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NUFC Sportswashing 2022

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Chewit said:
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Thats dressing room is the managers domain, going there without him or his agreement is tantamount to saying, look don’t lose faith just because you have a poor manager we will get another .... totally undermining him.
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Next time we come into the dressing room we will have a couple of suitcases. 🐫
 
Wonder if anybody took a kicking last night?

New signings, full strength team nearly, against a league one club and the top boys flying in from PIF to see how moneys going..

Knocked out the FA cup and the greatest fans in the world leaving early :lol:
 
DJP said:
Watching MOTD and as much as the Mags result was hilarious, Burnley looked seriously piss poor in their game. I hope this isn't going to be the season where Watford & Burnley are so shit they give Newcastle a Premier League lifeline.
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Watford will stay up
 
DJP said:
Watching MOTD and as much as the Mags result was hilarious, Burnley looked seriously piss poor in their game. I hope this isn't going to be the season where Watford & Burnley are so shit they give Newcastle a Premier League lifeline.
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Sadly it's looking that way
 
Chewit said:
Just thank god they are not our owners... I couldn’t go and watch or get emotionally involved again if they were.
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Ive honestly played out in my mind what I would do if they were our owners.
I think I'd initially be ok with going to the matches and "supporting the team not the regime", but I wouldn't be putting Saudi flags up, singing songs about them or wearing a tea towel on my head. Nor would I sign petitions to get them in place or defend or deflect. I'd just go to the match, support the team and come home.

What would worry me, is that if there was a huge spend on top players, huge media attention and suddenly an influx of "day trippers", (complete with escalating ticket prices) that suddenly devalued the meaning of supporting Sunderland, that would be hard to take. I wouldnt want to be that fan who has to say "Sunderland, but I was going when I was a lad at Roker Park", and knowing that no-one would believe me (Especially as I live in the SE and dont have a strong NE accent).

That would be the point I'd struggle to feel connected to the club.
 
I see mags already starting to lose faith in Howe. Has he already gone from being a manager they wanted to sign, to a manager to turn the boat around and build a foundation to stop fighting relegation, to not having changed a thing and not bringing anything to the club meaning transfers will have to save them?

And a few Everton fans asking them to take Rafa back 😂
 
Redandwhitedust said:
knowing that no-one would believe me
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Who cares what other people think?

Fuck them
Vicham said:
I see mags already starting to lose faith in Howe. Has he already gone from being a manager they wanted to sign, to a manager to turn the boat around and build a foundation to stop fighting relegation, to not having changed a thing and not bringing anything to the club meaning transfers will have to save them?

And a few Everton fans asking them to take Rafa back 😂
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Rafa probs love to come back.

Say its because he loves the club the fans would lap it up too. When we all know it's just the money.
 
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Vicham said:
I see mags already starting to lose faith in Howe. Has he already gone from being a manager they wanted to sign, to a manager to turn the boat around and build a foundation to stop fighting relegation, to not having changed a thing and not bringing anything to the club meaning transfers will have to save them?

And a few Everton fans asking them to take Rafa back 😂
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I'd love Rafa to go back and Rafagate them again.
 
To play with the big boys NUFC need to grow revenues. TV is growing for all but they need to grow match day and commercial. They are all pinning their hopes on sponsorship deals but that will only take them so far. NUFC like SAFC and many clubs are hamstrung in the sense that the same people turn up each week and likely buy one shirt a season. The Liverpool model is they have the loyal support but then have 000's of tourists, potentially there once in their life, who spend lots in the club shop. Man City is an absolute soulless experience also surrounded by asian students wielding ipads. They have their club back which is all they wanted apparently but I am not sure they will enjoy the bi-product of what comes with trying to compete at the top...albeit that is some way off.
 
Vicham said:
I see mags already starting to lose faith in Howe. Has he already gone from being a manager they wanted to sign, to a manager to turn the boat around and build a foundation to stop fighting relegation, to not having changed a thing and not bringing anything to the club meaning transfers will have to save them?

And a few Everton fans asking them to take Rafa back 😂
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They really do deserve the fat waiter back...😎
 
BigPete said:
Who cares what other people think?
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As someone who lives away from the NE, meeting people, inevitably talking football, and saying you support Sunderland, is a sense of identity. Sure I take a bit of stick, but more times than not, it leads to discussion. Supporting Sunderland now, is saying you are a genuine fan, with a pride in the area you come from.

Once you get plastic fans, and kids all over the country wanting the shirts, saying you support Sunderland would have less meaning. You'd just be another gloryhunter who has to justify why they support the team. In the same way that when you meet a Man United fan in a pub in the NE, your reaction is not "I bet hes from near Manchester and goes to a few games a season"
 
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