TheBrownBottle

The original Brown Ale logo was all stitched - but yes, it was definitely pretty solid

No - Maguire’s OG was the only on target effort

Yeah sorry mate - bollocks was a bit strong on my part. But I’ve never been fully onboard with the sentiment

Yeah, this is basically where I am.

True, but that depends on what the club is ‘trying’ to do. I’d suggest that the implication is that the club would be trying to win things, while not demanding that it does. Either way, it is meaningless in the context of the performance of the players.

I never liked that mantra, and it doesn’t speak for all of us. Mainly because it is utter bollocks - a team of triers losing every week would not be a popular one on Tyneside.

?

You’re right of course re the lineup vs Sheff Wed - it was just a really poor performance. I can just about forgive it if we’re on a LC run tbf. But it is just so depressing to see the oldest football competition in the world - and one which for most of its lifetime was far more prestigious than the league title - being undermined because of the money. Desperately sad.

I’ve zero time for playing reserves in the FA Cup. There is absolutely no excuse for it.

Not that he’ll care (or know), but he’ll get on my bad side if I see another reserve XI start an FA Cup match. Fuck. That.

I’m ok with this. He’ll need to perform to be worth £100m+. Not the end of the world if true - at this moment no-one is likely to bid that sort of number for him.

And being South Korean, probably doesn’t actually recognise North Korean sovereignty …

If I told you, I'd have to shoot myself. And them. And you too. It would be a bloodbath. But it is definitely, definitely happening. Scout's honour. Nelson's Column is being swapped for Grey's Monument as part of the exchange, though the deal is being held up on account of it being unclear as to which party pays the installation costs.

I’ve had it on good authority that we’re swapping Howe for Southgate. Straight up, nee lies. Don’t shoot the messenger though.

Christ man that’s Bob Stokoe you’re talking about.

Bob Stokoe was 100% a mag. Boyhood fan. They’ve got a statue of a Newcastle fan outside their ground, and we’ve got a stand named after a boyhood Sunderland fan. Odd how it works out.

‘Ah don’t even know what the people of Saudi Arabia want for themselves, particularly their women’ Of course you won’t - that is because they haven’t got a vote, you dopey cunt

It’s a fucking dictatorship with an appalling human rights record. Who gives a shit if someone who makes money there has a different opinion? Fucking hell man.

Sorry you’re absolutely right, the anonymous anecdotal wafflings of a bloke on the internet trumps all other facts. Especially as you’re not the one who’d be directly affected by it, in fact you’re over there coining it while others suffer. Good lad. Good old MBS, three cheers for him.

Tbf Pope not being selected is pretty reasonable. I wouldn’t have either based on form. Some of the other selections are bat shit, mind.

Yeah, I read Peter Zeihan’s book. Yep, they are fucking awful - the House of Saud is right up there with the worst of the worst when it comes to govts. There is no real reform coming, either. There is no rule of law, only feudal application of ‘order’ and Bronze Age morality. The funders and purveyors of Wahhabist lunacy (for everyone else at least - the House of Saud doesn’t need to follow the sharia code that they set for everyone else).

I didn’t label the full support - I said there are some thick cunts in our support. Some, not all.

Yep, there are some thick cunts in our support

I’ve said it on here before, but you sell any player of the price is right and you’ve identified replacements. Every club on the planet sells players. We’ll need to sell players for sizeable profits in order to play catch up. A large portion of our support does think that the players we’re signing now will be here for many years. I doubt that will be the case - most will be stepping stones. But at least it is the players who are the stepping stones now, and not the club - the reverse was true under Ashley. Every single one of our current players is replaceable, ultimately.

Sorry yes - typo on my part - I meant to say that the PL were stupid enough to go with the ‘separation proved’ like the club gave them. All because the piracy issue was resolved