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The only conclusion I can muster is that twice Ashley has sacked a poor manager with a handful of games left (albeit too few) and twice we have been relegated, yet he stuck by Pardew and Carver in seasons everyone was calling for their heads and both times we stayed up. In his tiny little brain he'll be thinking that sticking with Bruce is the best option based on this experience.

Brighton were poor, so many under and over hit passes but they were still first to every single one. No effort, no shape, no plan, no commitment, absolutely horrific to watch. We're going down and no one can say it's harsh on anyone but the fans.

Kluivert, Hamann, Milner, Distin, Jon Dahl, Thauvin, HBA, Remy, Rondon

That alone pretty much sums up life as an NUFC supporter.

Can we once and for all put this fallacy to bed that Ashley is just out for damages? How many journalists have to disregard it before people stop using it to shine a negative light on the arbitration proceedings?

Another day, another meltdown, I think I'll just wait for the club or those involved in the takeover to make an official statement before I wet the bed. Since when did we take The S*n as gospel

We're scraping away a 0-0 draw against the 2nd bottom club whilst the 3rd bottom is fighting tooth and nail for a 1-0 win against the reigning champions (albeit a shadow of the team that won the league). That's all you need to know. Bruce still thinks he can draw his way to safety while the rest at the bottom are trying to pick up as many points as possible. I can see the next however many weeks without our front 3 spent sitting back and defending for our lives hoping to finish every game 0-0 and eit will invariably backfire.

It seems Luke Edwards piece was also factually wrong now, whodathunkit

"The Saudi takeover of NUFC no longer exists as a going concern. Ashley is pursuing damages on the grounds of restraint of trade. No-one should give a shit whether he gets what he wants on that front." IMTTS said no. Think this statement proves he is, as suspected, full of shit. I'd imagine there will be a few posters go ghost on the back of this information. Doesn't hurt to have an opinion or want to think a certain way, but name calling arguing opinion as fact just makes you look a bit daft in the long run.

This, its always been this, regardless of who knows who in what business and presumptions of process. There's literally a hand full of people that know the true state of play and claiming to be a party to any of that information is laughable at best. Best just to keep your head down and concentrate on hating Bruce for the foreseeable. Personally I think the embers are still burning away, whether they go out or finally burst into flames I wouldn't even hazard a guess at. Either way if it goes through we'll finally have a club to be proud of again, if it doesn't then there's genuinely nothing left and I'll probably delete my account as this is the last place that keeps me interested.

So they're that worried about relegation that they cancel all takeover talk as that'll help, because. But the main instigator of the likelihood of relegation gets to keep his job in the position that will most likely decide the outcome of said relegation. Makes perfect sense to me. I'm in!

Yeah, not really listening to the Troll tbh

What's the update on the daffodils this week?

Ah man, this sucks, RIP Glenn you were a great servant to the club, both on the field and as our manager under difficult circumstances, he lifted a dark cloud and seemed like a really decent bloke. 65 is far too young.

So a geriatric narcaleptic writes a report and half the forum are queuing up on the Tyne bridge? As far as I'm aware all the legal avenues are still being pursued and no one has pulled out or downed tools yet. Its not like this place to be melodramatically reactive.

Getting on your soapbox about people on their soapbox. This thread has it all. Genius, fella Genuinely used to love this forum, full of self righteous, sanctimonious pricks these days, nee wonder most of the old guard left.

Everyone's a precognitive in here aren't they? Or does everyone have insider knowledge? Which is it? Because from where I'm standing no one knows wtf is going to happen with this takeover and you're all just doom mongers and fantasists. We know the takeover is in arbitration, we know all parties are still at the table and we know no decisions have been made yet. Who knows why fat boy won't get rid of Bruce or why he equally won't entertain other offers for the club? We've seen it take 2 months for a takeover to go through, we've seen it take 2 years so 11 months down the line is of no significance to where we are or whether it will be done. Everyone's wasting so much energy vehemently defending their position of failed/successful, you're all close minded, only willing to bend the truth to your opinion without subjectiveness. It really is tiresome in here, suggestion: read the information readily available, ask yourself why nothing concrete has happened yet and wait until someone official tells you what's happening before shouting each other down from your ill informed soap boxes.

In a nutshell. Absolutely this and Bruce will play it as a moral victory in the 2nd half when we manage a 0-0 because they're already 3 or 4 up and letting us have the ball with no idea what to do with it. No meaningful shots on goal, 0 on target and no more than 2 or 3 passes forward strung together.

I heard he's got an inny anyway so you couldn't tell

So we should fawn over the Layton Orient fan instead?

Dubravka should be #1 if fit, no ifs, no buts, he's the better keeper and as harsh as it seems on Darlow, there's no room for feelings here. Darlow has had his best form for us since Dubs has been out injured but Dubs really could be the difference between staying up and going down.

I think it's great what he's doing, awesome that he's invested so much time and money into trying to bring about change and he should get plaudits for that, totally, bloke should never have to buy a season ticket or beer again if he helps it get passed. That doesn't give him Carte Blanche to come out swinging at anyone he disagrees with though, he has no decorum about him and I've defended him in the past plenty of times because I'm sure it can't be easy to get pelters by some of our support. But when you start to talk to GC like he's just another Twitter troll then you need to take a step back. Keith seems like a nice bloke but he's starting to lose credibility amongst the fans with his Twitter outbursts and needs to wind his neck in a bit, he doesn't owe everyone an answer and he doesn't need to make an enemy of everyone that doesn't agree with him 100%

Tonight is the litmus test for who is really in charge, back 5 and concede possession, or 4-3-3 and a high press. Team sheet should give us our first idea. I'll reserve judgement on predicting score lines until then.

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