No I get it for a cup tie away at a PL club when we are also going for the play offs… however that lot, at home? Though I thought it summed up this last decade perfectly, in fairness.

Nice piece on the BBC… https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64737881

But he then said he wants ‘6 or 7 quality players’, what kitty they coming out of?

I quite like this one, as in comparison to the ‘BFC Appreciation Society’ which is The Dingles thread, this reminds us all just how small time they really are…

Someone called Burnley, *at home*, a ‘free hit’ the other day and it may have been the most depressing thing I’ve ever read on here…

We’ve had a 17, 18 and 19 year old play first team league games this season… some trough!

Pre-Venky’s is the rub there. We’ve no idea what would have happened if instead of blowing the place up in 12 months, the club had continued to be run as it was under John Williams.

End of the day JDT should do what he feels best. Anybody with any kind of niggle/fitness worry shouldn’t be risked. On the flip side, presuming that lot beat Fleetwood, after Reading (15th March), we won’t have a league game for two and a half weeks, so there will soon be time to freshen folk up. He has tinkered well in cup ties thus far and I trust his judgment (he’ll still get a load of grief on here obviously if he’s deemed to have tinkered too much, you can see positions being taken already).

Oh I think he has plenty of brain power, he’s clever enough to eke out as much as possible for himself for as little work as possible. He’s just a hired hand that feels absolutely nothing for BRFC and it’s long term health. Just one last payday before he retires.

Oh and Leeds on ITV1 at the same time… so we’ll say third (not having Stoke/Brighton over us).

Of course not or it would have been chosen as the main TV game (Citeh, obvs).

Ha, of course we wouldn’t. Getting promoted is everything, but a play off trophy isn’t ‘major’ (we had one of those in 1992, by the way) Difference is we all remember winning actual major trophies, so we don’t need to scratch around to compile that very sad list. This is ‘little owd Burnley’ on steroids. Though I suppose it still beats the post 1930s PNE ‘We had Finney once’… ‘and we get to wear bowler hats because of something Alan Ball once said’ honours board…

If Chelsea hadn’t have come calling he would’ve been a shoe in for the England job (only 18 months until Southgate goes remember) Could well be damaged goods now after he’s inevitability ‘potted’ over the next few weeks… stil think of the payout for less than 6 months work.

Division 4 👏

‘6 or 7 quality signings’ sounds like ‘wholesale changes’ to me…

He’s done well for himself, pivotal roles in Game of Thrones and Narcos, now the lead in two mega shows in The Mandalorian and Last of Us…

Behave! Loser mentality. You have to constantly improve in football, especially with a financial windfall.

Bugger that! That lot winning yet another League Cup won’t even register, be forgotten by next week. The Geordie Nation™️ win something and you’ll never hear the end of it…

But, but the Newcastle fans *deserve* success 😭

They’ve tried that before, never much take up.

He wasn’t here, that was Venus’ job (along with real estate director)

I’d say so. The first team squad is staying down in the midlands until the game, so that probably explains why Wharton is the only one that’s been around the first team playing today.

‘It’s a big, top end of the table game so we’ll have 12k fans on’… if that’s not unintended take down of a decade of Venky misrule I don’t know what is…

It is possible, that’s where my head initially went to, but just thinking of other announcements they’ve made they often suffix with ‘… and a further year option until June 202x’

Think you are right rigger, they do normally say if there’s an option. GB best get cracking then!