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Rashford is a player like. No doubt the media will put him on a pedistal for the WC mounting all expectation on him and then destroy him when we inevitably fail.

You're giving the fat odious bastard too much credit, he cleared McClaren out when his investment was in danger (albeit too late) and he only kept Pardew because he was a sniveling arse lick who took the flack whilst doing his bidding, all the while finishing in his favourite position of 10th-17th. As far as he was concerned Pardew was a safe pair of hands, don't give the deluded Geordies any hope of ambition but keep his SD shite on the gravy train. All the others you mentioned wanted more for the club, as well they should and all had a level of understanding of what the club deserves.

Can someone please post a photo of him. If I'm going to hate someone, I'd like to see what they look like so that I can visualise their untimely demise. Yep, just need a face to go with the name...

Completely predictable turn of events, no one coming in, maybe one or two more fringe players going out to weaken our hand even more. It's going to be a long, laborious season

He should be offered a wooden stake through his bloodless, blackened heart

No forbidden curses allowed

If Rafa let's him go without a fight I can't follow this team anymore, midfield meistro for us last season, 28 starts in a Championship winning team, he really made us tick. Will be sad to see him go... Do you think they bought it???

The bloke can't win, if he didn't try and press and chase the ball down everyone would be calling him a waster. As it is he's gone in a little late, but it wasn't his fault he hit a midget, elbow was pushed out in an attempt to muscle away and not in a horizontal position denoting intent to do damage. Harsh, but absolutely expected, I wouldn't be happy with the FA if I was Rafa that's for sure.

Sell Gayle in the next 24 hrs then stick in a bid for a good player which will be rejected. Time runs out, we hold our hands up in frustration and curse our luck. How does that sound? If Gayle's offski, it will be a means to an end. Rafa will have his dominos aligned. Rafa isn't the worry though, I mean it's not like he's lined up a deal before, agreed a price and personal terms and then been let down by the bean counters is it?

Colback to Hell would be better. That would suggest he had a soul to depart to hell?

International break is where Ashley and his cronies like to fuck with us, so for this game I expect a team of 12 year old Albanian kids to be playing in the newly named Sports Direct City Ground with Gerry Francis as our newly appointed manager.

Had to watch this from work today, my first football game of any sorts this season and what a one to watch! Great performance to the man, albeit against awful opposition. Clearly everything that Rafa has been saying in the press has really had an awful affect on the players morale. This ones for you Mike ?.... sorry I meant ?

Come on ye bastids!!!

This whole summer has basically detached me from the club as it's got progressively worse, hoping for the best, absolutely expecting the worst. I haven't even watched a game yet, the current malaise has had me drifting for a while. I know Rafa could pull me back in if he stays but as that's looking less and less likely, the only outcome at this point is him gone and me packing it in. That'll be it until the fat leech has been extinguished, even then I'm not sure how such a failed relationship can be rekindled.

If he leaves I'm gone, simple as, I can't follow what Ashley has turned this "club" into and if he loses the best thing that's happened to it since sir Bobby then he can fucking rot in what's left of it for me.

Rafa has probably upset the squad morale with his comments directly and indirectly with the press, but what choice does he have with an estranged owner whom he has no contact with? He has made empty promises and left the club high and dry, gambling with our fate again in complete disregard of anything but his bottom line. As others have said, Rafa has a very rigid system and doesn't stray from that much at all. This wouldn't be an issue if he was given the players he asked for and indeed was promised as Unbeleavable! stated. Bottom line is, Ashley is responsible for the issues at the club, always has been and as long as he's here, always will be. Every manager in the last 10 years has had their hands tied, been lied to and used as a scape goat, yes I include Pardew in that but the difference being he gladly took it up the arse to keep his job. The PR spin is in full throttle and too many people, including some on here, are buying into it. The minute we start booing the players and Rafa, Ashley's won, again! Another scape (escape) goat, another misdemeanour brushed under the carpet. It's time the cancerous, horizontally challenged, leech was gone for good.

Sky can't wait for NUFC to reprise it's role as the biggest circus in town, if they can egg it on a little bit and get the less edumacated on board the boo train then all the better. Aye, clear agenda imo. Started when Ashley's cunt mate who came in a couple of weeks ago, then the interview and broken promises on money, Sky backing Ashley all the way. Yes and I've had to defend Rafa to other supporters today who have basically repeated verbatim that it's his fault moral is low. Hate that average Joe takes Sky as gospel that cannot be questioned, it's infuriating! Aye drives you mad, i get it every day living down here, just a stream of ignorant cunts who believe all the shit spouted about us. I do think Rafa is being a tad negative, i don't think it's affecting the team though, but why would that be ? Oh yeah, just ignore what Ashley and his cronies are doing. Drives me so mad. I'm North West so a little way out the catchment area for NUFC fans but I am surrounded by Man u, Liverpool, Man City, etc and tbh amongst the big sides I have had a lot of sympathy from the supporters, it's the minnows and the southern supporters that have issue with cliche. I agree, Rafa is being negative, if go as far as to say it might even have affected the team spirit, how would it not? But what other choice does he have? He doesn't have council with Ashley directly and I'll bet you the mortgage on my house that sniveling arse lick Penfold won't stand up to the fat bastard. His only way of getting it across to the lying kniving twat is to get the media involved. For all his hard man act, Ashley is a spoilt little fat shit of a kid who doesn't like nasty things being said about him and I believe he'd genuinely actively avoid another fan backlash. He's rolled the dice on squad investment and he's rolled the dice on his little Sky cameo in a hope that he can keep supporters on side and from a lot of what I've read on social media it's worked "he's being honest" "he can't spend 200m like city" etc... hook, line and stinker!

Sky can't wait for NUFC to reprise it's role as the biggest circus in town, if they can egg it on a little bit and get the less edumacated on board the boo train then all the better. Aye, clear agenda imo. Started when Ashley's cunt mate who came in a couple of weeks ago, then the interview and broken promises on money, Sky backing Ashley all the way. Yes and I've had to defend Rafa to other supporters today who have basically repeated verbatim that it's his fault moral is low. Hate that average Joe takes Sky as gospel that cannot be questioned, it's infuriating!

Sky can't wait for NUFC to reprise it's role as the biggest circus in town, if they can egg it on a little bit and get the less edumacated on board the boo train then all the better.

Ironically, strangely akin to buying sports gear from Sports Direct, we can't afford Nike so we're going for the best Slazenger kit money can buy!

This thread is the 4th Sunderland thread on this forum, each thread gets capped at 1000 pages and there are 25 posts per page, so thats 90,225 posts in the Sunderland thread, the majority being about that site. Its took us since the 11th March to do 200 pages, at 25 posts a page. 5000 posts in approx 140 days. They've done 205 pages at 20 posts a page in a month. 4100 in 31 days. Not to mention that everything to do with Sunderland is in this one thread and every other thread in theirs is about us. We're both transfixed on what the others are doing/saying but they have the edge on obsessed.

Probably this because of the fact that Rafa is playing him to his strengths, hes not asking him to do the things we all know he struggles with.

I'm waiting to see what happens, who's going to blink first or if there even is a staring competition going on. Rafa was their one and only chance at redemption and to keep everyone happy, for the first time in Ashley's tenure we've actually had a modicum of togetherness and peace. I will add my name to the list of people that will be done with NUFC for the foreseeable.

I don't know about you guys but I'd be "fewmin" possibly even "seethin" at the possibility/improbability of this: https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/kevin-keegan.1374074/

There's a board??