TheBrownBottle

The new SCR rules which come in next season mean that only that years income and outgoings are measured - so any income / outgoings this season don’t count towards next season. The new rules are all about squad cost vs income.

And it will make absolutely diddly-squat difference to what’s available next season with the rule changes, so it isn’t worthwhile even counting at this point.

Commentator ‘Newcastle through to the last 16 for the first time in their history’ Er, no.

Wrong threads

It’s like interviewees getting mad at Ali G

I do - it’s part of my day job. And it isn’t hard at all, though it can be time consuming

They won’t have, given that it would have leaked and Dolly Mk II would be running their mouth off. There’s far too many people to consult - and far too little importance on NDAs in that space - for folks not to talk.

They are the qualifying playoffs - the technical term for the round were in is the ‘knockout-playoffs’ (KO-PO). Any yellows picked up from the group stage up to and including the QF count towards a suspension - which is why I can’t understand why the players on a yellow didn’t undertake a bit of ‘professionalism’ and get themselves a booking vs Qarabag

Depends on who wins the FA Cup

Yeah, it’s an excellent response. Mourinho’s comments were depressing - proper ‘I’ve got black friends’ stuff

Howe is comfortably a better manager than Slot for me. Slot’s side last season managed to win the title at a canter without ever looking truly outstanding - and they were performing in muscle-memory. Reminds me of what happened here after Benitez left - the side was still well-organised and drilled and that takes time to cock-up, even for a manager as incompetent as Bruce.

I don’t think Gordon has looked any better than the Everton version of Gordon outside of 23/24.

In the 2000s, I don’t think I was able to get the 22 bus to town without hearing ‘Children of the Night’ blasting out of a charver’s headphones so loud that you could hear it at the front of the bus. The tinny second-hand noise of that shite was the Stagecoach equivalent of elevator muzak for about a decade.

It was - and it was more than enough to have swathes of our support constantly defend the Hall and Shepherd regime with nonsense about them ‘putting in their own money’. It’s why we had a massive overdraft and over £100m of debt when Ashley bought the club, all while they’d paid themselves a similar figure in dividends. They’d mortgaged the future of the club and years of poor signings had us on the verge of ‘doing a Leeds’.

Thiaw getting drawn to the ball when it was crossed despite Burn’s position and losing his man was the biggest issue which led to the winner. It was schoolboy defending.

Red is the colour of our traditional away kit, as well as being the only other home colour we’ve ever worn as Newcastle United. No issues with red top white shorts for me.

I don’t give a shite about the badge, but the kit design isn’t even aesthetically pleasing. It’s B&W stripes - it’s not hard to get right. This was always the worry with adidas for me - most of their kit designs were absolutely shite.

That’s honestly giving me a headache looking at it

Open racist abuse against their own players is the grimmest and most predictable starter pistol for things unravelling over there - it’s the Mackem equivalent of what city wankers call ‘bearish reversal’

Well done to him for breaking a completely confected record, following the invention of football in 1992. Just another two seasons’ worth of appearances and he might get to John Hollins’ record for an outfield player in terms of top flight appearances - and I’m going to assume Shilton’s record is well out of reach given he’d need to make almost another 200 appearances.

You might want to rewatch Man City’s goals re Thiaw’s ‘great’ performance - he’s not great on the first, and the second is simply terrible defending

Needless to say, Edwards had the last laugh

Hahaha what a cunt - Edwards is going full-on Partridge with age.

Pre- or post-match? What was said?

I think Wissa is a different case to the other summer signings in terms of profile and age - I don’t think there is a player there for Howe to sculpt, he was more of a ‘guaranteed’ PL-level performer signed for big money despite his age - a premium was paid for him to hit the ground running. With Elanga and Woltemade there’s a stronger case that Howe can work with them and improve them - as well as figure out a way to incorporate them into the side.