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I'm fairly sure Potter will take Dunk to Newcastle, thus saving Southgate that particular quandary ;)

True, but when you go to the defence of someone being attacked you start to take it a bit personally. But christ yeah football managers have got to have thick skins

Well, again I'm not making the case for Southgate here, but three seasons on charge of Middlesbrough finished 12th, 13th and relegated, and then sacked when a point off top spot in the Championship. So at least the first two were same or better than we've ever done, it's not nothing. Anyway...

Hang on, we did, over and over. It was hugely frustrating to fight those battles. But we couldn't demonstrate that we might have been correct until Potter ACTUALLY started getting good results. What this board has actually become is loads of posters slagging us off repeatedly for daring to see...

Yup, I am coming round to the opinion that Southgate is a natural and obvious successor to GP. I don't expect it to be a popular choice, I'm not sure how I'd feel about it myself. But, the case for the opinion, if not necessarily the case for Southgate, is something like this : They both...

He's the obvious comparison, a manager who collected more wins, points and a higher final position than Potter, despite being almost universally derided as boring, dinosaur football with no progression and with most Newcastle fans wanting him gone. By saying you value results as the be-all and...

So you would rather have had Steve Bruce as our manager last season then? Interesting

It took Man City 8 years and three managerial appointments to get Guardiola after the takeover. They also took time to build the super team, getting signings like Lescott and Barry early on as they built the side. They won't get the best manager and best players on day one in a team that won't...

My point entirely. Experienced football people recognised Potter's talent but the subset of football fans who can't look beyond the scores in the paper took longer to get there

I think things have changed a lot since the summer in terms of fans perceptions of Potter. Rightly or wrong, I don't believe the large majority of Spurs fans would have accepted Potter this summer, and I think even if their Board wanted him, and rumours are they did, they knew it would be a...

Ok, so Newcastle right now should be able to get any manager they set their sights on, other than those 6 or 7 already managing massive champions league clubs. We like to think he'd stick with us, but if they targeted him, come on... In that situation I'd be more worried about him coming...

absolutely, he's thinking 'I'll send a little message to them here' followed by 'shit, I'm sending someone off in the 35th minute for taking a while over a throw in, there goes my invite to the world cup'

Probably as gutted as I've ever been about anything Albion, playing - wise. Is there anything suggesting this might happen though or just a cruel hypothetical?

He was fine, started shakily and got done a couple of times, but then settled down and was very good second half - their whole defence was very good really. For all the talk of our 'plethora of missed chances' we actually created very little clearcut, they were particularly good at defending our...

Depends on the area, Man City tickets in West Lower / East Upper vary from £58 to £65, so if you're in this kind of area its a big discount. For Newcastle its £42-£46 so closer to parity. I would estimate the total season discount would be in the region of £150 for you compared to buying...

Does it really matter if people give up their season tickets? We'll still sell most seats on a match-by-match basis. Season tickets are just a discount offer to people who buy in bulk. Pretty generous offer really, and comes with a lot of other perks such as best seats in the house, priority for...

At a heavy discount which is only available to people who have committed to purchasing 19 tickets a season.

Why not completely outsource ticketing to the STHs, as that seems what most want? Every single seat is owned by a STH, and then that person can pass the seat on to whomever they want however they want. Job done. No one on here can moan and the club won't get moaned at. Will save a bit on ticket...

Would definitely get a season ticket if I could hand it around wily nilly to other people to use! Just think, for my three or four home games a season I'd only have to pay £25 or so rather than the usual £50 plus, and i'd get my money back for all the others. In fact even if three or four went...

Bidding wars don't happen between clubs upping their transfer offers, they happen between clubs offering the player bigger wages and signing on fees. Once the player has chosen which club he wants to go to the negotiation is pretty much just between that club and the selling club. The idea of...