TheBrownBottle

I thought you’d have known which ‘’philosopher’’ said that. Gazza. And people say he’s just a big pair of …

My mind keeps flitting from this being the game when we gobble up all those chances we create and hammer them, or the game where we unexpectedly end our unbeaten run. Hopefully it’s the former as I fully expect us to lose vs Liverpool the week before the final.

No, it’s a wind-up. You can rest easy - Bruno’s suspension still ends before the final!

Edit: I’m not sure if younger / non-UK NUFC fans will get Dan Burn’s reference Double edit: I also quite like the flag

Aye, fair enough. This is all minor stuff in the grand scheme of things; I see the flag talk as a bit of piss-taking fun tbh. edit: if I was off to the match it wouldn’t cross my mind for a second - this is all crack between matches. The one bit of piss-taking about a flag I do remember was away to Blackburn many years ago where one lad on the coach had a B&W Union flag with an SR postcode on it. The flag got comedy boos and piss taking when that was noticed

Yeah, whatever the stated aims this is ultimately true. ’Doing a Leeds’ is often the cited example of why FFP exists. The problem is that FFP wouldn’t have prevented Leeds’s ‘00s collapse. They actually had the income to sustain what they were doing when they spent big - the problem is that was based on the assumption that CL qualification would be a regular occurrence, and not (as it was) a one-off. The panicky fire-sale that followed caused a domino effect. It isn’t unimaginable that the same fate could be Chelsea’s if they have a season or two without CL qualification. Everything they’re doing is predicated on future income increases - always a risky venture (not in our case, as we know there’s plenty of room to grow)

There is an argument that he should have went to a lower level for this part of the season - the SPL is a step up from the A League and he wasn’t getting a game there. But he’s getting minutes for a good side in a half-decent league. He’ll also be adjusting to life on the other side of the planet for the first time. Patience needed, I think - it looks like some have built this lad up in their own head in terms of the standard he’s at. He’s raw as buggery, there’s talent there but who knows how he’ll progress. There’ll be loads of these signings in the coming years - this is what the likes of Chelsea and Man City do all the time. Some will pay off and become members of the squad, others will be sold on for a profit. Let’s see which category he falls into n

The ‘boycoutt’ was an online shouty campaign, with one march on a shop. I doubt the majority were aware that there was one, and if they were weren’t going to pay more to get their kids PE clobber in order to get warm fuzzies and internet kudos. For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t shop in his stores and refused to return to SJP - but I can’t condemn people in the poorest region of Grear Britain for wanting to buy sports gear as cheaply as they can. It feels like the middle-classes having a pop for the working-classes for not ensuring everything they buy is organic, whilst being blissfully unaware of what really having to budget looks like.

Tbf WM it wasn’t as easy to produce a flag that wasn’t a union flag / St George’s cross with ‘[insert part of Tyneside] Mags’ written across the middle of it. Don’t get me wrong, most of what I’m writing is completely tongue-in-cheek, but I reserve the right to eye-roll at some of it. If you saw someone on an away coach pull some of them flags out there’s no way a piss-take wouldn’t follow

Sure, but contempt for either is not mutually exclusive

I also get irritated by knackers without a dook of an idea how to comport themselves public-wise. I’ll add myself happily to the ‘stop making weird flags with St Bobby of County Durham talking to one of his successors from behind a cloud like the baby in Teletubbies you oddball fuckers’ crowd. Yes, they’re free to do so. But it’s fucking cringeworthy.

‘Live round the corner, you only live round the corner, live round the coooorneeeer, you only live round the corner’ If you haven’t chanted that to Man U at Wembley, you’re too young to do Shearer flags in the first place.

I know plenty on here want adidas back - and I have to say, if the new Scotland kit is anything to go by, I’d happily take them back. Tempted to get Mrs BB one (she is a scotch person, one of the scotches). It’s a beaut I think (feel free express your incorrect disagreement in replies )

When they’ve self-appointed themselves as representing all of our voices, you might expect a wee bit of backlash in fairness

They exude that snotty sense of entitlement even as adults. Daddy bought me a fanzine, and now everyone will have to understand my insights. Wish the cunt had stuck to rugby

Yep, it’s all ‘yikes’ now, but everyone else in the universe except Edwards could see it. It was the Mauriss shite that was the final straw with him for me. Anyone that easily hoodwinked isn’t much use as a hack

She gives off that vibe, but I’ve nee idea myself

Because it’s Grade-listed. And SJP isn’t.

That’s having austerity govts not maintain the area to blame, not the architecture. The stain that is Eldon Square should be sufficient proof of what happens when you chuck away your heritage. Take the Georgian terracing away and what to you have? Let’s be honest, not a lot of difference with places like Sunderland.

While your criticisms are perfectly accurate, I can understand the response from her

You’d need to actually develop the plans - unless they’re planning on bringing in everyone from outside the NE, then no plans currently exist. And they weren’t supposedly offering that to Greece as an act of generosity - it was so they could jointly host the WC, which would directly affect KSA. That doesn’t mean that the same offer applies to NUFC, where KSA are looking to ultimately make a profit.

I do think that Staveley and Ghoudossi are smart and engaged and will want all (or as many as possible) local stakeholders onboard, the Reubens are obviously savvy property developers and PIF won’t want any negative publicity given that their involvement already creates negative attention. I’d be very surprised if any proposed changes to SJP go ahead without a shitload of comms work - which would likely take a couple of years. They’re unlikely to blindly plough in without a care about consequences.

There are some who are

Yep, I understand that - but it means that the change is usage is effectively permanent once the stand is built. You can, but it doesn’t remedy the issue of where the club plays while that goes on. A full rebuild might as well take place.

Yes, I can absolutely see Leazes Terrace no longer being residential property - though that doesn’t resolve right to light issues. But building over it and the ideas around it being some sort of covered terrace like the pretend village in the Metro Centre? Absolutely no chance. Agreed that’s it’s SJ Terrace which really hems in development. Any works would likely have to sit within the existing East Stand footprint.