Mattoon

Is he bovvered though?

If defenders at shit clubs know more about defending, why do they concede more goals? Who is this tool? HTT is talking about defenders that have to actually defend because the players in front of them aren't as good as prime Manure.

Some things can’t be unseen ? Also a decent photoshop job in fairness! Not a chance, nowhere near enough hair on the knuckles

I tweeted something akin to this earlier. I wrote a thank you to Rio as if it wasn't for his uneducated and inflammatory comments then there wouldn't have been such a media backlash today. I honestly think he's done more harm than good for Ashley in his thoroughly misguided attempt to defend him. As much as it made the red mist decent on me yesterday, in the cold light of day it's been a good thing, never have I seen such media attention against Ashley in such a short space of time. Hopefully it'll wake up a wider audience.

I love this argument by the way: "Rafa should be sacked" "Rafa should have got better players with the money he had" "Who should we replace him with?" "Who should he have got that is better for the money?" "We'll that's not my job, I haven't got the connections or scouts, etc.. " Oh ok, so you're not educated enough to give better examples but you're educated enough to criticise that which you admit you have no education about?

Aye, mirror those condolences to you Paully, an utterly horrific new year, but so happy that Rafa, the legend that he is, has sought to bring some light back into your life. The man is a truly rare jewel in an ocean of corruption and greed.

NWOAT

Dave left the back door open when he stormed out

We forget that actual football clubs don't buy players with cash in the bank and rely on staged payments secured on future earnings.

IF that's true and it's a big if because it's the sun rag then it's time to walk away, it goes from bad to worse for us.

As if we have a budget Oh it's 1 million alright, Iranian Rial though

A literal new page wanker

Short for cuckold, coined by Shakespeare I think. Describes a man who lets his wife get fucked by other blokes. This guy knows his pornhub I study English literature. It's quite common in Othello. Yes, that's what I do too, what he said

Short for cuckold, coined by Shakespeare I think. Describes a man who lets his wife get fucked by other blokes. This guy knows his pornhub

Absolute cuck mentality, enjoying watching someone else smash the shit out of what you propose to love.

Best all round if he just goes and we can get on with waking up some zombies and burning the club to the ground!

I think that one's explained by a level of naivety from him. When he was persuaded to make a statement in support of Ashley he simply hadn't realised the backlash he was going to get. He was the supporters hero, they waved a giant flag with his face on, and then Bishop whispers in his ear ala Wormtongue how he could ease a lot of pressure if he just persuaded some of the fans Ashley wasn't all bad. Going from hero to villain was likely a bit of a shock and still mentally effecting him now. Viable theory? Certainly something in that. agree I'd say that's pretty spot on, I would imagine he's lost a lot of respect in the dressing room too with that, that could affect him and players relationships with him.

Fans pen open letter, club ignores, release a "leaked" letter from potential buyer, it's just a little too coincidental at this point.

You could hire someone to come round every Saturday of the year and hoof you in the knackers for 90 minutes, that should be more fun.

Why does he get to put the price of purchases on the price of the club? Surely he would just be spending the club's money to increase the value of assets at the club passing the money from one hand to the other? It'd be different if he actually stuck his hand in his pocket. I don't know why I'm trying to make sense of the smoke screen tbh

I think I read the report in the guardian and the story is that he's already taken out the £10m and intends on recouping substantially more in January against the debt. I stand corrected, it was the Telegraph:

I think I read the report in the guardian and the story is that he's already taken out the £10m and intends on recouping substantially more in January against the debt.

That's a cracking way to put it, I saw a steward last night tell a fan to stop shouting with a finger on his lips. Absolutely, the proof is in those that say they shouldn't have to walk in late or miss a game after a hard week at work it's what they look forward to, but in the very next fucking breath excuse themselves from a game for a family dinner or are happy to walk out 11 minutes early because we're losing and that's enough for them. If you want to go because you don't miss a game, rain, wind, shine or death then I get that, you want to stay and sing songs at the top of your lungs and cheer on the players at 4-0 down then all power to you but don't disguise selfish petulance as anything other than what it is, you know you're doing more harm than good but it's what suits you. So fucking cured of it now.

We deserve to go down to prove you cannot stay in this league with zero investment in playing staff, you can't expect to trouser all the money and sprinkle some spare change on the squad and expect it to continue to make progress or even stand still. This has to be a lesson. We deserve to "do a Sunderland" and if the fat leach remains our owner then it's about time we did. Fwiw I think Rafa will just about squeeze enough from this team to keep us up, but we don't deserve it (Ashley doesn't) and it'll just be a stay of execution for when Rafa leaves and the next lickspittle comes in. Can't wait for Mark Hughes to get £100m and still take us down.

Another player playing in the wrong league. I’m sure Rafa expected us to replace him within a year of signing him though. All our players have major flaws, that's why they're here and why they were cheap, we have a decent Championship side playing well out of their depth, none of the players we own should be in a Premier league side looking to compete in the premiership bar a couple of the defenders and the keeper, all of which will go on to better things for a price if they continue to play well. I like most of our players, but wouldn't have them in the team if I had the choice, they are tryers who play for the shirt/Rafa but just aren't good enough, bottom line.