Wolfcastle

I don't think they've considered (or don't care if they have) that most of these games will be completely meaningless when it becomes apparent only a few can win it and there's no relegation. Man United v Juventus, Spurs v Atletico Madrid have never not mattered before because of the knockout format/mini league they've met in. When its 6th with no chance of winning against 7th with no chance of winning, or the bottom two with no chance of relegation or winning it. There's no rivalry between these clubs and nothing to play for - they'd be glorified prestige friendlies. How long would that stay remotely interesting. How can anyone, including fans of those clubs invest in those games? You'd need to be like a neutral from the US or Nigeria with no emotional attachment to the sport, clubs or history and no understanding of how pointless the game your watching is to sit and stare at it like the background TV it will be.

Hearing him talking about plans for the summer market makes my blood run cold. They'll be "cutting wer cloth" accordingly in line with the pademic/post pandemic environment he reckons, which if we actually did would be an improvement on deliberately doing as close to nothing as possible 9 times out of 10. negative and basic anti-football yet keep getting away with it, scamming by with outrageous fortune - its truly his team

Could we not just do a Mr Burns and make an actual canary the official chairman, Canary M Burns?! They couldn't block on account of it being an obvious scam because we've got away with a token gesture scam in Charnley for long enough, an actual canary would be an upgrade. Would at least think for itself

Obertan always reminded me of a Xenomorph and seeing him sprinting down the wing (without the ball) had all the grace of one scurrying up an air duct. Was like a Xenomorph birthed from Wayne Fereday. Kevin Dillon was my first experience of someone we saw way too much of for some completely indicipherable reason.

Personal breaking point was a long time ago, had a sense of foreboding over anything Hughton and Pardew achieved and later Rafa. Suppose 'bolting the cart and the horse together' and then Rafa arriving brough slight doubts to being a complete lost cause of a club and that we might begin to operate like an extremely unambitious football club but at least a football club. Fat chance. Post Rafa have completely stopped caring, this is where preferring them to lose has come in but I consider the breaking point of caring like I used to and should to have been when no takeover happened the summer he first relegated us.

On reflection I'd gladly take administration. It would be like a blessing starting over without this c**t (owner) and to actually have a point again, moving forward, growing, promotions would matter etc. I'd rather the club was finished up and started over than carry on with Ashley. Its all but been finished up and started over from 2007 anyway. Its not the same thing anymore and the new thing without this regime around would feel so much more like NUFC pre2007.

Been downsizing since the day he arrived. Who'd have thought running a club like it gets 10,000, makes you like a club that gets 10,000

A Sunderland type owner can't afford the price. Its Saudi's or nothing until the price comes down - another reason why I'm fine with relegation

Yes, because I think the takeover is still alive (in a manner of speaking) I don't think it will happen but really its because the last thing I want is to delay getting rid of Ashley which staying in the premier league ensures, nothing else matters but getting rid of this bloke and that's my only remaining attachment to the football branch of his financing schemes. He's rendered relegation and promotion meaningless nevermind wins and losses. *oh if I was guaranteed getting rid of Ashley (Bruce would invariably follow) by getting relegated and staying relegated for a few years, I'd snap your arms off

Said I was done when we lost 3-2 at home to Oxford in 1989. Whilst Whitley Bay were winning in the FA Cup against Preston. Never went to a Whitley Bay match and twenty years later had been to over a thousand more NUFC games. But, with the exception of the European Games, since I said I was done until he's gone, haven't been back for over a decade now. So I know I won't be back until he's gone.

Winter remembers what this club was and could easily be, the others don't want to remember that or put it down to a few years under Keegan, letting all that die just to suit Ashley's obsessive need to crush hope. A flash in the pan brighter than what Spurs have managed with their one serious title challenge since the mid 80s, but that's different.

He was in the away section, few rows behind us, at Blackburn in 93/94 for some reason. I got a voyeuristic photo of his hat peeping over folks heads somewhere, will try and find it and get it on here somehow. Wonder what the situation was there. Was when they had one side demolished so tickets scarce, but still, in with us?! Already missed and got over missing players like that in football, instead of automatons off the conveyer belt.

With that being the case. If we want a football club, setting up a new one or somehow coming to an agreement on where to consolidate our support should have been discussed a lot more. Has to be 20k have left because of Ashley and well its been 14years now, if we'd done that 14years ago SDFC could be getting knocked out of cups by it by now. That or giving up on the whole thing (Football, the club formerly NUFC) are the only two options for me. I'm already amused when other teams score against us and not at all concerned about relegation so its bascially a cancelled takeover and further proof we can't organise anything away from being total.

Small fry in context but he's conceded more goals than either of Rafa's seasons for the second season in a row with plenty of games to spare. Quite the achievement given we've surrendered any attacking intent and play all out defence most games to make the defence considerably worse. Its almost like organisation and coaching comes into play instead of sheer bodies.

Is that three games in a row against Brighton where we haven't had a shot? certainly two. 270minutes without a shot against Brighton scientifically impossible but achieved

Expectations of fans.... at an away game where there are no fans Somebody tweeted something online so naturally Bruce couldn't perform because of that

Change scares me. Except re the owner where the thought of not changing fills me with a nameless dread.

I do remember him banging on about wingers being a thing of the past here. Just as Chelsea won the league in both seasons with Duff and Robben. Those Dougie contributions are new for me, or had at least forgot them. We started slow under Sir Bobby in the previous two seasons, 1 win in 5 and no wins in 6. Finished 3rd and 5th. I thought it was because Sir Bobby was retiring at the end of that season and that sort of thing never works out, think Strachan did it a few years earlier and Southampton's form tanked and they ended up having to sack him. Figuring Sir Bobby was leaving anyway so bringing it forward was easier than selling and replacing players. Apparently though it was just good old fashioned footballl based f*ckwittery.

There's two sides. He would have been reckless to spend a fortune on CL money not banked but risked CL money by not spending. Could argue Woodgate in January was part of the spend. (With Abramovich arriving it was too big a risk and cost us for me too) Then Souness was very well backed with suggests money was there and Shepherd made a mistake on both counts. Not strengthening at the right time and then over-spending in desparation to get back. This is what caused any financial problems. The belt was being tightened pre Ashley, with young players coming in and Sibierski's being signed, which was a lot more sensible than the Ashley way does it. The real financial problems started when Ashley bought the club for me.

Souness is and always has been a sociopathic contentious prick who blames everybody and everything but himself for his failings. Does he ever mention being hounded out of Liverpool or Benfica. In common with us perhaps it was on account of taking a team and club backwards rapidly. Reckon its pretty reasonable to be a bit disappointed with going from 3rd, 4th and 5th playing good football to mid-table in less than a season and be on the bring of a relegation battle a few month after that. Cant imagine any football fan would okay with that but its unreasonable for us. Sure its not also unique to us that good managers tend to do good jobs at whatever club and bad ones don't. Who'd have thunk it. With the exception of Dalglish have any of these graveyard managers done anything before or since that would justify them being blindly backed? Liverpool finished 2nd in a bad-season for 20years pre Souness - he turned them into a midtable side in a season - took them 30years to win the league again.

This season has no hope. Its just whether that makes it better or worse than the other two for people. Hope of Shearer staying and Ashley going, the hope of Rafa and maybe, finally a change in direction (never bought it personally). 88/89 even had more hope than this - an organised boycott and a takeover knocking on the door without outside forces to scupper it and a far better manager.

They've got control of the game. Can play out another awful totally uneventual 0-0 draw like last season and it'll be a better point for them than us. Meaning we've conceded the chance to play how we want now. Coach will have to do something now, whether he'll bother or not is debatable. If they win I think we can kiss them goodbye, would be effectively 5points clear, Achillies paradox would see them get at least a 2-4more points by the time we managed 5. And what's to say we will.

Had a dream about this last night. In some garden with Masters, giving him a piece of my mind about how he blocked salvation for my club and caused its terminal decline (more a premonition than a dream perhaps). Fell apart there after when I was trying to get out of the doors of a small grounded plane before Bodhi and his mates from Point Break commandeered it and took me on a sky-diving jaunt against my will. Think Freud would say that dream meant I didn't want to go along with an inevitable free-falling, pointlessly risky, plane-crash. If only I could think of a way that could apply to something happening in my life now or figure out why Masters would be involved.

He's literally surpassed himself with his form here and created a new low, beating himself.

Beyond parody. Leslie Nielson could have dead-panned that as a joke. This c**t advertises how good he is with it.