Kid Icarus

I lived in the Sunderland catchment area of Killingworth, but turned my back on them once I saw the full majesty of Micky Quinn's tache.

The more you look into the stats, the more unbelievable it is like. Our rolling 38 game total is 76 points. That's with a team that regularly starts with 6 of the Rentford Rejects that were available under Bruce (Schar, Longstaff, Willock, Joelinton, Almiron, Wilson) and who Howe has turned, to a man, into high performing top-end Premier League players in one way or another. The 95/96 team, Keegan's dream team (minus Shearer) that included Beardsley, Ginola, Ferdinand, Lee, Batty, Asprilla, Albert, Beresford - a team of superstars that multiple generations of Newcastle fans have in their all-time XIs - the high watermark where the crest of the wave broke? +2 points +2 GD Rolling 38 games Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 4 Newcastle United 38 22 10 6 58 31 +27 76 95/96 Pos Team P W D L GF GA GD Pts 2 Newcastle United 38 24 6 8 66 37 +29 78

Tbf, you're still here. Most of the posters who were talking shite then you never see posting anymore.

We currently have 3 more points than Man United had at this stage in 95/96 No, I won't let it go.

He could have called Mike Ashley a cunt every single day, it doesn't change the fact that he took the job with open arms and his eyes wide open. Rafa might have been naive to think that if he showed Ashley what success could look like he'd change. Bruce went in knowing what had happened, got more money out of Ashley than anyone, admitted that he was just keeping the club "ticking over", and still massively struggled

Liverpool 2 v 2 Chelsea Bournemouth 1 v 1 Forest Leicester 1 v 2 Brighton Southampton 1 v 2 Villa West Ham 1 v 0 Everton Palace 1 v 2 Newcastle Leeds 1 v 2 Brentford Man City 3 v 0 Wolves Arsenal 1 v 1 Man United Fulham 2 v 2 Spurs

Really pitiful from Wolves like. No desire at all

Wolves are so fucking boring it's unreal

Keita's such a nothing player like, never got anywhere near the potential he was supposed to have

I wonder if that's something Pope will have to look out for with being a sweeper 'keeper. That's twice in the last week I've seen goals like that.

Why is it still happening?

Isn't the whole thing with Man United not that they don't need an Arab state to compete? That their profitability can comfortably fund them to the same level as them? After all, they've had the Glazer's pilfering money out yet have still spent just as much as anyone.

I'm sure you think you're being level-headed there, but it's only because you can't see the chips on both your shoulders. They've won 2 in 16, anyone would get the spotlight on them for that. Their overall record is almost identical to Leicester's. Rodgers, an FA Cup winner and Premier League runner up has had much more jip than Marsch.

This is outrageous. Almost a perfect mirror image from last year.

He'll have been asked about it specifically i reckon. If you ever see him as a guest on any of the many podcasts he goes on, that's how it tends to work. He gets asked if he's heard anything or what his feeling is on transfers about specific players.

A familiar face around here! Hadn't realised Billy had his own channel.

I think I might be addicted to looking at the Premier League table. I can't stop. Absolutely mad to think that this time last year I was doing exactly the same thing, trying to path our way to survival and now I'm trying to path our way to Champions League qualification. It's one of those things where I wish I could have known that future at the time and felt the full impact of how insane the revolution has been. It's the inverse boiled frogs thing for me at the moment, each week we're good, we perform, and we often get a result and I celebrate that on its own, but the overall position we're in hasn't kicked in yet, even though I know that it's insane.

He's definitely dour but that's part of the charm. He spent most of the Southampton away match just laughing to himself every time we scored

Aye, it wasn't showboating as well, it was probably the only thing to do, which is what I liked about it.

It's just dawned on me that the whole 'cup or top 4?' question doesn't really make sense. We don't have a great deal of depth, but the cup is only potentially another 3 matches and we have half the season left, the answer should just be yes, both.

Fair point well made. Weird how we seemingly avoided playing down our left yesterday.

It's funny like. The tribalism and lack of self awareness on boards is class, ours included. Maybe I'm more of a football friend like, but I think I like it more when I go on a board and see that there are people that get it. I remember going on that Palace forum years ago and it was sad to see so many people who were that thick and ignorant.

Looking at that table, Liverpool should be much lower solely because of Robertson, he's always been aggressive, but recently he's turned into a really nasty little cunt.

L.Robert and Andy1892 on there have done us proud tbf, proper shown them up as know-nothings.

I'd be calling to burn down the stadium if I was a Lorient fan at the moment like. Near the top of the league and selling out to become a feeder club for fucking Bournemouth.