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I like to imagine you handwrite all your posts in a freezing writer's shed at the bottom of your garden, wearing a battered old coat and fingerless gloves, accompanied only by a metal coffee flask, an ashtray overflowing with roll-up butts, and stacks of NUFC history books all over the floor. Then you have to give your note scraps to a kindly old neighbour to publish online for you.

Think we should just fucking ghost them tbh. Rock up with Dummett and Ritchie et al. and be like, 'oh this is a big game for you is it? Sorry, we're just not that bothered. We've just had a crunch top of the table game against Liverpool not long after our crunch Champions League game against Milan, but it's sweet you guys made the effort for us.'

Although Howe likes to stick with the same back 4, I reckon there might be a bit of rotation, manage players' workloads, not overwork Botman straight back from injury, while also giving him enough opportunity to put in some good performances and get his starting job back without flat out just dropping lascelles.

Who's our official budget supermarket partner?

Plot twist: Turns out it was ten Hag all along. He's trying to turn the fans against the players he doesn't like with a false flag operation.

If they were going to go for Farioli and now he's tearing it up, I'd assume they've got a lot of regret there so I would imagine they'll go for another young progressive coach, possibly with a fancy foreign name and nice haircut, rather than a PFM type.

Ah ok, so it's not exactly out of nowhere then. Wonder who they've got in mind.

Weren't they close to sacking him in the Summer, or not renewing his contract, or am I misremembering?

If you build it, they will come.

Well... I bet he knows the club at least.

Wish there was a legit company I could go to and say, 'hi company, please can I pay to watch just all the Newcastle games as I don't give a shit about anyone else.' And then the company would go 'yes of course, please pay us a reasonable monthly fee and you can watch all the Newcastle games'. Then I'd say 'thank you company' and pay them a reasonable monthly fee and watch the games. Then I'd probably find Robbie Savage was co-commentating all of them and I'd have to pay for their extorionate premium package to have McCoist instead. Bastards.

I reckon they totally want a new stadium, but they're being sure to be seen to make every effort to try and keep/develop the original first.

Just dig out under the existing stadium and lower it enough that we can raise the smaller stands without destroying people's light. Also jacuzzis dammit. Jacuzzis filled with sea-horses for OCK.

Perhaps with it being Grealish the ref thought he'd just throw himself to the floor to try and win a freekick anyway, by which time the game might have been over, so the original free kick gave them the best chance.

Hey David, we can't pay you 375k per week, but we can give you a free opportunity to cuck ten Hag out of the Champions League places this year.

That's what I'm talking about. We should have that. In fact, we should only have that. Jacuzzis for everyone!

Arent't there stadia in America with jacuzzis and fish tanks in? They have some fancy stuff over there. NFL games will usually be over 3 hours though. There are literally operas that are shorter than that, so not suprised some people might want a bit more comfort.

I assume the issue is that being dead isn't grounds to get a blue badge. Ravel keeps sketchy company.

BTW, how does one acces the super secret parsnipped section of the form? I wanna see floof doggos!

Perhaps Pope will spend the entire rehab period playing keepy uppy and teq ball and he'll come back like a fucking goalkeeping Messi.

Oh bugger, hadn't thought of that.

I would expect nothing less than jumping, screaming, punching the air, kissing the badge and sticking a toffee up his arse and farting a massive bubble through it until it pops.

It's going to be nice for them to get to see our boys in person finally.

Plus any money we spend on loans/short term deals now is money we can't spend buying more lovely lovely footballers permanently. That said, if there's a significant upgrade to be had it could be well worth it. A couple of points dropped here and there could be the difference between Champions League or not. I can't image there's a ton of top class keepers going at a reasonable rate midseason though. For now, we've got 7 games before the January transfer window, so should be time for Dubs to get up to speed and show his level. He was a good keeper before & I imagine giving your reserves a fair crack when they get an opportunity is important to keep them motivated. Even if we're happy with Dubs' performance though you'd still expect us to do due dilligence on what other options are available.

With our luck this year he'll sign a new contract and then his leg will immediately fall off. Perhaps we're just trying to stall sod's law until Botman's back.