Newcastle go from strength to erm............... Orient

NOt sure what word i'm looking for.......oh yes, its oops.

Sorry Diccus, I think it may be a painful season for you.


RYan

Scarey!

Diccus,

Now I know I look stupid, but pre season friendlies are to be avoided usually, unless they are at SJP and it is an attractive team. Sadly we will not be seeing those types of teams for a while.

I did however go to Sir Bobby's 1990 England v Germany game tonight in support of his cancer charity, along with 33,000 others. Tickets were £10 for adults and £5 for the kids, and as far as I am aware the majority goes to the charity.

Fantastic ovation for the great man, who was brought onto the pitch in a wheelchair. Unfortunately I suspect that Sir Bobby has limited time left, and the public turnout to an otherwise meaningless game is down entirely to his popularity.

For the record the result was 3-2 to England with goals from Sir Les Ferdinand, Alan Thompson and a penalty from Shearer.

No manager, no new owner, no new players, it could be a long season!

Regards

Nic

That's lovely Nic. Sir Bobby is everything that football should be about and i am pleased the turnout was so good. I think you are right, realistically he can't have long left. There will be a lot of genuine tears spilt around the North East and much further a field when he does pass.

On a separate note altogether had a great weekend at the Americana weekend up at the Sage and a couple of nice meals around the quayside :-) Diana Jones was my highlight.

Hope you are good

Diccus

Ryan

I'm a Sunderland fan, there is no pain involved, believe me

Diccus,

Sorry I missed out on the Americana stuff at the weekend, tied up with other things. Went last year and it was great, as was the weather. I was chatting with Adam about the line-up a few weeks ago and he was pretty excited about the artists they had lined up, so I am glad you enjoyed it.

Regards

Nic

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.....Nic and Diccus are right - Sir Bobby is a real gent and is genuinely greatly admired even by Sunderland fans....Sir Bobby has been to the SOL on many occasions over the past few years and is held in great esteem by Niall Quinn.

As for the Orient result? ....well of course I sniggered as much as the next Mackem and to happen whilst wearing THAT strip (oh my aching sides) I hate friendlies as well actually (especially home games which is where I differ from nic) SAFC very rarely organise any home friendlies but there were about 4/5 thousand mackems in Amsterdam at the week-end (we beat Athletico Madrid 2-0 but lost against Benfica 2-0)

Meanwhile Steve Bruce continues to try and spend our Texan sourced moolah ....it now seems a deal has been agreed for Darren Bent who doesn't seem as bothered as Peter Crouch was about living in that deathless frozen wasteland (ie the North East of England)

Tis funny ...financially we can apparently outspend anyone outside the top 4 & Man City but we can't change where we play!

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Sir Bobby is a real gent

Sir Bobby is one of the two greatest managers ever - Sir Alf is the other, of course.

Sir Bobby is a legend at Portman Road - there is a statue of him at the ground. His achievements at Ipswich Town were immense, we played as good a football as any fan could hope for.

Beattie, Whymark, Brazil, Gates, Viljoen, Butcher, Mills, Osman, Wark, Burley, Woods, Lambert, Osborne, Hamilton ... cost nothing and were top class players and when he bought we got Mariner, Murhren, Thyssen, Hunter, O'Callaghan

They don't come better than Sir Bobby - he even forgave Chris Waddle for losing us the world cup.

Good player too - I remember seeing him play against us for Albion IIRC.

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Sir Bobby is a legend at Portman Road - there is a statue of him at the ground. His achievements at Ipswich Town were immense, we played as good a football as any fan could hope for.

...Agreed ROTF ....Ipswich were just about everyone's "second favourite team" in those days - I remember West Brom having a great footballing side at about the same time as well

As for now I guess Roy Keane is about as different as a manager could be compared to Sir Bobby ...so what's the feeling now in Tractor-boy land about his impact on the Town? (confident about going up!?)