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Pizza and beers, scrolling here. Drinks out in Glasgow tomorrow night.

I just had a little party in the kitchen with the lad. "Play the Blaydon Races" no bother son!

"HAVE FAITH"

FUCCKIINNGGGG YAAAAAAASSSSSSS!!!!!

It’s going to be 3pm isn’t it ???

Yeah lets leave that shite behind. We've all had our disagreements about supporting the club. We all deserve to support a new version of NUFC.

I don’t want Keegan in and around the football side of things. Think it’s a step back. However, it would be amazing if the new owners made a point of reaching out to our legends (KK, Shearer, heck even Jonas and Hughton) and recognised them. KK should at the very least have a fucking stand named after him.

Bruce has to go man. He’s a dead duck. Hated by fans, not particularly liked by the team, and not the bee owners pick. His position is untenable

love this

Oh my fucking god. I can’t believe it. I have such a crazy set of emotions. I joined N-O (first time) not long after Ashley arrived. It’s going to be mad to see us all pull together to support the club. Cannot wait to take my little boy to SJP now. Fucking come on!!!!

Tell you what though, as much as this place can be full of knackers at times, I’d sooner see a majority from here run the Trust than some of the current NUST board

What they don’t get is that their democratic system mostly locks in votes from people that think in a like-minded way about the club. There weren’t very many candidates on the list who were even slightly arsed about raising a voice of dissent, so guess what, we get an NUST board full of bootlickers. The fact that they are saying if you want to protest, be a member, join the board is disingenuous. Loads did vote for pro-protest candidates and those people have been totally shot down / not heard. The trust will never even begin to be a representative body for the fans, because you have to buy into an organisation that won’t speak out. Most people won’t bother voting for that very reason.

What the fuck a s their remit if they won’t comment on the club?

And needless to say @Heron - well done for sticking to your principles

What a fucking load of shit. While I’m supportive of the pledge idea, I’m stopping. I’d been quite excited by the whole thing but the trust can fuck off after these past few days. Fucking arseholes.

I dare say they’d also boost their funds too if people saw them being a bit more militant

I mean it would have had a little more credibility if they had pulled together an NUST shop kind of thing…with like a load of bespoke products with discounts etc. And at a different time, and not sent in the same breath as the Tracey Crouch thing too. But one fucking jigsaw man. Honestly they don’t do themselves any favours.

Good stuff Heron

Couldn’t agree more on the fucking jigsaw thing. What a fucking weird thing to put out there. Mad really.

I’d rather take purgatory in this league than join the graveyard SPL

Remember saying that about a few of our players when Rafa was here - mates who asked about Longstaff, Perez, Schar for example. I would always say that in the Rafa system they look good, but I don’t think any of them are the kind of players that you could just stick on a pitch and be objectively good regardless of system…

I agree - but I think you could say the same thing about the conditioning of the whole squad. Also, just to play the amateur psychologist for a bit - from my own experience of playing 7s, it’s sometimes hard to stay motivated when you’re part of a shit team getting humped every week. Obviously these guys are professional, but I think the same applies in some way. So much comes down to the training, coaching, tactical and psychological input they get from their club. And since our arsehole of a manager is swanning off to Portugal for a break in September and not notifying half the squad when training sessions are, you can surmise that all of that isn’t up to PL standard

Fair enough ?

Not calling you out particularly, but I genuinely don't understand these kind of posts. What exactly is the difference between a PL player and a championship player? For the Longstaffs I'm not sure I could really say. I don't see an obvious technical weakness (unlike our no.7 who looks amateurish when it comes to striking through the ball), and everything that you could throw at them - fitness, decision making, movement off the ball, timing...it's all stuff that needs to be coached. I mean you see players that have been written off by clubs making waves in the PL all the time (see Toney for a recent example). Not to say that I think the Longstaffs will become world beaters, but I what I see in their careers is not a lack of talent but a lack of nurture for two potentially very useful players

I think that’s the point one trying to make. I would still try protest, but I accept the reality that loads won’t, and we’re all ultimately tired of 14 years of the same shite.