Howmanheyman

You can't knock him down, mind. Skin like rhinoceros. (Not too dissimilar to a certain boldon taxi driver).

There's a 13 year old in 1987 wanting their joke back.

Two times.

Reminds me of a frustrated poet penning his thoughts on the wall of the bog at work around the days of the 2nd coming of the Messiah in 1992. Shakespeare cometh here To sit and think I cometh here To shit and stink.

EXACTLY.

Possibly. I just think he'd had enough and didn't fancy working with the board when they went PLC. It wasn't as if he spoonfed the supporters bullshit before rushing off to join another big club.

The going wasn't tough in his first season then? A bunch of talented kids, some journeymen who were over the hill or injured and near the bottom of division two not that hard? Rafa's great but there's no comparison to where Keegan took us from and the heights we achieved. He also could spot a player and make him better just like Rafa always gets credit for.

Pretty sure they were on the brink of overspending their limit as they'd spunked it all up the previous three years.

They were severely hampered by FFP this year even if he did have the money. He couldn't have spent without incurring a penalty IIRC?

It's like me announcing to the world I'm desperate to sell my house and want out but want almost double it's worth including every penny I've spent on it through the years including decoration, upkeep and furniture.

Howay lads, let's show a bit of decorum here. This is mags behaviour.

Will this summer be the time where Mike Ashley can finally say he's getting the hang of this football malarkey?

Well, when you put it like that.....

I know we like to take the piss out of them and vice versa, but joking aside I like to see all the north east teams do well and even now I still think they've a decent chance of avoiding the bottom place, not that impressed with Burton at all tbh.

I've been at graft all day, anyone know how the mackems got on?

It's Easter. The day Jesus died so we could have a bank holiday.

Think there was serious talk of an absolute arsehole of a Sunderland player, Gordon Armstrong wanting us for his testimonial a good few years ago which happily never materialised. Hopefully this is the same outcome here as there's surely no way any Newcastle United supporter would want to go to that match? Even as a gloating exercise it'd be tarnished by even acknowledging the prick.

Huddersfield fans I met were nice people unlike the 3 Southampton fans I met 2 out of three were talksport like fucking divvies. (They were genuinely surprised when they asked me whether we were bigger than west ham/Southampton, what the problem was with Pardew and Mike Ashley with smug looks). Picked the wrong lad to ask tbf.

Should've put it to bed 1st half, worrying 2nd we'd half we'd regret it but we didn't thank fuck.

I'm also worried about this as they'll get stuck in and won't be as bad as Southampton. Whatever happens I'm expecting a close game and being a long standing Newcastle United sufferer I'm always looking out for the banana skin. Head says win, but nerves have long memories.

Was just saying to a Mackem at work on Thursday, if they manage to stay up a desperate season will end in all smiles and celebrations which would go down in the Guinness book of records as the biggest known crack known to mankind to ever be papered over. If they did pull it off then expect the wolves game to feature joyous wolves fans celebrating promotion with happy mackems doing the same because they stayed up and sickened the mags, whilst telling any wolves fan they bump into that they're a better team than the mags when we went up and their managers better than Rafa and their fans are better too. They'll probably also congratulate the lads from molinuex saying they're a proper club and bigger than the mags as their last title win was before ours. Wolves will then join the very long list of clubs who have a 'bond' forced on them. Basically any opposition fan praises their support in any way, shape or form speaks for the entire fanbase of his club. FTM