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[thisisgil]

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Chances are you'll see him next season. Twice if you want to travel to Stratford.

 

[b3h]

Just goes to show how special that period was for everyone, seeing those posts from players/family

I always say it wasn't just about winning or losing, was more than that to us

Miss ya Nuno

 

[prawnking]

Imagine having so many likeable players with character as well as ability, practically the whole team at one point

 

[Mel Evo]

Imagine having so many likeable players with character as well as ability, practically the whole team at one point

I find it baffling that endeavouring to repeat this strategy is simply completely written off. Something we just have to accept will never happen again, even though it’s the blueprint for going up and staying up. The limitations of our vision not only make me sad, they seem completely illogical. Maybe it’s just me.

 

[Tony Towner]

I find it baffling that endeavouring to repeat this strategy is simply completely written off. Something we just have to accept will never happen again, even though it’s the blueprint for going up and staying up. The limitations of our vision not only make me sad, they seem completely illogical. Maybe it’s just me.

Well we aren't signing 3 Champions League players, 2 initially on loan, all taking low wages with massive promotion bonuses all because they wanted to play for the manager / their agent cajoled them into it. It's written off because it simply won't happen for multiple reasons.

The rest of the squad is repeatable. Players who were already at the club - Costa, Cav, Saiss, Coady, Doherty, a journeyman centre forward - Bonatini, 3 experienced British players Douglas, Ruddy, Bennett.

Oh and you need a manager taking an obvious step down because he's bought into the project.

We aren't that club anymore and it's pointless pretending that we are or hoping we will be again. We can go back up, I don't think we will, but we can, however it'll need to be in a more traditional sense as pretty much every other promoted team outside of Newcastle and ourselves have in the last 15 years or so

 

[YoungWolf]

Yeah, if we go back up it will be with a squad of players that are too good for the championship but not good enough for the Premier League. Yo yo at best (and it won’t even be that for a couple of years anyway)

 

[Mel Evo]

Well we aren't signing 3 Champions League players, 2 initially on loan, all taking low wages with massive promotion bonuses all because they wanted to play for the manager / their agent cajoled them into it. It's written off because it simply won't happen for multiple reasons.

The rest of the squad is repeatable. Players who were already at the club - Costa, Cav, Saiss, Coady, Doherty, a journeyman centre forward - Bonatini, 3 experienced British players Douglas, Ruddy, Bennett.

Oh and you need a manager taking an obvious step down because he's bought into the project.

We aren't that club anymore and it's pointless pretending that we are or hoping we will be again. We can go back up, I don't think we will, but we can, however it'll need to be in a more traditional sense as pretty much every other promoted team outside of Newcastle and ourselves have in the last 15 years or so

I thought it would be just me.

 

[basher]

What I like about those posts from Jonny and Raul's family is that neither of them got the deserved send off that they truly deserved and yet they still hold the club in such high affection.

Lovely to see.

 

[Alan]

The club can be the club it wants to be; people can remember things as they will given the excitement of possibility early on, but we had no business hiring Nuno or signing many of the squad that took us up. It’s not different from now in any significant way, IMO.

What happens from here is entirely down to Nathan Shi’s judgement. We can be a club “too good” for the Championship. It’s only a matter of us choosing to be such.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

1) Mendes doesn't have that kind of residual quality on his books any more

2) There's no incentive for him to do it again even if he did

We can recruit "normally" and beat most other Championship clubs to the punch, but we are not repeating 2017. Not now, not ever.

 

[Alan]

Fuck Mendes.