There is quite a bit if a difference in the quality of the teams in the two leagues overall. Depends on what playing staff we end up with as there will be a mass exodus...not a bad thing mind you.
People said that last time too. People were forgetting that we are a rich club and have an even richer owner to cover any losses we would make by going down, and that, quite frankly, there wouldn't be clubs queuing up to buy our rag-tag bunch of misfits on equal wages to what they are on now (you do realise that that is what motivates them, right?). It would probably do us a big favour in getting rid of the ones who think they are superior to NUFC, though. This is all sounding quite positive actually. **** it! McLaren in, Colo in, Sissoko in. I vote for relegation!
We need 9 wins and 3 draws from the last 25 games to get 40 points. I wonder what odds you would get on that happening? 10-1? After the Bin-Dippers and Spurs it will be 23 games left as well. Even the most die-hard optimistic supporter must see that that is very unlikely. Unless we some serious additions to this squad in January then we are doomed. And I am reading that Ashley is reluctant to spend because he thinks you dont get good value in January. Honestly, feck the value, if we dont spend well in January we are gone!!
We will never achieve whilst that fat prick is owner. His spiel about punching above our weight was absolute garbage. Punch above our weight? You mean challenge the likes of Swansea, Southampton, Leicester for mid-table? I appreciate that this club for the most part been crap for the past 60 years. That was due to chairmen who lacked ambition and treated the club like ****. For all their faults, Sir John Hall and Fat Freddy at least showed some ambition and wanted this club to go places. We were just about everyone's second team under Keegan and were European regulars even with Graeme Souness in charge. I realize that football has moved on with the money in the game, but is absolutely ****ing scandalous that every year other clubs pass us in terms of ambition and league positioning whilst we get progressively worse. That fat ****ing tosspot sits in his tacky new build mansion in North London counting his belly folds, happy to flog his ****ty Sports Direct ****e to the world. His business model for running this club is absolutely ****ing disgusting. I don't expect massive marquee signings, but we should be aiming to improve the side and push on to you know, win a trophy, push into the top 6 of the PL and qualify for Europe. I am sick to ****ing death of us signing nobodies and appointing clowns to senior positions and the use of the phrase 'pound for pound' value. Shove your ****ing 'pound for pound' value up your fat arse Ashley and take that **** Lee Charnley with you.
Normally I stay away from 'The Mag', this however is brilliant. http://www.themag.co.uk/2015/12/newcastle-united-fake-club/
And yet we are 2 points from safety? So you are saying there is a 10/1 chance of us overturning a 2 point deficit when compared to teams who have proved themselves so far to be basically equally as **** as us? Pull the other one. We have this every year now. "Ooh we're going down, I've resigned myself, I don't care any more, I actually quite like the Championship." The bottom line is we won't go down because our players are too good to get relegated. They have no motivation to finish higher than 17th and this is what causes our massive slumps in form. There is then the mini-revival as the players say "ooh hang on a sec, we could go down and lose our big wages here, boys"...we win a few and the cycle continues. You could have staked your mortgage on the players pulling their fingers out against West Ham last season. We'll survive but we will never do much more with this raging group of nonces in our squad.
Villa Bournemouth and Norwich will go down. You will get your act together at some point. If you do drop, unlike last time, the squad was probably too good to go down and should have been thankful for Ashley's selling policy that meant the main core of the squad was kept. Your squad is in a much much worse state this time. And whoever said that thauvin would thrive in the champ, are you having a laugh? It's as much quicker and physical than the pl in which he is flopping than the pl is from ligue 1
Its unlikely we will get 40 points, but looking at the table at the minute I would say 35-37 points may be enough to survive this season. I do agree though we need to spend in January and get some players in who know the league well.
The dreaded we are too good to go down line from Cardew there - there is no club too good to go down. Good sides have gone down loads of times. The Leeds side that went down had some cracking players. We might squeeze out of it though as we are not cut adrift. I can understand the doom and gloom with what we have to watch but its far from a certainty. However I did enjoy the championship. I'm sure I'd enjoy League 1 or 2 if I was watching my team go full throttle attempting to play football the way I like to watch. However we'd probably be playing long ball and still have hearts like split peas
I have to say that I agree with this. The whole club seems mired somehow. The team simply cannot sustain or create any momentum and the nature of the back-to-back defeats to Everton & WBA were hugely depressing.
If we do go down we will be cut loose for several years. Ashley will lose interest and so will many fans.
Villa are as good as gone, Sunderland look hopeless but have a knack of late survival spurts and Bournemouth have just enough quality in their side and a young progressive manager in charge and a lot of backbone. Norwich have done well and signalled their intention in finishing as high as possible by signing Steven Naismith. Whilst we are not panicking or doing much of anything else either, Shteev said in his conference he wants a forward but unless Graham can find a player he likes for a fee Penfold likes then nothing will happen at all. Shteev will continue with his 4 central midfield strategy and we will scrape another 10 points or so and find ourselves relegated towards the end of April.
