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We might have but I don’t know whether he’s fit. He got ruined and stretchered off in the last game of the season IIRC.
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The bootcuts make me sicker than the thought of him spewing up 12 pints into a fireplace.
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That white text. Why? Why are they still persisting with that shite?
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I’m in. We’ve tried swimming with the sharks that are Sinister 6 friendly agents and it’s been a bruising encounter. Let’s go back to what works whilst we sort the infrastructure side.
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He’s too ugly to be on any other poster than a Wanted one.
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We’d have also waved goodbye to probably 2 of our purples. Isak plus another. So no, happy to be in the CL.
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Bootcut Mike Ashley modelling them?
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You’d get more accurate transfer news from Billy Joel.
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He’ll be selling healing crystals and anti-5G wristbands like rapey Russell Brand soon.
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Sat at his Thomson House desk spinning in his chair with his crayons up his nose?
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It’s warm, come on in.
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Captain Hindsights. Hope is a cunt but he’s the only one asking/stating the pertinent point. Waugh and Douglas continue to bring the same piece of coffee stained update paper to the meeting that they started the summer with.
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Arsenal and Spurs haven’t. Yet.
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AND ITS LIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEE
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Ryder completely mudded.
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Fucking fiveheed on that cunt.
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Good letter from a bloke in York on Football365. Sums a lot of it up well, including “paid schills”: Big old Newcastle sadness ahoy I’d like to think I’m a fairly level-headed fan most of the time, and able to balance my inner 12-year-old superfan with the now considerably older, mature rational thought. But us football fans are generally irrational and this summer has made my head spin I must admit. I’ll preface this by saying I expect absolute zero sympathy from all who read this distinguished mailbox I’ve been reading for 20 years, especially given my club is owned by the Saudi investment fund (no whataboutery here). I’ll also preface this by saying I have one life to live as a football fan and I am desperate for there to be more joy than sorrow in it – and I’ve only seen that balance really start to shift again in the past 3 years. This isn’t a rant about PSR (yet). My biggest frustration with Newcastle this summer is that our USP/advantage these past 3 seasons has been COMPETENCE. Botman, Tonali, Bruno, Hall, Tino, Isak, Gordon were such unbelievably shrewd signings. Even the ones that felt less so – Wood, Barnes, Targett etc – haven’t exactly been bad. We seemed to be smartly run, but that only now extends to the playing and coaching staff, the rest is an absolute mess: Backroom staff: A CEO who has been serving notice for 12 months. A commercial director who doesn’t do much commercial, a Sporting Director who left with so many question marks. Failure to do commercial deals: the assumption is we’re waiting for the City court case to resolve but we could have milked the interim timeframe with smaller deals. Training ground: I lived in Newcastle for 25 years of my life and there’s an abundance of land. We keep saying this is a priority, but we keep redeveloping the existing instead. Retail: All we do is shift tat, it’s incredible. Stadium: Just delaying the inevitable, it’s obvious you want to move. Come out and say it. Even our social graphics were hilariously bad the summer we had supersavers and county cricket clubs rinsing us – deservedly so. But recruitment and on-the-pitch was always the saving grace. Instead we’ve abandoned this approach and it seems to be a mishmash of major un-gettable European talent or Premier League premium deals only. We needed first teamers yes but we also needed competitive depth – we move from one target at a time and at snail’s pace. Accept where we stand in the food chain now and act accordingly, unearth the next Bruno. I love Eddie and everything he’s done but he also shouldn’t be the voice of authority on transfers, neither should his nephew. I’ve never witnessed a self-implosion like it. On to Isak, I think it’s pretty disgraceful that a player on 120k a week can effectively down tools, refuse to come on an important, profile-boosting pre-season tour and simply abandon all goodwill. He never felt the type. And the concerted, cold-war style campaign Liverpool have run through paid shills like Romano, whilst incredibly modern and clever, are designed to systematically destabilise a club/potential rival and unsettle a player. I really hope we dig in… I’d quite happily see Isak sit the first couple of months out without his move. He’s making the entire situation worse, and creating a dark cloud heading into the season. They haven’t even bid! And then there’s the system. Rules brought in post-takeover that stop us growing. Yes we need to drive commercial revenue. In order to do that, we need to keep spending to balance the Champions League and cup runs: but spending is stifled, PSR spreadsheets amortisation bla bla bla. We can’t pay the wages, fees are too high, progress is stifled, back to square one and suddenly your prospective sponsorship deal disappears. Fine, we’ll use one of the PIF brands (regrettably), nope, we’ll make that hard for you too (though as I’ve said before, we should rinse it). I’m sick of hearing Liverpool saying they used the Coutinho money to get to where they are now, using it as a comparison. You are LIVERPOOL. We will take decades, if at all, to get to that level. I’m not asking for a Chelsea-style free-for-all, just a bit more leeway. How to move forward? Can’t believe I’m saying this but I’d be abusing the system to it’s every inch now. I’ve seen other teams do it. We should too. Everyone thought we would. Accept the governance is here to slow us down, now fight dirty against the governance. But will we? Can’t see it, because we’ve lost the ability to function competently. What was the point of this email? I’ve lost it. Just wanted to rant. Harry, York (PS. Fully expect us to still be an excellent team, but right now we are hollow at CB and have prolific wingers supplying William Osula only
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Pre-season (2026/27): NUFC to play Everton at Murrayfield on 12/08/26
Nucasol replied to bowlingcrofty's topic in Football
He’d be next out of the door for me but I don’t have the faith in the current back office set up to appropriately replace him. -
Preparing to do additional monitoring?
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Pre-season (2026/27): NUFC to play Everton at Murrayfield on 12/08/26
Nucasol replied to bowlingcrofty's topic in Football
They look like they’re playing for big moves and we’re at it like the post-season game in Australia. Nowt to be worried about, I’d be more concerned if they were this idealess vs Espanyol or Atletico Madrid.