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apart from the statue of jimmy hill, which is already sitting itself.

you could be getting mistaken for ct, which should swell you with pride!

this is quite clearly him before he grew his beard.....

aye, I remember going in there a few times. main meeting up points I recall was the globe at liverpool street market, especially for those who'd got the friday night mail train down getting in to london at 6am, was then off to summer's bar at king's cross to meet the late arrivals! just as an aside, I once chatted to john conteh in the globe, he was already pissed at 8am, mind you, so was the vast majority of newcastle's support in there too!

the bloke on the left looks like fletcher's escaped from slade prison.

just out of interest why did you assume the point of the thread was a jab at hurst? I never mentioned him at all. perhaps it's telling though that the mention of superfan would bring you that conclusion! I considered joining at the time a membership cost £1 annually but being as they'd already been at pain to point out that they weren't a protest group i decided it was too expensive. their recruitment drives however always seemed to coincide with whatever latest atrocity ashley had committed. as far as communicating with their membership goes I obviously wouldn't know but I do occasionally look on their website and it appears to not having been updated since the time of their 2021 elections nearly a year ago other than a note to say they'd abandoned the 1892 pledge (not dated) and were working on how to donate the £200k raised to charity, something which appears to be taking a lot of mulling over! as far as the pledge goes, I thought it was well meaning although the idea of raising £6m was fanciful at best and very possibly delusional, but when they do get round to handing out the donations it will at least have been worthwhile, so credit for that. I'm gonna take a punt and guess their membership is on the decline (hence the topic) no doubt as a result of the takeover, especially from those who joined as a response to ashley being a cunt, although I could be wrong and they're beavering away on other projects I know nowt about as the only time I ever actually hear them mentioned now is when michael martin gives them a plug in his truefaith editorials. as far as hurst's podcasts go, i've never listened to one, nor do i particularly want to. he does appear to be skysports and jamie carrigher's go to voice of newcastle so his self promotion appears to have done the trick. personally don't see much difference between him, wraith or the training ground stalker really, but there you go!

I'd so no, other than to serve as a platform to boost the ego of a few superfans. whilst a 'proclaimed' membership of 13,000 seems respectable enough it was built up largely on the back of opposition towards ashley but failed miserably to ever particularly take any reasonable stand against him. iis there any need for it at all now?

just got home. there was a thatchers in the fridge, rolled a single skinner sat in the back.garden looking at the full moon and thinking life is fucking wonderful.

that was fucking outstanding. performance, atmosphere and a fucking privilege to be there.. nowt else to say really other than, this could take off, big time!

@Dr Gloom you've shamed us expats here I'm afraid. since I've started going to matches again I've gone practically naked, just to show how tough I am still.

possibly not with the likes of holt, delaney and glendenning. it'll rot, fester and continue to eat away at the very fibre of their soul. hope it brings on palpitations.

every time she got 12 points I said to the mrs I hope she keeps turning to wave to somebody on the left, I think she hates me. not seen an arse as magnificent as that since salma danced with a snake!

aye, forgot about them and agree with the first aid kit bit. )

so the spanish girl and her two incredibly gifted dancers should obviously win. thought the portuguese lass had a lush voice, the german song I'm sure I've heard before, the moldovian one was very gorgol bordello like , which is no bad thing and the swedish chick was ace oh and the finns should never be allowed to make a rock song again.

can't really see how the rest of the programme's worth watching to be honest.

mind you, doux points for the two romanian dancing girls.

can't see beyond the spanish girl winning this me like.

scouse cunts. mind you, cockney cunts as well.

hard morning pulling a few weeds up so now sat in sunny nam with a cold cider and chilling to the superb barrington levy and jah thomas version of the classic 'moonlight lover' eight and a half minutes of lushness.

is ok to.want bad things to happen that cunt? actually, aye it is.

40 apologies to all for temporarily derailing the thread, but I remember this too as a tot in the 60s, was obviously in black and white and creepy as fuck, far more scary than the daleks!

feast your eyes on this doe-eyed little minx....

marine boy for me. think I had my first childhood crush on his mermaid girlfriend neptina.

what the fuck? just sat and watched that oddly transfixed. almost as surreal and the two lads who did the joselu song on youtube.

I'd no sooner tune in to watch alex hurst opine on matters newcastke than I would go looking for 80s party political broadcasts by the conservative party on youtube.