HaydnNUFC

He's tried to play for 0-0. Gone wrong. The fat cunt won't have a clue what to do.

Hendrick ffs. May as well have gotten sent off.

This is absolutely rancid.

Aye. Like isn't an accumulation of points how a football league table works?

S uness

I remember him retweeting something a fan said which was along the lines of Pardew kept on playing him in spite of him having injuries in the first few games of 14/15 to save his job. Which was probably the case, dragged us through that Palace home game which we still threw away.

Only watched Soccer Saturday once or twice since the first lock down last year. Even then I only put it on at 3 and switched it off at 5.

Stocked up on beer and whisky for tonight. No way I'm watching this shit sober.

Tony Green, Paul Gascoigne, Andy Cole, Les Ferdinand, David Ginola, Didi Hamaan, Clarence Acuña, Jonathan Woodgate, Habib Beye, Abdoulaye Faye, going to chuck Andy Carroll in there due to the form he was in during 2010-11 and his age all sans his injury issues, Demba Ba, Hatem Ben Arfa, Loïc Remy, Mehdi Abeid, Florian Thauvin, Kevin Mbabu, Mikel Merino, Solomon Rondon. Big list, like.

Aye, Bruce will be looking for a point and will probably get it the fucking coward. Refuses to go for games without ASM, Wilson and Almiron it seems. 0-0. Shame as a win would put us 5 clear with a game in hand and will probably be the springboard to seeing us safe. Ugh.

What a fucking save.

If we don't win at Brighton it's just because the players didn't want it enough.

Didn't Souness always call Shearer 'a proper man'? Whatever that means

There's issues with players coming from Germany due to Covid restrictions. Interesting they list/view Saka as a forward going off the graphic. But Bellingham is there?

Is Sancho injured?

That seems like its a community hub rather than a training ground. The Foundation are building something similar tbf. That hub still looks better than our training ground though tbf.

When did Soccer AM stop being widely watched? As a kid always seem to remember it being on on a Saturday morning before going to the match, then just, well, stopped. Cold turkey pretty much as well. I know loads of people say it went downhill when Lovejoy left but I only remember it with Max Rushden.

We'd be where Villa or West Ham if he had stayed imo. If he or another manager that'd excite people came in when the takeover should've happened in the summer a la Pochettino, Allegri, Naglesmann or even someone like Marco Rose then we'd be catching up to if not already beyond Leicester. A lot of things are required to make NUFC successful: an ambitious owner, an intelligent manager in the dugout who conducts himself with honour that the fans can relate to and whom possesses a vision for Newcastle United and the ability to communicate that to a squad that is talented and has a bit of nous and flair. Rafa ticked one of those boxes and allowing him to go for daring to challenge the petulant cunt of an owner on what the club needs/needed to do to become successful was and still is so ridiculous, childish and rancid it’s untrue. He’s the biggest tick we've had in the Ashley era in any of those criteria, much more so than the squad we had between 2011 and 2014. He’s, arguably, the only thing the club has had going for it since Sir Bobby Robson left. A PIF takeover or any sort of takeover that leads to a bit of substantial and sustained investment will lead to an injection of quality and just overall improvement in the playing staff. A takeover sets everything up like dominoes tbh, one required event for success at NUFC is inextricably linked to the next event. Obviously in football there are no guarantees and it may all go to shit but any of the bell ends amongst the media and in our fanbase that have tried to justify replacing Benitez with Steve fucking Bruce want shooting with shit, to put it lightly. Under Ashley results and performances from the team 80% of the time have been and will be poor, shite decisions have been and always will be made regarding managerial appointments, transfers, starting XIs and tactics but all in all its all moot given the due to the glass ceiling imposed and all of it leads back to one man. It’s Ashley who needs to fuck off, it’s Ashley oversaw such a massive scale of regression in standing and expectation at this club, it’s Ashley who has neglected to invest in the squad and it’s Ashley who has run this club to suit him and only him. He’s the cancer, the ball and chain, the millstone. Ashley out, for the love of god allow this arbitration to work in some way. As soon as is humanely fucking possible.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=191464707893234

Brill. Permission to tweet somethibg like this to him next time I get wound up enough to respond to his drivel? https://www.newcastle-online.org/forum/index.php?topic=103091.msg7443767#msg7443767

Phwoar, good call tubes. Might hoy a bet on.

Wijnaldum maybe, he wasn't even starting some of the 6 games that we went unbeaten in during the run in. But Benitez made Sissoko captain. We would've bought well and finished in the top half the following season, I'm convinced. Rafa's relationship with the hierarchy may well have deteriorated as a result of refusing to kick on into Europe as well as the old issue of the training ground and investment in the academy.

Personally think 2015-16 set us back years as we had to sell the PL quality in the squad: Wijnaldum, Sissoko and Townsend the main ones. Benitez built a top class Championship standard side, if Ashley allowed Rafa to strike when the iron was hot in January 2017 and summer 2017 then things may have been different, but we didn't because of fat cunt Mike and the relationship between Benitez and the hierarchy was never the same after, especially January. Plus we still unfortunately have more Championship standard players than PL right now. Which all seems back to the 2016 relegation. If we had stayed up in 2016, would Townsend, Sissoko and Wijnaldum have left? With PL money and being in the PL with Rafa Benitez, would Rafa have had good money to spend? What calibre of player would we have been able to attract? With the players that we had, where would we have finished if we stayed up? I'll die on this hill, like. Going down that season fucked us.

Managers who the fans detest or in general just did a shit job its a graveyard for. Even going back to the 80s. Willie McFaul - Kept the club floating in the 1st Division amidst the sales of Gascoigne, Beardsley et al. Oversaw a big transfer spend in the summer of 1988 but was sacked after 8 games. The club had no one lined up until we enticed Smith to come in in December. Jim Smith - Oversaw us going down in 1989, brought Micky Quinn in but failed to achieve promotion after losing in the play off semi to the mackems. Following season was outrageously mediocre and boring and Smith was gone in March '91, claiming the club was 'unmanageable'. Ossie Ardiles - Tried to play attractive football but had to use many youngsters due to having absolutely nowt to spend. Had us near the bottom when he was sacked in February '92. Has the worst win rate of any Newcastle manager in history. Kevin Keegan - We all know the craic. Kenny Dalglish - Did well with Keegan's team in the second half of 96/97. Got to an FA Cup final the following season but he ripped Keegan's side apart and brought in past it plodders and shite. Ruud Gullit - Brought some canny players in but same mediocrity as Dalglish in spite of another FA Cup final. Bizarre treatment of Shearer. Walked when he knew it was time. Sir Bobby Robson - Rebuilt the club as a powerhouse for 3-4 years. Could argue he was the right man at just the wrong time, had he come in after Keegan things may well have been different. Graeme Souness - Did just what Dalglish did, tore Robson's team apart, brought in shit. Took a side that was 4th, 3rd and 5th in the 3 years prior to his arrival to 14th, and we were 15th when he was sacked. Roeder comes in after him with 15 games left and takes us to 7th. Still a bitter arsehole, shite manager and general cunt. Did an interview with the Sun 3 years after Hillsborough whilst still Liverpool manager ffs. Glenn Roeder - God rest his soul, but should probably never have been given the job permanently. Appointing caretakers who do well rarely works out but the run he took us on in those last 15 games of 2005/06 was class. Sam Allardyce - Not a manager for a club like NUFC, just like he wasn't for Everton. Fat mess. Keegan mk 2 - We know the craic once again. JFK - Bell end. Alan Shearer - Was on a hiding to nothing. Chris Hughton - One of the very few honourable, likeable managers we've had under Ashley. Took us back up, had us in great stead back in the PL when he was sacked for no fucking reason. Alan Pardew - CBA to type out this. John Carver - Steve McClaren - Charnley wrote off the rest of 2014/15 (a decision which almost sent us down) to get this clown, who is the main reason we went down when he came anyway. Had a lot of money to spend, some very good players and in patches is certain games we did play alright stuff but he was a totally uninspiring wet flannel. Going down due to this chump set us back years and we still haven't recovered from it imo. Rafa Benitez - Most decorated manager to ever manage NUFC. Saw the potential here, wanted to keep us up to try and realise it, stuck with us when we went down and brought us back up first time, got rid of the toxicity amongst the dressing room and supporters but undone by the Ashley imposed penny pinching of glass ceiling. Made supporters realise that NUFC is still a big club and still can be a great club. Steve Bruce - Total cunt. Summarised managers over the last 35 years. My uni lectures really are fucking boring.

Aye, we're such a graveyard for managers and so wild and demanding of success that the fan base was at its happiest in the last decade or more finishing 10th and 13th under Rafa Benitez.