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Malloy said:
Cant wait, when ever I've hoyed a paper plane it went a out 2 foot and nose dived into the floor.

There'll be 35000 planes in the stands and about 1000 at the most on the pitch
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It’s an offense to throw anything wards the pitch or areas of the stadium where others are present. Home fans banned for 10 games and a 3 point deduction for failing to control fans would be perfect.
 
garyswc said:
Can see the mags being comfortably in control of the game against Leeds, two of three up. Only for the ref to abandon the game due to the whistles and dangerous projectiles. 3 points awarded to LUFC.

Breach of the solicitors accounts rules, hopefully some premier league rules breached too.
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Pretty clear too. They're very hot on mismanagement of client accounts. She might get away with a severe reprimand if she was fairly junior, but exclusions are far from unknown for it. Mishcon's as a firm should be doing a lot better than that; they're hardly a small high street firm.
 
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They are absolute full of shit.

They can't handle that Ashley & Bruce have put them back in their box after Hall almost ruined the Club
 
Exile 1968 said:
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They are absolute full of shit.

They can't handle that Ashley & Bruce have put them back in their box after Hall almost ruined the Club
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The thing is I think they were getting towards having their expectations reset a bit with us relegating them and beating them often. Unfortunately us going the journey and the takeover thing has inflated their egos tenfold again. Its ruined them. As a fanbase they will now never be happy.
 
DaveH said:
It was a different era in the 70s and 80s though. Some of this might be because I was a bairn just getting into football, but it was not as huge as it is now. To me football clubs back then were home town clubs, supported by the locals. You had teams that a lot of other fans liked and respected and teams that everyone hated, but national exposure was match of the day and the news papers. You had limited games on TV, but the likes of Liverpool picked up a few young fans from around the country, partly by being in televised cup finals. Meanwhile the likes of Sunderland and Newcastle had good seasons and bad seasons, drifting up and down the league, largely unnoticed by the masses, same as about 85 other league clubs. There was very little international exposure.

Then Newcastle exploded onto the scene with Keegan and Hall, splashing lots of money left right and centre. They played games with lots of goals by building a team of forwards with no defence. There was real excitement and attention, right at the time Sky took over English football and made it a massive worldwide thing. Almost instantly you could watch masses of football like never before. Newcastle were smart with their PR and marketing, giving the media their little cliches they still use today,making a Toon brand, geordie nation etc. Even when not playing, Newcastle were always in the news. It felt like you had the predictable, solid Man U winning everything and this mental club with goals and money everywhere, but the drama of constant heart break, right at the time Sky needed darlings to sell their new product to the world. Both were in the right place at the right time.

By comparison when Sunderland had their spell under Reid, we went about it quietly. PR and marketing were something for other clubs.

Newcastle didn’t win anything, they were very entertaining runners up and also-rans. But now, they are no longer a media giant. Two decades have passed since they exploded into something massive, and they are now just another club who flirt with the relegation zone and drift to mid table. Media profile and excitement wise, there is little to chose between them and Villa. In the whole public perception they are a husk of this media giant they were. On the pitch, there has been little excitement in the team for years. In the 70s and 80s, nobody expected much, but once you build a club up to be a famous worldwide brand, it is hard to take shrivelling into nothing again.
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Canny post.

The last sentence rings true.
Especially for fans maybe around 40 y o and under when all they knew growing up was a relatively good period.
 
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