City down in 2006, and in 1997 on one of the best days I've had as a Newcastle fan with qualifying for the CL and all, we still found time to repeatedly remind already-relegated Forest that they were indeed going down with the mackems. I've never seen any of their fans go on about it. I don't want to fall out with anyone about this, but I really think a lot of people don't understand how much it comes across as us being delicate little flowers.