Rich Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Icon or legend? Arrogant or canny? For all of your Big Al needs, it's the Alan Shearer thread. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Propose cult hero status. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 (edited) Legend for me. Anyway, delighted we're finally getting all that Sports Direct tat out of the ground. What's everyone's thoughts on the font and styling for the new 'Newcastle United' sign? Old style font with some decent backlighting and a crest would look good imo. Edited December 7, 2021 by loki679 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Legend for me. Shame he backed his pal the last 2 years which has damaged his reputation within the only people that matters, nufc fans. Sadly I don't think he sees it (or cares) but it's not all or even a majority. All will be forgotten a few year down the line when Bruce was simply a bad dream. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 8 minutes ago, loki679 said: Legend for me. Anyway, delighted we're finally getting all that Sports Direct tat out of the ground. What's everyone's thoughts on the font and styling for the new 'Newcastle United' sign? Old style font with some decent backlighting and a crest would look good imo. Where's this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyman Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 12 minutes ago, Mr Raspberry Jam said: Where's this? I think he's asking if people have any opinions on what they would like it to look like? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidAK Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Absolutely a legend. No matter how much success the club has in the future it won't change what a brilliant goalscorer he was for us, and the fact that he chose to come home. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Good riddance to the SD signs! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 On 26/04/2021 at 15:09, Anderson said: Shearer was Newcastle United when I was a kid. I was 5 when he signed, 15 when he retired. I grew up watching the best centre forward the Premier League's ever seen knocking them in for his hometown team, breaking both club & league goal scoring records, wouldn't swap that for any amount of trophies/titles. Legend for me, marra. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Icarus Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Love the art not the artist. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wandy Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 The point I was trying to make when I inadvertently derailed the other thread was that if Shearer is a legend then KK is something significantly higher. So let's say Keegan is a God. Personally I loved Andy Cole more than Shearer. Maybe that's because he was part of the club's journey from obscurity through to one of the biggest clubs in the country. And even though Shearer was hands down a better all-round player. I'm still not having Kevin Nolan as an icon though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 31 minutes ago, kisearch said: Love the art not the artist. I bet you love Gary Glitters music. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoot Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Legend. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a stinking mackem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Butcher Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Shearer will always be the greatest in my book. He's the reason I ended up supporting the club. Cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 59 minutes ago, andyman said: I think he's asking if people have any opinions on what they would like it to look like? Comic Sans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie Ahmed Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 I find it incomprehensible that Shearer can be considered anything other than a legend, absolutely baffling Is Keegan overall ahead of Shearer? Absolutely but there isn't a rule that states you can only have one legend Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 (edited) I think it's fair enough that there's differing degrees of Legend for Shearer and KK to both fall within it, especially when this is getting discussed by people who grew up at different times with different heroes. Did someone say Nolan is an icon, though? I feel like cult hero more than suffices there. Edited December 7, 2021 by wormy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanji Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Shearer is our greatest ever and one of the all time English greats. Record speaks for itself. His commitment to us speaks for itself. He’s completely entitled to his own opinion on who and how he associates with people we as a fan base may not like. He’s raised his family to be Toon mad, he has his box, he speaks mostly sense about us now that he’s not conflicted with his mate as manager… To split hairs on this that or the other is mad to me. Legend for me. If it wasn’t for him I’d have never been hooked and fallen in love with this club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
krybel Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Legend of course Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Is there a capacity limit to how many legends a club can have before the term becomes devalued; how many do we actually have? Gallagher, Milburn, Harvey, Keegan, Shearer... is there anyone else who deserve that highest of statuses? What's the hierarchy of terms? Legend, icon, idol, hero, cult hero, fan favourite... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
krybel Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 (edited) @YorkieAsk Birmingham who retired Bellinghams shirt when he left for Dortmund at 17 Edited December 7, 2021 by krybel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 1 minute ago, ManDoon said: I don’t like Nolan at all. He’s been a cunt since he left, and arguably was here the season we went down Didn't word it too well; I wouldn't even put him in the cult hero bracket myself. Was just trying to talk down the mentalism of icon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 I was not really that big a fan of Shearer tbh, neither as a person or a player. I always felt that he wasn't as dynamic as someone like say, Ian Wright. But in hindsight, that was a shallow viewpoint. Shearer relied much more heavily on quality service, and for most of his NUFC career he never really had it. We spent a load of money on 3-4 good quality players, then filled the rest of the team with cheap and cheerful types. If we'd had a couple of hard working wide players with great delivery, he'd have scored a shit-ton more. So I now revise my opinion to legend. It was something less than that before. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foluwashola Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 4 minutes ago, TRon said: I was not really that big a fan of Shearer tbh, neither as a person or a player. I always felt that he wasn't as dynamic as someone like say, Ian Wright. But in hindsight, that was a shallow viewpoint. Shearer relied much more heavily on quality service, and for most of his NUFC career he never really had it. We spent a load of money on 3-4 good quality players, then filled the rest of the team with cheap and cheerful types. If we'd had a couple of hard working wide players with great delivery, he'd have scored a shit-ton more. So I now revise my opinion to legend. It was something less than that before. Mackem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiLvOR Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 (edited) 27 minutes ago, wormy said: Didn't word it too well; I wouldn't even put him in the cult hero bracket myself. Was just trying to talk down the mentalism of icon. Sorry, bit out of the loop, what's Nolan done to be a cunt? (Not debating it, just genuinely clueless ) Edited December 7, 2021 by SiLvOR Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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