Howay

Looking back at the last page btw, The Fish quoted an article which said: ‘Newcastle United director of football, Joe Kinnear, said: "This is a hugely exciting development for Newcastle United. We have one of football's great stadiums and we are delighted to now be announcing plans for a training complex which will rival any in Europe.‘ How fucking grim, what’s worse is then years later they stopped even bothering to make it seem like they’d improve anything with Charnley even saying something like “no player has turned us down due to the training facilities”. Brilliant that we are past the Ashley era. Did any of that training facility build actually happen btw? I assume not since our training facility is known to be a complete hovel. Add it to the list of utter bollocks peddled by Ashley and his lackeys.

Aye that’s fair. Willock definitely is in that category for me, he’s looking like he might actually have a future at Newcastle. I can honestly also see Shelvey staying unless a bid comes in, as it’d be too much bringing in players for the first 11 and subs bench. He’s a fair weather player imo, he tends to play well when the team is playing well and isn’t one to take games by the neck and drive the team on which for a bloke that clearly has talent is immensely frustrating. Your first paragraph is a great summary of the situation.

Completely agree, I’m happy we have this current situation where we don’t have to just throw the bloke in and hope it clicks. I just am really looking forward to seeing Shelvey gone. Honestly wish this season would just fucking end . It’s not just Shelvey mind, I’m really looking forward to a summer clear out.

Personally I’m looking forward to him replacing Shelvey. Not that I wish for it but the moment Shelvey has a poor game I’d yank the bloke from the first 11. He’s been a lazy fucking bastard for 7 year or whatever it is he’s been at us, and has just decided to pull his socks up a bit once real competition comes in. I can’t wait until we see the back of him. I honestly don’t think Shelvey has even been as deserving of plaudits like the other two (one game aside where I’ll admit he played really well), he’s been fine and not put a foot wrong but he also hasn’t been doing anything that Bruno couldn’t do (unless Bruno is wank like Longstaff). I completely understand why Howe keeps the line up the same, it makes sense with the way the team is playing at the moment. There is always the chance that it upsets the balance or something, I don’t think it will as Bruno will likely be better at every part of the game than Shelvey is, but there is a chance I suppose. Btw, I know he’s only getting tiny cameos at the moment but the first pass Bruno made after coming on was class. He just rolled his marker and flicked the ball right through the West Ham defence for Murphy to run onto. It might be a little bit before we see him play a good amount but he looks like a real talent.

Brentford are in fucking real trouble mind. Just looked there and I think it’s 8 points from their last 13 games, with the two wins being Villa and Watford at home.

Agreed, also agree with your earlier point that as fans of the club we can miss the bigger picture. If positions between us and Burnley were reversed most fans would be 100% convinced we were buried, they’re playing crap and their two games in hand are Spurs and Leicester and they’d need to win both, meanwhile we have points on the board, are picking up points every week and have looked the better side in our games for about 5 straight games now. The other thing is their “winnable” fixtures are against sides that are also not clear of it. Imo we will finish above Everton (who have a shit manager and look woeful), Brentford, and Leeds, in addition to the current bottom three. I get fears that Watford are only 4 points behind, but 4 points is almost a quarter of all the points they’ve picked up so far, similar with Burnleys 5 points. We also play a lot of the sides who were looking like difficult fixtures in the past but are in rotten form (Palace and Brighton etc). Obviously there’s a chance we go down but the way we are playing, and the way everyone else in the bottom half is playing, I just don’t see it anymore.

Wonder how old that photo is.

The rivalry continues

Football writer that just sacked off watching the football.

Remember when they thought Michael Dell was forming a consortium to buy them. They’ve got so low that a bloke that rummages through bins fancies himself as their next owner.

Aye it was an equalizer tbh, Bowen had clattered someone prior to it iirc. Our team definitely have an edge now, if a player clatters one of ours there’s generally a response and they very clearly look to make every 50/50 ball a fight. The Everton game was a massive sign of it for me, our lot completely won the physical side of the game and Evertons players wanted absolutely no part of it.

Was it Wee Phillie that was the one who trespassed and then yelled “Defoe! It’s Jermaine Defoe” at a bloke that’s only similarity to Defoe was that he is black.

https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/nufc-sportswashing-2022-part-3.1570531/ This thread is hilarious. From not being impressed by the Trippier signing (finished apparently), to Dan Burn being shit. The weirdest thing seems to be their new obsession with Staveley, I think they have this idea that she has to keep investing her % share of future outgoings despite it already clearly not being the case. In fact one of them responded to posts about £100m+ spending with “ keep it up Amanda but you had to borrow £10m from Ashley to buy her share” doesn’t that disprove his hope that she has any responsibility funding wise? They’re a funny bunch like, really focusing on a minority owner of our club as if she will be an issue for us going forward - I would worry about your own ownership split lads. They genuinely can’t see how fucking absurd they’re being? She owns a token % of the club that was basically her payment for brokering the deal (as she will likely be able to sell it for a gain at some point). But aye totally comparable to a bloke who bought the entire club with the clubs own parachute payments and has since proceeded to asset strip and sell minority stakes off for his own benefit .

The ones defending him are literally saying “we could have managers the level of Allardyce and Keane in the dug out, the results would be the same” they’re right, but not for the reason they think.

Imagine rating a manager that’s as shit as Keane to this level!? And they genuinely think we are of equal footing as football clubs. Fucking deluded wankers.

I imagine Alex Neil will be getting pressure soon as well. Apparently it already has started https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/alex-neil.1572879/

It’ll be nice for them IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP After months of them doing that to us on Twitter as well.

Need to keep our post count up pewaahhlee for that. It’s absolutely brilliant that they hounded that bloke out like brokendoll mentioned, but the lack of plan replacing him led to all this murky ownership issues becoming public . Genuinely may be one of the worst decisions in football.

Agreed, 1 point from a possible 9 since he took charge play off contenders to mid table shite. If only his recent managerial record pointed to this happening.

This has been vital for us. We are a very hard team to beat now.

Their bestest friends Burton up next, then an away pumping to Wigan. I’m sure the Sunderland faithful will get right behind thah lads and really roar them to victory in key games.

Bruce doing an amazing job with West Brom I see. Wonder what excuses the media will come up with for him.

Aye, I think it also highlights how poor a lot of the teams we have coming up are. We play Brighton, Palace, and Everton soon and they all look absolutely dreadful. I can’t see us not overtaking Brentford and we are still well clear of Norwich and Watford. The Burnley and Watford games weren’t ideal but they both have some rough fixtures coming up.

Aye they are bound to win the occasional game. I still think we will finish above Norwich, Watford, Burnley, Leeds, and Brentford at the very least.