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I understand why the Dorne scenes have been so shoddy, but the Sand Snakes have been awful in this. I've not read the books, but I understand they're supposed to carry a similar sultry-but-dangerous mystique as Oberyn. On the show, they come across as shallow little girls who don't know what they're doing. They look incredibly out of their depth and weak, compounded by the scrappy fight scene and Ellaria's (sp?) capture scene. Still, Bronn and Jaime are my new favourite tag team now that Brienne and Pod are on the peripheral and Arya and The Hound are separated. Think Bronn's gonna kick the bucket soon (got nicked by a Sand Snake dagger in that fight... poison), which stinks, but those dudes were born to fanny around on weird dunes together. Couple of genuine laugh-out-loud moments this week: "the dwarf lives until we find a cock dealer," and Bronn's reaction to the Sand Snakes surrounding them... "oh for fuck's sake." I don't feel particularly strongly about the ending. I'm a difficult guy to shock. I think they could've gotten away with implying what had happened: I know that they cut to Reek, but I understand why people were upset with it. Totally ready for Stannis the Mannis to run up on Winterfell and get to cracking Bolton skulls now though. Thing is, they've gone to a lot of effort to make him seem really likeable over the past few weeks (the grayscale scene with his daughter, his HILARIOUS grammar Nazi moment, etc.), so he's almost certain to die soon. I don't know if this is true, but I heard that the season's last episode is titled "Winter." Shit's about to go down. I'm excited.

Big Sam absolutely loves smoking us, like. They should walk past us. His type of football is perfectly tailored to batter whatever 11 cowards we play on Sunday. Hull are essentially a random results generator at the moment. They beat Palace and Liverpool, who were on good runs, then lost to Burnley. Can easily see them fluking one against United. Still, a shellacking for Sunderland on Wednesday and they are right in it. If they go down, I'll be ecstatic. Used to love the derby and all the build-up/aftermath surrounding it, but what's the point when we just get beaten every single time? Get them in the fucking bin.

Newcastle are total cock, man. We'll get battered this weekend. Carver's actually playing Colback and Ryan Taylor as our central midfield pairing at the moment! Kouyate will literally eat those dudes, boots and all. My head says that Hull are going to get an absolute shellacking by United, but I can't shake the horrible feeling in the gut. Either way, it's gonna take me a lot of beers to get through this weekend.

Not looking forward to Super Duper Relegation Sunday on Sky Sports this weekend. In 2008/09, when we were in a very similar situation, I went to the park with my mates instead of watching the games, then came home to find out we'd been relegated by a Damien Duff own goal. I think I'm going to face it like a man this time. The club truly deserves to go down, and there's no chance we're going to beat West Ham. We're just a god awful football team at the moment and Sam absolutely loves playing against us, so I can't see anything other than a W'Ham victory. Fortunately, I don't think Hull will beat United. Van Gaal doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who'd put-out a weakened team, Hull haven't beaten a top four side all season, they've never won a Premier League game in May... Despite this, I'm not confident at all that we won't go down. I know the chances are quite slim, but it just feels inevitable for whatever reason.

Aye, but he was SO LOYAL!!!!!! ONE CLUB MAN!!!!!!!! NEVA WALK ALONE ... apart from the time he tried to sign for Chelsea.

It was a nasty game of football. Frustrating from an Aberdeen POV, as we created quite a few chances that we couldn't finish. Shankland's miss towards the end was minging. It's a shame they took that Fisher lad off though: horrific footballer. Shay Logan had a great game in spite of the horrible abuse he was receiving, and the nasty tackles they seemed to be targeting him with. Comfortably the best right-back in the league for me. The cramp thing was very cynical. The game must've stopped four or five times for that nonsense. I guess that's just the kind of gamesmanship you have to overcome these days.

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Talks of Coloccini being stripped of the captaincy and Carver being given a vote of confidence now. Fuck me. These are the worst of times.

We need someone -- anyone -- who knows how to manage a football team. That's it. The passivity is killing us. I am genuinely stunned that an incredibly successful businessman like Ashley can't see how much money relegation is going to cost him.

Relegation to the Championship will be a complete and total disaster for Newcastle. I'm really not looking forward to finishing 16th in that league next season. Rumours of McClaren being appointed tomorrow. Probably the least exciting managerial appointment I can think of, but he's an actual manager who appears to have a grasp of basic cognitive functions. That puts him head and shoulders about the mutant Carver.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jurgen-klopp-still-without-club-9146719?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Why even write this kind of shit, man? Imagine being a tree and being chopped down for some daft cunt to print this on you. Fucks sake.

NOT KEEGAN ENOUGH.

Get out of here with that garbage.

Not sure if you're trolling again, Adam, but have a read of this: http://ashleyout.com/articles/a-guest-blog-on-the-state-of-newcastle-united-by-george-caulkin-northern-sports-correspondent-of-the-times/ Football is about hopes and dreams not merely "existing," and Ashley has effectively murdered ours by turning the club into a cold, soulless advertising front for his other business.

See also: Ben Arfa, Marveaux, not replacing Cabaye. It's a dead husk of a club and one and I'm much more concerned with supporting the growing "Ashley Out" movement rather than this collection of heartless wank-barons at the moment.

Yeah, there's a good chance we're fucked. We're fortunate enough that there are multiple teams below us who are dreadful as well, but I don't think we'll pick-up another point. Pardew leaving Newcastle was absolutely, 100%, without a shadow of a doubt the best thing for both Newcastle and Pardew himself, regardless of our respective league positions. It sickens me when I hear a professional pundit trotting this shit out like. The issue is that we've replaced him with a complete dipshit of a human who, by the way, told a couple fans to "meet him outside" after the game yesterday. What a guy.

17. Fuck Jeff Kenna in particular.

Newcastle are apparently looking to appoint Steve McClaren at the end of the season, but he won't leave Derby if they get promoted. So basically, it all hinges on him failing to get Derby into the Premier League. Isn't that just the most "Newcastle" thing in the world?

Think this is probably my favourite song of 2015 thus far. Lupe dropped some serious firepower on Tetsuo & Youth.

Interestingly, King Kunta has slowly become one of my favourite tracks on the album. I tried to deny the funk, man, but it overcame me in the end.

I cannot quote or give you rep for some reason, Mr. Gere, but you have my props. It's been a quiet-ish month so far. Red Pill's "Look What This World Did to Us" was a great release: relatable grown man raps over chopped soul production, which is pretty much "my thing," if I have a thing. The new Tyler the Creator albums was pretty horrid, IMO, and Yelawolf served-up another disappointment. L'Orange/Jeremiah Jae is out on Monday though, and I've heard that the new Oh No/Alchemist GTA album is fire. Plus, new Raekwon on the 27th! Rejoice! Today I learned that Black Thought is working on a solo album. Buzzing for that. The dude would be in a lot of "greatest of all-time" lists if he wasn't part of such a talented, acclaimed band. Murders every verse, and my only disappointment with the last few Roots records has been his relative lack of presence.

I feel that he has had an undeniably huge impact at Crystal Palace. He was fuck-awful for the majority of 2014 at Newcastle, but I believe he deserves a nomination because his team have been very strong since the turn of the year. I liken it to the season when we finished 5th under him: he has stumbled upon a winning formula and is sticking to it. The style of football is remarkably similar to what he had us playing: get the ball to a very talented frontline as quickly as possible. Plenty long balls, very few short passes. It's hoofball with window dressing in that it's not always aimed at a big lump up front (although Glenn Murray is certainly a "lump" of some sort), but a goal poacher flanked by two busy tricksters. The style is almost identical. At Newcastle, his problems started when he strayed from this formula for no apparent reason and never, ever returned to it. Given the sheer arrogance of the man, I believe that this was because he wanted the team to start playing "his way": reactive, back-foot, overly-cautious football with an over-reliance on individual brilliance and hugely-shackled supporting players. This is a guy who personally requested Jack Colback as a replacement for Cabaye, wanted James Tomkins to replace Coloccini, and wanted to sell Cisse and bring Darren Bent in. All evidence leads me to believe that this will happen to him at Palace as he tries to "stamp his identity" on the club. The more time he has to bring "his" players in, the worse the club will do. I'll be astonished if he's still doing as well as he is now 12 months from now, but for now, he absolutely deserves a nomination and I wouldn't be surprised if he won it.

Klopp's coming to Newcastle, you dummies. I can't believe nobody has picked-up on this yet... Nah, we're doomed. Carver will get the job full-time and we'll be relegated. There's a big demonstration planned for Sunday, including a boycott of the game. I'd be encouraged by this, but our support is so full of short-sighted, bumbling goobers that there'll still likely be 40-45k at the game. 40-45k complete and utter fuckboys. I swear, for some of our fans to turn on this regime it'd likely take them coming home from work to find their wife in bed with half the squad, Ashley eating all their food, and Carver putting all their Blu-Ray disks into the wrong boxes. At least Aberdeen are pretty decent.