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14 years of mismanagement and neglect. When Ashley bought the club, CT was in his late 40s. He's nearly mid 60s now. If he'd hired a new life coach this time last week, they would quite rightly still be stood, mouth agape, one hand on one hip, the other hand on their forehead, just surveying the wreckage and trying to make sense of it all. It's the same with the club.

#art #birds

Aye god knows what mess they’ve walked into. Professional business people wading through a skip full of Donnay socks to see if they can find Bruce’s contract somewhere while Lee Charnley plays Nintendo

If they were posting this on RTG, you'd all be howling. "Ere marras they've fucked it. Week in and Brewce is still they're. Mag at work says they're nee better than Ashley this new lot. Fucking honeymewn didn't last long. They're gan down."

Bear in mind as well they're dealing with the club in whatever state ashley has left it in. Wouldn't be surprised if they're still cleaning vomit out of fireplaces and finding new places where charnley has chewed up the furniture. Imagine theres whole offices in the place staffed by cardbord cutouts

Owners fond of decapitation. A racist DoF. If we sign Adam Johnson as youth coach I’d say that’s full house.

Even if they’re not on the grass, surely they should be in tactics briefings or getting them all into the gym, especially the likes of Wilson who are rehabbing injuries? “Just keep your foot elevated, Callum, mate. No shagging about”

I mean if you're getting something out of it then fair enough but I'd be close to power drilling through my own temple at this point is all I'm saying.

William Storey: "Got out of bed and went to the office. #sleep #bed #alarm #itchyarse #smellyfinger."

Is Cundy's wife a hound dog? What makes her a hound dog? I'm taking your calls.

As long as Brucey is manager it’s probably the best preparation.

Fuck me. No wonder we are where we are with players being off again tomorrow. Fuck me. Part time cunts.

Charles Bukowski - Factotum Mad how when you read it when you’re a bit older you realise he’s just an alcoholic version of this guy :

I’m not sure what Frank Lampard has done to earn any Premier League job. You only have to look at the difference Tuchel made at Chelsea to see how Lampard had a good squad underperforming.

Im not remotely conflicted if it helps. I love Newcastle United and have done for my whole life and I don't like human rights abuses. There is no conflict to be had just like I have never felt conflicted about loving this club with any of our previous owners, or players or managers knocking about. "What is a club in any case?"

No room for sentiment. A full house against Spurs with Bruce gone will have the crowd bouncing. With Bruce still there it just spoils the mood and makes it more likely we get to 8 games with no wins

Nope. He’s up in front of HR again.

The patter in here cos they haven't instantly binned Bruce man. It's barely even a week since they took charge and people are calling into question their ability to run the club.

Soft shite

What odds on him sending his Mam to get it?

“Lee Ryder, the chronicle….” Bruce :

This is the same man who can’t sit in his seat for a press conference without letting out an audible groan.

Is that an apology?

One of them went to the trouble of counting how many posts I made in that thread, claimed I was responsible for 5 pages, and that there'd be about 20 because of my posts. The thread is 2 months old and has 900 pages. This thread is 9 YEARS old and has fewer. But, honestly there are some on there who can listen to a reasoned point, the rest are just frothing mackems who must hate Newcastle and it's fans as part of supporting Sunderland. Anyway, I can do that, and this, and listen to a podcast while working, so why not? I'm not getting upset at all the pathetic insults or owt.

Mind, it takes some cheek to be a vocal backer of Brexit and post that without a hint of irony.

The T5 has chassis components made by Gestamp, who I can't say anything negative about due to a NDA. I'm leaning towards the transit

Have 17 of them in the house, have read 7 Can't bear to show the list to my wife or daughter because I will be hit with a wave of superiority and smugness the literary fuckers

In my opinion there’s a large amount of animosity and resentment towards NUFC supporters that dates from the Keegan days when we were Sky’s poster child. This is now playing itself out in attacks in the media and social media, the strawman being that if we don’t walk away from our club we support human rights abuses and a tyrannical regime. Of course our protests against Ashley were ignored by the sane people and supporters have always been treated as extras in a showbiz production. Now somehow we're supposed to have a say in who owns our club, applying moral standards that literally don’t apply to anyone else. I genuinely think it’s rooted in anti-Geordie sentiment - whether it’s people who hate the north east or pandering to people who do - and a general desire to shit on our good fortune and spoil the feel good factor. I think there are many people who see the north east as some sort of poverty stricken loserville and can’t stand anything which goes against that narrative. tldr: everyone hates us and we dont care

Well said, the problem is that elements of the media and other supporters in general will twist it such that supporting the club is tantamount to supporting the regime. So even when it doesn't apply it's easier just to say it so that things can progress. The separation between club and owner has already been in effect here for more than 10 years, the difference now becomes that we're likely to see advancement in footballing and facilities and general professionalism under the new owners as it will be run as a business on a completely different level.

Chelsea tickets went on general sale today. What a ball ache trying to buy 2 for me and my Dad! The entire level 7 is a family area so you can only buy adult tickets with a kids ticket. No bother I thought, I'll take the bairn too. Except there's a limit of 2 tickets per person so you have to allocate the 3rd ticket to a pre-existing supporter number. Spent ages signing my Dad up for his own account only to find out you need to buy a ticket before you find out what your supporter number is 🤦🏻 Ended up scrapping the whole thing and buying a single ticket to go on my todd. Then 2 tickets together magically reappeared!!! 🤬 Anyway, long story short, anyone want a ticket for the Chelsea match. £41, face value

Must be annoying as fuck when people constantly spell your surname wrong.

55 you cheeky fuck

On the centre spot after Spuds?

Look, I don't know much about the Middle East or the Saudi People's Front but maybe they're waiting for Brucey to slip up by uttering 'JHVH' so they have a pretence?

Listened for five minutes on the way home to talksport, aye I know etc, two gimps and one says it'll be much harder to get up there as quickly as Man City because look what happened to Middlesbrough and Man City already had loads of good players, Middlesbrough got Emerson, Ravenelli and juninho and were relegated so we're basically no better than Middlesbrough according to to these two clowns. (Turned out it was Danny Mills).

Sentimentality won’t come into it. We could be relegated by a point. They’re doing what they’re doing right now because they believe it’s the best thing for the club.

I haven't mate, although Quiff did get dibs first on the previous page Quiff, it's yours if you want it? You will have to collect it from me on the day though. Don't be intimidated by my handsomeness

First congrats on the new owners.. While I share a level of angst with allowing the Saudi's own a team in Premier League I have come to realize most of that is wrapped up in my concern of being booted out of the top 4. Therefore, I have to check my motives before placing my ire unto a fanbase or football club. I am also careful to condemn regimes because in the end I will condemn my own. My country (USA) has made war into a sport and has participated in the murder of innocents since our inception. Even with that knowledge I still love my country and believe I am blessed to have been born here. Individuals can still love something and not fully support all the actions of the owners or leaders. The clutching of pearls that is occurring has made me realize how much subjectivity enters into psyche of man. While bashing Newcastle for selling to the Saudi's the person who is bashing is likely using petrol or an iphone that was produced by the Saudi's or by forced labor. Most people are only moral up to the point of their comfort is assured and not tested. Anyway... Glad you have come out the other-side with new ownership.

If it takes a concerted physical effort to get out of your car it’s probably time to lose a bit of weight.

Has he got a fag in his mouth when he’s getting out of his Lardwagon?

Was listening to TalkShite. Fuck me, what an absolute waster and thick as fuck cunt Trevor Sinclair is. Simon Jordan has schooled him all morning. He basically said the manager situation should be based on results and not popularity. WTF. WE HAVENT WON IN 7 YOU THICK CUNT

That last bit So true.

Aye, he didn't do amazing with Derby and did nowt with Chelsea either. I don't think Rangnick would look at the young English managers and choose Lampard over someone like Potter, or maybe even Wilder. They at least have shown invention and a deeper understanding of football beyond the "Jokey answer, no but seriously answer" approach in interviews.

A front two of Werner and Joelinton would make the Swiss Gards look like a powerful army.

"Ah love young Nathan, he's a canny kid, the type yid tell to gan for some scran, give him the correct money and if it was more he'd say fuck all and just pay the difference in case you'd accused him of keeping it himself and avoiding a potential dance with the former foot soldier of le toon armee in the bogs of Thomson house. Anyways, Helen Dalby the vixen editor asked me if ah wanted to go down the football manager computer game route and ah gave her the look ah gave to Watford's top boys in burger king from the coach I was in when ah drove past once. Ah said me Atari days were in the past and me loyal punters wouldn't be so loyal if ah went ahl techno nerd on them, laughed, flicked open Alan Oliver's old little black book, had the phone in me hand and before Hell's Bells could hide her admiring look at iz ah had Malcolm Allen's take on the takeover, a shit hot retro story and ah telt her to just give the nerdy PC stuff to the bairn. Fucking football manager! Lol! Laters."

Time to fire up Codemasters' "Advanced Van Simulator" on my ZX Spectrum emulator to settle the matter with an article in the local press.

Right lads, can we get back to geopolitics please.