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Dilldo60 is the new mackem spokesman now until the New Year anyway.

Yeah we can, but the fact we are not being allowed to increase our revenue through commercial/sponsorship deals is totally anti-competitive and a restraint of trade. This needs to have legal action enforced as it's just totally wrong. It would be thrown straight out of court.

They need to hit them with legal action and now.

I'm far from convinced he is an actual Sunderland fan, I think he just posts on there voicing his pure hate (and it was nearly as bad before the takeover) as they are our derby rivals, so his hate will get the likes.

I would certainly hope that’s the case, let’s see tomorrow

Well Jason Tindall is fucking wrong if he seriously thinks that. Surely Darlow can’t be still in tomorrow

Black deah more likely, it's been nearly that long

They have massive issues with their team and club and yet their main talking point over the last 7 weeks has been our takeover by the proverbial mile.

They beat Ipswich at the weekend (fortunately by all accounts), but your point still stands by current form and there are stronger teams than them this year also

Just think they have their worst team yet at that level and the other teams are a lot stronger this year.

The problem is unfortunately is that they were caught out with the speed of things. They either were not expecting the takeover to be given the green light full stop, or were not expecting anything to proceed until January at the earliest and most probably next Summer.

Dropping like a fucking stone, these fuckers will be very lucky to get any where near the playoffs this season. Teams below them are closing the gap pretty quickly, oh what a fucking shame

Still no sign of the Mexican kid, that transfer seems a bit iffy. No word of being injured or anything, he’s just totally disappeared

Got to beat Norwich and Burnley that's a given. In order of possible results Arsenal, Leicester, Man Utd and Everton could be possible points, however then you look at that defence and say, still very unlikely.

Yeah, the last few years has seen mainly relegated teams being promoted within a year or two.

Defensive and creative midfielder (Howe seems to think that maybe could be Shelvey though), with the only difference I have I think we need a striker, as Wilson's injury record suggets he will miss another part of the season.

Need to totally change the defence for Arsenal (I don't think he will mind), I would have Dubravka, Manquillo, Fernadez, Schar, and Lewis (Lascelles in the centre if a five). You're not staying up when conceding on average about 2.5 goals per game. We concede every game and therefore require at least two, to even think about getting a win (usually it's scoring two to be even within a chance of getting a draw). I'm more than certain Howe has worked overtime on the defence during the break, to stop consistently gving away school boy level goals, unfortunately the players selected have proven time and again, they're not up to standard. It really pisses me off, seeing the same total donkeys selected in that defence and getting the same level of performance each time.

If you count the probability of getting 0 points in the games against the top 3, that leaves probably between 30 - 34 points to get from 21 games (depending on the number of points to stay up). Getting towards probably 1.5 points average per game, which whilst not impossible, is however a big ask.

He played the full 90 in the second game. On the bench in the first game.

That’s a load of bollocks mind, if they even attempted that it would be kicked out of court straight away. You can’t accept ownership and then say further down the line, no actually we won’t accept it.

I've said before we will have to go down the loan route and probably need to have relegation clauses inserted for permanent signings.

Unfortunately that defence negates the optimism - on the pitch anyway. Even before Howe came, the forward line was performing to mid table standard in terms of goals scored. However, that defence obliterates any optimism on the field, for again at the 8th time of asking in 12 games, the team has been required score 2 or more goals to even be within a chance of getting a result. Nothing can be done until January and there is 7 games to play. That defence currently is lower championship standard at best. Don't you think we all want to be ultra positive (long term I certainly am), but the warning signs have been flashing red all season and I can't see that changing until January. Unfortunately it maybe too late by then. Never mind the Premier League, Ashley has totaly fucked us this year by not signing even one or two half decent defenders. Not having a go at you either, just the way I see things currently.

We have players up front who are better than most of the teams in the bottom half, unfortunately our defence is worse than most of the teams in the top half of the Championship.

Ryder's player ratings for the defence is laughable, one thing that's always consistent within anything Newcastle related, is how shit he is.

I would actually argue Lascelles, Murphy and Ritchie need dropping also. All 5 are a total liability as the goals against suggests. I know it seems dropping 5 all at once is a lot, but it can’t be any worse than what we’re seeing. If he’s keeping the 5 at the back, then keep Lascelles between Schar and Fernandez.