Abacus Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 I went in hoping to be outraged, and came out thinking it was alright. It's just taking a dig, like all his cartoons do, and pointing out some of the absurdities. Think we need to take this kind of stuff in our stride from now on, rather than over analyse for criticism. I expect we'd be saying the exact same thing if it were any other club or set of fans. I did laugh at the Mike Ashley Victorian mill owner bit. I say laugh, I mean not out loud. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Edgar Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Does use a lot of text for a cartoonist. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, David Edgar said: Does use a lot of text for a cartoonist. Go back to the first pages of this thread and there's some really brilliant ones without using text at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Does any club have a rightful place? Was that a dig at Staveley or the fans, surely not following the narrative that the Super League 6 or just Liverpool and Man U have a rightful place at top? Or, was it just a shit attempt at a joke? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 57 minutes ago, B-more Mag said: It's a fucking cartoon. Water off a duck's back. Charlie Hebdo likes this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie87 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 I think it's pretty funny. It's also something we are going to have to get used to. We've been the underdog for so long now, we've got used to cynicism and snarkiness aimed at other clubs, but not us. Now we're "the richest football club in the whole world", we're fair game. Comedians, cartoonists, etc. tend to punch upwards, not downwards. Our potentially elite status is going to bring this kind of stuff. It's a trade I'm happy to make. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 I’ll enjoy the upturn in football fortunes like everyone else but, tbh, I found that cartoon pretty good. I can hold both ideas in my mind: enjoy the football + be critical of a state with some beliefs that entirely conflict with my own. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 21 minutes ago, Abacus said: I went in hoping to be outraged, and came out thinking it was alright. It's just taking a dig, like all his cartoons do, and pointing out some of the absurdities. Think we need to take this kind of stuff in our stride from now on, rather than over analyse for criticism. I expect we'd be saying the exact same thing if it were any other club or set of fans. I did laugh at the Mike Ashley Victorian mill owner bit. I say laugh, I mean not out loud. Agree, it was pretty much what I expected, water off a duck's back as far as I'm concerned. The bit that I found funny was where Dickie Masters was portrayed as being willing to pass the takeover without a second thought. It will have killed him being forced into doing it, and for all the wrong reasons at that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottie Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 It's mostly okay. The "14th" comment is really thick, because it will turn Newcastle fans off when there is no need to score cheap points. Him, and the Guardian if they actually cared, should be trying to engage us. This will just push people away and encourage them to develop a siege mentality. Just for the frame with the fan upside down, but so many sports and organizations are taking KSA money that somewhere sometime you do indeed jump a whataboutery shark where accepting KSA money is ultimately normalized. Just as government ministers seem to have jumped an accountability shark where you can be corrupt and/or super incompetent and still not have to resign. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Agree that the 14th comment is just a poor attempt at a joke but that's the only bit I could see that people should have any issue with Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 The media are pissing me off so much and this one has been added to the list. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armchair Pundit Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, Ketsbaia said: The media are pissing me off so much and this one has been added to the list. I know we should expect it, but I kind of keep getting the feeling that it'll all be taken away from us on a technicality at any given point. The only reason I can think I feel like that is just because we're Newcastle and stuff always turns to shit for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rompe Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 4 hours ago, HawK said: I called him out on this before, on this thread somewhere I think, years ago. He was simply a popularist, typically Guardian-esque, political aspirant who tried to mix as much non-football themes into his drawings as possible to get cheap laughs from the avocado-on-toast and iced-tea sipping captive audience. It started with just football, and it was fine, but then it became politicised, and now it's just completely out of touch. But I've always ascribed to freedom of speech and expression - I don't like them so I don't look at them. I've not opened up a comic of his on over a year, and unless someone wants to correct me, I don't think my opening paragraph above will be wrong now as it was correct over a year ago. Edit: NewPageWanker Was that when he made the previous one about the Saudi-Arabia takeover? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 To be fair with Squires, whose work I quite enjoy/like, we are fair game and rightly so. He’s done a few pro NUFC fans/anti Ashley strips in the past. We need to rise above this and laugh it off. Again, all the crap will die down (not go away), and only be really ramped up again when we are stealing the title off Liverpool or Man Utd or a top 4 place off one of them. Fuck them I say, they were all missing during the 14 years of cancer that was Ashley as owner, why should we suddenly pay any attention to these attention seeking cunts who without social media, wouldn’t even get any notice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawK Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 47 minutes ago, Rompe said: Was that when he made the previous one about the Saudi-Arabia takeover? I didn't eve know he'd made one previously about that. The drivel about Brexit was enough to turn me off. Keep politics out of football imo, it brought divisions into this forum too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 5 hours ago, Lotus said: I’ll enjoy the upturn in football fortunes like everyone else but, tbh, I found that cartoon pretty good. I can hold both ideas in my mind: enjoy the football + be critical of a state with some beliefs that entirely conflict with my own. Exactly. Thin skins all owa the shop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 The Ashley frame is pretty funny, tbf Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 2 hours ago, Ketsbaia said: The media are pissing me off so much and this one has been added to the list. You are such a pansy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 13 minutes ago, Disco said: Exactly. Thin skins all owa the shop. 100% this. Showing quite a few people up on here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 43 minutes ago, neesy111 said: You are such a pansy. Ahh great, you. Brilliant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 10 minutes ago, POOT 2.0 said: Not jumping on Neesy, because I know it's not his style, but isn't that a traditional homophobic slur? Stop being a sissy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, POOT 2.0 said: No! I like being a sissy Then stop being a pansy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 2 minutes ago, POOT 2.0 said: No! I like being a sissy Why don’t you want to jump on Neesy then? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HTT II Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 3 minutes ago, RS said: Why don’t you want to jump on Neesy then? I would, he’s a sexy beast these days! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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