The Fish

Fair enough. I do feel old when I google these youtubers and find out they're millionaires with millions of people (kids) following them. Like, I'm vaguely aware of pewdiepie(sp?) and KSI, but honestly, what the fuck do they actually do to get these huge numbers of fans?

If you were a top tier fighter and some youtuber put up £50m to fight you, wouldn't you fancy a largely manageable few minutes knocking 50 shades of snot out of him? forgive me if I'm wrong, but hasn't McGregor retired from competitive fighting? Couldn't he treat this like the old golfers treat the Pro-Am stuff they do?

You think if they weren't mostly famous for being our local rivals they'd put in so much effort to claim people, players or teams as MLFs?

This is it for me, Bruce's defenders love to bring up Benitez, because it paints us as unreasonable. Purely looking at how Bruce's Newcastle has performed over the last two season shows a team that can't defend or attack well, that doesn't hold onto the ball, nor put in much effort to get it back. Bruce has arguably the best squad since our relegation in 2016. He inherited a top half defence, and a top class 'keeper. Yes he 'lost' Rondon and Perez, but built upon that solid defence could have been a counter attack side with the pace of Almiron, Saint-Maximin and the passing range possessed by Shelvey, and to a lesser degree Schar, Lejeune, S.Longstaff etc. Now he's got an actual fit-for-purpose striker, more options on the flanks and yet we're still a nothing side. We're still too easy to play through, still too easy to defend against, still don't keep or press the ball and still too often aimless during games. That's all on him and something we've seen reported of his teams at previous clubs. But Edwards and his ilk told us we were unreasonable to greet his announcement with groans and negativity. Now we're supposed to be happy that we are a shit PL side that's one game away from a cup semi-final. On that, how fucking lucky has he been with the draws? Rochdale, Oxford, WBA in the FA Cup last season and Blackburn, Morecambe, Newport, and Brentford in the EFL Cup this time around. Safe bet that the minute we're drawn against a Premier League side we'll go out.

Sadie the bra lady

More than welcome as long as you don't act like an arsehole. Hell, we've tolerated Ugly Mackems and he's a right prick. Bruce's subs won us the game and fair play. But I'm not really sure it was some inspired tactical choice, felt more an act of desperation.

*Record Scratch* *Freeze Frame* Yup, that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation

Vendetta is ok, but the 3 I mentioned tend not to be thought of as "comic book movies" because they're not about analogues in spandex.

There are plenty of comic books that are none of those things. Some have literally won the Pulitzer prize. You may not have heard of them, but they exist. Road to Perdition, Oldboy, History of Violence, plus the obvious ones like Dark Knight, Superman (Christopher Reeves), Logan, Joker etc. Of course there are a load of terrible movies that are based on comics too.

Good or bad, it's mainstream A F.

Words on a dartboard kind of meeting, wasn't it?

Last 5 years 4 of the highest grossing movies have been comic book movies, the other being a Star Wars movie.

I'm only using the text thing on my phone, wouldn't know how to actually talk to the other players. I think it would be more fun with a number of friends, but work/family commitments mean we've not had a chance to play as a big group.

Among Us. Really addictive.

You've got a Mastubatorium, don't you?

Fuck off with that, I got stick for reading comics! Comics which are now fucking mainstream, and I still get stick for it.

Can't help much from here, but I'll take the knee in honour of Toulouse.

I wonder how intensively we press in the non-highlighted zone?

"No, no, we didn't get free trade, or the fishing rights, and yes we have to pay tarriffs and wait in line at the airport like heathens, buuuuut look at these blue passports! Don't get many of them to the Euro, whatwhat."

The fuck were they thinking?

Couldn't agree the rider, so I declined. How hard is it to get frozen grapes in a decent sized glass for the hotel room??

Don't know enough about the Black Lives Matter organisation to say if it is, or isn't a anarcho/Marxist radical group, but surely saying the words "Black Lives Matter" doesn't mean you're a card-carrying member of that group. Surely it just means that you believe that black lives matter?

Pass the bucket.

With the right manager coaching him he's an effective PL player when used as a pressing forward. Wasted out wide. £30m was over the odds for him, but if you've the money to spend I don't think you'll regret it. Think he'd work better with a different kind of striker ahead of him, instead of Vardy. But he's not good enough to change your setup when it works so well. Got some stick from a section of the fans because he wasn't as consistently prolific as his ability suggests he should be, but a lot of the pressing work he did was ignored by them.

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