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I must have missed his first 3 years at £60K a week, whilst he was proving himself. He's been good for ONE season. And he stayed because of the bad reputation and high wages as nobody would pay out. Now he turns it around we're quibbling over a year? Fucking unbelievable.

So there's another greedy bastard player trying to screw our club, eh? Fuck me, there's been loads of these tossers since Dekka and Mike came on board. Thank Christ they're here fighting them at every corner otherwise we'd be well and truly fucked.

Reading between the lines with the rumours of this business, NUFC and Barton aren't too far apart regarding the money but Barton wants an extra year. Now when we waste money on year loans for players who aren't worth a light, perhaps we can take a chance with an extra year for a player already here and proven? Also, in the event of a sale that extra year would buoy up the transfer fee? Enjoy the relegation battle next year or the year after, folks. Pathetic.

Listening to the first ten minutes whilst the wife is watching it. It's giving me a good excuse to get off here and do a few jobs that need doing.

I couldn't believe the amount of people walking around with our new shirt on sunday. It was the first time I'd seen it properly and it's even worse close up. Honestly, it's fucking terrible and how people are so blase about the shirt that represents our club is also a bit disappointing, especially whilst looking at the WBA fans in their decent shirts.

I forgot to mention fires. Fucking hell, the amount of time we made fires which the very odd time got out of hand. And we were decent enough kids as well!

Was talking with my own daughters the other day and started reminiscing about when I was young. I lived in Walker as a kid and at the time there was a few houses getting renovated, we used run about these houses, jump out the windows onto old mattresses, play Japs and Commando's etc and then get chased off the 'Watchie' and his Alsatian dog which was great fun as long as you didn't get caught! Also remember going to the Rec and playing football all summer long and pretending to be Zico/Socrates etc before going in to watch the World Cup in Spain. I don't know if any younger posters on here will know this but there used to be a few glue sniffers about in them days and as a bairn their appearance was a sign to fuck off sharpish as they were practically walking Zombies monged out their boxes and the rumour was they'd grab a hold of you and force you to sniff their glue. The next day you'd see their dried up bags lying about. In the summer holidays on a boiling hot day what seemed like the entire street would walk along to old Shields Road enmasse and get the 301 bus to the coast, (the Metro was new and nobody used it), the place was packed, it was like the Costa del Sol. Going to Jesmond Dene and climbing on anything that could be climbed, I'm surprised nobody got killed. Getting a Juventus strip on a trip to Italy my Grandparents took me and my sis on as my parents couldn't afford it, coming back and my mates being awestruck at the strip as you couldn't really get them here at the time, I was tanned, kitted up in the Juve strip looking cool as fuck and was the toast of Walker! Apologies for the rambling!

Agreed. There can be no talk of solid foundation until at least Barton and Nolan have signed new deals. If they manage to get Jose to, then I'll be genuinely impressed. If all all three are NUFC players next year with one or two quality players added I'll be impressed too and will genuinely give the club credit where it's due. I'll not hold my breath.

Sorry, CT, but that's a load of shite! I'd put money on me 'supporting' my side more than you at a game. The fact that people may doubt the clubs intentions makes them no less supporters.

Years ago my wife took me on a surprise trip to Blackpool for my birthday. (Can't stand the place, like). On saturday afternoon we were in a bar when I got talking to a scouse scally, he told me all about his time in the nick how he got on etc, it was really dire patter but it passed 5 minutes. The next morning we got up for breakfast only to be served by the same scally in a dickie bow tie looking very sheepish when he recognised me. You always remind me of him for some reason, La.

I thought they might be two little duckies?

No need to abuse you, its the same for all clubs as Gejon says. The point I'm making is the "replacement" policy. If we get Carlton Cole and Paul Konchesky then its highly unlikely they'll be anything like 5-1 v the mackems next season,no twatting Villa and away wins at the likes of Arsenal will be a virtual miracle given the squad we're likely to have. And all that points to one long 9 month struggle aganst relegation. Time will tell. But am sharing most folks pessimism on here about this sumer. Agreed. Selling good players usually is. If the replacements are as good or better I'll be amazed. Still, at least Nicholarse from Poland will be proud.

This has great Stokoe-esque potential. Fill your your boots, lads. I could do with a laugh.

These two and their patter and looks...... .......Words aren't necessary, sometimes.

? What'd they do Am I just being thick as mince or have I missed summat? Actually setting up and attempting dialogue. Its the proper thing to do but what it did was take the heat off the club and reduce the chances of protest at the move. By then continually moving the goalposts on the decision about moving people they were able to slowly let it die off without any major kick off. Now the first people will know that L4 isnt going to happen is when that letter drops through the door telling them theyre in Gallowgate Upper Tier or somewhere. Pay on the day, sit where you like, don't give him your ST money. Or just don't go, anymore. Shame, I'm going to miss the matchday craic.

You shouldn't get annoyed by people on the internet, but I was reading it thinking he really believes this, and I think he does, I've read loads of people in the media say the same. Fucking Fergie spent £15m before he even won anything at Man Utd when hardly any club in the world were spending that. Think about what Keegan spent to get us up and you can't include Andy Cole. Beresford 650k Venison 250k Bracewell can't remember but it was coppers, Killer 100k, Sllars 600k Lee 650k that's less than £3m quid. As I said to that total tool, Derby spent about £15m from 1990 to 1992, and couldn't do fuck all didn't go up till 96 iirc. God there's some arseholes on the net. Also I didn't know McNally was a mackem but I knew he was Celtic I was talking to him the other day n he said if Celtic played NUFC in competitive game he'd want us to get stuffed, and compared NE football fans unfavourably with Merseyside and Glasgow. The fact cunt. Bird's a good lad, but the rest of the NE media are tools too, best one being a Sunderland fan Bill Bradshaw, absolute gentleman, always spoke to me with loads of respect and I was 17 when I knew him. Well he was the man on 'The Roker beat' so he either got the job he wanted or spun a yarn about supporting them. He claimed to have Celtic leanings but nailed his colours to the Mackem mast.

I always get the impression with Shaun Custis that he's a bit embarrassed to give NUFC any time for fear of looking daft in front of his peers down in 'that London'. Needs to grow some fucking balls. Mcnally, I remember this bloke joining the Chronicle years ago and was described, (in his own words) as a Sunderland fan brought up in Seaburn or Seaham, (can't remeber which one) who also supported Celtic as he was born in Glasgow. Alan Oliver was a mackem and was given his first ever NUFC game as Gibson couldn't make it, he had to go down to the South coast to cover our game late on friday night and moaned his tits off that he had to follow 'them Maggy bastards'. As for this prick on twitter, I haven't got a clue about twitter but feel like joining just to put this daft cunt right who reckons KK was just a chequebook manager. I'm not surprised he's Irish it pains me to say.

I was banned once and a poster called "Barry Davies" signed up, everyone accused him of being me, even though the style of posting was totally different. I might be wrong here, Stevie, but I'm sure you thought I was someone else when I first joined here. Someone definitely did, anyway. And Pacinofan the Scouser, thought you were me backing up your own statements even though my views weren't the same. Which was a bit wierd.

We are at home last game of the season I mean our last away game. We've never won our last away game for years in the top league.

'Japs and commando's' round wor way! Kick the can British Bulldog Jack shine the torch (Basically hide and seek in the dark) Trampoline (this was us jumping out of upstairs windows in derelict houses onto an old mattress we found). chicken. You could use bikes or on one occasion we had to knock on peoples doors and ask if we could use their bog whilst the rest of your mates would hide behind the fence, (the one to turn chicken got a hiding), it was embarrasing but funny looking back, "can I use your toilet mister, there's no one in mine and I'm dying for a crap?", I heard a female voice from the living room, "Who is it, Brian?", bloke replies, "Some young'un wants a shite!" Then had to go through the process of working out whether I should make some straining noises as he was waiting outside the bog and I thought he'd sussed us out! Good job it wasn't Gary Glitters house in hindsight!

They'll have bottles of Ambre solaire in their bags at Chelsea, man! Pardew said it best, When he says nothing at all when he says we win when we need to. Chelsea away is a match he'll scratch off. The last time we won away in the top flight on the last game of the season was 1988.

I was sat next to the Antwerp fans when we played them at home. 5-0 down and the ones who did come over for the 2nd leg were obviously here for a jolly. They were very pissed, very mental and good fun. One of them was a ringer for Phillipe and when it got sung at him the fans put him on their shoulders and ran down the aisle whilst the Albert lookalike milked the applause. They were different class.

.......And slim's just left town Toon.

Ok, thanks, Laz.