Kid Icarus

Comparing the cost of each team's starting XI by getting the Newcastle XI wrong, excluding the subs, the wages, the money spent in the last 14 years, inflation, and still being about £30m out. Dick Dastardly had better plans.

I think I'd have a different opinion of them if they ditched the wings like, they're fucking awful.

* Disco is online *

For some reason the Kurasawa one being right on the money is a bit scary.

Isn't Phillips like one shoulder dislocation away from forced retirement?

Valued at £750m The Tesla of sports brands then, extremely and dangerously overvalued.

Cronky, your taste in players/managers never fails to astonish me

Hard to know really. It could be something as simple as there being no health and safety issues giving them the green light, or it could be an actual improvement in the atmosphere.

I don't even think the low number is a negative, it's only good news imo. If it's a success I'm sure it'll expand.

Annoying that he's going now and that as shit as they've been, he still somehow had them in 4th place. They have a pretty tough end to April, so hopefully that'll keep us in the race.

I'd link it so you could judge for yourself but it's behind a pay wall. IIRC a couple of days after Caulkin had put out an article about his deep-seated concerns over our ownership, where he said amongst other things that he was losing sleep over it, he put out another article with Alex Hurst and our very own Greg, where the tone was very different imo. The article is called 'How it feels to be a Newcastle fan now everyone hates them' which was very much a piece about a seige mentality and about fans being unfairly criticised. At the time it seemed really crass and tone deaf imo. Even if it was true that Newcastle fans were being unfairly criticised (which I don't think we were for the most part) , he knew the gravity of the situation with Saudi Arabian human rights abuses, so would know that football fans receiving criticism is nothing, it's a drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of things. It just seemed off to me, like he was undermining his own previous article, I didn't like that.

Jack Colback either absolutely did hide or was the single worst footballer I've ever seen for being screened by opposition midfielders.

It's fairly smart, I like classic designs like that. If it had the Adidas trefoil logo and a better sponsor I'd think it was amazing tbh.

I used to really love Caulkin like. Him 'getting us' was a huge deal in the Ashley years. I don't know whether he just stood out more back then because sports journalism was worse, whether I was influenced by him being on our side, my tastes have changed, he's got worse, or a combination of all, but I do find his style quite saccharine and overly dramatic now. Maybe it's just the context of the godawful world that he's writing in now, where the idea of football being anything along the lines of his ghost-written "What is football in any case?" quote seem naive and out-of-touch. I dunno. I still like him like, he seems like a sound bloke. Albeit his virtue signally (and I normally hate that expression) over the takeover while simultaneously putting out an imo woe-is-me article about our fans' seige mentality over it rubbed me the wrong way.

Ridiculous. Are they going to ban stuttered and Jorginho-style pens as well or should we just scrap pens altogether and give the fouled team an automatic goal.

Wonder how weighted home and away is. Chelsea aside all of our obviously tough games are at home.

Aye, I knew of him years ago. Was often trying to get in with my lass at the time, proper flannel and a nepo baby IIRC.

Or... https://archive.is/uOets Better than risking them ripping you off, which seems to have happened to a lot of people

Defending the Saudi ownership of NUFC is also definitely political like, whether it's a majority view, people want to admit it, or want to get into the details of it or not. He signed off with talking about getting taxed as well Not that any of that matters anyway imo. I get being open-minded like, but when it comes to thinking someone going on GB News to talk with Farage is some kind of act of neutrality or meaninglessness, the expression 'remember to not be so open-minded that your brain falls out' comes to mind.

He's a humblebrag hustler like. You can see it in that High Performance podcast he did with Eddie. Mainly harmless but really insufferable.

I've watched it like, I know it wasn't. He can obviously do whatever he wants, I don't personally care where he goes, what he believes, it's a free country and we all have opinions, yada yada. But the idea that him going on GB News to talk with Farage indicates nothing at all is just completely daft.

It says box, I was just joking

Yeah, he probably chose to go on GB News to talk with Farage because his views don't align with his in any way. You're right that's much more likely.

What conclusion are people jumping to beyond him going on to cosy up with Nigel Farage like? Hardly like he was going on to offer a political counter argument to Farage and Grimes is it?