The Fish

Yeah, fuck all chance of that happening in our lifetime.

The slide to insanity seems a lot easier than the ascent to sense.

Yeah I just can't imagine any of us being around when the longer game plays out.

I don't think Trump or Brexit will change the process or set up at all, it'll just shift the conversation to the right and legitimise the uglier factions on that side of the aisle. If Trump gets in, surely he'd only last 1 term, but the Democrats will then push a candidate that can appeal to the howl-at-the-moon rednecks. That candidate is hardly going to be a progressive.

It was an episode that was raising awareness of Cancer, but yeah, he was entirely unconvincing as a real person.

Villa fans act more like mackems than the "big club" of a pair should.

He doesn't want to talk about football, he wants to shout into a microphone. If he wasn't doing it about Newcastle United, he'd be shoutreviewing movies or computer games.

Cool, if you want to buy it for me, you crack on sunshine.

Think there's a real gap in the market for some lads talking about football...

Not sure the company who provide the engineer would be ok with that, and I've not got a mic at mine. Of course, it might not be an issue for long, because I want to start a new podcast up here with some mates. One of them works at the BBC and hopefully should have access to recording equipment/a studio.

poor old Happy Face

As if we'd be embarrassed about bringing positive change to our club.

Mine is tip tippety tip top, it's theirs that's a pile of dog shit. It'll be fucking Dial-Up or some shit.

There'd be lag and the audio would be even worse, to be honest.

To be honest, it's not just the quality of the audio that I find an issue, it's the lack of real-time visual clues for when to talk. Harder to gauge when someone hasn't yet finished their point, or if they're about to crack a joke.

I think it's what A.G. Bell had in mind all those years ago. Apparently the audio is a little hinky, but there's sweet F.A. I can do about that from 200 miles away.

Sure, as long as you promote the podcast from your twitter acct

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Rafagation

Best Coach in the League

Got to remember to stop giving @mikeashleylies mad props on the podcast.

Nah, apparently they/Rafa relegated us. And we're too deluded to see that. Rafa had long enough to rescue us because in other seasons, with different circumstances, different players, different opposition and different requirements, different managers managed to keep up a different team. They relegated us with their win against Everton because Rafa played two defensive midfielders away to Aston Villa. Rafa is as much to blame as McClaren despite having 0 transfer windows to Steve's 2, despite having 10 games to Steves 28, despite having to undo Steve's mess. They're livid we didn't have a melt-down upon dropping into the 2nd tier, they're livid everything is going well on Tyneside and they're livid it's all returned to shit on Wearside. Remember that we definitely weren't getting Rafa to join us, he definitely wouldn't stay if we went down, and of course he wouldn't be a success in that league because it's tough and he's got no experience getting teams promoted, and anyway it doesn't matter because anyone could lead an expensively assembled squad to win that tinpot league, as long as it's Newcastle's expensively assembled squad and not Aston Villa's... FTM!