christ

Despite my initial scepticism I’m really looking forward to today now. Probably helps that the bairn is bursting with excitement like.

Maybe it’s because I’m off the pop, but I’m really not that arsed about the lack of alcohol. It’s a few hours on a field. Hardly embarking on the twelve steps.

There was a Twitter thread years ago from an ex-Vice journalist who claimed he’d been a bit of a pest. Nowt illegal.

A bitter, bitter man who sends questionable DMs to female journalists.

Quansah would be an opportunistic move. It doesn’t appear Slot fancies him. If £30m is accurate there’ll be other teams in for him.

Standard RTG fare. Work themselves into a lather about a load of perceived slights and then resort to telling each other fairy stories about a time they were relevant.

I’m not saying be dicks, but just knock it on the head and stick with a bus parade.

I think a lot of people can be unduly critical of the club on matters of stadium expansion, commercial deals etc but this sounds shit. I appreciate their hands will have been tied by the council who probably want the least hassle possible, but someone at NUFC should’ve been brave enough to put the mockers on this. They need to do the trophy presentation with the team early doors. People who don’t want to knock around for the rescreening, highlights and the rest can leave and don’t need to stand on the Town Moor for four hours.

I’ve drank nothing but since Sunday. I’m going to die.

RCB isn’t an area we can take a punt on potential. We need immediate strengthening. Huijsen would be a great signing.

Sir John Hall is a bit like Kanye West. His earlier work was and remains outstanding, but the less said about his recent behaviour the better.

I’m willing to be that’s the most emotional that man has ever been.

Clubs need to be brands nowadays and the easiest/quickest way to build a brand is to have world class players. PSG is a great example. Hoovering up talent like Neymar, Messi, Mbappe helped them become a massive brand off it. Juve tried similar when they brought Ronaldo in. However both of those examples also show how hard it is to thread the needle between on pitch and off pitch needs. Isak is not in that echelon of player yet, but one day soon he will be. Is the short term PSR benefit of selling him going to outweigh the halo effect he’ll have on Newcastle United from a commercial POV? I doubt it, and the noises from the club suggest they do too.

I can’t remember the match. I remember celebrating the goals, and I can vividly remember the post match celebrations but I’ve completely blanked the match out. Call it a trauma response.

Why not both?

Anyone else still feel completely unmoored? It’s like everything I ever thought I knew has been proven as a lie. Newcastle United don’t win things.

Crying again watching the highlights ffs

Nothing’s sacred.

Nope. Cacking myself again. What a ride.

I appear to have shit myself into a state of serenity. Whatever will be will be lads.

I’ve been pissing wet, hot snakes of fear out my arse since 4am.

Same here. Kept bumping into people I hadn’t seen in years. It was like half the North East decamped to the town square in Bruges for two days.

The game-by-game demand isn’t really representative. Fans have been conditioned to apply for basically every match to have even the smallest chance of getting a couple of tickets over the course of a season. Once that becomes less acute - either because we drop off, people get bored or the new stadium arrives - I don’t think people will chase tickets in the same way.

I dunno like but I tend to trust people at the club who have all of the data and not a bunch of people on the internet who get a semi-on at big numbers.

Watching us get battered will be punishment enough.