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I was just reading excerpts of that on twitter, interesting notes on Barnes. Sounds like a matter of when, not if his empire implodes at this rate.

Kind of a deal breaker really

It's disheartening because if we made this level of transfer under Rafa I would be genuinely excited for the new season, right now I'm couldn't be more disinterested, everything about Ashley FC is very partridgeshrug.gif I thought about watching my hometown Fleetwood this season but if it's not NUFC I don't feel like I can commit. I'm probably going to go back to watching NFL when that gets underway and keep in touch on here but not really follow the PL this season.

Fwiw I've always liked Ayoze, he's always had to do too much on his own though and only truly flourished with the right players around him, it was something that could have been built on and he would have continued a good run of form imo. ASM looks like he could be a great player but he's extremely raw, no one is knocking him, it's more to do with the fact he needs a decent coaching set up to get the best out of him as he matures, that's not likely to happen with Brewcie is it? Lastly, yes, yes I was pretty negative when we got Sourness after Bobby, he was a dinosaur even then and we paid for him days before he was about to get sacked from a poor Blackburn side. All of the above is irrelevant though because Ashley

Escape goat 2.0

Totally unfair. Modern day football has seen a move to the all action pressing style exemplified by Klopp and Poch. Wor Steve is way ahead of the game and is preparing his lads to run the other teams down like hunting dogs. Just wait til the opposition see ginger Jack sliding at them at 11mph.

At face value he's probably right, with him as manager, losing some of our best players with more probably set to leave and a complete lack of investment we'll be lucky to stay up. However he's toeing the Ashley line, resetting expectations and belittling the club. If you shoot for the stars and land on the moon that's great but if you aim for next doors garden and hit the fence then you're in trouble. The trouble is we're in this predicament because he's just another lacky who does as he's told, he's sat back and watched our best players sold and no investment and instead of saying it's not good enough, he's accepted it and lowered expectations. He's doing exactly what Ashley brought him in for, take training, put some bibs out and tell the players to run faster and deal with what he's shat on with. It's just another sucker punch from demanding more, challenging for more and then all of a sudden expecting the minimum again. Crack on, vilify him for the lot, he deserves it all, but let's not forget the real issue in it all.

Got a wonderful crop of players - only needs maybe one or two more - have the likes of Colback, Lazaar, Aarons and Gayle back so squad is very deep - Colback to be vice captain What's really bad is how horrific this club is means that's more than believable.

Once the season starts and we've still only made one senior squad addition there's no way we'll be able to hold off most teams with a squad of Colback at all "like new signings". The leatherings won't be long in waiting.

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This arsehole bought Blockbuster yet to turn it into the Netflix of the high street?

Unfortunately I think mike is right on this one. f*** off Rafa plays politics, always pushing for more. Fucking bullshit No, he's right, Rafa does play politics and he is always pushing for more, more of what's good for the club, more ambition, more dialogue, more up to date training facilities, more up to date academy, you get the drift... Rafa only wanted what was best for the club.

I think he's too dignified to get in a slanging match, he'll just say something cryptic about the fans knowing the truth and leave it at that.

Lets see how many of these fans that just have to go stick around if we get relegated and stay down

If it was Bruce that disclosed it then we can only hope it's in breach of an NDA or some other disclosure in his contract. You just know if it was Bruce and the PL find out then Ashley will throw him under the bus and he'll have to pay the compo himself

Strangely felt slightly gutted when I heard the news, was hoping we "couldn't get it over the line" to add more fuel to the fire. Now it's just more ammo for the Ashley fans, ignoring everything before, during and after to tell us we're all ingrates because uncal Mike has splashed his cash for us little Geordies

How old are you and are you disabled? As a fall back option, how tall (or more pertinently short) are you?

Thats YOUR opinion, just because fans on here keep saying it, it doesn't mean it's true. A large proportion disagree, that's the part that nobody seem to be getting. A large proportion think that the manager and players deserve the backing from the fans which is why they go to support them. Just because people on here keep saying that if you go to the games you're just as bad as Mike Ashley, that doesn't mean it's true. What part of that is opinion? We've filled the stadium for 12 years under Ashley and he's no closer to leaving so it stands to reason we need to try something else, couple in the fact whenever he's come up against dissent he's done something to appease the fans proves it does affect him, why not try for the greater good? That's all anyone is asking, if it doesn't work then it doesn't work but at least we've tried? Secondly it's a fact that if you're paying to go support the team, you are financially supporting the regime, no two ways about it, the money goes to Ashley and he continues to steer it away from the club. Both are facts, not opinion.

Seymour man, you're not stupid, you can clearly see that what people are trying to do is starve the club in hope that it will affect change. You know that continuing to go will not change anything (see Einstein) and you know that you going to "support the team" and supporting Mike Ashley are not mutually exclusive in any way. The truth is, for you and many more like you, for whatever reason, you like going to the football and won't be told otherwise because selfishly you don't want to give your weekend event up for the greater good, so you convince yourself that nothing will make Ashley leave, even things that haven't been tried because reasons, why would they? You call anyone that wants better deluded, when the truth of the matter is you delude yourself into believing we belong where we are, the 19th richest club in the WORLD scraping round the bargain basement bin, staving off relegation and losing out on cups to the likes of Acrington Stanley. Make no mistake, if you choose to go to the game, buy merchandise then you are complicit in his destruction of NUFC no matter what you try and convince yourself.

Ashley has shares now apparently:

You really can't argue with stupid can you?

My life Absolute ballsacks, bottom to the top. Presumably the same person that does the shirts?

Only because Rafa didn't play him because he's limited and a liability, sour grapes, nothing more

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