McCormick

That looks so league 2, man.

Really depressing if true.

Newcuckhold United over here.

It’s just getting embarrassing now. Obviously I don’t know the ins and outs but we have a reputation now of being the placeholder before being absolutely pied off, like every time. Any time we line up something positive we get cucked by a cartel team. So fucking sick of it, man.

ffs. I’m out.

Thought he was fine. Put a proper shift in, did a lot of the donkey work, and helped the team. Not brilliant on the ball but also not as poor as some are making out imo.

Good win and definitely a lot of positives, but I always thought we'd have too much athleticism for this Croatia side and it showed in the second half. “The real test” is always against teams that can match us physically. Encouraging performance, but I'll get more excited when we do it against that level of opposition.

Big fan of Hackney and I think he’d be a really really good fit for us. Optics-wise though, regardless of how you rate both players’ abilities, losing Tonali to the runt of the Sky 6 litter and replacing him with Hackney doesn’t exactly scream “we’re big time,” even though I do really rate him.

FWIW, I still believe they’ll do the infrastructure stuff (new stadium/ redevelopment of the existing one etc.) but- as we’ve seen- it won’t be a quick process. Actually I’m underbaking that last part, like every big PIF endeavour, I’m sure it’ll take ages.

I said something similar a while ago and got a bit of pushback for it; although I'm not really convinced it's a question of PIF being unwilling to spend or lacking ambition. If anything, it’s typical of PIF to set huge targets at the start without fully appreciating the practical, financial and logistical challenges involved in actually delivering them. Often it’s because of people around them who sell them a vision and assure them it's achievable within a certain timeframe or budget (Amanda in this case?). Everyone buys into the idea, expectations get set publicly, and then a few years later reality kicks in and things have to be revised, delayed or scaled back. Like I said, this isn't really a Newcastle thing as much as a broader PIF thing. You can see it across pretty much all of their major projects. Big ambitions are announced, people get excited, and then the reality turns out to be more complicated than first thought. The new airport, the Haramain railway, Kingdom Tower/Jeddah Tower and more recently The Line are all examples where the final outcome hasn't quite matched the original vision. That said, one thing PIF does deserve credit for is that they generally keep going. A lot of investors would just shelve projects when they hit obstacles, whereas PIF tends to reassess, change course and keep investing until something workable emerges. The end result might not be exactly what was promised at the beginning, but it's often still a significant achievement. Again, that’s why I've never really bought the argument that Newcastle's owners have suddenly lost interest or ambition. To me, it looks more like (true to form) they've realized that building a genuine elite football club is far more difficult, expensive and time-consuming than they were initially led to believe. The ambition is still there; it's just being tempered by what’s actually achievable imo.

Ah man. Gutted for him. Hopefully he gets some good recovery time in now.

Sends a terrible message selling one our blue-chip players to spurs ffs.

Just call it what it is you pretentious old fuck; it’s lawn bowls.

Need to get off this Fox stream . Can’t be skipping World Cup Fanny ffs.