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Hope these lot get their arses handed to them tomorrow.

Aye. I’d say so. Edit - wouldn’t be surprised if the club now want to approve everything a week in advance or something.

I can’t see too much wrong with the Conn article tbh. Healthy scepticism from me but still ABA.

26/27 - Jason Puncheon I didn't get. Got them all but might have struggled to come up with Puncheon if I hadn't seem him mentioned by yourself. Would've thought Carrick would have weighed in with more than 24 goals through his whole career.

Off the top of my head, they've made money on PvA, Coates and Pickford (if you allow for the fact he was home-grown) lately. Maybe Whickham too depending on how far you wanna go back.

I think Lejeune reads the game a lot better, Clark seems to get caught out of position an awful lot. I think Lejeune has the makings of a really good defender but he needs a 3 month run as a starter. He's not looked fit since Kane crocked him and it's a risk giving him that run now imho due to how slow he looked when he last came back from injury. I'd be looking to next season for him at this stage. Just hope we're a premiership side then.

The future looks bleak as fuck in most scenarios tbh. Even if Rafa keeps us up I can't see him hanging around for another season under Ashley. Agree with that but my gut feel is that they'll get back around the negotiating table come the end of the season and that may keep Rafa at the club. The minute he hears that the deal is not going to be revived then he'll be gone, after the last two windows.

Ashley's decision not to take the money and run may well come back to haunt us all and, none more so, than him. Imagine we go down, no Rafa, the squad harmony completely shattered, the only decent players we have departed and him being in charge of appointing the new manager? Doesn't bear thinking about but it's completely foreseeable. He'll deserve it. We won't.

Have never liked him but his general effort and overall effectiveness have improved remarkably over the last few weeks.

Good lad Henry. Sort of sane :lol: .

Lejeune has also cost us points this season, probably more per game played than this fella. I'd be very wary of sticking Lejeune straight back into the side as he looks like he takes a long time to get his sharpness back. His first game back earlier in the season (Southampton away) he looked like he had the turning circle of a fuel truck. He also gave away a pen at a time when it looked like we were home and hosed.

Brilliant that.

My guess is that he's prettying the books by not heavily investing in either transfers nor wages. I'd say we've near enough broken even over that window, certainly in terms of wages. All reinforces the fact that he's very much on the market with it. That said, should we go down, he'll have risked everything for the sake of a few million quid.

This is it. Those two extra points could be huge at the end of the season.

Nah. They were a proper stink in the PL for years before they went down. Couldn't be arsed with yet another London club in the PL either. Fulham is one of the few kinda charming clubs left in England (in the top three divisions, at least). Not a very important team, but I really like the Cottage. Would rather have them in the Prem than the likes of West Brom, Watford and Burnley. Agreed. Great little ground and a nice club.

I'd have taken him here and played him behind Slimani. He looks quality, what is allardyce thinking Agreed mate. Allardyce is such a knob.

I'd have taken him here and played him behind Slimani.

Great effort that lads .

I think we'll have one last go at this today.

I think the 11/4 on offer for us to go down are great odds.

Guessing WBA would have just come in at that point anyway but aye, this leaves f*** all manoeuvring time. Clueless. Before Ashley players wouldn't have turned down Newcastle to play for WBA regardless of family. Yup - not in a million years would a player have chosen WBA over us under the previous NUFC regime and I say that as one of their biggest critics.

Bailey can ram his opinion up his hoop. If the club would actually back the manager with proper funds and a commitment for us to compete then perhaps convincing people to come would be made easier for Rafa.

That Agent Mike guy on twitter has been bang on all window, not got one wrong, reckons he's deffo off to WBA.

Aye. Told him it was closer to London or some shit . You can sell anything with a bit of passion and charisma. Two words sadly lacking from any description of Penfold by anyone, ever. Fucking hopeless pricks. He can't even take credit for bringing Rafa here. Rafa contacted us to express interest in the job. Exactly! Rafa turned up and told him he'd be taking the job and to fuck off back to his office for a few months. Bunch of utter cocks. What is the point of Mike Ashley's Newcastle United? Because it sure as fuck isn't football.

Aye. Told him it was closer to London or some shit . You can sell anything with a bit of passion and charisma. Two words sadly lacking from any description of Penfold by anyone, ever. Fucking hopeless pricks.