Still not worthy of a thread

[leffe186]

10 hours ago, BlueStar said:

Mad cunt even by keeper standards

 

 

It’s precisely the thing that so many of us have fantasized about and honestly is long overdue . Someone goes down like a sack of spuds and gets another player sent off. You may as well do something actually worth a sending off and give him something to really cry about. I’m all for it.

[Rocker]

Over the last year or so (maybe since the cup final win and all the madness that came with it), something’s properly shifted for me with Newcastle.

I feel like I can completely separate the football from my personal and family life now. Still care, still watch, still get into it… but it doesn’t bleed into everything else anymore.

If we lose, I’m not walking around raging or miserable all weekend. No more being a grumpy dad or husband because we’ve had a shocker. It’s like I’ve accidentally learned how to compartmentalise it without even trying.

Honestly, it’s fucking amazing. Feels weirdly liberating.

Anyone else found themselves in the same boat?

 

edit- just read some of the threads. Absolutely fucking not. 

 

 

Edited April 27 by Rocker

[Fak]

8 minutes ago, Rocker said:

Over the last year or so (maybe since the cup final win and all the madness that came with it), something’s properly shifted for me with Newcastle.

I feel like I can completely separate the football from my personal and family life now. Still care, still watch, still get into it… but it doesn’t bleed into everything else anymore.

If we lose, I’m not walking around raging or miserable all weekend. No more being a grumpy dad or husband because we’ve had a shocker. It’s like I’ve accidentally learned how to compartmentalise it without even trying.

Honestly, it’s fucking amazing. Feels weirdly liberating.

Anyone else found themselves in the same boat?

 

edit- just read some of the threads. Absolutely fucking not. 

 

Been like this for a few years now. Long gone are the days that an NUFC result makes or breaks my weekends or stops me getting into arguments with mates.

 

NUFC is a nice release for me now, even if we're having a miserable season. 

[Scoreboard82]

19 minutes ago, Rocker said:

Over the last year or so (maybe since the cup final win and all the madness that came with it), something’s properly shifted for me with Newcastle.

I feel like I can completely separate the football from my personal and family life now. Still care, still watch, still get into it… but it doesn’t bleed into everything else anymore.

If we lose, I’m not walking around raging or miserable all weekend. No more being a grumpy dad or husband because we’ve had a shocker. It’s like I’ve accidentally learned how to compartmentalise it without even trying.

Honestly, it’s fucking amazing. Feels weirdly liberating.

Anyone else found themselves in the same boat?

 

edit- just read some of the threads. Absolutely fucking not. 

 

 

 

NUFC used to be my life. Dominated my life. Wouldn't go away or on holiday if I missed a home game. Results while still frequently  getting me down would dictate my feelings every weekend.

Don't know if it's an age thing but I can take it or leave it nowadays. Missing a home game isn't the end if the world. I've got used to not going to away games since losing my points years ago too. Can't even be arsed with toon conversations half the time.

Generally losing love for the modern game all round. Hate VAR. Players are rolling around like fannies at the slightest touch. Takes 5 mins to take a throw/ corner these days.

Changed days sadly.

[Yorkie]

I'd say it's worse than ever for me tbh.  Every defeat hits me like and absolute tonne of bricks nowadays. The wins are more relief than ecstacy. 

[Groundhog63]

Watching this.....😳

 

https://www.itv.com/watch/the-footballer-his-wife-and-the-crash/10a2966/10a2966a0001

[Kilcline]

That video of Stephen Bunting in the Coventry dressing room 

[Kilcline]

40 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

Watching this.....😳

 

https://www.itv.com/watch/the-footballer-his-wife-and-the-crash/10a2966/10a2966a0001

The wife tried getting me to watch this on Netflix purely on the basis that "it's about football I thought you'd be interested" 😅

[Mike]

17 hours ago, joeyt said:

 

 

Now there's a name I've not heard of for a long time. 

 

We were definitely linked about 15 years ago

 

Be dancing outside that stadium if he'd come here then.

[Mike]

3 hours ago, Rocker said:

edit- just read some of the threads. Absolutely fucking not. 

 

 

[Pilko]

7 minutes ago, Kilcline said:

That video of Stephen Bunting in the Coventry dressing room 

 

Can you please share it in the Darts thread to make sure all his fans don't miss it. Thanks.

[leffe186]

3 hours ago, Yorkie said:

I'd say it's worse than ever for me tbh.  Every defeat hits me like and absolute tonne of bricks nowadays. The wins are more relief than ecstacy. 

 

This for me too, although I was able to park it to one side a bit when I was in the US. Now I'm back within earshot of the ground it's bad again. I think it's worse now because I no longer really care so much about football in the big picture, just my own personal patch.

[Scoreboard82]

2 hours ago, Groundhog63 said:

Watching this.....😳

 

https://www.itv.com/watch/the-footballer-his-wife-and-the-crash/10a2966/10a2966a0001

Fantastic watch that. What a story.

[Groundhog63]

54 minutes ago, Scoreboard82 said:

Fantastic watch that. What a story.

Deleted my original reply. Double life and then some.

 

[Stifler]

6 hours ago, Rocker said:

Over the last year or so (maybe since the cup final win and all the madness that came with it), something’s properly shifted for me with Newcastle.

I feel like I can completely separate the football from my personal and family life now. Still care, still watch, still get into it… but it doesn’t bleed into everything else anymore.

If we lose, I’m not walking around raging or miserable all weekend. No more being a grumpy dad or husband because we’ve had a shocker. It’s like I’ve accidentally learned how to compartmentalise it without even trying.

Honestly, it’s fucking amazing. Feels weirdly liberating.

Anyone else found themselves in the same boat?

 

edit- just read some of the threads. Absolutely fucking not.

Similar.

We have won a cup, something I honestly never thought we would do.

I’m a lot more relaxed now, I know that we are overall on an upward trajectory, even if we have bumps along the road, and the pressure of doing something is off somewhat.

 

In saying this, I would love the anticipation back if we got into a serious title challenge, or competed for the Champions League, or got to an FA Cup final.

[HaydnNUFC]

6 hours ago, Rocker said:

Over the last year or so (maybe since the cup final win and all the madness that came with it), something’s properly shifted for me with Newcastle.

I feel like I can completely separate the football from my personal and family life now. Still care, still watch, still get into it… but it doesn’t bleed into everything else anymore.

If we lose, I’m not walking around raging or miserable all weekend. No more being a grumpy dad or husband because we’ve had a shocker. It’s like I’ve accidentally learned how to compartmentalise it without even trying.

Honestly, it’s fucking amazing. Feels weirdly liberating.

Anyone else found themselves in the same boat?

 

edit- just read some of the threads. Absolutely fucking not. 

 

 

 

 

I'm like this. Happy when we win, bit miffed when we lose and over it either way by the time I'm back in the pub or the game finishes if I'm watching on TV. Which is a far cry from the last couple years where I'd take defeats personally. Remember drawing with West Ham at home 1-1 in 2023 and it ruining my week.  Now it just washes over me mostly, the derbies aside.

 

Think it's just down to the way football is going for me though tbh. Particularly around ticketing, ticket prices, draconian measures being brought in by clubs that seem hell bent on destroying whatever is left of football fan culture. Assuming I don't get one of those very few season tickets available I'm scaling back the number of games I attend from next season. The cost is just taking the piss and only seems to be getting worse with only Liverpool fans making any sort of real stand.

 

 

Edited April 27 by HaydnNUFC

[500bhp]

6 hours ago, Rocker said:

Over the last year or so (maybe since the cup final win and all the madness that came with it), something’s properly shifted for me with Newcastle.

I feel like I can completely separate the football from my personal and family life now. Still care, still watch, still get into it… but it doesn’t bleed into everything else anymore.

If we lose, I’m not walking around raging or miserable all weekend. No more being a grumpy dad or husband because we’ve had a shocker. It’s like I’ve accidentally learned how to compartmentalise it without even trying.

Honestly, it’s fucking amazing. Feels weirdly liberating.

Anyone else found themselves in the same boat?

 

edit- just read some of the threads. Absolutely fucking not. 

 

 

 

 

I'm exactly the same. All I've ever wanted was to see us win a trophy and to be there in person with my mates. After 45 years of going to the match I achieved that last year. NUFC and football in general has felt different since then. Like I've sort of completed it. Wasn't even that excited when we got 5th last year to get into the CL. Seen us play in the CL loads of times and we aren't ever going to win it. 

[Jonas]

On 09/04/2026 at 11:48, Jonas said:

Never seen a team that was more only going to be saved from relegation by the bell than Norwich that day. Utter freefall. Joint 6th at the turn of the year. 

 

 

Retracting, just in case

[Colos Short and Curlies]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c202rgdlqxqo

 

Love this, was thinking at the weekend that it would be great if players covering their mouths got a yellow, a red even better.

 

It's childish and looks stupid.

 

Id also like to see throw ins reversed whenever a team buys more than 5 yards from where it went out of play

[TheBrownBottle]

1 hour ago, Jonas said:

 

Retracting, just in case

Just on that Norwich side - from memory, didn’t they not win after NYD?

 

Of course we know the identity of the side that lost to them on NYD …

[Chicken Dancer]

On 27/04/2026 at 21:44, HaydnNUFC said:

The cost is just taking the piss and only seems to be getting worse with only Liverpool fans making any sort of real stand

Say what you want about them cunts (and they are cunts) but they always stand up for what they believe to be the greater good. They’d have had Ashley out well before 14 years was up, that’s for sure. 
 

Still narks me to this day we couldn’t coordinate a widespread, meaningful protest against him. That Spurs home game is the only one that stands out but even that was short lived. 

[HaydnNUFC]

9 minutes ago, Chicken Dancer said:

Say what you want about them cunts (and they are cunts) but they always stand up for what they believe to be the greater good. They’d have had Ashley out well before 14 years was up, that’s for sure. 
 

Still narks me to this day we couldn’t coordinate a widespread, meaningful protest against him. That Spurs home game is the only one that stands out but even that was short lived. 

The whole ‘if you won’t have it I’ll take your season ticket’ and ‘if you won’t pay it I will’ shite I resent like fuck. 
 

I have immense respect for Spirit of Shankly which is the section of Liverpool supporters that organise things such as protests like what they’re doing now. Their 77th minute walk out a decade ago. Our lot don’t want to know. 

[toon25]

On 27/04/2026 at 08:34, leffe186 said:

It’s precisely the thing that so many of us have fantasized about and honestly is long overdue . Someone goes down like a sack of spuds and gets another player sent off. You may as well do something actually worth a sending off and give him something to really cry about. I’m all for it.

 

Fucking love a bit of this. More needed - especially in the age of Arteta, Enzo, Cucurella et al

[SteV]

1 minute ago, HaydnNUFC said:

The whole ‘if you won’t have it I’ll take your season ticket’ and ‘if you won’t pay it I will’ shite I resent like fuck. 
 

I have immense respect for Spirit of Shankly which is the section of Liverpool supporters that organise things such as protests like what they’re doing now. Their 77th minute walk out a decade ago. Our lot don’t want to know. 

Have their actions actually made any significant difference though? 
 

I don’t know the ins and outs of being a match-going Liverpool supporter, but apart from having some cheaper (much cheaper by PL standards you might say) tickets, their off-field gripes appear broadly similar to all the other major clubs (ourselves included).

 

I understand completely the premise of ‘you can’t just sit back and do nothing’, and it’s a fair argument to say things might be worse were it not for their actions. 
 

But it all feels a bit like taking a catapult to a gun fight. The small ‘wins’ achieved tend to pale into insignificance against the overwhelming commercialism tide that engulfs major PL clubs nowadays.

 

Having read all that back, it sounds a bit like I’m saying fan-activism is a waste of time, and that isn’t the point I intended to make, I guess it was more that I think it’s understandable why people may look at it and think that, and perhaps we shouldn’t batter them for coming to that conclusion.

[HaydnNUFC]

26 minutes ago, SteV said:

Have their actions actually made any significant difference though? 
 

I don’t know the ins and outs of being a match-going Liverpool supporter, but apart from having some cheaper (much cheaper by PL standards you might say) tickets, their off-field gripes appear broadly similar to all the other major clubs (ourselves included).

 

I understand completely the premise of ‘you can’t just sit back and do nothing’, and it’s a fair argument to say things might be worse were it not for their actions. 
 

But it all feels a bit like taking a catapult to a gun fight. The small ‘wins’ achieved tend to pale into insignificance against the overwhelming commercialism tide that engulfs major PL clubs nowadays.

 

Having read all that back, it sounds a bit like I’m saying fan-activism is a waste of time, and that isn’t the point I intended to make, I guess it was more that I think it’s understandable why people may look at it and think that, and perhaps we shouldn’t batter them for coming to that conclusion.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35546090

 

Tickets stayed at this level until last season, and they’re trying to put them up again. Hence the protests.

 

 

Edited April 28 by HaydnNUFC