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Probably just chafage. 2 months tied to a chair does that to a lad.

I'm sure it was the general team ethos to play "possession football" in the first few games, and I'm sure Anita was candidate #1 for the KISS treatment. Of course possession football doesn't tend to work when you've got an underconfident team who generally stand still & who are scared to pass the ball until they've touched it 100 times first.

Good call. That way everyone will be blown away when/if I turn up.

Hatem took initiative and got shipped off to Hull.

I'm the mercurial talent type who would never "confirm attendance" at any form of gathering. But I'll be there. Or will I? Yes. I will. ... Or will I? (Yes) ?

Based of nowt more than - his face, his twat of a Dad, and that whole contract holdout sitch he had, I believe Tom Ince to be the exact opposite of what we need at NUFC.

The most prominent brits we have at NUFC are Mike Ashley, Lee Charnley, Graham Carr, Steve McClaren and Jack Colback. Foreign all the way. PL-seasoned foreign would be nice though.

I'm also going to a wedding, but (thanks?) to the time difference, I can still watch. Sad times.

Fuck this. I'm going to be on a beach Florida, without a care in the world. Until about 2 minutes before KO when I get bored and start streaming this godforsaken shitshow of a match.

I reckon this could be what sends Chelsea on an obscene run of good form. 0-5.

I feel like it's been a while since the world has had a high profile assassination. #justsayin

Except I wouldn't call this season's signings particularly cheap. I think you have to question the scouts, manager and Charnley there, I don't think the owner is putting a price on these players. I'm not saying Carr is flawless by any means, but he's not the reason NUFC is in the state its in. Not even close. Not that I think believe any of the players we bought were particularly "expensive", their fees may have been a little higher than we've paid before, but when you consider the general PL transfer fee level, their inevitably meagre contracts, and the minimal chance of depreciation, they represent very little risk, financially speaking. You find Mike an influential outspoken 28 year old 80k p/w Englishman and he'll probably clock you over the head with an oversized mug.

Once again, unless any of you are actually working closely to Carr et al., I struggle to see how you can know whether he had recommended powerful/influential/non-shit players. I'm far more inclined to blame the man that has a track record of being the cheapest cunt in the land, who likely ignores 90% of recommendations and just goes with the cheapest option, whether that's what the team needs or not.

Move on to what?

such relentless hyperbole

Aye but they were in the Premier League then. It's always difficult playing Championship sides.

Just a completely weak set of players. Season goes against them even slightly & they've all gone to pieces. Given up since we lost to West Ham. Very little to do with the individual players man. We've been shit for years on the back of our ethos as a club. We could have Messi and Ronaldo upfront and they'd look like shit in a NUFC shirt. The whole club is broken.

I'm with you on this. I don't think we've signed very many untalented players in recent times tbh. We just simply haven't utilized them correctly or trained them right. It's not like I think he's completely blameless, and I could deal with him leaving in a "clear out" scenario, I just think it's a bit desperate going for the Chief Scout, given we have very little transparency into what his work (and level of influence) actually looks like. Mike Ashley is the man to blame, lets maybe concentrate on that? And by concentrate, I'm meaning for longer than twenty minutes when were losing?

Please fwd the list of all the players he's identified as targets. I wasn't aware it was in the public domain. Thanks.

As if people are blaming the scout for this shitshow

Aye. The whole place is a cheapo knockoff excuse for a football club. It's dead inside and it's very apparent to anyone who is tricked into signing for us. Burn it down.

Gave the ball away and didn't track back I heard. Lazy French twat. Wouldn't expect anything else from a player that's had problems with all his previous managers, even if all his previous managers were fucking useless.

the radio man said his name but it's not something that can be typed with a latin keyboard

their top scorer is coming on!!! I dont know who that is.

Something about Barlaser