The Fish

Some UKIP-er from Lincoln called Terry. Him and Colin, the bloke he met dogging.

It was widely reported that we could end up receiving £6m for Lewis Gibson. https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/everton-agree-deal-highly-rated-13372346 https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/lewis-gibson-been-absent-newcastle-13372644 https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/4111038/everton-transfer-news-lewis-gibson-newcastle-united/ You didn't miss it, because I didn't say it. You just Thompered, because that's what you do.

Now's the time to hoover up any young talent in the area. Spend a couple of million upgrading our youth coaching set up and the facilities now, and get a decent production line of kids coming through. Lewis Gibson's fee could pay for it. It's surely the most sustainable transfer policy. If Newcastle consistently produced a Lewis Gibson every year or so, that’s a much wiser approach then spending Millions on fees, Hundreds of Thousands on agents and on wages, only for Achraf Lazaar to be a flop. Even if we only sold 2 or 3 kids for £100k each, then the Youth facilities pay for themselves.

Did I say £30m? I thought I was far more conservative than that.

As our resident expert, would you be surprised if a Championship club made a bid for Honeyman and/or Gooch in the summer?

"Outlandish" I'm happy to admit I expected Short to fund recruitment in January in order to stave off relegation and was surprised when he preferred to gamble on the existing players being enough to turn their season around. I don't think that's a particularly outlandish opinion; “billionaire owner will spend some money to avoid a double relegation”. Can you list some more of these outlandish predictions I've made? I'm just not going to fall into the same trap they did when they predicted Benitez wouldn't join, wouldn't stay, would fail in the 2nd flight, only bought shit, only got promoted because he spent the most, would leave in the summer because he couldn’t spend, only stayed because he spent a fortune, and so on and so forth. They are financially fucked, they are in the 3rd tier of English football again, they are a laughing stock. I don’t need to exaggerate how fucked they are by stating they’ll definitely not come back up, or that none of their young players are good enough for the Championship. They’re shit but so is League 1, and even though I don’t think they’ll necessarily bounce straight back into the Championship, I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. Saying that there’ll be some interest in their younger players from a Championship club isn’t outlandish either. Lynden Gooch has 1 goal and 3 assists from 12 starts, George Honeyman has 6 goals and 2 assists. Would you really be staggered if Ipswich or Shef Wed took a punt on them? Think this is another case of reacting to the poster and not the post.

Quite like the idea of the England team travelling the country if I'm honest.

My initial position was that there'd be some interest from Championship clubs. I still think there will be. I don't operate from a certainty of a positive outcome, I just don't operate from a position of certainty in the negative outcome. After it looked certain that they'd go down I've read that they're not coming back up (as if we're all suddenly expert on League 1), that they'll sell all their players despite them all being too shit for anyone to be interested in them. From the admittedly little I've seen and heard about them, there's one or two of the younger sunderland players who have looked a little better than their league position suggests. Honeyman and Gooch e.g. If you've seen enough of them to be convinced they'll never amount to anything, then fair enough. I'm not writing them off as footballers just because they've been involved in Sunderland's current plight though.

We'll see. I expect the mackems to sell anyone who attracts a decent bid, and those young players may well be footballers that Ipswich (or their ilk) fancy taking a punt on them. It's too simplistic to say that because Sunderland have been dross, all of their young players are incapable of playing Championship football (or higher). There are too many other factors; the manager, the tactics, the senior players, the pressure, the diet.

By your rationale none of Perez, Shelvey, Lascelles, or Dummett have proven not good enough for the Premier League. We'll see if no Championship club (or better) come in for their young players.

Might not be good enough for the Premier League, but there'll be interest from Championship clubs.

He was getting shit for saying our passes were going astray, but they were. People weren't reacting to what was said, just who was saying it.

The Ranjeeshi one? I can't stand him.

Definitely won't happen, but could you imagine the fewm on Wearside were Ashley to sell us to some oil-rich Daddy Warbucks who pumps hundreds of millions into the playing staff. We're signing superstars from across Europe and they're signing Geoff from the Dog and Duck.

They absolutely do. West Ham's mismanagement was met with fury, outrage and action, Wenger's situation was constantly provoking reactions from the Arsenal fans, our shitshow motivated the fanbase into action too. Their double relegation has been met with abject apathy and if those in the stands don't seem to give a shit, why would you expect the players on the pitch to give more than the bare minimum? I genuinely cannot believe that there's been no fan action of note, and if it's because they don't want to protest because "That's what the Mags do", then they deserve as many relegations as is possible. Yeah, I cannot fathom why they haven't invited/accelerated the administration process to take the points penalty now and dump as much debt as possible? If they slip into administration next season, the points penalty could be telling, as will the need to release any useful players (for that lowly division).

It's a possibility. How old was his mother when she had him?

To be fair, @Noelieis right, we had a poor pass completion rate; 64%. However, that's about the same as it always is (only 5% off our average of 71%). Only Burnley have a worse pass completion %. Only Burnley (21.37%) WBA (19.2%) and Stoke(18.46%) play a higher % of Long Balls per game.

Not down to me. I'm not Techy like that, I'm there for the football insight that I mostly lift off here and Happy Face's twitter account Speaking of which, we're recording tomorrow night, if anyone has got any talking points that'd make me look geet clever?

1-1 draw I reckon. Combination of Slim shady not being match fit and Sam Allardyce wanting , more than anything, to not-lose to Newcastle. As if that proves anything. The fat cunt.

Seen quite a few Man Utd fans giving it both barrels because the mackems celebrated Man City winning the league vociferously. Of course, that’s the actions of a classy club, isn’t it?

But I thought everybody loves Sunderland and hated us?

I don't get why they don't seem to care as much? If that was our club getting relegated into the doldrums, we'd (rightly or wrongly) be livid. Invading the pitch, protests, all in all kicking off in some style. They've met their relegation with resignation and apathy. Half empty (if that) stadium with a few bews. Both times Newcastle were relegated from the Premier League, at least some of our players looked gutted. Their lot just trooped off, probably in a rush to get changed and head out for a few drinks, or a dalliance with a lass behind the chinese. They're fucked as fucked can be. Good. Karma is a bitch.

The last two pages have been a roller coaster of a wank, I tell you.

If only Mitrovic were playing for us, we may have been safe already, maybe even settled in the top half... (and I’m a Mitro fan)

you, get out, before september, remember, that I’m still inside, but I’m dry, I’m dry