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He was meeting Toby Young later

You couldn’t make it up

I think we, as supporters, don’t always see the bigger picture. We’re about the same odds to go down as Brentford now, you can get 9/2, which is considerably longer odds than the Evens you perceive it as. That’s not meant as a dig because Im guilty of it too at times and we are by no means home and hosed but we’re doing really well both in terms of results and performances. If we maintain anything like the form of the last 6 games then we’ll be fine and probably more like 12th or 13th come the season end. The best thing for me is we actually look solid at the back and in control for most of the time. That’s down to the middle of the park as much as the new defenders.

I think his "I'm retiring" was the toys being chucked out of the pram in attempts to make himself look somewhat the victim. I don't think he had any intention of ever giving up.

If I can be utterly self indulgent for a moment….. a new name on Newcastle’s bench yesterday, Lucas de Bolle.. https://www.nufc.co.uk/news/latest-news/introducing-lucas-de-bolle/ Brought up,I have it on good authority, at Mainside farm…. which is about 3 miles from Hownam (colloquially pronounced “Hounam”) where my father was brought up during the war, which is about 4 miles further up the Kale Valley from where I was brought up at Morebattle in the 80s (please see map for locations ) I wish the fella who took me to my first Newcastle game was still here to see one of our own ( his wife messaged their son, who messaged me this morning) develop into a seemingly very good young player…..AND HE MIGHT PLAY FOR NEWCASTLE OH MY FUCKIN GOD!!!!!!

Thing is now, I don’t feel like we’re relying on other results. That’s the big change. It’s in our own hands and we have the feeling of being competitive against just about anyone in the league. Rewind a bit and yesterday would’ve been a write off. Especially after going a goal down

You're fucking batty if you think we're 50:50 to go down. Alex has been very polite, but honestly I feel like driving to Boldon, dragging you out on to the front lawn and humiliating you in front of your wife, kids and neighbours.

I think West Brom are only a defeat or two away from having to dust themselves down

Teams just above us are losng. Leeds are 1 point ahead with a worse goal difference man. Our form is sensational. Fuck me I'm supposed to be the pessimist here.

'It's going to take at least a decade for Noocarsuhl to be up there in the champions Lea....' 'Shaddapp you daft cunt'

The rivalry continues

Who goes on a pub crawl on their own?.… … Luke does. Not another drink on the table, blatantly set the timer and jumped back in the seat.

just noticed he's took his personal record for 21/22 to no wins in 12. bigged kenilworth road up as one of the hardest places to visit in the championship. managed to trot out 'since I walked through the door' 'make a fist of it' and 'roll our sleeves up' during his post match summary yesterday.

It’s also fine just to fuck off, you tedious prick.

It's the update you've all been waiting for. Watford and Burnley both narrowed the gap between PPG required and Current Mgr PPG with wins. We were bang in line with what we need to get to 36 points (1 point per game). Norwich further adrift - Dean Smith is just about clinging onto that 0.9 PPG at 0.86 rounded up - that boy is on his way to 0.8 any time now, and his team are on their way to the Championship. I've replaced Hodgson's PPG achieved with his actual (rather than season to date, as it was last week). 4 points from 4 games, he's got so far, so early days and that could go in either direction fairly quickly. Hopefully I'm including more than 4 teams from next week - I bet you can't fucking wait.

Definitely the thing to be obsessed about atm if you’re a Newcastle fan

the Chinese mouse takes on the button mushroom

Speaking of the Viz, I was reminded of this recently:

I suppose if you have a whole host of ex pro sycophants in the media telling the world how wonderful you are, as well as a son making veiled threats on social media to the probably the only journalist prepared to report the emperor's wearing no clothes, then you're bound to think you're ace. it also helps that he's thick as pig shit!

Football writer that just sacked off watching the football.

I'm gonna be watching Leeds v Man United later and wanting Man United to win, which is fucking gross.

See "Maggie" for the bitch - don't humanise the cunts.

I popped over to the in law's to drop something off last night and her dad goes "we were listening to the match on the radio. I have to say I was surprised to hear Newcastle scored when I heard they had Chris Woods in goal - you know, England goalkeeper." I just stood staring at him, thinking I'm gonna have to tell your daughter that you're showing the first signs of senility. Chris Woods retired 24 years ago.

"Eeyuh ladz, I say Billy Storey in TGIs with Billy 'Ardy. Think thuh must be formin a consortium. Thuh wuh sarrin a bewth togetha!"

"'es just like us marra! Loves listenin to the lads with his spaghetti 'ewps!"

I think you could argue that to get the most out of the deep lying playmaker role that Bruno would replace Shelvey in, its important to have a really good idea of how your team mates are going to run/move to help you pick your passes. In which case the more training time Bruno gets before the pressure of a start to shoulder that responsibility the better (up to a point of course)

Don’t show this fella porno Bridget

Never thought I'd say this but I should have been an MP. The pair of them would need a toffee hammer to wash the sheets when I was done.

pottering on in the garage like old cunts tend to do on a sunday ( @spongebob toonpants ) two classic albums have had me pogoing along, power tool In hand.......

Agreed, also agree with your earlier point that as fans of the club we can miss the bigger picture. If positions between us and Burnley were reversed most fans would be 100% convinced we were buried, they’re playing crap and their two games in hand are Spurs and Leicester and they’d need to win both, meanwhile we have points on the board, are picking up points every week and have looked the better side in our games for about 5 straight games now. The other thing is their “winnable” fixtures are against sides that are also not clear of it. Imo we will finish above Everton (who have a shit manager and look woeful), Brentford, and Leeds, in addition to the current bottom three. I get fears that Watford are only 4 points behind, but 4 points is almost a quarter of all the points they’ve picked up so far, similar with Burnleys 5 points. We also play a lot of the sides who were looking like difficult fixtures in the past but are in rotten form (Palace and Brighton etc). Obviously there’s a chance we go down but the way we are playing, and the way everyone else in the bottom half is playing, I just don’t see it anymore.

I’m surprised, shocked in fact, that a non-specific accusation made somewhere where you can lie with impunity (picked up by the MSM!!!!) passed the rigorous tests normally applied by the AWAKE

I think he eventually comes in for Shelvey, but the three of them are undroppable atm. Bruno needs one of them to get injured or have a shite game, or he might be waiting until Howe thinks we're near enough safe. Once we're safe I think he'll be starting games - just makes no sense to fuck with things atm. Long term this is the perfect way to get introduced to a new league, just probably feels shite to him atm.

I caught the last 15 minutes of their match on sky in mid week and the commentator said "Steve Bruce is a well known excellent man manager" and I just wondered where utter drivel like that comes from - he certainly never showed any evidence at our place - not counting making ASM happy by not asking him to do any work.

That account is AMAZING

I intend to go for a 2.22km run at 2:22pm on 22/2/22, and I'm not even sorry.

Just watched that again. Terry Mac and Dogleash going bonkers after Shearer’s winner… …Look at Lawrenson

My first time at St. James Park. Nearly lost my watch when Robert scored, leapt out my seat and the thing nearly flew off my wrist! (no time flies jokes please)

This you?

Meow

Listen, whatever happens between now and the end of the season, you lot are getting shit off me about Everton. I've only been into football since 7/10/21, and I'm still dominating They're gonna need a new manager before too long too, cos surprise surprise, just picking lads that used to be good players is probably not the formula for success.

Shall we have a whip round and buy a stake? £100 between us should get us at least 20% ownership of the club?

If you don’t do it like this, you’re dead to me.