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NUFC thread 2021.

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Cloughie said:
So, by that token, will you see being in the Championship as the ceiling and back where you belong?

Shh, don't you worry yourself, the adults are talking. ;)
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We've spent more seasons in the top flight than out of it, or natural position is as a top flight team.
 
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Binxy said:
We've spent more seasons in the top flight than out of it, or natural position is as a top flight team.
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If we use your mate's metric of 1990, you're at exactly even in terms of top flight to out the top flight. Next year pushes you over.
 
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Cloughie said:
Right, but you're guilty of the same thing you're accusing these Newcastle fans of doing. By the same logic I could say 'well in the early 1900s we were hugely successful, so that's a more accurate representation of our history'. Why stop at 1990?

I don't think we're entitled to win trophies, I do think we're entitled to a club that at least has sporting integrity, that sees each season as a chance to improve upon the previous. The same applies to you, the same applies to Blyth Spartans. We don't have that, we haven't had that under Ashley. We finished 5th, boosted our coffers, and signed one player. :lol: I get that football is a business - my games on Football Manager show that. The problem is we don't actually commit to any strategy. We don't have a network of scouts, we haven't improved our infrastructure (we use paddling pools for recovery :lol:). If Ashley invested our money in the academy and said this was the future I'd be happy about it, but he doesn't. He's done more to maintain his Sports Direct signs than the stadium itself or the training ground.

I don't think fans should have to apologise for ambition, us included. Even after the Keegan boom period you talk about we managed to get up there under Sir Bobby and that was a team built on brilliant scouting and recruitment. The selling point of our clubs is exactly the same - potential.
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Sporting integrity? Mate your fans were pulling their heads off when you thought you were going to be the next man city! They are still literally begging to be taken over by a murderous regime so you can stick sporting integrity where the sun doesn’t shine
 
Remember being in Magaluf in 94 with ex and talking to some couples from other parts of country when a fat mag and his fat lass heard us and sat down .

One of the couples asked if they were from Sunderland as well . He laughed and she said " nor man Newcastle , Kevin Keegan " (exactly those words).

My ex was very welcoming to them...I wasn't . They sat and she went on and on so I asked about crowds before Keegan and she knew fuck all about it.

I asked her about previous managers and in specific McFaul ..." weeez he leek"
Cloughie said:
Right, but you're guilty of the same thing you're accusing these Newcastle fans of doing. By the same logic I could say 'well in the early 1900s we were hugely successful, so that's a more accurate representation of our history'. Why stop at 1990?

I don't think we're entitled to win trophies, I do think we're entitled to a club that at least has sporting integrity, that sees each season as a chance to improve upon the previous. The same applies to you, the same applies to Blyth Spartans. We don't have that, we haven't had that under Ashley. We finished 5th, boosted our coffers, and signed one player. :lol: I get that football is a business - my games on Football Manager show that. The problem is we don't actually commit to any strategy. We don't have a network of scouts, we haven't improved our infrastructure (we use paddling pools for recovery :lol:). If Ashley invested our money in the academy and said this was the future I'd be happy about it, but he doesn't. He's done more to maintain his Sports Direct signs than the stadium itself or the training ground.

I don't think fans should have to apologise for ambition, us included. Even after the Keegan boom period you talk about we managed to get up there under Sir Bobby and that was a team built on brilliant scouting and recruitment. The selling point of our clubs is exactly the same - potential.
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It's the fake funerals and cabbages on a stick when you don't is what sets you apart.
 
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