Howay

Agreed, short of Manchester United or Chelsea being mental I can’t see anyone else paying £100m+ for a bloke that’s going to be 30 in the summer.

He had very little to do with either I’d wager, especially ASM. The blokes a pathological liar and will take credit for any and all positives while shirking the negatives - he deserves zero credit.

I can’t see us signing Gordon, on account of him being a woeful player. It’s just a lazy link imo similar to Edwards with his Loftus Cheek one. The biggest hurdle we have with Diaby is Manchester United and Chelsea completely FUCKING the market for wide forwards, the £100m or so they paid for two completely unproven players means a lad who has proven himself like Diaby has is going to command similar. Cunts.

The same Rafa they all decided is a terrible manager? Staggering that someone can say something as fucking mental as the only reason that club have one of the highest regular attendances over a 46 game season is “goodwill” for a manager, and the reaction is they all basically nod and go “exactly marra so ignoring that we actually have a higher average attendance” which gets even more likes. “Plus marra what’s even funnier is I spoke to Hull fans and they said we are way classier, so not only do we have a higher average attendance but also classier fans, don’t forget harder ones too as after the Hull fan said we were classier I glassed him”

In all honesty I’m not arsed if he received threats, he can’t play the fucking victim when he relentlessly insulted the fan base, and the City, all while playing some of the worst football we’ve been subjected to, with shit results, and getting all of his media buddies to back up his stance that it’s gobsmacking the way Newcastle fans perceive him. It was an incredibly frustrating time for the support, just taking dig after dig with zero avenue to vent due to stadium closures etc - honestly with the amount of fucking lunatics around, and the way the bloke gleefully took every single opportunity to set himself up as the victim of this horrible support base he should count himself extremely lucky that the worst he got was some alleged threats. He should take a look at what happened to the Everton players this weekend and compare how he acted over his tenure towards the fan base to the way the Everton players have acted towards theirs (nothing but thanks and praise), or the fan at Spurs attacking Ramsdale, and he will get an idea of how fucking tolerant our fan base was to the fucking arsehole. For two blokes that have had every chance handed to them on a platter despite doing fucking nowt to deserve it, all while taking in fucking millions, they are both a pair of weirdly bitter bastards.

They’re acting like we’d all be gutted to end the season Top 6 and league cup Semi finalists, of course it would be a shame given where we are now but it would still be fucking brilliant and celebrated - their threads would then all focus on how weird we are after “fucking it all up” they’re the most deluded obsessive fan base ever.

A good win against a side in brilliant form, it’s great grinding out a win like this where the opposition worked extremely hard. Really hope Bruno is okay, hopefully we see a bit of investment this window to add in a bit more quality too.

So that’s Chelsea nearing £500m (?) in two windows, they surely have to be crippled with FFP? The wages alone for all these signings would surely create issues, same window as buys such as Lukaku iirc.

Shock that this cunt is being a bore.

That’s a fucking dream draw, home leg second as well! That spitfire shagging cunt is going to be fucking gutted.

Must be amazing getting to go to Wembley so much because your side is too poor for auto promotion. We’d have went to Wembley for similar wank fixtures but we were too busy completely fucking pissing the league both times we were in it (both among the best points tallies for that league) . The PL is shit argument is exactly as Fish said, they’re welcome to keep saying it too as like many of their talking points it just means they’re also fucking dog shit as they’re miles off being a PL side. I don’t think or want them promoted, I’m happy for them to have this warm blanket of pretend land where the Championship is bafflingly a stronger league as they know for a fact it’s not . They literally didn’t shut up last time we went down about how pointless football outside the PL is, now it’s the place to be. Fucking gimps. I hope we buy this lad none of us have seen play and stick him in our reserves.

It is staggering we do this stuff. It’s as if everything is going so well under Howe so we want a good moan.

I’d say we’ve found Bruce’s agent but as we can all tell Bruce’s agent is the Lionel Messi of football agents and Edwards clearly wouldn’t be that caliber, he’s just a blunt tool used for Pr and misinformation by both Bruce and NUFC

End of an era

Harry Kane has put a bit of beef on.

Aye, we’re so far under Arsenals skin it’s fucking brilliant. They will lose their heads completely at SJP, they should have had players sent off this past match I can definitely see it happening in the return fixture. We will then get to hear the brilliantly idiotic Arsenal TV interview more Arsenal fans who know fucking nothing about football. “yi get me fam? Ow is it that this side beat us? Ow is that? They is crap but when we play them we are rubbish it just makes no sense blud. You know what Arteta out fam eee can’t even beat noocarrsel”

Seems Matty is also dense to go along with being a fucking crap footballer. Matty has definitely seen worse, and he had the perfect view seeing as they were off his own boot #divvie #bellend

Ah well, that’s that. Btw he has his usual massive caveat in the comments by basically saying “they might make some unexpected moves in the last 10 days” .

Aye, I think the second wouldn’t have happened anyway with our first choice back line - Schar isn’t exactly a speedster but fucking hell Lascelles is absurdly slow.

Agree, someone posted on Twitter with images of the 4-5 chances where we had a completely free shot at goal all within the 5-18 yard range. It’s kind of similar to the Leeds game in that we did enough to win but just didn’t put away the chances we got, the difference being Wednesday put their chances away whereas Leeds didn’t really create anything of note (obviously that was against our first choice back line).

Fair one, I saw absolutely nothing from Manquillo and never have, Krafth was a massive upgrade and he himself is a limited player. He’s one of the ones to show zero improvement under Howe imo, cost us plenty of goals under Howe even if he’s just on the pitch for 10 minutes, as well as ruining good chances (see yesterday where all he had to do was lift his head and the easy pass was on but he just head down crossed it to the only defender left) but agree to disagree. In terms of Shelvey I personally didn’t see the number of good performances under Howe that others did, I think he did fine in some games and did what he was asked similarly to Longstaff does now but I’ve no praise for him. You’re more forgiving of him which is fair enough, I have no time for the bloke the way he acted, performed, and his general attitude while under Ashley were unforgivable for me - I don’t feel sorry for him in terms of missing a chance as he doesn’t deserve it imo and regardless he wouldn’t ever reach the level required medium to long term, he blew that chance for himself a long time ago when he didn’t bother his arse at Liverpool. Totally understand I’m probably one of the harsher ones on here but someone like Shelvey has been paid £80k a week for his tenure at us and he’s been by and large a disgrace. I worried to a degree that his injury would cost us but we’ve shown we don’t need him at all presently, Longstaff has come into his role and there’s been no drop off in performance so hopefully we can get an upgrade at DM in either this window or summer and he can go to Brentford or wherever. Agree on ASM, his time is done I’m really skeptical of the illness and injury claims I think as you say Howe just doesn’t trust him to execute. Extremely talented football player but maybe just isn’t suited to the system/role required, is what it is really and I’ve got faith in Howe so trust his decision. Not a reaction to you btw and I don’t see it on this forum but I’m just a bit tired of a lot of our fan base (twitter mainly) acting like these players who have failed us should be showered with praise, thanked, fawned over, and rewarded with contracts/squad places. Any criticism of said players is met with bemusement claims of delusion/ungratefulness, it’s just a weird trend emerging - and too much is forgiven because of Bruce etc but there were plenty of players who came in and didn’t let their effort or professionalism drop under Ashley’s tenure (for example Joelinton and Almiron always worked hard, stayed in shape but were clearly let down by Bruce), we just got stuck with a lot that did and now there’s a lot of “loyal servant” type praise for people like Clark who sat on £38k a week to give zero effort whatsoever - I don’t blame them for taking the pay cheque but similarly I won’t thank them for ‘helping us stay up’. Again not aimed at you, just a general rant as I’m in a crap mood and this has been building .

ASM is another player I personally look forward to being gone from the club. I know it’s probably controversial as many love him but he’s never going to click under Howe iyam. He’s a player that suits being the big fish in a small pond, being the focus of the attack and not being overly burdened with having a strict role or defensive responsibility. As for Shelvey I’ve watched the lazy bastard for 8 years, the only thing he brings to the team is he can play that DM role and free Bruno up. Once we sign someone for that role it’s time he went, the amount of times he cost us over the years with giving up on covering runners, wayward absurd passes, and general stupidity lashing out at opponents means it’s time to go. I know for whatever reason after a handful of decent games under Howe there’s some that want to keep him but personally I can’t stand the player.