Whitley mag

If Wor Flags have any clout they should have a word with the DJ fella in the box. Seems like previous displays like the Big River one were co-ordinated to the music. Clearly Wor Flags do more than enough but if they have any influence, have a word with the fucker to stop drowning out the crowd at full time. Next Tuesday should be a special night if all goes well and the atmosphere should be organic without any of this Hey Jude shite straight after the final whistle. Far from facilitating the atmosphere the cunt (I mean nice chap) is now fucking detrimental to the crowd creating any atmosphere.

Can’t imagine the top brass being concerned, it’ll be the left overs from the Ashley regime who can’t be arsed with the admin hassle of sorting it out.

Personally think we’ll get either Kone or someone of similar stature before the deadline in midfield.

Apparently Brighton have inquired about Haidara sure sign Caicedo is on his way.

Barca apparently willing to sell Ferran Torres in the summer, still only 22 would be perfect across our front 3.

The Italian press don’t half talk some shite, if they want to swap him for Rafael Leao then we might listen.

It’s happening just a matter of how much we pay now. ‘Newcastle United are hoping for a transfer breakthrough in their pursuit of Anthony Gordon after the player made it clear he wants the move to St James' Park. Everton played down his absence but there was no such defence of the player tonight as he stayed away from the club's Finch Farm training ground. With more high-level talks planned at Goodison Park, the deal is set to boil down to what the Toffees now see as an acceptable asking price. And the key new development on Merseyside this evening is that Everton are pretty much resigned to the fact he will leave in the next few days. Well-placed sources have indicated they now feel Gordon and his representatives are attempting to force the issues. And any hopes of the player landing a new deal - which was discussed last season - have now effectively evaporated’.

The rest of the league already consider us the Atletico of the league, masters of the dark arts, unlikeable an shit houses. This lad will be the icing on the cake as Eddie says we’re not here to liked, we’re here to win. Top signing will be a star here.

This lad would be exciting same club as Bruno came from. https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/01/23/newcastle-and-west-ham-handed-35m-vitor-roque-boost-as-he-will-be-sold/

My impression rightly or wrongly is that they’re up their own arses this TF/NUST lot. Fair enough podcasts etc seem to be the future, but think rubbing shoulders with the likes of Caulkin and the odd player seems to have gone to their head. Certain board members seem very comfy in their padded seats in the Milburn and a little out of touch if you ask me.

Should be enough to tempt Everton.

Agreed it won’t always be bouncing, but think a singing enclosure will give every game a base level where there is a bit of vocal backing. The place is like a fucking morgue 90% of the time, we used to take the piss out of the scousers waving their flags beforehand to YNWA where not much better now. I love the flags but it’s no replacement for vocal backing and where in danger of going the same way as City has, which everyone said would never happen here. And we haven’t even won fucking owt yet.

Buckfast and haggis done for the lad already.

I think if folk were told their seat was becoming a standing area they would sharp move if they didn’t fancy it. Big opportunity to sort it this summer, if we’ve only got 33k season ticket holders should be plenty of scope to move folk around. You’re spot on though don’t think as fans where much if any better than Man City who have been slated. When SJP gets going it’s loud, but it’s so rare these days, I think even the likes of Old Trafford have areas of constant support these days, so it’s not just the times it is possible to have a good home atmosphere.

Trouble with that is folk are so desperate for tickets people would just purchase them in there regardless if they wanted to help create an atmosphere. I think the place to start is with existing season ticket holders who want to stand and sing, get them together then take it from there. I think a major problem is we need lads in there early 20’s able to get seats together, was the old singing corner up in level 7 not full of younger lads ?

Surely if we’ve got safe standing in the away section it gets rolled out to home areas next season. That’s the moment for the singing enclosure, be embarrassing as fuck if we’ve got a safe standing area and every fucker is sat like mutes in it.

Seems like West Ham are trying to sign Vitor Roque, have a feeling they’ll get blown out the water by one of the big boys though. Be surprised if Nickson isn’t aware of this lad looks a big prospect.

Think the worst defeat to Boro in my lifetime was the Slaven hatrick at Ayresome last day of the season that condemned us to the play offs. Things got even worse a couple of weeks later, definitely character building as a young lad at the time.

Used to get very tasty especially first couple of years after riverside first opened, remember running battles after the Tino game. Last game at Ayresome when we done them in the league cup will always live long in the memory for me.

Been spat on, swung at and called a maggot at Boro over the years, despite not being our biggest game always has a bit of edge and used to enjoy playing them.

Boss lad.

Well apparently we bid for him in the summer according to local journalists, so I’d say it’s reasonable to assume Howe rates him highly.

I just don’t agree with this he has to have shown something for top clubs to be sniffing at the price asked. Going back to Bellamy Bobby signed him to surround Shearer with pace at the time, basically to fit his system. Howe clearly sees Gordon as a hard working, young, inverted winger to play on the left. Whether we like it or not it’s no coincidence St Max isn’t starting in the left and hard working big Joe is.

The year we signed Bellamy the season before he’d moved to Coventry and scored 6 goals all season. Granted in his time at Norwich he looked decent, but it was still a risky signing that definitely didn’t catch the imagination at the time.

When we signed Bellamy most people thought it was a meh signing, he didn’t score goals and most thought he’d already flopped and guess what he was a total little cunt. I think Howe has earned our trust, i mean fucking hell it’s looking like Wood only cost us less than 10 million last year now.