TheBrownBottle

Edwards is the sort of tiresome twat who forgets he publishes transfer tittle-tattle and gives football players rankings in matches, yet has fantasises of being Carl fucking Bernstein. The constant Bruce wind-ups with the support (while people biting were daft) was just embarrassing and showed he had little in the way of actual professional ethics (again, imagine how low that bar is when your job involves printing rumours agents give you). The Henry Mauriss stuff just showed that he is an incredibly piss poor journalist (it was patently obvious to everyone except him that Mauriss didn’t have the wherewithal). No agenda on my behalf; there is something amusing about watching a mid-life crisis being played out on social media. And at least unlike Graham Linehan, Edwards isn’t actually harming anyone. But I find him irritating when he pops into my view.

The Geordie who scored for the Mackems against Newcastle; the Englishman who scored for Scotland against England. Football’s own Benedict Arnold

You know, considering they’re all delighted he’s gone and over the moon with the money, an awful lot of them seem overboard angry with him. Not sure I’d be that angry about a player leaving who I wanted to leave.

‘We currently have better players’ ??????

It’s his Barry Venison-esque wardrobe becoming dernier cri which would be the greater crime against Tyneside couture.

In the short term he offers competition on the wings (I know I’m not the only one who thought we desperately needed a new winger in the summer). I really like Longstaff and Willock (finishing excepted) but they both looked absolutely fucked vs Southampton - they’ve given the club 100% maximum effort for ages and you could see that their energy has been sapped. Getting Joelinton back into midfield is needed to me - Gordon, ASM, Almiron, Murphy, Joelinton, give us plenty of wide options now - crucial when Howe plays a high press with wingers covering shitloads of ground doing it - even Willock or Isak could play there at a push. It really is going to take time to rebuild the side and the club; Ashley’s legacy isn’t going to be wiped overnight. I think Gordon is a canny signing - though I will concede that I do think we’ve paid a bit more than what he’s really worth (£30m + add ons looks more like it to me) - but he’s young, English, fits Eddie’s high-speed high-press style of play (and can shithouse with the best of them), I’m looking for to seeing what the lad can do. I just fucking love being excited about NUFC again - other club’s fans laughing at signings on Twitter just isn’t going to make a dent in that. I’m too old to give a solitary shite about the views of the press or other clubs support.

Miggy was a club record signing - £20m+ five years ago. It wasn’t buttons we paid.

Ashworth and Howe are in charge of our transfer strategy. I’ll trust their judgement 100%, while acknowledging 100% success rate is likely impossible. Just be thankful that they’re in charge of it, not those who went before … https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_s3vBNeTy8

I’d recommend going into the Almiron or Joelinton threads on here from a year or so back, and then picture what might have been written it we’d sold them last January. Everton are a shambles, and as we know only too well unhappiness at the club also bounces to the players. I couldn’t give a flying one what they write, as I know where their minds are at present.

Graham (West) Denton, more like

Gordon is better than Murphy, who is the one likely to be displaced from the squad in his favour. Gordon might start or might not, but Howe and Ashworth appear to want him, and that really should be enough. I think too many have assumed a bit too much about the players we’re likely to bring in and how much we’re likely to spend, and it’s leading to unnecessary disappointment. The model has been made pretty clear as far as I’m concerned; Chelsea has shown that FFP is meaningless, and PIF aren’t chucking silly money about like them - they could have spent vast sums and not been hit by it to date. The club is going to be built sustainably, with young players with potential brought in to develop with the club and the manager. Over the coming years, the commercial revenues will increase year on year with more and more favourable sponsorship deals - I’m willing to bet on companies from KSA with no ‘direct’ link to PIF to avoid being hit with the rule book (but let’s face it, any company in KSA will want the govt onside). It’s not a vanity project nor is it ‘sportswashing’ in the same way as Abu Dhabi or Qatar. It’s an combination of genuine investment and a pursuit of soft power. They spent so much last Jan to protect their investment. They won’t want do it again; hopefully they will never have to. Funnily enough, it’s the model Ashley once proposed, only on steroids and well-run. Sounds good to me.

Look, I’m sure we’re all agreed that his going on strike shows his character not to be up to scratch. I mean, what sort of man would go on strike at Everton - his boyhood club - to sign for Newcastle? Disgrace. Shows he wouldn’t be a good fit. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-speed-goes-on-strike-to-press-claim-for-transfer-1141775.html?amp Oh. Forgot about that.

Rednecks in Deliverance more like

Loving the ship hitting the iceberg out of the window. It’s like a badly drawn Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker still - something different on every viewing

They did, we didn’t. And those two votes were the first declared; Newcastle first, Mackems second. Sunderland is pretty much seen as the ‘Brexit town’, being first to declare.

Newcastle didn’t vote Brexit, whatever the rest of the region did.

They absolutely are - and while a Wembley defeat for NUFC would of course amuse them briefly, the depression would quickly sink back in when they remember we’re well ahead of schedule and they’ll need to get used to this on a regular basis. It is therefore probably best we win it this year, for their sake. Why defer the stress and pain?

I think what both of you had written is true; I absolutely think you’re right that Howe’s style is to be loyal to a side which hasn’t lost, but also I think it’s likely that Nine’s point re impact sub is true also

He looked good after he came on. Nowt would make me happier than seeing him find a place in the side - the lad has talent. Fitness, rather than attitude, is more of a worry to me. The lad breaks down more than a ‘70s Lada

I’m one of those defending the Gordon signing. Perfectly happy for him to sign. It was a joke, though I find the transfer guru types irritating

I was only taking the piss. But the detail they go in to is complete bollocks - they’re being fed by agents, not the money men.

I know, but I just find him and the other Twitter twats tiresome. Like any of them have a clue

‘Hi, Bill - it’s Farhad. Listen, I know we wanted £55m, but could you make sure you let Jacque Talbot from the Twitter know I’m actually prepared to accept less. Yeah, I know it would probably best not to reveal our negotiating strategy to a desperate twat on Twitter who lies for likes and retweets, but I feel it’s important that we feed him info. You work in theatre, you’ll understand. Probably’.

I’ll do them in chronological order - I’ll only include the ones where I was there: 1) Kelly’s volley vs Portsmouth in ‘92 2) The entire pre-match and first half vs Leicester in ‘93 3) Cole’s 40th vs Villa in ‘94 4) Peter Beardsley. Just generally; pick a goal. From 93-97 5) Shearer signing 6) The 5-0 vs Man Utd 7) Asprilla’s goal in the second 4-3 vs Liverpool. Convinced this is the one of the best goals I’ve ever seen in the flesh, no idea why others don’t see it the same way; Ginola’s ball and Asprilla’s stretching volley were pure sex 8) Forest 5-0 last day; Newcastle qualify for Champions League, Mackems and smoggies relegated 9) Ketsbaia’s last gasp equaliser (winner) vs Croatia Zagreb 10) Barcelona 3-2 11) Sheff Utd semi - Shearer’s goal 12) Rob Lee’s goal at Wembley 13) Robert’s glorious debut vs the smoggies in ‘01, and my continuing quest to fall in love too easily with silky-skilled left wingers from France playing in B&W. Thauvin didn’t give me enough time, the tease 14) Robert’s goal at Highbury to put us top - ‘01 15) Nobby’s winner in the 4-3 at Leeds a week later 16) Bellamy’s winner in De Kuip - genuine blackout moment, woke up in a massive pile-on in the away end 17) Shearer’s goals in the San Siro - same as 15) 18) Robert’s thunderbastards vs Spurs 19) Shearer’s final touch in football; the pen vs the mackems 20) Ritchie’s winner vs Burton; the only time I broke my self-imposed exile from Ashley’s SJP as it was just before I was due to emigrate and wanted to go to SJP one last time. After eight years away, it’s easy to forget just how exciting a live match is. Plenty since my Ashley-driven self-imposed exile and later actual exile from emigrating - but all on TV, no less sweet but they somehow always lack the visceral quality of being there

We all claim to have been at the Gillingham game in ‘87 according to every Mackem I’ve met