I'd have thought he would have been all over our board, telling us how they have moved on to become Man Utd challengers now and left us behind. Can't begin to imagine why he has gone awol? Lol
Rumour has it he thought preventative detention at the Hospital where he wished to reside meant a job as in employment.
He wont need them to play Glentoran in a Europa qualifier in July. Lol Thought you were Man Utd rivals now not some non descript 2nd rate lot of wannabe's? Mind, that trip to Belarus might require a passport and some form of visa so he may well be. Lol
Just watched a re-run of the Wigan-Newcastle game, what a laugh, Champions League, they're havin a larff.
I'm not saying that Europa League is a failure by any stretch of the collective imagination and of course I'd love us to be involved next season but for the great deluded (chappy and his cronies) who have openly declared they are once again the team to topple the Utd, City, Chelsea & Arsenal axis of power, its a massive fall out. They talk and sing in new songs, about playing Barca or Rome when in reality they will be facing some of Europe's pub teams for the first 6 months. It does raise profile but it also drains resources and they will need to hang on to every single current player, plus add 4 or 5 of a similar quality to allow the already stretched squad to cope with Europa games. Good luck to them I say. I'd happily join them if it were possible but we are not good enough to qualify this season. Bruce saw to that before December but I think we will be very much top 7 or 8 challengers next season and maybe this is a conundrum we will face next summer. Whatever anyone says, the Europa League is a mixed bag of emotions imo. Yes any European competition (and for us thats an even more pressing point) is great for any club but it doesnt come without huge demands as well.
There were 4.500 loyal patriotic stand by the lads, Toon supporters there, the commentator tells us by half time there were 700 left, so much for the strongest support,
Hopefully all the condescending twats will be feeling a little sheepish today. With any luck they've been knocked of their smug pedestals! Only Chiek and the others were saying how much harder city's run in was because they had the mags to play. They must be quaking looooool!
They'll all be stuck in traffic on the Tyne bridge lads as the queues to jump will be massive, hence no sign of the usual stalkers. Think there are only two or three who have come on here for a chat, probably the only two or three who talk any sense.
To be fair, Chiek and 1 or 2 others are fairly sensible and intelligent lads who I enjoy the crack with. Lads like Badger, Chappy and 5-1 are just utter ****wits.
Don't get me wrong, I would love us to be in the Europa League for the main reason it would really lift the profile of the club outside England and should make it easier to sign better players. The downside is all the traveling and the number of games, you have to play way to many and it must effect your league form, I think we have seen that with Fulham, Stoke etc over recent seasons. I think Newcastle are going to find it hard next year deciding weather to stick or twist, do you go for it with everything you have or hold some players back for the league. The danger is you get stuck in the middle and under achieve in both competitions.....thats what I am hoping they do anyway. FTM
To succeed in either competition, the craas will need to field a full strength team and even they know that outside their best 11, the next set of players are not good enough. Its a problem we too would suffer with and if 2 or 3 injuries occur in games against the Belarus equivalent of Crewe Alexander on freezing rock hard pitch on November, then EPL survival becomes a real issue. Imagine if they lost Ba, Cisse or Cabaye for 7 or 8 weeks with injury over DEcember, January and February next season, or we lost Sessegnon, McClean and Larsson? We'd be ****ed and so would they be. Not saying I wouldn't take it but as I said, this competition does not come without huge demands, unlike the Champions League which although against better opposition, is a much better structured competition.
