Dr Gloom

tiote should stop dribbling the ball around the box

was that "hughton is our king" after an eeyi eeyi eyyi oh chant?

kidney blow from barton? ill advised when he's playing so well. no need

get the fuck in. carbon copy of arsenal goal

it's looking like a landslide at this stage

bleach is canny too though nowhere near as easy listening. that was the real seattle sound. nevermind was polished grunge for the masses. great album all the same.

i'd sub shola for routeledge and get him to play in and around carroll. we need some pace to try and get in behind that fricking five man back line

only saw 25 minutes of the first half. what i saw wasn't pretty.

ref is card happy

how typically us that we're struggling in the game we ought to be bossing after three wins on the bounce - two away from home. typical toon rollercoaster

"where's your famous atmopshere" chant blackburn. far cry from sunderland like. ugly game so far. tiote and nolan both booked. chances non existent. no pace.

piss poor effort by nolan

ditto

any non plug in rivers? how the fuck did we concede? how are we looking?

small river would be super. most grateful if anyone could send me a pm

did skidmark change his user name from something else too? the only time i notice him is when he's having his ding dongs with leazes tbh

fuck me. when you put it in black and white, that's a pretty shite bit of business. i like smith's attitude; he's a trier and he doesn't hide but he was never worth that sort of money. he's a striker that didn't score goals and a converted holding midfielder who is championship standard at best. all that for a cool £15m in wages plus £6m transfer fee.

"I have proved most of the time that when I get a football club it improves from where it was," explained Allardyce. "That was going be the case at Newcastle but I was not given enough time, but there is no bitterness towards the club. "I'm not sure that apart from Arsene (Wenger) and Sir Alex (Ferguson) anyone else has managed at this level for as long as I have. "I take a huge amount of pleasure in having been able to sustain my ability in the best league in the world."

he's still got a lot to do to prove his england class but we're not exactly spoiled for good strikers at the moment. he's definitely got something about him. he must be a centre half's nightmare, he wins everything in the air but he's shown a decent touch and turn of pace this season too. a good prospect when you look at this age and the fact he came through the ranks.

I mentioned the idea about 4-5 years ago (Souness era) and remember getting absolutely blasted for it. We needed it and if we'd survived, we'd have only have been delaying the inevitable. The Mackems did something similar when Quinn took over as chairman. EDIT: Found it... much more recent than I thought http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?showtopic=18250 there was a lot of luck that we ended up the way we have but i'm pretty sure we're stronger now than we would have been if we'd continued to drift under the likes of of jfk but we were very fortunate to bounce straight back up and find hughton. if keegan had been given a proper chance to manage, who knows where we'd have ended up?

midweek blues after a heavy birthday weekend rounded off with superb trip to the emirates. the week is dragging and i'm struggling for inspiration. i'm hoping another good result tonight will tide me over till the weekend

I'll bet anybody on here anything H will be gone by Christmas. Should have had a piece of that action

500. Well worth it

Quite a few floated this idea before we went down. I never bought it but now it's happened i can't help but think relegation and the things that came with it - stumbling across hughton, the new team spirit, getting the big egos off the wage bill and the return of the feel good factor that comes with winning - have put the club back on the right track. Would things have been worse if we survived? Would we have continued to stagnate while employing players that didn't give a shit? I am genuinely optimistic about this season after what we've seen so far.

6ft3 and 14 stone and a half. Worst shape I've been in for about three years.