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The galling thing about it is if we had gone through against man city, we'd have been an away game vs leicester and 2-legged tie vs west ham away from joining them. Now we just have to sit and watch. And presumably wait for the balance sheet to be released so we can gloat about it?!?

And the shithouse city fans backed him to the hilt on that one too.

They still clinging to that 'Classy' bullshit? Ask Shirley Bent how classy they are. Or the poor sods who have to mend the metros. fyp

not clicking the link but, they still banging that drum?!? Really?!? silly f..kin question really, they still haven't got over the 'horse puncher' thing a whole 9 months later.

Gotta say I'm surprised with his ego Ashley hasn't been back in with a pre-contract offer followed by a £2.50 bid to Lyon for an early transfer just to rub Aulas's nose in it. Maybe Kinnear lost his phone number

Anyone got any more ideas on how FIFA/UEFA can further screw international football up? Bunch of clueless self-interested wankers ruining what should be the pinnacle of the game. Would be genuinely interesting to see what happened if the powerful European associations did just tell them to do one. FIFA would be fucked. Not nearly as much money knocking around from advertising etc without the European nations. Without the bribe money knocking about to line their pockets, it wouldn't surprise me if half the FIFA delegates from developing nations lost interest in bothering with the whole thing. They're not exactly bothered about the good of the game, are they? Even better if we can get the South Americans onside too.

Tim Vickery just said hes clumsy as hell and wouldnt be good in the PL. Sounds about right, he's found the right club for him! Vickery knows his shit too.

Just think it's what they do, not us. Can't really laugh at them for getting all pompous and pious and jumped up and '1992ers marra FTM' about our attendances if we then go on the same about theirs. It is an absolutely unfathomable attendance, God knows why so many people turned their back on the best night their club has had for years. Fuck it though, their loss nowt to do with us. In general have never understood why people take so much interest in match attendances full stop, I know I am in the minority on that one though. Good point on the questionable moral fibre

Keep. Grudgingly. On the downside, entering competitions without any intention to even try to win something seems pointless and goes against what I believe in, and to even come out and brazenly say as much is uninspiring to say the least and makes you wonder what the fucking point is. It's also becoming more of a ballache travelling up from Leeds every home game, can't often stop over as work weekends and often night shifts in my job. Also got other commitments and it's harder and harder to justify to the Mrs. On the other hand, I'd miss it, gets me out of the house and when I can stop over I love the buzz of going home for a weekend in the city on the lash planned around going to the match. Also having the season ticket means I can pick and choose which aways I go to as opposed to scrabbling round on twitter for extras etc. Having said that, should Ashley do anything spiteful like raise prices by a couple hundred quid whilst carrying on not even pretending to compete, I can easily see a point where I'd find the sacrifices too much to bother with it any more and jack it in.

To be honest I don't really understand why people get the hump over attendances. I was there. I enjoyed myself and wouldn't mind if I was the only one in the ground. This. I don't personally understand why many sunderland fans didn't want to/choose to go last night, but don't see the need to use it as some sort of judgement on their moral fibre. As mentioned by others, it's the sort of s**** you see all the time on RTG which culminates in people being so obsessed with it they do things like making up their rival's attendances in order to prove some non-existent point. This is not healthy and certainly not something for us to aspire to imo!!! fwiw, seems to me that the stayaways have missed out on what always promised to be a very good night for their club for the sake of saving £20/a day's holiday in some cases. don't understand it, but their choice I suppose.

http://www.nufc.co.uk/articles/20140107/statment-from-newcastle-and-sunderland_2281670_3608446 Bluff. Called. Hell of a statement. Thought it was an odd thing for NP to say about not having control over KO times, blatantly bollocks. They've fucked up massively there like.

Don't see what the fuss is about tbh. Derby away trips are pretty much like bubble trips anyway. We don't exactly go round bars in sunderland drinking before the game, they don't in Newcastle. Its not like a normal away day. The advantage of going on the metro is you get an extra hour of drinking time in town before going through. The disadvantage is the overcrowding, dickheads in stone island strutting around pretending to look for bother and afterwards you get held back for over an hour after the buses have gone normally in the sodding rain. From the wailing going on you'd think they were being excluded from a really good party with loads of strippers and free drugs. I'd suggest we all try to concentrate on the positives too, it'll doubtless be same for us next year like it or not.

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Ankle (injured during goal celebration and made worse after fulltime when treating my seat like a springboard) just about feeling right now, not in pain when I walk. Voice took a few days to come back too. Still, what a bloody great day out!!!

I would rather not get to a final than lose one, for them to lose one and get relegated in the same season would just be greed on our part. Nah, them being knocked out by Man U is perfect, don't even want the c***s to get a day at Wembley. It's exactly the kind of thing they'd try to hold over us too in some sort of 'wembley-defeat-one-upmanship' way. 'We've been to the new Wembley, haven't ever seen many mags there.' Don't believe me? wait until they get to the play-off final next season!

Was still our fault though: Stoke fans call them on their shite: Blame the mags marra, it woz them, norruz lyk

Might be Giggs, but at the match I get wound up by the tv's on the concourse at half time, showing highlights over and over about 19 times but from different angles. Even worse when there hasn't been much goalmouth action in the first half, looks like an insight to the editing process for a 'throw-in of the season' DVD ffs. Would rather they show any major highlights/controversies 2 or 3 times then stick Soccer Saturday on so I can see how my bets are doing.

You f***ing what? Are we talking about the same flare throwing, bus bricking, pitch invading, coin chucking, keeper punching rabid apes? Talk about selective memory. :lol: The amount of schizophrenia in that thread :lol:. To paraphrase: 'We always behave brilliantly on derby day, the mags are a disgrace'... Closely followed by 'We always beat the shit out of the mags on derby day, because we are much bigger and badder and more violent.' or is it 'all mags punch horses' or is it 'we smashed up their metro, but its allowed cos the metro was a mag- gerrin' Culminating in some hilariously made-up story about their fans who left the 5-1 early being attacked by 'mag hoolies', but being saved by some other heroic mackems who weren't at the match, but just happened to be in Newcastle while it was going on (doubtlessly behaving themselves impeccably at the time) but this was allowed because giving mags 'a good kicking' is good behaviour anyway marra. Classic macktracking :cheesy:

Daniel Cordone's debut vs Derby County.

Aye, not sure what the solution would be mind. Unfortunately a large proportion of our support seem to love causing needless crushes at every opportunity for this fixture. Doesn't happen at other games and as well as being fucking pointless is a bit on the homo-erotic side for my liking.

that would be my solution- check tickets at the station before boarding metros. Tricky for the police to do that when they're being overrun, barriers pushed over etc in the rush to get to the platform like we saw Sunday. Maybe have a checkpoint set up at the side station entrance we use, so tickets can be checked before people get in an enclosed space so they cant manufacture a crush in order to get past without tickets???

was a fucking shambles, the whole stewarding through the game. They're still incapable of hosting this game without the risk of people getting hurt. Hopefully they go down and end up with more manageable 20k crowds. That said the brainless bunch of 20 lads who caused the crush outside turnstile 71 allegedly to try and rush the turn styles because some of them didn't have tickets want to take a long look at themselves too.

Nah, that's a whole new level altogether. Imagine Aulas' face if we indicate we want Gomis for free. i.e. January 1st when we wave the lucrative pre-contract deal in front of him en route to Bafetembi's agent, while offering that "if he's nice" we might just be willing to 'do a Sissoko' and give him 1.5m to take the player 6 months early. Assuming we're not bottom of the table in the meantime with 5 goals scored gonna be a long 6 months lads

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