The Fish

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

Fire up the Pot Needle!

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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!

Quiet now Panty Perv

It's a weaker side than the one that he only just managed to get to 17th in a season with one of the worst teams in Premier League history. I can't see him going back there this year, but taking them up from the Championship might interest him. Plus it'd mean that he can keep hold of his "Never been relegated" lie while still managing a club he clearly has a passion for. I wonder if the Chinese investors that cooled their interest in Sunderland were the same ones that were so keen on us that they were willing to prove they had the funds?

Surely he'll have a relegation clause in his contract? Stick with him for this season, while lining up his replacement. If he keeps them up, pay him off with the Premier League cash, if he doesn't, operate the clause.

Villa fans do it with Birmingham City, insist on calling them "Small Heath". I'm guessing some Manchester City falls call Man Utd Neaton Heath, or whatever. Odd behaviour.

Two lads could play the game on an x-box in the cellar and someone, somewhere would try to be offended.

Only because we won. They hate us cos they ain't us.

Least surprising post of the day, that.

He'll end up managing Villa when they eventually go back up to the top flight and struggle to do more than last time.

Best thing is that it seems Rafa has instilled a resolve throughout key members of the squad, so even if Shelvey is taking it easy, we've sufficient number of players in the 1st team who're grafting for every point. It also helps that not a single player has an automatic spot, not even the likes of Ritchie or Gayle.

Didn't know Colin had beef with Rafa

Yeah, I suppose. Poor Shane

More than Ritchie, yeah. They cross from the byline, or stay wide until at least the box. Ritchie cuts inside/crosses from deep.