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And you sound just like the sort of walkover I'd like to have working for me. You don't sound like you have the moral fortitude to make a stand when your boss is running roughshod over you. I need a bitch to make my cuppas and cover me when I fuck off from work early.

Indeed. If only he had that spine. Think you know the real villain and it's not Keegan. I would have done the same thing as him, Ashley's a first rate c*** and is the only person to blame in all of this. As if I wasn't feeling pissed off enough. "Keegan" just reading it makes me want to throw up. Im sure Keegan will be happy enough with his f***ing 8mil payoff Good luck to him, I'm sure he would rather still be in the dug out. Ashley has reaped what he sowed.

Looks like it will go down to the wire. We have no complaints really, just like the last time we went down. We truly deserved it having had ample chances to dig ourselves out of the mire. I still think we can get a point away at Villa, unfortunately tonight was a must win (like I'm telling anyone something they didn't already know!) and I can only see us winning the Boro match. We will be agonisingly close but ultimately unsuccessful. Ashley needs to carry the can, even Hiddink, Wenger, Ferguson and Benitez working as a management coalition couldn't keep this bunch up.

Well I think thats it, in my opinion the games against Wigan and Stoke at home are the ones that really sunk us. I look at this as an opportunity. Get Ashley out of the club, lose 25,000 of the fair weathers who have attached themselves to the club in since the halcyon Keegan days and get rid of some of the dross on the pitch.

Other shite teams play two banks of four and battle for everything. We can't even do that. Absolute dross. Managers like Shearer, fresh from playing/the studio are food and drink for old campaigners like Redknapp.

Reminds me a bit of Alan Smith (when he was good).

Didn't he just sign a new contract? Yes, but he's not quite the Galactico who has it in his contract to start every game.

Almost 100% positive Butt will start the next game. As for Ameobi, his days are surely numbered.

Clutching at straws, but this may be a turning point. Surely we can't play this poorly again. Shearer will learned a lot about which players are up for the fight. Shame Ashley dithered for so long as we are now running out of time. Stating the obvious I know.

He made the tea at half time. Makes a lovely cuppa.

Me too, this was always going to be v. difficult. A draw keeps us alive (just).

Brazillian girls: Bodies from Baywatch, heads from Crimewatch.

Got a ticket for the Ukraine game, just enough time to get to Wembley after I finish work and then hope to get home before midnight after the game.

Colo has been living off his reputation for a while now. If his name was Frank Coulson instead of Fabrizio Coloccini he would have been slaughtered by now.

He is not good enough, unfortunatley Given was sold for peanuts. Give Krul a chance.

Agreed, Boumsongesque performance, he's always back on his heels.

tbh that's quite interesting. As an aside, I played at the national stadium in Freetown, Sierra Leone when I visited with the RN. We played a team of "displaced people" who had been made homeless during the civil war. The strips and balls had been provided by the English FA. There was good turnout, 2000+, and after the match we all donated our boots to the lads on the team we played. The referee wouldn't leave me alone because he wanted my NUFC socks, which I wore after the match, to complete his ad hoc referee kit!

Sierra Leone 2009!!! http://www.subsidesports.com/uk/images/product/xlarge/SierraLeoneHSS09b.jpg

Wow, chomp indeed. I just find it funny that you give up on the club every single f***ing season, despite being a "genuine fan". If you really support the club, you'd stick by them even in the conference. I'm a genuine fan and I stood on the terraces before Keegan came with circa 16,000 other genuine fans. Long after we lose 25,000 - 30,000 fans I'll still pay to watch the team, circumstances permitting. Sticking by the team doesn't mean putting up with shit constantly from inept owners, mercenary players and incompetent managers. It's about time all of those cunts realised the fans have just about had enough and our support cannot be taken for granted.

My prediction is he will leave us and disappear up his own arse. Just like Bernard, Domi etc etc.

I blame George Bush.

They are going to, they said in the press that they would be saying something after the transfer window has closed. i can almost guarantee now that whatever is said will be laughed at and not believed. What has Ashley done so far to merit being taken seriously by the fans? Why do you cut Ashley so much slack? Not trying to be provocative, I'm genuinely interested.

Martins on the left would work imo, not as a winger or LM but as a left sided striker in a front three. I've always thought he was at his best when running at people.. I agree, I'd like to see it: Owen Martins Jonas CM CM CM If we had the players, i.e decent, attacking, fullbacks, it might work.

I prefer spending good £££'s on high quality young 1st team players like Bellamy, Jenas, Parker, Dyer etc than youth team'ers. The difference is that Bellamy, Jenas et al were young players of great potential bought for the long term good of the club. The present regime seem to be buying young players with a view to selling them on and generating a profit.

I can, and I just did.