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you keep saying that about Ritchie, you and Gloom. It's the sort of shit we annihilated Pardew fior. Good win, massive improvement on the Huddesfield performance. Got to be happy with only 3 goals conceded in 4 games with 4 different back 4s. I never thought we'd look out of place in this league v anyone outside the top 6 despite the pigs ear of a transfer window.

Think he's good me like, shows spirit and leadership, he got back and took one for the team when Hayden was injured upfield then got right into the refs face for not stopping play.

Frankie Boyle... When I was a kid, Bank Holiday schedules leant heavily on the disaster movie. While today’s children snuggle up in front of stories of talking animals and plucky mermaids, we were left to make sense of hordes of screaming people being boiled alive or crushed by masonry as a result of arrogant cruise liner Captains and careless architects. And these were not like today’s disaster movies. It wasn’t an excuse for CGI tsunamis and meteor strikes, and we weren’t really hoping that the people would all survive. Indeed, the appeal was sort of that a group of people with pronounced character flaws would get the brutal death they so richly deserved, and the viewing experience was largely one of speculating about the order. Which brings us to Brexit. Who could be a more fitting choice to pilot this listing ship into shark infested waters than Theresa May? The Tories say “no deal” is better than a “bad deal”, and perhaps the same is also true of prime ministers. Aloof, vindictive, having lost the support of her crew and passengers, she’ll be gone by the first ad break. David Davis, a Chief Negotiator who looks like he’d end up paying full price on a DFS sofa, is another classic piece of casting; exactly the sort of scoffing, joshing presence that we can tolerate in a storyline because his awfulness makes it all the sweeter when steam from a burst pipe blasts him screaming into his constituent molecules. And then there’s the passengers. I think there’s a mistaken belief that Brexit supporters are naive and have been totally misled. To engage with them, it’s important to understand that they are reasonably clear about what they want, and what getting it might entail. In some ways, austerity may have trained people for Brexit. Hard to threaten people with low growth when that’s all they can remember. I think most Brexit voters understand that it will make travel much harder and don’t care. Just a casual observation based on the few Brexit voters I’ve met, but generally it seems like their xenophobia is stronger than their desire to trace Lord Byron’s footsteps to the Temple of Poseidon. We won’t get free healthcare in Europe. I imagine Bulgarian families are rejoicing that they can take their children to A&E without having to shield them from a scouser getting a stranger’s tongue piercing removed from their foreskin. Brexit has managed to get immigration down and exports up, admittedly by making the pound worthless. Unemployment is falling, as the amount of vacancies for hate crime advisors soar. Immigration was always going to go down after a Brexit vote: in much the same way that if you wanted to have fewer visitors you’d fill your front lawn with gnomes holding union jacks and a frothing bulldog. Perhaps this is a natural endpoint of individualism. With a philosophy where people are told that is their sense of self that is important, why wouldn’t they distrust experts, why wouldn’t they look inside themselves for guidance? When we look inside ourselves we tend to find not ideologies, but neuroses. Many people in Britain lately seem to have looked into their hearts and found little more than a dislike of hearing a conversation in another language, a hatred of women, and a gnawing fear that they’re being taken for a mug. Do you remember during the Edward Snowden revelations when the Head of the Cabinet Office went round to the Guardian’s offices and wanted them to smash their hard drives with a hammer? Because he didn’t really understand what data was. Similarly, we might not have a modern understanding of what sovereignty is. Perhaps a modern concept of sovereignty might involve owning the property in your capital city, or your own railway system. At the moment Britain is in a strange position where we seem to be sanguine about foreigners owning our infrastructure, we just don’t want them picking our fruit. The EU is flawed and problematic, and all those other words we use when we can’t be bothered explaining what is wrong. For a start, it’s deeply racist, and pretty much stops where the tan line becomes permanent. In fact, even that observation rests on the racist idea that EU countries are white monocultures. Fretting about our freedom of movement while thousands of people drown in the Mediterranean is racist. The rise of Brexit sentiment isn’t the rise of racism: to me it seems to be the swapping of a patrician, structural racism for a more volatile and demotic one. The pre-structural racism of a hideous new society. Of course, disaster movies were also marked out by moments of unexpected nobility, and sacrifice. So maybe this isn’t a very good metaphor after all. Maybe Brexit is just a little scene in a totally different disaster movie. It suppose it might be more like a brief cutaway to someone angrily trying to fish something out of a toaster with a knife, just before they disappear in the incendiary light of a nuclear explosion.

So who have been winning these A & P contracts of which you speak?...

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I've learned the trick of not getting too down or too up re NUFC unless I'm at a game. Then I'm like an emotionally volatile man-ape with a hangover Ashley's keeping costs low to try to sell. But it seems his price is still too high.... I've looked for the odds on next Newcastle manager but can't find them, wanted an early bird on Pardew

Think the the squad in general on paper is weaker. But we don't have the non tryers so much and at the moment a manager who can galvanise the group. Once he's got Gayle fit and focused after trying to sell him. And deal with Colback and Haidara etc. Lots to do.... point at Swansea then do the same to stoke as we did to West Ham and we'll have forgotten about this summer by mid Seotember, you'll see

Fuck all to do with whoever Martin Hardy may be close to at the club

It was in the London evening standard. An attempted face saving exercise by Levy when the player he imposed on Pochettiono's squad turned out to be fuckin useless. Who knew?

Sturgeon tweeted something fairly gracious this morning about Dugdale and the subsequent replies from her followers (Twitter has always troubled me with the use of that word) had all the hallmarks of a cult. In that regard they remind me of UKIP. Public comment to the outside world is controlled and mostly the same regardless of who is making it. Dugdale has been got at by momentum (another cult it would seem) and Scottish Labour will soon be in their sphere of influence. Think it will pan out similarly, this year's general election will be the high water mark for Corbyn, as 2015 was for SNP

Dummets not great but Gibbs isn't an upgrade defensively. Don't think we'll get one tbh. Rafa may have other priorities. And after the carry on of the last two months (and obviously a decade of Mike Ashley overall) anyone on here thinking or even hoping we'll get everything that's required is frankly on another planet. Twisting on like a bunch of fishwives doesn't change a thing. Have some faith in the manager, we can't beg him to stay then be full of doom when he makes a call like this. I've said for months this league is two thirds shit and Saturday proved it to an extent. Not saying it's going to be easy but let's see how things go. It's not football manager, a season is a long ride and any single one of dozens of things outside the control of NUFC can affect it.

Am a fence sitter by nature David as you know One thing that grinds me though are fuckin full backs who can't defend. That's 90% of them nowadays. I understand the attacking options decent fullbacks offer, but they've been around a long time now and in my younger day they didn't mind too much getting back into position after a foray up field....a dying art it would seem

An injury prone quasi-winger with a heart the size of a pea? not the left back I'd want tbh. Look at the state of Arsenal at the moment. Hes too shit for even for that fuckin shower I've never been impressed by him.

Be sure and mention this @Howmanheyman only 35 years ago today.... random snippet of Vinnie Jones at the end

20 million bid from wolves. Allegedly.

Well if Rafa is willing to sell him, what are Rafas reasons for doing so? What you're claiming doesn't make sense to me. He's a significant financial asset regardless of anyone's opinion of his playing ability him on here, Rafa has to sell to buy. You and Andrew seem to be saying he'd be selling last seasons top scorer just to give Ashley the money? Maybe he's not fully recovered from his hamstring which happened last December and Rafa fancies someone more physically robust, or Joselu is his replacement and he's going to spend the money on a left back and a midfielder?... it seems nuts that we may be about to do this but this is what Ashley has laid down, that being the case I don't have a problem with it if it means Rafa getting closer to what he wants.

Gayle not even on bench ....injured or being sold to Villa on Monday to raise funds for Jovetic or Praed?....

Don't remember leave mentioning this.....amongst all the other things they didn't mention obviously.. http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-housing-crisis-uk-just-lost-its-biggest-funder-a7909886.html

Hed likely have been fighting Danny Behr for a stroke of it Alex you may remember the late Alan Macdonald played at the back for QPR when Les was there? I know a bloke who grew up AM in Belfast and he used to go to weekly card schools attended by all the QPR lads back then, can't remember who was host but they were just a ruse apparently to get Les away from his missus for a night so he could nip upstairs with the aforementioned Miss Behr for a bit of "extra training" whilst the lads played a few hands of three card brag downstairs

Saw this at the weekend. Made me sad! https://heterocephalusgabler.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/behind-brexit-lies-a-yearning-for-a-past-we-destroyed/amp/

2nd best all over the pitch to a team who finished 14 points behind us last season. Merino anonymous, Manquillo useless. Can't see a lot changing significantly in the next 10 days either Ashley's made that pretty clear.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-trump-administrations-three-court-jews-disgrace-themselves/2017/08/18/929a68b4-840c-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html

Fuck off CT

Dipped bullets in pigs blood to reeeally offend Moslems.....yeah, like good one Donnie... http://time.com/4905420/donald-trump-pershing-pigs-blood-muslim-tweet/

My 17 year old niece is there visiting her old man she's fine but she and my poor sister at home near Kelso had a massive fright