THE STIFFMEISTER

I read something this weekend that perfectly sums up my attitude . “people talk about Eddie Howe at Newcastle as if he is managing the club as a charitable endeavour “

I cannot see where he has had success to be honest brother. they are the worst team in the league above the relegation pack. A split hair ahead of Leeds in about 10 secs and have lost one game less than West Ham ! the table doesn’t lie as we keep saying they are a poor poor side who are getting by on European nights. If they weren’t in Europe and his name was Eduardo Howeio he’d have his marching orders. i genuinely think as he’s a youngish likeable English lad , he gets a free pass , Newcastle are rotten to watch if they had 5 more games left , they’d be down in t

I see it much more simply development needs success or it’s just coasting along success in football is trophies Eddie Howe has been there nearly 5 years they are in a slump , as we all know football is a results based industry. who would be better than Jose there ?

Maximum I think your team is built for Jose

You’ll be down in 5 seasons if you stay with Howe

I couldn’t disagree more with every word of that . do you want to be a “sleeping giant “ and slowly building ? Which given the current status of 14 losses this season compared to 12 wins and being ten points above the relegation scrap with no European football next season seems like a build like HS2 your big players are wanting to f**k off I said this before and your supporters don’t like it , Newcastle is too small to truly be a big club , as much as it’s made out to be a footballing hotbed , the place hasn’t exactly set the league on fire ever Eddie Howe in reality is

Some good fun with that cutting about the bayou mate

Yesterday , watched it , well last night . just a nice little film , no nastiness or vulgarity. Just a good little story . Was pleasantly surprised to see the lovely shingle street I lived minutes from make an appearance at the very end

Remember him well , he went to rangers , my mate looled like him when we were little

I get a similar feeling when wilf starts talking about carping

Fair points all well presented , I get it . as an interested outsider , looking in , I’ve always seen Millwall as a tier below you all there in and about London , I can only really remember them from my panini sticker book as there once . Sure they had a centre forward called omerdroyd or along them lines . I just see West Ham as so much above them , that the rivalry wouldve just been so fleeting in actual meetings it’s became an afterthought

Someone also watches critical drinker I see

Over the course of my career I’ve done 3 / 4 days regular with a handful of hours in snatched periods two in particular catch my mind , a Monday night till a Friday morning with about 4 hrs snatched intermittently. It was f***ing horrific but unbelievably I drove with my mate to kendal from thetford immediately afterwards. that pales into insignificance to my worst one though . I was teaching at oakhampton on a Thursday morning but instead the must teach lesson was delayed . It started at 1800 and was about 3 hours long . I packed up and left and drove to Ipswich where I had to spin

At the risk of sounding like some sort of soy boy palace fan , would you say that West Ham have “out grown” Millwall ? would you not place the likes of spurs / Charlton ? As your proper rivals , are they not more at the level of Luton / Leeds ?