Andy

Pretty sure Bruce won't be sitting on him during the games, so yes. He will be directing the team to launch 50 yard Balls at him though and will drop him the second we get a bad result Even under Pardew (a worse manager) the likes of Ba and Cabaye still managed to excel. Your post is so over the top. But the point is nothing matters now, don't you agree? If anything we want him to fail as we want SD United to fail. People discussing signings, formations etc like it matters anymore is mad, and i have to question anyone doing so whether they fully understand what is going on. I'm sorry like but I'll never bring myself to actively want my club to lose, if only because losing doesn't change anything. Ashley will still be here, the sports direct logos will still surround the stadium... If anything I feel like we're more likely to be sold by having a fluke season like the Pardew one and showing would-be investors the potential... Is renewing season tickets and buying merch a mugs game? Aye, it probably is. But ostracising fellow fans for wanting the club to do well? Nah, that's not on in my opinion. When you actively want the club to lose, when it means nothing to you, that's when Ashley won. I think there’s a lot of emotion around at the moment, I hope we all don’t get into a “scab” mentality on here soon. If people wanna go/discuss then we should never really challenge it, we are better than this, have your view but don’t carry it on every day, I’m guilty of it and many more are, in truth I’m beginning to wonder why I’m here, I’m NOT supporting that club anymore. The match threads should be interesting, those who protest I take it won’t be on it, like myself, if we are we are hypocrites no? I said for many the test will be when the season starts and we get a win and the itch starts, many will resist ,me included but some just won’t admit it and have a sneak peak at the games, we’re all human ffs. Let’s not turn on each other eh ? doesn't bother me how people choose to deal with the situation on a personal level, but shaming other fans who can't bring themselves to want the club to lose is dog shite, as is telling people they shouldn't discuss potential transfers etc on a forum that was literally invented for such topics of conversation...I've been at best borderline-apathetic about the club for the entirety of Ashley's reign, but I'll never actively seek out a Newcastle result and hope we've lost, I just don't see what we gain from it. I sincerely, almost completely and entirely believe that relegation would only make us more likely to be stuck with Ashley for a longer period of time The current situation is shit but turning on each other isn't the answer, nobody here is a "better fan" than anyone else no matter how you deal with what's going on.

Pretty sure Bruce won't be sitting on him during the games, so yes. He will be directing the team to launch 50 yard Balls at him though and will drop him the second we get a bad result Even under Pardew (a worse manager) the likes of Ba and Cabaye still managed to excel. Your post is so over the top. But the point is nothing matters now, don't you agree? If anything we want him to fail as we want SD United to fail. People discussing signings, formations etc like it matters anymore is mad, and i have to question anyone doing so whether they fully understand what is going on. I'm sorry like but I'll never bring myself to actively want my club to lose, if only because losing doesn't change anything. Ashley will still be here, the sports direct logos will still surround the stadium... If anything I feel like we're more likely to be sold by having a fluke season like the Pardew one and showing would-be investors the potential... Is renewing season tickets and buying merch a mugs game? Aye, it probably is. But ostracising fellow fans for wanting the club to do well? Nah, that's not on in my opinion. When you actively want the club to lose, when it means nothing to you, that's when Ashley won.

Could've said the same about players like Gini. If a player has the right reputation and shows something you'll get money for him even if you go down.

I'm not sure I agree with that. He's putting himself in the firing line if/when it doesn't work out, but he doesn't deserve abuse for simply accepting the job, because let's be honest nobody else is going to and we do actually need a manager by next month. Respect your opinion, obviously but I completely disagree with you too. Would you take it under Ashley? Would I take the opportunity to make myself filthy rich managing the football club I love? Aye, I probably would to be honest mate, I'm not going to lie Nah, that’s a shocker of a post. No way. I don't think it's that much of a shocker to say that if, in some ridiculously contrived hypothetical scenario, Mike Ashley offered me literally millions of pounds to manage a football club for a season or two to set my family up for life I would pack in the 9-5 slog like Probably do a better job than Brucie anyway tbh, hand it over

I'm not sure I agree with that. He's putting himself in the firing line if/when it doesn't work out, but he doesn't deserve abuse for simply accepting the job, because let's be honest nobody else is going to and we do actually need a manager by next month. Respect your opinion, obviously but I completely disagree with you too. Would you take it under Ashley? Would I take the opportunity to make myself filthy rich managing the football club I love? Aye, I probably would to be honest mate, I'm not going to lie Oof. Ok. I wouldn’t. I couldn’t. Ashley is killing the club, I could not be part of that. To be honest I'm being facetious but I don't see any alternatives to Bruce at the moment, literally no one other than the desperate would accept the job. Bruce is probably naive enough to think he can convert Ashley, that's the kind of bloke he is.

I'm not sure I agree with that. He's putting himself in the firing line if/when it doesn't work out, but he doesn't deserve abuse for simply accepting the job, because let's be honest nobody else is going to and we do actually need a manager by next month. Respect your opinion, obviously but I completely disagree with you too. Would you take it under Ashley? Would I take the opportunity to make myself filthy rich managing the football club I love? Aye, I probably would to be honest mate, I'm not going to lie

I'm not sure I agree with that. He's putting himself in the firing line if/when it doesn't work out, but he doesn't deserve abuse for simply accepting the job, because let's be honest nobody else is going to and we do actually need a manager by next month. The abuse needs to be channeled at Ashley and his immediate team, nobody else.

To be fair, maybe they did. Seems like the local press haven't been too far off in their negative response to the "takeover".

He's English and has a bit hype around him, he could have a shite season and get relegated and still be worth £25 million tbh.

Even by the club's usual selling policy it seems beyond moronic to let him go for £25 million now like. Can only see his value increasing over the next few years if he stayed, £25 million for a player that Man Utd will turn into an England international feels like robbery in the current market.

This is it like, Wullie. Depressing that in our time supporting this club we've gone from breaking the transfer world record to being rock bottom of the premier league food chain.

£70 million for Maguire man, fucking hell can't wait for this game to collapse under the weight of its currency.

Mike Ashley has no will to sell whatsoever, if he did the club would have been sold years ago. Any deal that's proposed will have to be at least as equally-favourable to him financially as simply owning the club would be, if not we'll be stuck with him. I suspect he holds a tremendous grudge against us and would love a few "fuck you" clauses too if he could get them in there. Very unlikely that a deal will be struck IMO.

It barely even seems worthy of discussion, which is massively indicative of the state we're in.

It's sad that some people are still in denial over this because of the "takeover" like, especially fans offline that I talk to who are renewing their season ticket out of the blind faith that new owners are going to come in and bring Rafa back. He's gone and in all likelihood the takeover isn't happening either. I get that people want a bit of hope to cling on to but honestly that hope seems to be softening the reaction; I wish our fans would accept the reality and turn on these cunts properly.

To be honest, Chris, I think it's pretty obvious that views like that are a minority opinion, BUT that's the level of scepticism that this regime has created. The level of disheartenment on this forum is the worst I've seen it in the 15 years that I've been admin - I don't think I've seen more collective apathy on any iteration of this forum or the one's that merged to form it than there is now - but at the same time most people are still managing to be respectful which is better than it has been in the past during less depressing times. If anything I think most people have handled the continuous hope-fuckings by Mike Ashley fairly well, but I don't blame anyone for snapping at the moment because at the end of the day most of it is out of a love for the club that they're trying desperately to hold on to.

Hacked him m8

what a mess man lads.

as long as no one's crowdfunding a hitman

Please don't promote or encourage acts of violence on here lads, in jest or otherwise. It only takes someone to do something daft for the forum to be potentially dragged into it.

Seems absolutely pointless to renew your season ticket then boycott the games like. They've already got your money. The only way to hit them is to not renew at all.

Rafa's done an amazing job under the circumstances, can only see the club crashing and burning from here. Anyone who renews their season ticket is a world class numpty.

Remember that, in all likelihood, nobody outside of the handful of people directly involved in the deal knows absolutely anything at all, if anybody is even involved in anything at all to begin with... It'll either happen or it won't, but constantly refreshing on here, twitter and wherever else is always just going to be an exercise in frustration because literally everyone is clueless, attention seeking or agenda-driven

Just a reminder that the rules regarding abuse etc still apply regardless of high tensions. If you're having to call a fellow fan a cunt for daring to be optimistic then Mike Ashley wins again...

Who's put that poll up man? Mike? Are we balls locking it till there's news, if you can't stop yourself from compulsively discussing nothing there's something wrong