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    Football Season 2010/11

    in General Chit Chat

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    The 'knife' thing wasn't proved as a Sunderland fan but whoever it was, was mental.

     

    Your fans on the Sunderland forum were having a go at him to be fair, guy who started the thread saw the guy drop it and it was a mackem.

     

    Doesn't seem to happen at St Jame's Park, the stewarding is pretty abysmal at the SoL. Last time I went the turnstile operators were letting two people in on one click in front of me for a £20 bung and the stewards were too busy celebrating themselves at the end to stop people invading the pitch. it's all very well saying it's both sets of fans, but when was Newcastle's last derby pitch invasion? That's Given, Harper and Joe Kinnear all confronted by arseholes, how many Sunderland players and managers have been accosted on the pitch?

    Football Season 2010/11

    in General Chit Chat

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    Bit gutted we conceded that late goal, but guess I would have taken a point at the start of the match, with Tiote and Carroll out, and I certainly would have taken 4 poitns and a 6-2 aggregate at the start of the season. Sunderland seem to have a lot of trouble controlling their fans, they're on the pitch every time we go there and this is the second time recently a Sunderland fan has attacked our keeper, plus rushing our bench a few seasons ago and invading the pitch after the 2-1 win. Could have been worse, one of them dropped a kitchen knife down the steps of the south west corner when they scored.

     

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    Football Season 2010/11

    in General Chit Chat

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    Well that was a thoroughly gutless performance. And to add insult to injury, one of the stevenage fans knocked out one of their own players with a right hook because he wouldn't give him his shirt and some places like the Daily Star are claiming it was a Newcastle fan and talking about what shameful horrible people we are. Sigh.

    Football Season 2010/11

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    Bardsley is a new player for us. Same with Ferdinand and Richardson and Henderson and...

     

    Steve Bruce has us firing on all cylinders and has really brought on a lot of our 'mediocre' players. We've also got such a young squad and a ton of young lads waiting in the wings. It's a great time to be a Sunderland supporter. (Even if Newcastle are doing well!)

     

    Hope we can secure Wellbeck. We should break the bank for that lad, I think he'd be lost if he went back to Man. United.

     

    Aren't like 4 of your first team loanees though? Does that not worry you that you may need to invest just to stay where you are, with Quinn saying unless your gates improve there won't be investment?

     

    Anyway, cracking result last night, plus I had £2 on Wolves and Blackburn both to win, which returned me £75.

    Football Season 2010/11

    in General Chit Chat

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    Try reading what I wrote properly before trying to be a smart arse.

     

    I didn't mention the fans anywhere. The original discussion was about the Newcastle board and that's what I was talking about.

     

    Why are you asking me, a fan, why Newcastle are a big club then? The motivation for this sacking doesn't seem to be because Hughton isn't 'big enough' for the club, but more that he won't do as Ashley says and he's 'too close to the players' whatever that means. The fact that Pardew was seemingly lined up a month ago as the preferred replacement suggests that the 'bigness' of the name has very ltitle to do with it.

     

    Newcastle are a big club. Look at us, we're still classed as a one of the "big four" and we finished 7th last season. I still say Newcastle are a big club.

     

    Depends what you consider most important when judging a club's size really, isn't it? Attendance, fame, history, historic success, recent success, current league position.

     

    Are Leeds, Forest, Ipswich and Norwich bigger clubs than Wigan, Bolton, Blackburn and West Brom?

     

    Forest still sing "1-0 to the famous team" and were giving us "You're not famous any more", "You're only here to see the famous team" and (to Marlon Harewood) "You used to play for a big club", although it's worth pointing out that when Newcastle visted the City Ground it was their record gate of the season with even more home fans turning up than came to see them play bitter rivals Derby County.

     

    Newcastle are not a dominant footballing force in the English game, they don't have financial clout, they're showing limited (if any) ambition and they're not a particularly attractive club for players and managers. They have some decent players but a generally thin squad. That said, they are still getting some of the highest attendances in the country, they attract big opposition crowds, they have a long history with historical success, they're one of few teams in England to have played more than 100 matches in European competitions and they're a famous enough name to garner an amount of interest wherever they go (and be selected for about three times as many Sky matches than, say, Sunderland, who are in a similar league position). How big you think that makes the club is up to you, but any implication that the fans at least see themselves as entitled to a top 6 finish or something simply because of who they are is very wide of the mark.

    Football Season 2010/11

    in General Chit Chat

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    Well tell me how they're a big club. Last season they were in the Premier League they got relegated, they then obviously managed to get back into the Premier League but with the players they had that was an easy task.

     

    Now they're back in it they're mid-table and their form is very temperamental.

     

    Newcastle haven't been a big club for at 5/6 years.

     

    Congratulations, you've totally missed the point - Newcastle fans are under no illusions as to where they fit in the scheme of things at the moment. We were perfectly happy to have some stability and a nice guy at the helm, trying to progress and establish ourselves in the premier league. The last thing we wanted was a knee-jerk sacking.

    Football Season 2010/11

    in General Chit Chat

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    That's exactly it. Newcastle are under the impression that they're a big Premier League club but in actual fact they're a small club who are currently over-achieving in that they're 11th in the league.

     

    Oh really, that's why the fans were all behind 'small name' Chris Hughton then, is it? :rolleyes: Typical lazy stereotypical shite reguritated from the tabloid press.

    Football Season 2010/11

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    Cracking win by the lads yesterday. Crazy to think where we'd be in the league if we hadn't thrown away point against the likes of Blackpool and Wigan.

     

    I think I'm in love with Gareth Bale. All the superlatives I can think of do not do him justice at the moment. Waited so long for nights like this!

     

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    Football Season 2010/11

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    Well, I was at st James today and I was at villa park in 09 so I'm delighted we humiliated them on tv. Used to have a soft spot for them before they stayed up painting 'sob on the tyne' on their bedsheets. Blub in the brum, happy birthday Steven Ireland.

    Football Season 2009/2010

    in General Chit Chat

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    Absolutely livid about this astoundingly wrong-on-so-many-levels snippet in the Guardian today, talking about how England needs a breakthrough Asian star (Michael Chopra, who played in the Premiership for Newcastle doesn't count, I guess)

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/may/25/football-star-british-asian-chelsea

     

    The initiative is the first of its kind to be undertaken by a professional football club. Simon Taylor, Chelsea's head of corporate social responsibility, says: "I'm sick and tired of hearing that Asians can't play football"

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    When Andy Cole made his debut at Newcastle's St James's Park, Taylor, then a student in the city, recalls: "There were protests outside the ground. But Andy scored a hat-trick that day and we heard no more from the protesters."

     

    Right, firstly, Andy Cole made his debut away, against Swindon. Secondly at his first game at St James Park he scored one goal against Notts County, not a hat-trick. Thirdly, there were no protests whatsoever at the signing of a black player. He was well liked immediately and the only protests came when he was sold. We already had a black player on the team when he was signed, Fraz Carr, who was also well liked and had a large repetore of songs. How can one guy get so much wrong in such a short period of time?

     

    Maybe if Mr Taylor wants anecdotes about the difficulties black players had getting into the game he can look at his own club, rather than making up nonsense about ours...

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1189328/REVEALED-The-shocking-revelations-Chelseas-black-player-Paul-Canoville.html

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