geordiesteve710

Bloody hell. And to think their board turned down credible bids from that American 2 weeks ago who looked like he'd be able to sort the club out, for this alternative. Must be a right selfish bunch of cunts and they must somehow be making a lot of money out of an organisation that is currently financially crippled.

Got a 2 day assessment centre for a job, just found out it's 4th-5th March and in Lincoln so I'll miss the Man Utd game. Most seasons previous I'd have been pretty pissed off about this kind of turn of events which typically hapen to me. Now I'm just thinking it's less expense, hassle and sitting in the cold watching them put shitloads of goals past us. Club wants to write off the rest of the season? fine- so can I. Apart from the s/t money which admittedly they already have.

I'm sure they were all falling over each other to tell us how much of a cunt /shit manager he was. Now he's left having been heavily criticised, he was actually an ok manager and the problem was us. It's like there's a fucking chip in every single brain which is programmed to "disagree with the mags on every single thing, at all costs." Btw, league one opposition again if these can get past Fulham.

All football is history marra. 9-1ftm is history, just as the 5-1 is now marra. The only difference whatsoever between those 2 games is 4 more goals were scored. All football is just history- apart from the Fairs Cup. Doesn't count as history cos sunderlandNETD weren't in it marra

And if Derby go up- which is very very fucking likely btw- then he's gonna stay put and we're back to square one with no other willing targets lined up and you can bet we'll spend until August pissing about with it, maybe ending up with Carver by default. Either way there'll be no time to consider piffling little things like player recruitment etc.

Is there any way of proving that our supposedly injured players were fit? What would the punishment be? Banned from the cup for a year? Guess who wins again...

I bet the club photographer was hanging around for hours, waiting for a shot where Woodman wasn't shovelling some food into his gob before giving up and taking it anyway.

Startlingly they missed out 'don't sit on it, you'll egg it!' and 'no mooching/no blasties' Aye, was waiting for "Nee blasties" reading the article. The administration regarding what constitutes a "blasty" was very simple. The lad who was a bit better than everyone else (had either played for or had a trial for 'Newcastle Boys') had absolute discretion, mainly due to the unspoken respect for his expertise at the game. Ever other week that lad is playing on proper pitches with goals and lines and referees and stuff, why how could he be capable of cheating?!? In the absence of such a figure, whatever the hardest player said went. Regarding deflected goals in Singles, on the (not very) mean streets of north Gosforth, we used to play a rule of shooter's goal - which never caused as many arguments as it had the potential for by the way- now turns out we were very much in the minority on that one?!?!?

Very true!!!

Don't think he could have done much of a worse job overall with the players at his disposal, so not sure whether your point is even worth discussion tbh. I'm not defending Pardspew. I am merely stating that he is just one of the symptoms of the Ashley cancer that has infested the club. You're absolutely right- however he was a very significant part of that cancer- I'd say more a cause than just a 'symptom'- and one that badly needed cutting out. P45due didn't just suffer from Ashley being a c***, he defended him, propped him up and enabled the whole charade of selling players, profiteering, lack of sporting ambition etc to continue. Continuous defence of Ashley and the strategy was bad enough, but he was often the one touting our bloody players around for sale before spending weeks, months or in the case of C****e nearly a whole year using this sale to justify his cowardly and s*** football. It's also highly probable that this whole "competing in the cups=certain relegation" attitude that still permeates the club came directly from him either to save his arse after the shambles of 12/13 or because his nature is to be the most cowardly c*** possible. I'm going off on a tangent now so I'll get back to the point of the post. Pardew defended Ashley, took all the s*** for him and 100% legitimised the low expectations in Ashley's mind. To have a sniff of seeing a change in the club, we need to see either a change of ownership or a significant change of approach from the current owner (stop sniggering at the back.) Pardew made the whole thing too cosy and easy for him. Without having Pardew to hide behind Ashley might be feeling a little vulnerable, or even open to a degree of change, that was never going to happen with Pardew in charge.

Was literally about to post this. Word for fucking word.

How is Pellegrini a joke ffs City flew back from Dubai overnight, arriving in the UK this morning. Now that is a joke If that's true it's outrageously disrespectful. Hope Boro hang on.

The amount of romanticising currently going on about Cantona's kung fu kick. A player for any other club and it would rightly be condemned and frowned at. Can't be upsetting the hoards of gloryhunters though, so it's now treated reverently as some sort of glorious/nostalgic moment of eccentricity and passion. He tried to kick a fan in the head for fucks sake.

Attilio Lombardo at a push?!? Got 17 on that 90s footballers thing- was worryingly easy. tbf, I used to watch so much football back then compared to now I reckon I'd be able to name more PL squad players from 94-95 than current players from this season. No wonder I never reached my potential at school!!!!

Eh? We would be in the exact same place If we had more commercial revenue coming in instead of Ashley using us as to advertise his own business for free, we'd be in the same place in the rich list? Have i missed something? Ah you meant where would we be in a pointless list of clubs turnover? I was talking about the real world where Ashley wouldnt spend the extra money so the club would be exactly where we are now. No argument from me there. We could be top of the list and nothing would change from that side of things. However, every position we climb up that league makes us more attractive to potential buyers, especially when you consider that our commercial revenue opportunities are nowhere near being maximised. From that perspective it isn't useless. What you're saying is probably 100% correct. My big worries for the future are a) what kind of prospective owner will be attracted by the fact the club is extremely profitable? My guess is one who wants to take as much out of the club as he can. b) it'll just mean Ashley gets to put a higher price on the club as it's proven to be a very profitable asset, albeit one which will have reached it's potential (as a profit-generator) so no nearer a new buyer unless one with ridiculously deep pockets can be found and c)as long as it's raking cash in he's not going to want to sell, so no nearer a potential new owner. In honesty, despite my pessimism, I struggle to constructively think of a hypothetical situation aside from an unfortunate contamination in the Greggs factory, which does bring us nearer to new ownership. We've tried being poor and that certainly didn't work!!

Are people actually doing that?? It's one thing to sit in a sort of neutrality, feeling discontent but not wanting to turn on the players, thats kind of understandable at least, but to be vocally defending Ashley by shouting down those who oppose him?!?!? Some people are beyond help man!! Ironically, in the good old days (of Cardiff last May for example) it's people like them that the crowd in general wouldn't tolerate. Seems to be the other way now.

They'll easily be safe. Far too many winnable home games combined with the Defoe factor for them to really be in danger. They might even win the NETD super-heavyweight-challenge-all-comers-undisputed-championship Grand slam of derby win AND finishing above us. Expect rivers of emotional tears and a spate of newborns named 'Gustavo'

True to form, he hadn't given the free kick.

Shane Long. Just a horrid little cunt.

We deserved a penalty, no fool can argue any other way. Plenty of fools will argue we deserved something out of the game, too. And the Chelsea/Leicester/Burnley games. True very true, but the laws of the game back the penalty. A fool only uses his opnion The laws of the game also say we lost 2-1, so we deserved nothing from the game. I never said we did, just said we deserved the penalty TBF, I wouldn't even have supreme confidence in any of our players to beat Forster from 12 yards. Who takes pens now anyway? Sissoko? Perez?

Complete cretin. Body language of a man you'd never get sick of kicking in the face- very much in the manner of a Mike Dean. Shocking decision making too but wasn't helped by the clown running the line at the Gallowgate end, making it up as he went along!!

Came on to say this basically.

And again!!

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