Howay

That Grayson is a rare looking fucker isn’t he.

Bruce would be out of breath just watching that, why is Howe running? Shouldn’t he be guzzling coffee in his office to fight off the hangover from last night?

Aye, I think it’s part of it for sure but I think there’s also a big dollop of laziness. I think a lot of them flat out can’t be arsed to talk about another club, and do some actual research, it’s far easier to just blast out a load of cliches and then go back to talking about how amazing Manchester United is. I think that’s why the Bruce stuff got so absurd, they’d spent two seasons just saying their mate was doing a great job and looking at a mid table finish each year, not seeing how everything was rotting and a relegation was clearly coming, then when we got bought and were relevant news they all doubled down to make it seem they hadn’t been lazy bastards for years. It struck home to me when Martin Keown finally looked past simply the finishing positions and had some mind blowing revelation complete with shocked face on talkSPORT pretty much going “he’s actually doing a bad job!”. Luke Edwards is a prime example of this imo, the takeover news broke when he was traveling to cover the Europa League final and he wanted to just go out on the piss when he got there so decided to just tweet out it was all a load of bollocks and pray nowt come of it, he then proceeded to keep doubling down on this by pretending things like legal difficulties with the PL process was what he had in mind when he’d said a year prior that it was all bollocks, while he kept hoping it would all just go away. In short they’re all a bunch of lazy cunts.

Shelvey is a weird one, I’d seen a stat somewhere that he does actually cover a decent amount of ground per game, so I think his problem more lies in his poor positioning and that he very clearly gives up on a lot of defensive plays. I think a manager like Rafa forces him into a role, and basically tells him where to stand, where to set up, what to do when he’s in each situation on the pitch, which I think is something he massively needs or else he looks fucking lost and like he’s giving up on absolutely everything like he did under Bruce. Fwiw I don’t like him, but there’s a decent PL level player in there which hopefully Howe can use until January. Like I’ve mentioned before our squad is hard to judge after two years of Bruce, as Gloom mentions Shelvey looked to have a resurgence at times under Rafa, Sean Longstaff looked capable, Lascelles was seriously linked to Chelsea, Man City, and an England call up. I’m not saying they’re great players, but if middling PL players are given a strict role in a system they can excel at it and look better than their level, in the same way given absolutely fuck all instruction makes that level of player look utterly fucking clueless (as they have under Bruce - which has gotten worse the longer we had the bloke).

Aye both Farke and Smith got their sides promoted so are the reason they’re in the league. I’m not against them going but they’ve both been totally fucked over compared to Bruce, yet there’s not a peep of sympathy for them. Smith iirc inherited Bruce’s fucking mess at Villa, turned them round, got them promoted, built around their star player who was then promptly sold, he’s then been sacked at the first dodgy run while trying to find his feet after having his sides tactical identity upended - personally think out of any this is the sacking the press should be whinging about. Agree regarding Nuno as well, the only reason he was sacked was because they caught a whiff Conte had interest. Levy is to blame for their fucking mess as everyone in the footballing world knew he had to sell Kane, refusing to do so created a nightmare situation for a new manager imo. Usually I don’t give a fuck as at the end of the day that’s how football is, but the absolute fucking nonsense wrote about Bruce is further highlighted by these glaring examples.

Edwards has just been plucking that £50m from fucking ages ago where the was something about spending 250m over the first 5 years. Not sure if anyone to do with the consortium actually said it, or if it was just some report but chicken and wine boy has been wittering on about it ever since like it was fact. As he’s been wrong about pretty much everything to do with this takeover it’s fairly safe to assume he’s no more clued in than us.

Aye I’ve never seen why people give a fuck about them. It’s a bunch of grown blokes fighting over football ffs.

I honestly half expect a thread along the following lines to pop up on there: ”Now that Emery has turned down the barcodes would anyone have him at SAFC? I personally think he’d be the type of manager we should be looking at with our mega rich owners who have shown nothing but MASSIVE ambition so far as we slog towards maybe making the League One play-offs”

Is that Mike Ashley on the left? Must have been back in the 2008 hey day of necking pints in the crowd.

You’re only allowed 2 loan players iirc. I also don’t think we need to sign world beaters to avoid relegation, we just need good players who would improve us and many in that bracket would undoubtedly be happy to sign for us for an increased wage and the potential project, some may reject it but I don’t think it’s as clear cut as thinking if we are in a relegation fight they’ll have no interest. From what I’ve heard (take it or leave it I’m not saying I’m massively itk) we’ve scouted Weston McKinnie and Ramsey this weekend, and the Sule link is genuine. Possibly it’ll come to nowt but who knows? I think our focus has been players outside the PL

I think the hard bit with predicting us over the rest of the season is that despite all the prior data of teams with similar records to ours being destined for the drop, none of them were in the position where they could realistically spend £200m in January. The team we have now is also hard to gauge in terms of quality as well, imo they’re not as poor as they all look and a complete lack of conditioning is a big reason for that. By mid January we will possibly be a completely unrecognizable side to the one that started the season, in terms of current player standard and new players coming in.

Can’t stand the bloke tbh, happy clappy, everyone’s mate and shining his shite fake teeth at everyone when everything’s going their way and the refs are giving them big decisions, then when something goes against them he becomes a right nob.

Worth noting that the mackems hounded out Moyes as well

I assume he doesn’t like Liverpool as the mackems have a friendship with Everton? The bottom feeders in every rivalry have a club similar to Alcoholics Anonymous it seems. Pedo sympathizing little rats.

I’d saw similar, but he’d also posted some map showing his trip with a Fun88 logo and thanking them for his ticket so who knows. Maybe they bumped his ticket up? As HMHM says I’ve nothing against the bloke himself, but these pillocks calling him a club legend, panicking about a grown man missing his bus, and showering him with free stuff is ridiculous, apparently he was a Manchester United ‘fan’ up until a couple of month ago. Many react to what I and many are saying by going “it’s just jealousy” but it’s really not, I’m not asking for any of this stuff myself but as HMHM says there are surely tons of actual supporters, ones who have stuck with us for years, more deserving than some random bloke that just decided he supports us now. The “well you best get used to it” responses with regard to glory hunter types also doesn’t wash with me, I know if we become successful the glory hunters will come and Wraiths new bestie is just trying to get in early doors, but I’m not talking about a glory hunter coming and buying tickets etc, my complaint is this bending over backwards by the sponsors/owners/whoever to shower one with things the majority of proper fans couldn’t dream of getting, or at least have to pay/work for. I couldn’t give a fuck about the bloke and a few daft pictures/free pints should be the extent of it, this wanking off over having a ‘Saudi Geordie’ is, dare I say it, mackem behavior - so maybe the mackems are right and Wraith really is a MLF. FWIW they all want a word with themselves as the mooch has played them all like a fiddle, grown men basically pleading on his behalf to get him a ticket for the Brighton game ffs.

His personal tour guide and all round insufferable prick of a bestie Wraith is there to thank them: FWIW it’s great our sponsor, who have done the square root of fuck all for the fan base in their whole time as sponsors, decided to give not only a free ticket but a free ticket in the directors box to some random no mark who just happens to be from the country the clubs new owners are from. Probably harsh of the lads whose bus he went down on to leave without him, but think all these blokes on twitter that are crawling up the blokes arse need to give their heads a shake and realize there’s probably another side to the story (likely being this Alwaleed was too busy pissing about and freeloading all he could that he was late as fuck for the bus).

Just needed to add in “Alex Bruce I’ll meet you outside the Amex if you have the stones, bring your flat nosed da in all if he wants some”.

One of my favorite parts of that post, and there are many brilliant things about it, is that he adds in that he gave Amnesty International money once. Hello Amnesty, This is Mackem35, aye I gave you lot a fiver ten year ago you’ll probably remember. Anyway fancy doing me a favor to pay me back in a way and demand that Sting randomly calls out the owners of a club he’s had basically fuck all to do with his entire life.

Mackem35 won’t rest until every famous Geordie makes a statement about the takeover, he’s not some wishy washy soft lad like the 34 mackems prior to him. He hasn’t forgotten about the cast of Byker Grove, not just Ant and Dec he wants the whole lot stood there making a statement about how awful it all is.

In the same thread they repeatedly refer to the Saudi Arabians as terrorists. Nice to see that they’re still a classy group of supporters, bit surprising that casual racism is still classy but there we are.

Depressingly that second half was arguably our best of the season as shit as it was, I struggle to remember one better this season. At least we had some passages of play where our players completed passes to one another. As bleak as it’s looking we still have 27 games and the added benefit that we have money to spend and improve the team in January. If we can keep within 6 points of 17th by January we will be safe come the end of the season as I’d back Howe with a big transfer budget to better the shite sides in those spots by 2 wins over the rest of the season.

Says a lot about Bruce that fucking Conesy managed to accrue almost the same amount of points from 3 games that Bruce did in 8.

What the fuck is Shelvey thinking there? Surely all you do is put that on target

Fucking Shelvey man, you can’t knock the confidence he has in himself the way he waves everyone off for every set piece then puts in some of the shittest balls you’ll ever see. I just imagine his missus getting an electrician in to fix the wiring in their house and he struts over waving him away before burning the house down due to making a pigs ear of the wiring.