Wolfcastle

Its definitely not dull, today anyway. Completely inept, shambolic, pathetic, hardly getting a touch, completely inexpansive but not dull so that's okay

I'm not bothered about this result or relegation (thanks Mike) Yet somehow, whether its the need for sanity to poke its head through the clouds every now and then or whatever, this never-was manager Bruce need sacked ASAP. Its like standing in dog s4it - smelling something, turning your shoe up to see the dog s4it and doing nothing about it

aye, apart from 99.9% of Newcastle fans, who knew!?

Either down to Rodgers getting more time to work with his players or f*ckwittery come sabotage by NUFC in the summer. I know which one the media will go with, the other one is the reason though.

My sentiments entirely. Three games without him definitely won't help.

certainly killed any chance we had of getting anything today

well that's 8games - are we allowed to say 'he's terrible appointment' 'taking us down' and 'should never have got the job' by the media yet or do we have to wait until after Man United and Chelsea away?

That's not true. He also takes many of the set plays where like his high risk passes the success percentage is 10%.

Were certainly ran like we are.

Every time he runs I’m waiting for the hamstring to go ping. speaking of which, Carroll seems imminent

he's our top scorer you sentient dingleberry Our best player also. For my money.

Just like when he's in our boardroom.

Can't work out if this is a typo, or an intelligent word that i've never come across. typo Freudian slip Urban Dictionary seems it's quite fitting: hellatious is also an acceptable description.

Can't work out if this is a typo, or an intelligent word that i've never come across. typo Freudian slip

This is irreversible decline under Ashley now, surely. Its been a terminable incremental decline all the while but how is anything they do now going to stop the team going backwards and crowds dropping?

Is it a Barnsley type takeover though?, we will have to see as if it is, then nothing much to get worked up about. We don't know and will have to wait to see to find out - my gut feeling is that it is a Barnsley type though, as owners wanting to really invest would be going for a premier league club not a club in division 1. As I said wait and see. That's sound. Given what it could cost to get into and stay in the PL - without PL money to reinvest - you could buy several PL clubs comfortably. Guess nobody is available. Know that's the case with us. And their current custodians are desparate. Shows what you can do when you really want to sell or really want investment.

Its cheaper to buy a smaller, poorer club but it wont reap the same rewards if you turn it around. The sleeping giant is a good club to buy because its got so much room for improvement. Blackburn won the league with 10x the investment we had but it couldn't last because that was maxing the potential of the club out at 30,000 gates for 2years. Here, if the ground was big enough, it would be twice that. Less investment needed to maintain once you get there. What gets me about these is that they were dropping to their natural level (cheap tickets, freebies - turnover akin to Norwich) when Drumville came in. Drumville got spent into oblvion and an American billionaire came in to stop them dropping to their natural level. When he had enough propping them up they dropped to their natural level and now mega-riches are coming in to stop them staying there. All whilst we are held back, deliberately by our owner and slowly dying as a result.

I don't blame anyone for being dis-interested for playing for Newcastle and Graeme Souness that season especially at the tail end of their careers. Remember the paper aeroplanes against Palace that stole the show.

This for NUFC? Was that when we had a good spell at the end of the season? Where he played in behind Viduka and Martins? He looked half decent for a few games, granted. But he was nothing like Scholes, FFS and he didn't even play the same role. Some serious revisionist history here It was more a case of getting Owen out of the way without making a scene to allow to more useful and dangernous forwards to play. It improved the team around Owen and he looked less useless by being out of the firing line. Bit like bringing Fox in to allow Rob Lee to play centrally. It wasn't that Fox was better than Lee but that Lee would excel in that spot.

The Middlesbrough game in that season encapsulated a lot. Viduka: man of the match, immense Martins: off the bench, scores Lovenkrands: off the bench, scores Owen: starts, does nothing, subbed Even Carroll, on for only five minutes did more and was more of a threat than Owen. However small a club he thinks we were, he wasn't a big fish in it and never even our best forward. In that relegation season alone there were 4 more useful forwards. Not to mention Ameobi who was probably on a par with him for useful/lessness.

Honestly who would give a f*** though if the club was moving in the right direction, if this Dell owner is part of the group (and by all accounts he is) and is prepared to put money in they certainly soon will be. Nobody. Its just thats what they come out with when were involved in 'fakeovers'. It wont be applied now.

Its not all good news for them. There were plenty stating how if we'd been bought by BZG we'd have had no soul, be plastic, how its not real football, far better to remain a small time community outfit. They'll be gutted now.

However, it doesn't really matter because whoever the manager is the club under Ashley. If we sacked and replace Bruce we might stay up but overall it makes no difference. If we sack and replace them, no difference. Ashley is the problem, Bruce meerely embelishes that where Rafa deflected it.

I know, I thought Watford - a must win that we won't win, in a toxic atmosphere was going to be THE game. Perhaps the one and only time Bruce will prove us wrong.

Cook books versus the Cooked books Cook versus the Crook Farke versus Farke off you numpty Norfolk versus Norfolk-ing point