Kid Icarus

When in doubt, overhead kick it out

That headline implies he's much more against it than he is. He's pretty much 'it is what it is' throughout the entire thing.

Pleased I missed all of that tbh, it would have properly wound me up. Fair play to Ashley like, letting Rafa leave and replacing him with Steve fucking Bruce made it a lot easier to people to finally say enough was enough.

I was gutted when we signed Ferdinand at the time tbh. Typical 10 year old who had dreams of us signing Baggio or Romario and Ferdinand just seemed like he'd be a route one aerial striker and that was it. It was amazing to find out just how good he was overall in the first part of 95/96, absolutely loved him.

I totally tuned out when Rafa went as loads of others did. What's Bruce done to be almost universally hated by the fans? Is it just the football, which I'm sure most expected to be atrocious from the start, or has he done or said some Pardew-like things as well?

Martinez always seems to fail upwards.

It would feel like home because it's now 25 years later. I was young enough then that the move wouldn't have meant anything to me and tradition in general didn't mean anything to me, but it does now that I'm older. By moving being out of the question I meant further than Leazes Park, which probably would have been a decent compromise.

Good plan, shame it never happened in hindsight, I'm sure that to most it would feel like home by now. Moving SJP should be completely out of the question tbh, it's what makes the city and the club unique.

Do we have any images of the original plan? I've saw them at the time and on one of the B&W videos, but haven't seen it recently. I wonder if that'll ever be revisited as an option now.

Like this hastily drawn monstrosity?

Have you considered chilling the fuck out?

I feel like the last week on here would be a pretty interesting read for psychologists like.

It's like framing your 100% attendance certificate at school for someone like Bruce. He really has nothing else to boast about and looking at his record it's pretty hard to argue that him getting to 1,000 games isn't a massive achievement like.

Grew up hearing it as a kid and it just always sounded like music from an advert or like shopping centre muzak to me until now.

It definitely has that liminal space feel to it in that clip that makes it 10x better.

That net spend after the absolute pittance that Rafa was given to work with man.

I know it's probably seen as tempting fate, but I really have no idea how anyone can really be worried in the slightest about relegation. We know just how bad you have to be to go down and for me it would take Bruce being here until Christmas and for Newcastle to still be in the bottom 3 at that point for it to seem like a legitimate threat that the owners couldn't buy their way out of.

I think I just finally got that song. Never ever really liked it before.

Is that all? Doesn't seem like a lot to be going on.

Haven't really been paying attention to PL football after Rafa went. What's Potter done since then to suddenly be seen as a bit of a football hipster darling? (By that, I mean that Tifo seem to mention him a lot)

This is definitely one element of it where it's easy to laugh in their faces over it all. This NUFC is you, you fucking idiots. You'd think the Chelsea and Man City takeovers, and the attempt to run off to form a Super League had never happened. All the Spiderman pointing hypocrisy of late stage capitalism at its finest. This very well might be football's jumping the shark moment, but they gleefully dragged it there.

If moving a full building like that is an actual thing and not just a fantasy then I'm sure the uni would happily sell them all of the Business School and Science City land to move into and away from the listed buildings.

In his The Athletic Q&A. Probably a good time to get a subscription at the moment, there's loads about Newcastle on there.

Caulkin was told there's no chance of Rangnick coming, FWIW.