Ayatollah Hermione

That's where I stand on things. I mean, what is there to be excited about with football these days? Watching the Sir Bob match yesterday got me thinking about his time here and how that excitement is totally gone. There was a time under him where it really felt like we could break through the glass ceiling, especially when we were hammering Arsenal and Leeds in back-to-back weeks and football in general just felt a bit more competitive. Then Chelsea got the mega bucks and the whole state of the game went to shit. Now, there's nothing exciting about seeing the top 4 (and now Man City, I suppose) having the pick of the bunch then leaving the rest of us to battle it out for a trip in the totally shit UEFA Cup or an "exciting" cup run that will be ruined as soon as the top 4 don't have an important league game on the weekend. There's a depressing feeling that we'll never win anything unless we get bought out by some mega-rich tycoon and football really shouldn't be like that. As an aside, does anyone have that bat-shit post that HTT made about football just being entertainment like movies or music? Despite growing up in Newcastle - First toon game at 17, first home toon game at 18....our survey says... I'm not saying he was right or anything, far from it. This thread just reminded me of it and the bollock tickling that followed.

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I read this post in my head with Penfold's voice and now I can't stop laughing.

That's where I stand on things. I mean, what is there to be excited about with football these days? Watching the Sir Bob match yesterday got me thinking about his time here and how that excitement is totally gone. There was a time under him where it really felt like we could break through the glass ceiling, especially when we were hammering Arsenal and Leeds in back-to-back weeks and football in general just felt a bit more competitive. Then Chelsea got the mega bucks and the whole state of the game went to shit. Now, there's nothing exciting about seeing the top 4 (and now Man City, I suppose) having the pick of the bunch then leaving the rest of us to battle it out for a trip in the totally shit UEFA Cup or an "exciting" cup run that will be ruined as soon as the top 4 don't have an important league game on the weekend. There's a depressing feeling that we'll never win anything unless we get bought out by some mega-rich tycoon and football really shouldn't be like that. As an aside, does anyone have that bat-shit post that HTT made about football just being entertainment like movies or music?

I wouldn't say the fans of Newcastle Utd have called for their manager's heads any more than the majority of teams in the prem have or would've done in similar situations - the difference being that the press have made a lot out of us due to their fixation with us. I'm not going to talk about Keegan or Allardyce because anyone who thinks Keegan's a quitter or Allardyce is a decent manager doesn't know what they're talking about imo. im not a fan of allardyce or his style of football, but theres no denying that he gets the best out of teams on a very small budget. again, we would still be in the premiership now if we hadnt got shut. Utter bollocks - you listen to talksport and other such shite too much. Were you there when we were 3-0 down after 15mins against portsmouth - did you see any of the games? i doubt it if that is your opinion - he bottled it with us - petrified of losing - this shite is spouted by people who know fuck all - Fact is if Ashley hadn't fucked over Kev (because he was the manager and had been for half the previous season) we would have been vying for a top ten place so shut the fuck up about Allardyce and the fans dictating the clubs managerial appointments - our relegation had nowt to do with Allardyce apart from the shite players he saddled us with on bumper contracts - muppet never listened to talk sport in my life the truth obviously hurts. The truth is you're a fucking spacker.

I can't wait until we're back in the Premiership and the UEFA Cup again. You 2015 bandwagoners don't know what true mediocrity is.

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This is the worst.

i would lure him into a trap with a Greggs Pasty, if thats good enough? You could lure him in with a Superpie pasty, the cheap twat.

Will piss the championship next season ©accadacca Way to piss away any potential opitmism boost we got by whopping Darlo. too fucking right, I can. Why would our youth be under any sort of pressure in a pre-season friendly? The same youth that have played all our friendlies thus far as well.

Nice to see they're addressing some major problems. I hope 5v5 online is on an indoor pitch

Have you seen some of the shit in Topman these days? If that's stylish, our away kit is.

Good point tightly argued The way I see it, a number of bids have been placed and Mike has given them access to the books, those parties have done the appropriate reading and have decided they don't like what they see (thanks to both Fat Fred and Fat Mike) and have either walked away or confirmed their bid but at a vastly reduced price and the fat one is holding out for more money I think this is definately the case now. I can't believe how unrealistic he's being about the whole thing, especially in this climate. I'd have never guessed someone that flogs cheap sports tat could be such a greedy twat.

Boro have a decent skeleton of a side IMO. Huth, Johnson, Digard, Hoyte, Aliadiere, Arca, Emnes and Wheater should mean they're a canny team. If they can keep a hold of them.

Too true. When they had to come through, they showed no fight at all. They were staring down the barrel of a shotgun and willfully got shot in the face. I forsee no fight when they're getting kicked about by Frankie Fuckwit of Derby on a Wednesday night.

They'll have probably signed the entire Barcelona strikeforce by then.

Is the question 'what would you get from shagging Soccermom?'

My favourite scene in the whole show is Stringer and Avon, just after Avon's been shot at. Come to think of it, that season is probably my favourite because of the Barksdale conclusion.

QFT. I don't think you can accurately work out owt to do with the finances because we haven't got access to the books. For all we know, Jonas could be on 25k and free school dinners.

People that use the word 'epic' to describe things that aren't so.

It's the correct pronouciation of AC/DC isn't it? I find it hard to pronounce the lightning bolt though.