If you could muster up any juices. At your age they would probably have all already dribbled down your leg!! (Already bad enough at my age )
I honestly think Newcastle played better against us than Sunderland did against Palace. Difference was that Palace played worse than both of you.
Hey. We're having a session of communal doom and gloom here man. How dare you speak positively of our performance and try and lift our spirits. We're **** and we know we are....
Now now! Give credit where it is due. We succeeded in dragging Palace down to our level of ****ness. Newcastle failed to do so against yous lot.
Ideally I would like both Newcastle and Sunderland to stay up (and if the smoggies 'came up' that would be a bonus), however looking at the performances of the two teams neither of us has a cause for optimism, we both need to recruit well in Jan, we both need defenders, we want a CB (we should have gone for the Dutch lad that went from Celtic to Southampton) and a LB and probably a forward. Will we both be competing for Austin? he is bit of a sick note, so a risk. Your defence needs strengthening as well. Not a great time for Tyne-Wear football fans...if you think of how much money the clubs have spent and the fan base we have, how the hell do other clubs do it, Swansea Southampton, Stoke and that is just the 'S's not to mention Palace as that might be salt in the wounds
I can't see Austin coming to either of us. Pretty sure he wants to stay in or around London so personally I think we both need to stop even considering him. CB & a LB are a must for us. Then creative CM. A new striker would be nice but I think we need to work on controlling the ball more in the middle of the park before we bother about a new striker. No point getting one in if he's not going to get the ball. Also in hindsight, letting Abeid and Kemen leave over the summer looks like a ridiculous decision
Surly the ammo should be kept. Things are far too changeable at the moment. Five teams are clumped and up to Swansea is easily catchable for any of the five. In the short term. I'm looking at my own club's progess as a guide and Sam Is visibly improving us. We're a **** squad so we're not going to be come barca and or storm up the league. But he's getting us organised, getting us doing the simple things right and most importantly making us visibly tougher to beat. So it boads well and gives us aglimmer of hope. I'd definitely rather be us at than you at the moment regardless of the 'truths' the table tells. One thing it never tells is the whole story.
You will be again, as will we. Lots of changes to keep happening. Table only matters if one off us get cut massively adrift. That hasn't happened yet, though it did threaten to with us before yesterday.
My post implied that I expect you to be above us after the weekend, which in the context of replying to fredor was my way of saying that he'd have far more ammo using that than something that happened 100 years ago like he normally does. I also agree that it is only after 38 games that the table tells you which teams are better than others - and where we're heading on that score is definitely the wrong direction. For once it wasn't a dig at Sunderland but at ourselves.
Poor Nev constantly looking for some time frame in which he would be able to say that Newcastle are superior to Sunderland , although we fail to sympathise with you does not mean we do not understand your demeanour
