D. Yimentov

The brutality of the regime isn't the issue for me. They've been brutalling for 2000 years. It's up to them to change it; not us.

 

The greater moral concern is watching Monopoly play out in real life, as the super rich continue to hoover up more and more of the world's wealth. If you've ever passed go enough times, you'll know how the game ends.

 

 

So that state that was founded less than 100 years ago has been 'brutalling' for 2000 years?

Arabs

The brutality of the regime isn't the issue for me. They've been brutalling for 2000 years. It's up to them to change it; not us.

The greater moral concern is watching Monopoly play out in real life, as the super rich continue to hoover up more and more of the world's wealth. If you've ever passed go enough times, you'll know how the game ends.

Fun fact: Steve Bruce's initials mean "daft cunt" in Chinese

Does Shearer do it?

 

Yes. He's half way to becoming Chris Waddle.

 

There's no excuse for it either. I lived abroad for years and had to talk like that just to be understand, but as soon as me mam called I'd just flick back to normal.

 

I lived away for ages when I was younger and retained the accent. Never once did I want to consciously think about my accent whenever I spoke. I find people that do that sort of thing are weird as f***. Are they embarassed to sound like they are from where they are?

People who come back from 2 terms at Leeds Uni with a Yorkshire twang are weird as f***.

If you live abroad though, you might find that non-native speakers struggle with the flat Geordie 'O' and 'A'. I would consciously do a Steve Bruce accent just for convenience. Even after years of doing it though, on a daily basis, it never felt natural and I could always go back to Geordie easily.

I've also experienced difficulties communitcating with people outside of the UK. In most of the UK 'sure' is a homophone for 'shaw', whereas we unleash its bisyllabic musical beauty. I f***ing love my accent me.

Does Shearer do it?

Yes. He's half way to becoming Chris Waddle.

There's no excuse for it either. I lived abroad for years and had to talk like that just to be understand, but as soon as me mam called I'd just flick back to normal.

I just seriously don’t get the Pochettino love in. He’s spent big, fallen out with his players, won nothing, got to CL final extremely luckily, and left the Spurs team stagnating and in disarray with no replacement for Kane when injured. I’m not saying I dislike the guy, and can see his qualities, but I don’t get why he’s rated quite so highly by some in here.

This. Except I am saying I dislike him.

His miserable chubby chopped face just puts me off. He looks a right whinge bag. Miserable bastards have never done well up here. Rafa's a charmer and he's lush. He's a bit iffy in the transfer market but it'll make it all the more fun when we sign Robbie Keane for 140 million euro beans.

This is going to be even sweeter once it goes through as the mackems are convincing themselves that it's now a dud deal.

They'll be gutted. A few dozen pages back on RTG this was the best thing that had ever happened.

Whoever they bring in is going to look good for at least 2 years.

Rafa walks in 'right then who's been saying it was more fun under Bruce? There's the door'

 

"who thinks Steve was more of a laugh than me? Oh come on, that's mental"

;D

just read that. That's me convinced

He's got Hitler as his main background photo. NUFC are gonna rock the apple cart!

Of course there is media bias against Newcastle. I did an internship at BBC sport years ago, when it was still based in London. Most of the people who worked down there were southern, so they naturally favoured the London teams and Man United. But the bias is natural and if the BBC's headquarters were in Cullercoats, the news would have a different flavour to it.

Why does he want any other club rather than Newcastle?  Should be not be saying no club?  And that he can actually talk about morals is offensive as well.

He pretty much spelled out what every other fan is thinking.

I wish it was another club, preferably mine, but since it's Newcastle I'm going to get on my moral high horse.

That's an accurate summary of what gorilla digits actually said.

I despise the narrative that he "deserves" a chance, nobody deserves s***, you have to work for it. Has he worked and earned his spot here? Not at all. Get him gone ASAP, let's get the club moving after 13 years of regression.

He deserves a chance at negotiating peace in an ISIS training camp.

I like the Boca design. Fuck the students and their natural sunlight - they spend all day sleeping anyway.

Wait. Are we still at risk of being relegated?

If we re-start this season with the same management team, yes. Granted, it's probably small but with Bruce in charge, it's there nonetheless. His run of luck has likely lost it's momentum now, so the remainder of the season could be awful when we get going again.

And I mentioned earlier, if you had to guess which club out of the 20 in the PL is doing the worst job of making sure players stay fit during lockdown, which one would you choose?

Can you imagine telling Man U fans, "You should've stuck with Moyes. You're a mid-table club now. Just accept it."?

"Hey Hull fans, he's your owner and if he wants to call you the tigers he can. Stop being so ungrateful."

Even.... "David Moyes did a grand job. I don't know what the mackems' problem is."

It just doesn't compute, does it? Instinct just tells you that they know their club better than you do and are right to have expectations and ambition. And yet every cnut going seems to understand our club better than we do.

He’s a bigger c*** now than he was in the early 90’s when I came across him and his dickhead mates while standing in the Milburn D paddock.

 

That was when he was still at the stage of writing love letters to the Kray twins in prison and trying to sell his shitty fanzine which I can’t remember the name of properly - something like No. 9 I think.

Was his fanzine around as early as that? I remember he did the one a few years back that covered Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough.

Tell me more about Steve, the young lad in the Mildburn paddock.

Can these blokes not just turn the whole ground into the platinum club?

Cushy chairs for everyone!

I feel like someone who has been kept hostage by my abuser for 13 years, and now they've opened the door and told me I can leave.

 

I can see the daylight and smell the fresh air, but I'm just waiting for them to slam the door shut and laugh maniacally at me for even thinking freedom was a possibility. My brain won't even let me begin to process what life on the outside may feel like.

 

I'm Stockholmed up to the eyeballs here.

 

I get the sentiment, I'm in a similar camp to you, but I don't think you quite understand what Stockholm syndrome is

You don't think Mike's sexy?

To all those who think we're safe from relegation, consider this. Most of the other teams will be taking measures to make sure the players stay fit. They are probably doing regular calls and skypes with the lads and will have them keeping an exercise diary. Meanwhile, our owners and f***ed off and Steve's tucking into the dry biscuits.

Both The Mirror and The Mail are going with, "Steve Bruce to be given 200m warchest".

He might keep us up next season after all.

Italians win trophies here in England/tend to be a success.

 

I think their tactical knowledge, philosophy of winning over style/at all costs when it’s required and their ability to seemingly man manage players is the best in the world.

And they know how to adjust their man management approach to the level they're working at. Di Canio wouldn't let Lee Cattermole put sauce on his chips.

We seem to have synthicized the criticism into this red herring of “Newcastle fans, by not being critical of the new owners, bear tacit responsibility for the transgressions of the Saudi regime.” Not a single person has suggested that.

 

“Enjoy the club’s success, but don’t be a disingenuous dickhead when it comes to highlighting the source of that success,” is a more accurate distillation of the point we’ve been making.

An interesting question to ask though, is how many people would be willing to actively protest against them when Haaland, Mbappe and Matty Longstaff are lashing the goals in?

I was wondering as sick as some about morals going back to merson's comments that even 650m wouldn't put us in the top teams of the country what do others think. Yes I get ffp means we can't and yes depends on the manager, transfer strategy etc but right now if we spent 650 over the next say 4 windows what is best and worst case scenario in terms of league standing?

You can absolutely buy your way to the top, and you can shit all over FFP on your way there. Merson's just gutted, like the mackems and gibbon nips.

Seeming as money would be no object when considering what they might do.

 

Why not take the Camp Nou approach and dig into the ground leaving the pitch much lower? It would solve all sorts of planning issues and you could pretty much bring it up to the level it’s at while still packing in thousands more below.

 

Barca’s ground is only 48 meters high from street level, SJP is 98 according to google.

 

The new Wembley is well below ground too iirc.

 

Yeah, it doesn't work. Plus I seem to remember Stifler suggesting that every ground should have a 90m x 50m panic area under the pitch in case shit kicks off. We'd be fucked if we had to build one of them.

 

The pitch is currently at most 3 metres from the front row, where are you going to fit in these extra thousands?