The Fish

I hate everyone without prejudice. Apart from my boy and the wife.

There's a bit around 53 minutes where he says that basically, the reason for our 'high expectations" was because Newcastle fans saw their team playing Barcelona one minute and the next they're in the Championship. It was a decade. Not a minute. A fucking decade, and by the time Bruce was in charge it was 2 decades. Our lofty expectations, by the time he took charge were "stay up, maybe play some decent football". That's it. Nobody was predicting European spots, nobody was expecting glory. Just something to be proud of. Also, that thing about cost per pts. Steve Bruce has a career average of about 1.3pts a game. I can't be arsed to work it out at the minute (I might do later depends on how this 9:30 meeting goes), but his spend versus return must be terrible. It must be, his Villa team had the biggest budget in the Championship and he took them to, what, 8th? 12th? something like that. Him proudly saying that he put Joelinton out wide and he played terrifically is horseshit as well. He played 16 games at left wing under Bruce across 89 games, 66 upfront. He scored 0 times from left wing under Bruce, and created 1 (one) assist). Under Howe, Joelinton has played left wing 15 times from 70 games, scored 6 and created 2.

Mostly because of the Scots, Welsh and the Irish. Not a fan of the English either, like.

Oh Lord Jesus, I hope not. Any more feral and we're talking Mowgli/Tarzan levels of wildness. Kid has a Harry Potter scar on his forehead after faceplanting into a log at nursery around 2yrs old. Then 6 months later at a playground he did the same. The second time the wife phones me up and says I have to come get them. She had her car, so I said, just drive him home man. She got upset and insisted I come, so when I turn up I'm expecting a bit of blood and some tears and that. I wasn't expecting to see actual bone. Both times we had to take him to A&E and have him superglued back together.

However you slice the map, I am definitely still in the North. North–South divide in England - Wikipedia

53.356 North, I'm about the same as Sheffield, you ornithophobic orifice

No idea, I'm North West now.

True, but we're still creating chances from set pieces.

I haven't even kept up to speed with what you're saying, but I'm confident in myself when I say; yes, yes you are.

I'd like to see Joelinton back, but it may be too soon. I'd not be surprised to see Wilson, Barnes and maybe Anderson regain their starting positions. Just looking at them, the seem vulnerable to crosses. Only Burnley and Fulham have stopped fewer crosses, nobody has conceded more goals from corners. Only Fulham have allowed more chances, only Burnley have created fewer chances. Only West Ham have allowed more progressive carries, or progressive passes. Nobody has a worse pass completion %, nobody goes long more often. If we can win the long balls, we've got to have the confidence to run at them, and either get crosses in or just go for the jugular.

Was worried it could be twins, but no, that's just the 3rd photograph. They had to take a bunch because the kid's already a wriggler, which is a concern in and of itself. I was hoping the next one would be more chill than our first. He genuinely doesn't ever stop fucking moving.

I'm guessing they've sold advertising space to some 3rd party company who sell it on. Currently Amazon, but you'd be cracked if you think Amazon have a direct contract with Ready To Go. You'd be even more insane to think they're actively monitoring what some lunatics say on the board about the Saudi Regime.

At least twice!

Would you give Hall and Livramento a full debut or stick with the defence that's got two clean sheets in the last two games?

The new petit poisson will fix it, nee bother. There's absolutely no fucking chance of any more being added to the shoal. I'll go for the snip if I have to.

Is that spelling deliberate? Because, they're their to assist every time you have one of your breakdowns?

What's Silo on? And despite your braggadocio you are at your core, a bottom.

On there they have match threads about our games, some of their members actually watch our U21s play. They have formed opinions on our players, our manager, our sponsorship deals, the way we play, our chances in each competition. I don't know who, or when they're playing. Let alone their U21s. I honestly couldn't name one of their players, I know their manager is Mowbray, no idea who sponsors them, how they play or how likely they are to get promoted. I'd say the majority of them are similarly in the dark about us. Maybe less so because the Premier League gets more coverage, but the majority of them will have that knowledge by osmosis. That, plus it's got to be embarrassing that the biggest Sunderland board was regularly dominated by threads about us, instead of them. I just don't buy that they've merged and hidden all threads about us for fear of upsetting advertisers. There's no way advertisers are going to bother their arse to check on a message board to see if someone has said something about the Saudi regime, right? I mean the most basic level of scrutiny gets applied and that line just doesn't stack up.

Clearly there are Sunderland fans lurking here, but haven't the bottle to actually post. I'd like to think that if they were sound they'd be accepted. Now that essembee has disappeared I don't think anyone would follow them around trying to score internet points or anything like what happens to Newcastle fans on there. There'd be piss-taking, of course there would, but I just don't get the sense we'd be as precious as to ban them or shunt this thread off to a hidden board. Speaking of hidden boards, they claim the only reason their Mega-threads about us go to the secret board is for fear of upsetting advertisers. I don't know enough about website advertising, but is it likely that a thread criticising the owners of their rivals for their undoubted crimes would give advertisers cause for concern? I mean there are plenty of other message boards out there that have threads about us that aren't hidden away. Spurs' Fighting Cock has our thread on the first page of their general football board, so does RAWK. No idea if they're bigger than RTG, I expect they're comparable at least, but they've got advertisers and they don't hide it away. They also don't merge all Newcastle related threads off the front page. And Frankly, I'm convinced that's the real reason, it's that these 10k post threads dominated their board, were constantly at the top of the front page and it's embarrassing. There's a dozen or so regularly spending all their time posting inane shit about us and the rest of the message board must surely be sick of it?

"Kidderminster definitely set out and prepared for Gateshead playing out from the back with the high press" What press?!

Some of them have become quite unhappy. That Binxy saying that this 11yr old thread proves we're obsessed with them, when their last 3 threads about us have more posts in it, and it started in January 2023

It's like choosing between going to Manchester for something, or Bolton. Unless it's closer and what you need is pretty commonplace, why would you?

I have one fantasy involving the royals, and it doesn't end well for them.

You never get "Newcastle's a shithole" patter for a fucking reason. People for Newcastle wouldn't go to Sunderland for a fucking reason. What could you get in Sunderland that you couldn't get in Newcastle? Besides the plague?