TheBrownBottle

Also seems to be the scenario which hasn’t been well contemplated. If the trend continues as it has, then - after spending the summer budget - he’ll be out before Xmas. That ‘credit in the bank’ has disappeared, and he’s back to having to prove himself. What should be hoped is that this time he has actually learned some lessons. There is no justification for watching the turgid shite we’ve witnessed this season. It would be great if he can get everything back on track. It probably helps that some of the pressure is lifted - it’s pretty obvious at this point that he isn’t ‘elite’, so expectations re the club can be corrected. PIF and that daft Canadian knacker aren’t serious, so they can happily be tuned-out going forwards.

I don’t think winning the UEFA Cup is more difficult, but I do think it’s far more prestigious than a league cup win

I’d revisit this at the end of May - if they win the UEFA Cup it’ll surpass what we’ve done.

Complete wet fart of a second half - funny thing is that you know Ossie wouldn’t have said ‘just sit on it lads, tuck in tight and don’t give them space’

I was at the match at home to Charlton when we went 3-0 and lost 4-3. Perfect Ossie Ardiles match.

But that isn’t what we are historically - our average finish is just shy of 14th, which would place us 9th in the overall average in English football. There’s only 8 clubs with a better average. The ‘entitled’ shite is what really gets my hackles up - I never see any other group of fans get this accusation levelled from elsewhere in the same way. It’s laced with a sneering regionalism. Fuck that.

Christ

Yep, I’m non-plussed by the criticism re picking BDB at Highbury. Howe’s logic was sound I think

‘Ey, ah fukkin luv a good Segantini landscape, la’

2-2 draw I reckon. Can’t help thinking that we’ll concede late and drop points as per, but I also think we’ll see a better home performance

Chaucer must’ve went to Walbottle school, because that’s what we called it too

Yeah, I do take that point tbf

Agreed 100% on that. To me a forum is like a post-match pub. Getting on the manager’s back at the match helps no-one.

Yes, we’re to blame for making comments on an internet forum. I thought it was because we look unorganised and some of the players appear to have checked-out.

Pack it in man. I don’t think the flip is true - ‘Eddie Howe fans first, Newcastle second’. We all want what’s best - we don’t have to agree with how to get there.

Yep - I’ve no idea where the ‘majority’ of fans sit on any issue, and wouldn’t claim to pretend to know.

Most wouldn’t have had their ‘baggage’ …

Just to add, ‘he wins the ball’ is absolutely meaningless - it’s an out-of-control challenge, it doesn’t matter at all if he touches the ball first, it’s a red every day of the week. I’ll never understand people saying ‘he wins the ball first’ as if that has any bearing whatsoever on it. edit: an IFAB post on ‘playing the ball first’ https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2068785456622930&id=100029411596122&http_ref=eyJ0cyI6MTc3NzYyOTA4MjAwMCwiciI6IiJ9

Sure, that is fair enough. But I do think it’s incredibly unlikely that even the most half-arsed and incompetent of owners wouldn’t have increased it, provided they didn’t take it off the books. The club always had huge commercial potential - that’s down to the size of the supporter base, not a sovereign wealth fund

It is grim that football went this way tbf - £570 is a lot of money. It’s hard to imagine it ever being clawed back to being the people’s game again, but it is an act of cultural destruction that it’s been wrestled away from its working class roots to be packaged and sold to the wealthy

The Fairs Cup trumps the League Cup. But we’re splitting hairs I guess.

Yes, it is - they couldn’t have shrunk them any further. The man was openly removing entire revenue streams from commercials and sticking it into his other business. So perhaps if someone else ran it the same way, sure.

It’s not the most successful season in 100 years, no idea what the basis is for that tbh

I don’t like actively disliking the Newcastle United no.9. It’s a fucking awful state of affairs - he’s the first one where I’ve thought this way. I know Joelinton was shite there, but the circumstances were different. Every regular wearer since I started going from Goddard to Wilson might not have all made themselves legends but fucking hell, I bastard love that shirt and often the man in it. Quinn, Kelly, Cole, Ferdinand, Shearer, Martins, Carroll, Cisse, Gayle, Rondon, Wilson - all of them became legends or at least had great moments, and I never questioned the commitment of any of them.