christ

He’s absolutely fucked and he’s made a fortune. If I were him I’d be spending my days downloading garage music off Bandcamp and fishing too.

15 minutes ago, Slim said:

https://bandcamp.com/andycarroll

Not bad taste.

1 minute ago, madras said:

Could also be someone comes in as  interim Manager then moves on to become DoF type role at the end of the season when the manager/head coach we want is more likely to come.

I’ve never liked this approach. It blurs the lines too much. It’s the reason Mourinho didn’t come here when SBR said he was going to it.

Anything that stops Burnsie from logging on - even a prison sentence - is fine by me.

The worst thing about this entire saga is that the absolute fucking lunatics we had to tolerate for the last 18 months have been proven right - the process was corrupt from beginning to end.
 

Every tinfoil hat suggestion that BeIN and the bigger clubs were lobbying to stop it from happening has been proven correct. Everything from the way the takeover eventually went through to the pant shitting that has followed bears it out. I’m genuinely quite offended at the laziness of the Premier League’s “we’ve found a miraculous resolution to the separation issue” about 12 hours after the piracy stuff was resolved. They think absolutely nothing of supporters.

As for those clubs whinging about reputational damage months after trying to fuck the league off entirely? I hope there’s an outbreak of salmonella at the next PL meeting and they shit themselves inside out.

Rodgers would be a class appointment. Probably the best possible one we could make at this moment in time.

I think Christian Falk is enjoying himself.

2 minutes ago, Fantail Breeze said:

 

And what about the numerous examples of dogshit sides pulling off a result immediately after binning their manager when someone internally steps up who has been involved all along?

And what about all the examples of teams who bin off their manager and still lose their next game?

Chill out

2 minutes ago, Fantail Breeze said:

 

I mean you can’t seriously think that’s true? Of course it makes a fucking difference. Bruce is a negative piece of shit at the best of times, his energy sapping bollocks being trudged around the club all week is not helpful at all.

 

We’re still in a relegation battle with a very winnable home game coming up. Every point is important and allowing this game to pass us by, is a mistake.

 

Jones may have been here for a year but there’s a massive difference between him having to maintain a relationship with Bruce and exerting himself fully on the team. 

 

Bruce’s minions only need to follow if we sack them too. Nothing would stop us sacking Bruce, putting Jones in temporary charge and everything remaining the same.

 

Regardless, Ben Dawson could be temporarily promoted again if we need to get rid of the two Steves.

Yes, because we still look dogshit even with Graeme Jones on the staff and by all accounts he’s basically been co-managing the team. 

2 minutes ago, Fantail Breeze said:

 

How is it a ridiculous expectation to expect him to have been sacked after they’ve spent the last four days telling the media he’s going to get sacked?

Maybe you can give a reasonable answer as to why keeping him in post is a good thing which outweighs the many negatives?

Who said it’s a good thing? It’s not going to make a blind bit of difference. Jones is a capable coach, but if he was able to impart anything that groundbreaking on the training ground you’d have hoped he’d have done so in the last year when I’m sure he’s already had a massive amount of input.

The fact of the matter is we already run with a skeleton amount of staff across the club. I’d guess coaching is no different. Once Bruce goes his minions are likely to follow which leaves who? Jones and Simon Smith as the only non-Bruce related coaches? I’m not even sure what state our youth set up is currently in given the turnover of staff there, so I wouldn’t want to guess how many we could call up to

help hold the fort. It’s going to take a few days to work that out.
 

I understand why people want him out the door asap but it doesn’t matter whether he’s sacked in a couple of hours or a couple of days. 

A new and unique take on ‘Newcastle fans and their ridiculous expectations’.

1 hour ago, huss9 said:

but why let him continue taking training if he's gonna be sacked?

no good for jones, the players, or the fans.

If we sack the Steves that’s two thirds of our entire coaching staff gone. They’ll need to put plans in place to actually keep everything ticking over in the interim.

As a fanbase we probably need to get less touchy about this sort of thing. I thought it was a good cartoon. Some of the panels might feel a bit hack but they’re not wrong.

3 minutes ago, GWN said:

Twitter is a sess pit of fannies going on about Bruce still being here .

 

They can all fuck off, I’m keeping off it for a week , it’s unbearable, he will be gone soon , chill the fuck out.

The worst thing about caring about the club again means we’re going to have to deal with our fans being massive spenks.

I don’t understand why people are shitting themselves like. There’s been absolutely no indication that they want to keep him. As much as we’d like him to have been potted first thing yesterday morning in the real world there are things like contracts, admin and even more importantly understanding the impact of sacking most of our coaching staff in preparation for the next game.

I do wish people wouldn’t get wound up by Talksport’s very obvious trolling.

Spent the weekend remembering “to those who banned it up the bum” and having a nice little smile to myself.

Why is the assumption is that he’d elevate them to the level he had us? Everything we know about Ashley’s approach is that he’ll find the club’s natural level, do everything he can to maintain it while insulating himself from any risk. There’s more chance they’ll end up bouncing around the bottom of the Championship.

1 minute ago, ManDoon said:

I don’t think people who aren’t brain dead have a problem with people not speaking the language, or holding on to tradition. I find the idea of hiding behind “culture” as shield of criticism to be a poor one. If for example a country decides that peadophilia is okay, because of cultural reasons it’s not imperialism to critique it and it should be rightfully critiqued.

Don’t get me wrong, I agree completely. I just thought it was interesting to tease out the small nugget of truth in the initial post. 

49 minutes ago, veriaqa said:

 

Well, I think it down to "superior white" mentality. The worldview that see anything that different from white culture as barbaric, backward, etc.

On the face of it this is a ridiculous comment, however there is a sliver of truth there.
 

There are two elements to this, that I think run in tandem but are both equally important. The first is the desire to civilise, which has been ingrained since the days of Empire. You still see it nowadays whenever Western military intervention in [insert country here] is mooted, or when we talk about foreigners coming over to the country and not speaking the language or holding on to their traditions. The second is human rights as a cloak for capitalism. Handwringing about human rights, placing it as a purely cultural issue, is a very convenient way to distract from the fact the global economic system we live under is inherently barbaric, restrictive and exploitative.

The problem is that we’re talking about issues far beyond divergent world views. There’s a very tangible real world impact to Saudi’s approach beyond the borders of SA itself. 

I think it’s fine for our fans not to care, I draw the line at “poor little Saudi Arabia is being misrepresented by the media and we must stick up for them”. It’s absolute bollocks.

I really rate Potter, it’s just whether he’d be able to have the immediate impact necessary. Brighton were pretty wank last year (games against us aside) when they were in transition.

1 minute ago, joeyt said:

I can't believe I'm going to write this sentence but I don't particularly want us to get Zidane

Show me a quote that better sums up how mental the last 72 hours have been.

I think it’s totally reasonable to have reservations. I also think it’s reasonable for people to not give a shit. Ultimately we’re just fans, and it’s ridiculous to expect people to wrestle with some pretty weighty questions when they just want to watch people kick a football around for 90 minutes. The same questions that wider polite society refuses to answer. Where I draw the line is defending the Saudis, which some of our fans will now do because that’s football.

Which camp do I fall into? I am conflicted. I’m not comfortable with the club being used to sportswash anyone’s reputation, be them avaricious capitalist tosser or murderous despot (not the same level obviously, but the point still stands). My dream is an NUFC that is owned by the fans. I’ll not be 100 per cent satisfied until that is the case. But I also recognise that’s not deliverable in the short to medium term. We need legislation and government intervention to make that happen. It may come, it may not but until anything changes football ownership is just going to be a game of dickhead Top Trumps.

At the end of the day we spent 13 years trying to exercise some degree of control over who owned our club while a reasonably large portion of the sports media looked on bemused, some actively hostile to the protests. What finally tipped the balance? Nothing we did, but someone turning up and offering Ashley cold hard cash. The idea we have any power or responsibility in this situation is daft. 

1 minute ago, GWN said:

No private housing similar to the houses opposite in Gateshead quays area

I’m genuinely shocked.