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Ashley has been consistently lying through his teeth for 12 years. Only you think that's even remotely debatable. Hysteria though.

Aye that's the thing about fucking dogs.

Fucks dogs, that's what I've heard.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: and comes and comes and comes and comes. Nope, no trend here. Cronky's out of his fucking mind but that may be one of my favourite ever quotes on this forum. If it was satire it would be amazing, but as we all know it isn't then it's somehow even better.

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Pahahahaha

I regret that we never got these skunks when Rafa was here. Would have beaten them anytime of day. Now with the fat kebab in charge, no way I want these. It'll probably be seven in a row. Except we drew the last time we played them. Under Rafa

Alex Bruce deleted his tweets? Bishop must have told his fatha it was off brand.

I’m still more surprised that he ever contacted us to sign up to this shitfest. It’s not like Ashley has done to Rafa something he didn’t do to other managers before. I love Rafa as much as the next fan, but in an odd way his presence possibly set the club back by taking the pressure right off Ashley. Fans might have given up on their season tickets by now, after three more years of the likes of Carver, McClaren and Bruce. I don’t blame Rafa obviously, but he can’t claim he didn’t know how Ashley operates before he joined and if he thought he might persuade him to change his ways he was sadly mistaken. I’m sure the likes of Keegan and Shearer would have been happy to explain that to him beforehand if he didn’t. Sadly I will always look back at the Rafa era with some regret for that reason, as brilliant a manager and a man as he is. I’m certain Ashley will have loved playing with his and the fans’ emotions. Tbf I fell for it as well. I was convinced that agreeing to hire Rafa was Ashley finally conceding his methods weren't working. But he really couldn't give a toss about the football, I think he'd rather watch the club burn than admit he is wrong. We saw it with Keegan when we were riding high, and we have seen it again with Rafa. When it all goes tits up as it must do, then he'll hold a press conference again saying he has made mistakes but will learn from them, and blah blah blah. Rinse and repeat. The signs weren't bad to begin with - talk of "what Rafa wants, Rafa gets" behind the scenes. That lasted one transfer window, where we made a substantial profit in net spend terms But players were signed that fit the needs of the squad in the manager's view. Whether that changed because Ashley wasn't happy with a few of the signings, or it was always the plan to play nice to give the best chance of promotion then pull the rug from under Rafa and revert to type, only Ashley knows.

TF definitely seem more cosy with this version of the club all of a sudden though, has Michael Martin sacked it off now?

They always spend about as much as they perceive will be enough to keep them hovering around the bottom half of the Premier League. No need invest much with Rafa as he could paper over the cracks perfectly well on a shoestring budget.

So their offer was to stay not just for more of the same, but for even worse than he'd already put up with

Also for him to mock protests 5 minutes after arriving, 12 years into a miserable ownership - that doesn't really tally with the whole Nice Guy Steve thing we're meant to believe either.

Bruce has had some successes one "success" that even Alan Pardew managed though.

That was us chasing the game.

Bruce clearly possesses the #1 PFM attribute of believing he should be able to just send professional footballers on the pitch and let them work it out for themselves. Same as Souness / Pardew and all of the rest of them. The same PFMs then express bewilderment / outrage that PFMs are overlooked for big jobs in favour of foreigners who actually take responsibility for what happens on the pitch and try to influence it. Fucking dossers, all of them.

My interest has been slowly dying for a while, been half watching games for ages now. Even when Rafa was here it was clear he was getting shafted and progress was being deliberately stunted from above. Again. You can only see that playing out so many times before you simply get bored of it. Now we're back to a self serving moron in charge it's almost impossible to give a shit.

:lol: Four players to cover two. f***ing div. and you can only make 3 subs. Seriously man, this man's brain is somehow a bigger mess than his body is.

How does one vote Kaka?

We really have gone from a Porsche to a piggy back here like.

Imagine it happening twice in 15 minutes

rush keeper, no blasties

First half was OK but christ this second half has been shambolic.