Likelylad

Daft really. I do think he would have gotten a tune out of us. We were notoriously slow starters under Robson. As above. Souness was brought in as a disciplinarian, he was shite and is still bitter about it to this day. Not sure wtf he expected after we had finished 4th, 3rd & 5th. Twat.

Indeed but if I remember rightly. The media were heavily pushing the narrative that he couldn’t handle the likes of Bellamy Bramble & Dyer etc. Which was further ramped up by Dyer refusing to play RW. Also, was that the summer we only picked up Bowyer on a free or was that the season before?

He was a whopper back in the day and I can’t imagine working in that social media type environment has done much to alleviate that.

I agree with the graceful bit but i do think Robson would have picked someone like Bruce or some other PFM type.

I love Bruno but they can do one for not showing big Joe the level of respect that should be afforded to him.

ASM for me but I must say Murphy has definitely improved and stepped up when needed. I swear to god though. I don’t think I’ve even seen a player hit the woodwork more than him.

Meh, £20 quid doesn't really bother me as i do think they'll be more competitive than your average pre season game. Player's looking to make a point as we're straight back into it come boxing day.

Yeah, i genuinely think if he can get back to a decent standard, he could be a good option. You'd like to think he'd be reasonably happy being in a top 6/7 squad as a back up considering the last few years.

The first of 3 games in 6 days. Would happily take 4 points from this and Chelsea

That’s how I feel. We as fans also need to take a similar view to Howe. 1 game at a time and don’t overreact if we lose a game.

Pickford is such Mackem radjey. Big mouth but very little to back it up.

He was one of the hacks that blocked me on Twitter for calling out his rubbish. Wants a nice echo chamber to spout his nonsense. Twat..

100% The improvement that Howe has implemented across the squad has really bollocksed up the narrative that they were hoping to push. Hence disingenuously banging on about net spend.

Definitely think he should start against Palace.

A couple journos blocked me after I responded to their shite patter. Stuff like equating Howe’s comments to dying kids in Yemen. I mean it’s getting rather ridiculous and like you say boring. Round and round in circles.

It’s the fact that we’re currently hamstrung commercially and can only spend at the current level through years of Ashley’s consistent frugal ways and having our debt cleared. The hacks are seemingly trying to frame it as. 200 million+ spent because we’re owned by the Saudi’s.

Eddie Howe blasts "not accurate" Jurgen Klopp in Liverpool v Newcastle Saudi spending power row. #lfc #nufc ? Liverpool turnover £550m, Newcastle United £170m ? Nunez £85m, Isak £58m.

Simon Bird’s tweet on it irked me the most. Kinnear was definitely on the money regards to him like.

One of my pals in Manchester is a flag bumming patriot knacker and he hates the national team like. Very odd. Think it’s to do with Beckham in 98 and maybe a couple other incidents over the years.

I grew up in North Shields and was aware of 3 Sunderland fans socially. Not exactly a stronghold like

Don’t think he ever got over the he wank’s his dog chant. Understandable tbf ?

Yeah give us 4/5 years and once we’ve won a few trophies. We can let him gan to Madrid for 140 million.

Ha, yes just down the road in İçmeler. Perfect that. Cheers

I'm in Turkey on holiday for this. Hoping they have it on some dodgy channel.