King HTT III

If yous did go up my feelings, unless you seriously invested you’d come straight back down, but like you said the money from that could really benefit the club, it hasn’t harmed Norwich or Watford over the years, although you don’t want to become a yo-yo club. Regarding our rivalry again, I can’t stand some of the shit on RTG/it’s members view points and that’s without bias, but my boy plays in Sunderland and half his team-mates are mackems and they are all sound people, nowhere near like what some go on like over on RTG, if anything they couldn’t give a shit about us and I’m confident the majority of Toon fans in reality are the same about yous, especially now. We are like a mixed Geordie/Mackem family as we spend so much time together, training, matches, social gatherings. Good banter between us all to be honest, without any extreme hatred. Way it should be, yes I want yous to lose and vice versa, but that’s football. I want Man Utd to lose every game, Chelsea, Spurs, Liverpool etc. stick around and join in, we are a decent bunch on here!

Well, they are Geordies…

@TeddySAFCwhat would you consider a good season for you guys, obviously promotion would be ideal for yous, but would it be a season too far and would your owners invest to try and keep yous in the Premier League? I’m a Geordie and rivalry aside, I know a lot of people who work for yous at academy/coaching/scouting level as my boy was there for a few years and they are all great people from my experience, obviously I hope yous lose every game, but I’ve said from day one since I started following football I’d rather the top end of the PL was dominated by NE teams.

Nah, just don’t want to see posters put off from posting is all, some mackems on here could be good for the forum as long as THEY play nice.

Let’s be nice and give him/her a chance eh?!

Mackem fan in peace? Welcome regardless!

Some of the best whiskey I’ve ever tasted was in Dundee and I’ve have had many a great night out there due to work, stayed for 4 days once and just toured the whole place. Edinburgh is class, I’ve visited a few times for the comedy festival, but it’s overpriced and a lot of areas like you say around the town are the pits, literally. Mind, you could say that about Newcastle too. I should know I’m from fucking Scotswood/Benwell/Elswick/West End.

Eh, Dundee is mint

They are really modern for the era.

Let’s hope he gets some game time and smashes it

Unless we are playing a rival team, in my whole life span I’ve hardly seen anyone wearing another team’s kit unless we are playing them at home or kids wearing whatever kit they get bought for them. I remember the KK years and people were wearing Toon tops to go to work, it was a sea of black and white and I’m starting to notice similar today. Hell, I wear my retro/old Toon tops around the house and have done for years even when I gave up on the Ashley era, mind I’m a lazy tramp and even wear my work t-shirts around the house. Mind, I wouldn’t wear a Toon top outdoors unless I’m at the match or playing 5-a-side or I’m on holiday. Each to their own though.

Villa will be fine under Emery, challenging for the top 7 in the next year or 2 if they back him.

All footballers are or should be at this level fit and should be match ready even if they are not playing, but despite him being a cunt, Michael Owen said all the training and gym work cannot and never will make up for playing because the training is organised, it’s structured and it has certain elements where as playing in actual match isn’t, it’s ebb and flow and all about instinct. That’s why he used to visualise what he’d do in certain situations or during games so it become like automatic to him and about memory. It’s an old saying, you can’t beat playing, some players need rotating, some can just come in and look fit, ready, sharp and do a job, when you’re just starting out though or are young or off the back of an injury you need games, in fact they all do at any level.

I’ve been to Leeds probably over 100 times, they do have a lot of casual fans who when you ask who they support they say Leeds (and a lot are more rugby orientated than football), but never go to Elland Road, for some strange reason there are lots of Leeds born Liverpool fans I’ve encountered (better than the Mancs, Leeds can do one nowadays etc.). Until recently they were in the lower leagues so I can imagine a lot of the younger generation just picked other teams and the older generation gave up or died sadly. That could have easily been the case with us under Ashley and was starting to happen. My boy and his team-mates couldn’t care less about NUFC before the takeover, now they all go to training in NUFC gear and half have season tickets, with their parents now starting to go again. My two want one and the oldest doesn’t even like football. I won’t be getting them one though, as happy as I am with things, I don’t feel comfortable with our owners and can’t be chowed these days. They’ll get to plenty of cup games and friendlies I’m sure over the years. One other thing and I don’t know if it’s common today, I remember my dad was obviously an NUFC fan, but ‘supported’ Wolves and Liverpool for some reason, my uncle Spurs after Newcastle. I think during the 50s-60s there wasn’t a tribal kind of culture or rivalry, people just loved football and footballers and had second or third teams, but would never go against their own hometown team. My grandad and his dad would go and watch the mackems when we played away and they were at home and cheered any English or Scottish team when playing in Europe and all home nations in WCs etc. Funny old game as they say!

I was just speaking in general really in terms him being a decent player.