thebrokendoll

nah. nowt a matter without pointing out we've looked poor, particularly going forward in all but one game this season. I hope howe sorts it out, I'm sure he will. doesn't alter the present reality though.

happy enough with the result, not particularly the performance, thought we were fucking woeful in the final third, pretty much par for the course since the first game of the season. was at the san siro 20 years ago, we were fucking magnificent and all who were there had a match to remember to forever. bit gutted for the young'uns there tonight they didn't get to experience something even remotely similar.

we're fortunate to be level. what the fuck has happened to attacking play since the villa game? these aren't that good, yet again we're not showing enough intent. need to get at the fuckers.

how exciting.... wish I was there. howay the lads!

this has randomly popped up on the home tickets bit?????

5 season in the 3rd division. 4 games in european competition. massive club.

n.u.s.t. (and I think everyone on here is aware of my opinion of them) have 2 ticketing surveys, one after the cup final which had a couple of thousand responses. (incidently, I would suggest this number is a truer reflection of their membership involvement than the 13,000 members they claim) to my knowledge the club issued no response to this survey n.u.s.t. did another survey in august, opening this one up to non members and doubled the response to it getting over 5,000 people involved, the results.... https://nufctrust.co.uk/news/home-ticketing-survey-the-results-are-in/ two weeks not a fucking peep from the club and I dont think n.u.s.t.'s survey scratches the surface. why the fuck are they excluding members who have more 'loyalty' points on their accounts than some season rickets holders altogether from away game sales? why the fuck when away game sales are reaching zero points aren't members allowed to enter a ballot? why the fuck are they maliciously making tickets invalid? I don't believe this is all down to incompetence, they have a strategy and they believe they're answerable to no fucker.

meaningless without graphs and pie charts. just looks like an algebra sum.

are they? I've seen precisely zero fucking evidence of that so far.

sell all your tickets you couldn't sell all your tickets.... from where I was in the east side of the gallowgate on saturday I could see dozens of empty seats in the lower part of the east stand. there appeared to be pockets in the milburn too. 3 games in and I've not had a sniff at a ticket in the ballot and yet I've been able, along with 3 others to comfortably get tickets in resale for all the games, even affording the luxury for brentford of waiting till one became available for the part of the ground I'd prefer to be in. fucking bizarre considering demand is is off the scale. access to the ground on saturday in the corner was a fucking shambles, my android phone wouldn't read at all on the scanner... red or green. I was told to open the qr code part of the ticket instead and that worked, delay of a minute and saw several others having the same problem. they had to open the exit gates slightly nearing kick off and were allowing people to squeeze through individually where they had another scanner set up on the wall. fucking farcical. 2 weeks now till a home game against psg and not a fucking peep from the club on sales for the game for members. will it be game by game ballot? will they try to enforce a 3 game package. what the fuck will the price of them be? do they give a single flying fuck about supporters and their travel/accommodation arrangements? have these cunts got a fucking clue what they're doing?

not read through the thread so I'm sure it's probably already been said, but I think yesterday was one of those games where the 3 points was infinitely more important than the performance. had the feeling of the wolves game at home last season where we had to stop the rot and did..... just. was strangely subdued in the car on the way back last night with not much analysis, but then what was there was to talk about really? was a poor game and a definite penalty. man of the match was the corner of the gallowgate who never stopped trying to lift the team, hat doffed. I was in there yesterday for the first time since I jacked me season ticket in and only a few yards away from me old seat so saw one or two old faces again which was nice.

he was a shite manager I agree, a good manager would've identified dyer as the real bad apple and a good manager would've found a way to man manage arguably their best player.... not fuck him off out to the detriment of the team. I warn you alex, we've only just joined the m1 south of nottingham, I can keep this up for another couple of hours till I get to the percy!

agree with all that. souness picked the wrong player to make an an example of though. shearer and bellamy managed 25 goals between them in the 1st half of that season, shearer 13, bellamy 12. shearer managed 7 in 2nd half of the season when bellamy was shipped out to celtic. bellamy undoubtedly carried shearer, his play allowed shearer to catch up. it was a fucking ludicrous decision to get rid of the welsh twat.

souness had already made his mind up before he got his feet under the table at newcastle that bellamy was the bad boy, completely ignoring the fact it was dyer that was the real cunt. he'd be having to making excuses for the fucker being lifted by the police for pissing in doorways within a couple of weeks, to say nowt of having to face the cameras several months later about the twat scrapping on the pitch with his team mates. we shipped the wrong bloke out alex, TWICE. dyer should've been shipped out long before bellamy. and souness should've been shipped out long before bellamy too.

people think bellamy was awful on the pitch for us? really? worshipped the little fucker I did, when he crossed that white line he gave a 100% for us every time he played and I couldn't give a fuck what he got up to off it. don't recall him getting up to anything particularly controversial at nufc other than having an accusation dismissed out of hand of common assault for removing some pissed up wannabe wag trollop out of his car on the quayside? oh and he was absolutely spot on about shearer's legs having gone and even more accurate with his appraisal of sourness being a cunt.

szoboszlai?

mandy at boomtown...

it is mate, although I used a bit of poetic license with his title.

eddie's head not ready to roll.... Newcastle United manager Eddie Howe retains the full backing of the club’s Saudi chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan, whose only response to the team’s difficult start to the season has been to ask what additional help he can provide. In a repeat of the comments he made during the lowest point of Howe’s time on Tyneside, in the aftermath of an FA Cup defeat by Cambridge United in January 2022, Al-Rumayyan has once again offered his full support to the manager and the board he entrusts to run the club on a day-to-day basis. One of the great unknowns since the Saudi takeover is how the Public Investment Fund (PIF) would react during a tricky spell for the team, but there is a sense of calm behind the scenes at St James’ Park led by the majority stakeholders. Rather than look to apportion blame, Al-Rumayyan has taken counsel from other board members and there is a determination to protect Howe from unwanted and unnecessary pressure in his second full season as Newcastle manager. Newcastle have lost three out of their four games so far and went into the international break on the back of a sobering 3-1 defeat at Brighton. They only suffered five league defeats last season and the slow start to the campaign means there are more difficult questions being asked of Howe and the players. But, crucially, the people running the club are well aware of the fact there was always likely to be a drop off this season, with chief executive Darren Eales, director or football Dan Ashworth, as well as co-owner Amanda Staveley, all stressing at board meetings over the summer this season would be far more difficult than the last. It has been pointed out to Al-Rumayyan that teams who unexpectedly qualify for the Champions League – as Newcastle did – on average, suffer a fall of eight positions in the league the following campaign. That could see the Newcastle drop as low as 12th in the table and while that is not wanted or desirable, the point is that Howe will be given time and unflinching support by those above him – even if things get tough in terms of outside noise and pressure. Telegraph Sport also understands that Newcastle’s recruitment was designed with the long term future of the club in mind rather than just this season’s results. In signing the 20-year-old Tino Livramento, 19-year-old Lewis Hall and the 23-year-old Sandro Tonali, the hierarchy deliberately focused on signing players who would improve under Howe over a prolonged period of time. The view has always been there could be short term pain, for long term gain. Nobody has felt the need to contact Howe directly to reassure him since the defeat to Brighton, but it is hoped the 45-year-old understands he has the complete backing of the board who want him to remain as manager long term. Newcastle go into a fascinating run of three games with the home match against Brentford on Saturday followed by their opening Champions League group game against AC Milan and a trip to newly promoted Sheffield United next week.

infinitely more generous than me. I hope his lungs, knees and hamstrings were.

the funniest thing about the shop assistant story is the bit where he said he could hardly breathe. would've been far funnier though if he'd actually stopped doing so.

imagine having hair that colour and not dying it. the stupid ginger mackem cunt.

my membership fee last year was £25, I opted out of having their shitty plastic wallet and pen or whatever other sports direct like tat that were offering at the time. it went up to £37:this year, so as near as damn it a 50% increase with fuck all tacky shite as a token to justify it. well, apart from a digital membership card I can stick in me google wallet. FUCK THEM.

same mate. 3 ballots fuck all. this time last season (can't be arsed to check the fixture list) I'd been to forest at home, man city at home. brighton away, wolves away. last season I managed 80% of home games (opted out of the others) and 50% of our away games (minus wembley) I could get away tickets in the tried and tested system from donators both old and new in much the same way as I myself helped others out since the late 80s/early 90s and onwards..... completely frozen out now. they've excluded from purchasing away tickets membership holders who have more loyalty points for away games than season ticket holders. they've imposed fucking draconian identity checks and punishments for 'offenders' who don't comply with their sinister intentions , they're treating decent, normal people like fucking potential criminals I despised ashley, I'm rapidly growing to despise these cunts too. they've increased the membership fee by 50% and made it unlimited, their communication of membership sales for match day tickets are farcical and leave little if any time for those living outside the north east to plan for travel and accommodation. they've failed to communicate how many memberships they've sold or how many match day tickets go on sale for each match. they've increased the cost of a ticket for both the aston villa and brentford game by 30% from last season. they've implemented a digital ticket system for entry which serves no purpose whatsoever other than create gridlock and confusion at turnstiles. they've created a system which allows no choice of seats to those successful in a ballot no matter how inappropriate the seat might be to the ticket holder dependant on age/mobility/eyesight and originally cost. attempting to contact the box office with a query is fucking shambolic and a waste of time unless you've got a couple of hours to put aside. everything the club have done regarding ticketing this season has been pathetic and embarrassing, about the only thing they've achieved is to make lee charnley look like a professional. I've walked away from this shit before when my principals haven't allowed me to finance people who are taking the fucking piss out of me. I'm about to do it again and I couldn't give a flying fuck if we might be about to become good.