Robster

So detached from football you are in a niche football forum posting about a title race I'm not detached from the people and the craic in here, nor specifically, the club i've supported for 40 years (even though that's hanging by a thread too). I just don't bother watching football on TV or reading about it in the press and therefore as such my knowledge of the modern game is pretty terrible.

How the fuck can you got to work for just a few hours and be incapable of getting through it without having to have a whole fucking dinner

I am so detached from football these days (cheers Mike), it feels quite a tedious run in to me. It'd be different if each were unexpectedly dropping points. It feels like they are both just winning to the seasons conclusion.

Villa on an unbelievable run but I reckon they might have peaked too soon in terms of the play offs.

That's why I'm happy that we've got Rafa, he aint just gonna shut up and be satisfied with no ambition whatever. Couldn't agree more. I wouldn't swap him for anyone.

Rafa's problem is that he is asking for things from Ashley to make NUFC a better team/club. That's the worst thing to do as Ashley reacts badly to demands. To manage NUFC, you have to shut up and work with what you're given and that's just not Rafa. There's not a chance in hell that Ashley is fighting to keep him.

(although I would exclude Hodgson. I have a lot of time for him even though i wouldn't necessarily want him to manage NUFC)

Maybe indirectly. If he's pissed off, he may feel like taking it out on someone, or something.

Even if it's written in a contract, I'd still expect Ashley to renege on it and to take his chances with a legal battle. I can't ever see a situation where Ashley backs down and gives Rafa exactly what he wants.

I'm not quite sure why anyone, at any time this season, thought there was a point. With or without Rafa, this club is pointless while Ashley is around.

For anyone hoping that he is staying, I'd be very concerned. Personally, all season I've worked on the assumption that he's gone this summer. I've not seen or heard anything to make me change that viewpoint. Ashley will want to bring in a lickspittle.

It'd been (another) bad season on the whole. Not for the money spent is isn't, Rafa has done another great job. Fuck off Mike Rafa's achievement given his resources is a different question. We are 15th in the league and got knocked out of both cups early on again. It's been a shite season.

It'd been (another) bad season on the whole.

But we've learned from Staveley and Kenyon, even when there is clearly things going on in the background, it never reaches it's conclusion. It's therefore pointless believing that a new bid will do anything other than end up down another dead end.

Howay man HTT.

Looks fucking carnage in the away end

No we don’t. Such certainty.

Disappointing tonight. The wind made it very difficult for any football to be played and Solihull weren't really any better on the whole, certainly in the first half. Gateshead had the best chance of the first half but never recovered after the sending off though and barely got into Solihull's box in the second half.

Birmingham City fans have such a small time mentality.

0-1. Almiron's first for the club.

Must have been a shite half of football then.

As cowardly as it gets, attacking someone like that from behind.