The Fish

Nope.

You know every year we get two or three university students coming on here surveying our takes on supporting Newcastle? If a Psychology student wants to make a name for themselves, they should study the behaviours seen on RTG.

Have you tried not having sweatboxes every Friday night?

I'd like to see the ages of those jumping ship.

Howe needs regular training sessions to get his methods across. Who the fuck would be the England manager? Massive expectations from the media and a subset of the fans, no time to work with the players and a country that is years behind others in terms of financing coaches and young players. Fuck. That.

Application for Team Bed Wetter is already in the post.

I used to have a job supporting the MET Police, and did 7-7 shifts, the night shifts being just two of us and the security guard in the office. Each of the lads who hadn't yet turned 40 would turn up in messy states from time to time, but the understanding was that you'd immediately go "On A Call" for an hour to sort yourself out, and not take an hour for your break later on. I remember getting a call at 6pm to cover when I was out for a mates birthday at the time and pretty soused already. The hour I took was not nearly enough to sober up and so the bloke I was on with kindly let me fuck off to the boardroom to sleep it off. He didn't wake me until 5, and only because he wanted to give me enough time to get freshened up and catch me up on what I'd missed before the handover. I miss Clayton.

Looking forward to the Fake Sheikh secretly videoing him downing a pint of wine after explaining some trade secrets, like how to get an in-cell bar chart by using the Rept function in Excel?

Got the kids' kit delivered today. Badge looks cheap and likely to come away after a few washes, for what it's worth.

Does his nonsense put any extra pressure on you? I'd be fucking livid if I was having to mop up someone else's mess because they couldn't get their shit together.

How hasn't he been fired for this shit yet?

All they want is big names, typical of those gravy stained Newcas... what's that? That's from a Sunderland message board? Blyme.

It'd have to get much worse. I didn't feel that sorry for them in League 1. Mostly because of how they didn't gain an ounce of humility even when they were losing to Southend.

Farage knew.

Yeah it's one of those "makes sense" instead of "makes waves" kind of signing.

I'll ask him next time we're in the queue at the Tesco garage.

Ah, I see. I don't disagree with any of that (besides the bench warming stuff). But, given my reputation on here I'll say it's all horseshit and you should feel bad.

I don't follow? What do you see as the difference between the two? The best players in the world would sit on the bench for £500k a week and 2 or 3 medals every year. Look at the array of talent at Real Madrid. Way I see it, you should only be allowed to spend what you can afford without putting the future of the club at risk, if your owner can afford to put hundreds of millions into the club without mortgaging the stadium go for it. But entangling your wage bill to the poorest club in the league reduces the widening of the gap between the haves and have nots. Keeps it more competitive and more interesting. If we were allowed to spend what we could reportedly afford, where's the incentive to produce our own talent? And without local lads getting their chance at the club the divorce between so called legacy fans and the team becomes more permanent. Fans like you or me would be replaced with kids who follow a player and have no interest in the club and fuck that.

They have, but not always by a massive gap and not always ahead of the same opponent. In 4 of Man City's titles, the gap between 1st and 2nd was 2pts or less and for their 6 titles second place was Arsenal (2), Liverpool (2) Man Utd (2).

It's boring and devalues the league. There's got to be an element of competition to maintain what makes the Premier League the more marketable brand. Otherwise we're just spanking a bunch of farmers around and we'll invite more and more tourist fans, more and more "ManlikeBruno" accounts, and Arsenal tv and shit like that.

To be fair, the amount of money that you (and we) can bring to bear would ruin the league as a competition. Unchecked both of us could buy the very best players from our opponents, the best in the world, and trade titles as they do in Spain. There has to be a limit on what clubs can spend, and it has to be significantly below what our clubs' owners can afford.

Thanks Taggart

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