Oh Louie louie

Mr pop cards on the table.

How many years have you enjoyed out the last 20.

3? 4?

Bottom 6 is beckoning at xmas at this rate.

At home? are you joking?

Away, i dunno 2 good games?

You seen any?

The leauge table doesnt lie at the end of the season.

Its a miracle on this form we are mid table.

We can all agree on that.

Im afraid i see it diffrently mr pop.

You do recall how long it took us to get promoted back in the 00s under steve?

Every season was a dogfight to make the play offs.

Yes the fanbase might have grown the last few seasons.

But if we carry on to struggle, attendences will fall, always has historically.

We are much closer to where he found us then the prem.

Thats a fact.

I mean if we do go down mr pop, you expect 20k to turn up?

Mr kew took us from being bankrupt to being known as the richest club outside the first divsion.

And we were known as that in many circles,

He did that in 5 years mr pop on gates mostly from 6500 to 9000.

You could see the gulf on saturday tbf max.

Some of these guys are straight out the prem.

I agree the two defenders we did sign from the lower leauges look good.

That is true max.

But i dunno does that warrant a wage for say 2 or 3 signings a year?

I dont think so.

And if thats his remt, sl may as well walk away now.

We keep signing players from that level.

What seems more likely?

A we get promoted,

B we end up in the lower leauges.

Many pundits are suggesting it will take newcastle 4 years to challenge.

What chance do we have going on this seasons budget.

Reading between the lines nige has asked for a couple of seasons,

But if sls, pleading poverty again next season, not going to work.

He does this every few years.

20 odd years now we have had sl.

Look where we are.

A dogfight.

Imagine another 20 years of this

Baker as a forward, that be intresting,

Least he would put himself about.

There was a city themed barbers near the triangle was in the back streets Dunne if still there?

Last time I went there we won with a well dodgy pen. Recall they had just drawn man u in the cup and they must have just started selling them after the game because there was a massive que outside after the game

What a understanding they had on the pitch. Pass and move

I would agree with one team. There has been more incidents at home games this season than normal trouble at four games already 

His David Beckham vs Wimbledon shot if that would have gone in be goal of the season 

If they can put a man on the moon why can't they make a unbreakable wheelbarrow?

Would love to have sat by the old fellas who sang by himself in the grandstand dont make them like that no more you could even hear him in the dolman

The best they could boast was twerton chippy was better than the parkway chippy.

Can recall Graham Taylor also saying we knew how to create a atmosphere recall him saying the atmosphere bordered on evil at vicarage rd he said something like I have not heard noise like that in years that would have been when goater scored there

Redknapp said this in his autobiography. His first one I think he described us as wild

So many managers commented what a hostile atmosphere warnock Redknapp off the top of my head. Can also recall Dario Grady saying his players were scared to go near the corner flag.

I dont think that season's budget was a million miles from what scott Davidson spent ten years before 

VIn 2008 I wouldn't say Sl went for it tbf. That team didn't cost a fortune noble Bradley basso dele byfield ivan the two Jamie's who cost the most in the season we played hull out of intrest

Probably fell out in the 90s over which ground was the original library