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He just hasn't got a clue. He's trying to complicate things coming out with rubbish like that to try to justify his (lack of any) tactics. To get higher up the pitch you need to have possession of the football. If you rarely have the ball you are going to be defending and stuck in your own half more than anything else. It's hardly rocket science.

Back in the day when we were bigger than City, Chelsea and Spurs. Anyone who wasn’t around during this time can never appreciate how big this fucking club can be. Literally everywhere you went, and I mean anywhere in England, Europe or further afield you bumped into someone wearing one of those tops. If you had one on and were in another part of the world you were stopped by locals constantly wanting to talk about Alan Shearer or Kevin Keegan. We were absolutely massive back then, not just making up the numbers. I still remember a Daily Mirror article circa 1996 which displayed a league table of the top selling replica kit sales in the UK and we were top by miles (Rangers 2nd, Man Utd 3rd).

First win in 30 games stretching all the way back to last January! Amazingly the win lifted them off the bottom of the league as well. They finished runners up to Bayern Munich 2 seasons ago.

Thought it was him. He was slagging SAFC off something rotton the other week for it so they probably wanted rid anyway.

He got us relegated with a squad that included Wijnaldum, Sissoko, Perez, Krul, Coloccini, Janmaat and Townsend. Look at our PPG once Rafa took over, it would have had us in 11th place over the course of the season.

Good to see the return of the MoneyMikeAshley account on twitter!

Carver McClaren Kinnear Bruce Pardew

That's 430 minutes now without a goal from open play. I'm not watching it but it sounds shite going off comments here/on twitter.

Would rather the forum didn't die like but I get where you're coming from. Do worry about this place on occasion, particularly with forums generally being surpassed by Twitter and the likes. Keep posting, people. This place was dying on its arse before all the takeover talk started in the Spring. You could literally go a couple of hours without a single new post appearing during the day time. When I joined up 11 years ago it was very busy and at times it was a struggle to keep with things it was so busy. Twitter has had a massive effect but so does the teams performance as well. The fans are bored, and other than for the spell under Rafa, have been for a long time. Gets tiring moaning about Ashley/Bruce all time when I can't even be arsed to watch the team on TV anymore.

They have any decent players? Not really. Ozan Kobak is a quality centre half and it's rumoured that Liverpool might go in for him in the transfer window but other than him not much. They'll be forced to sell as well. They're a basket case club and they have debts that are spiralling out of control. They literally had to beg their season ticket holders not to take a refund for games missed due to COVID as they couldn't afford to reimburse them. Quite sad really. They are traditionally Germanys 3rd biggest club and have 160,000 members, only Bayern have more. They have a 62k stadium that they sold out every week but they are certainties for relegation. They've gone something like 30 games without winning in the league, going back to last season.

Villa are light years ahead of us like. Only their 2nd season back in the PL after 3 years in the Championship as well.

It's his 60th birthday on Thursday. The reaction could be interesting when the NUFC social media team offer their birthday wishes on Twitter and Facebook.

Liverpool at home. I remember a time when I would be excited for this a full fortnight before the game. Won't even watch this.

I've gone from being a season ticket holder for best part of 30 years (went 12 years without missing a single home game, including friendlies and Anglo Italian Cup games) and regular away traveller to the point where I am now and that is I've watched us twice all season on TV, both times I was bored beyond belief and felt virtually no emotion whatsoever. I won't bother watching these 3 games over Xmas and New Year either.

All the best one and all!

Let him crack on. He's a footballing non entity and his opinion counts for nothing. Listen to him he can barely string a couple of sentences together.

Cost Ashley £4m in compensation to get him here from Sheff Wed.

Awful going forward, even worse trying to defend. Hopefully Willems returns next month.

Yep that's more or less as good as we've played this season, certainly in terms of possession and chances created, and we were still absolutely pathetic.

What's the fascination of getting a throw in, in line with their 18 yard line and playing it all the way back to Darlow?

Aye the next 3 league games are a write off anyway so we may as well go full strength here.

Bookies have Brentford as favourites for this. 13/10 home win 2/1 away win.

Nah not under Ashley they wouldn't. There's a reason our managers under him have included Kinnear, Pardew, Carver, McClaren and Bruce and that's because they are the calibre of managers who will happily work for Ashley. Desperate has beens who know they shouldn't be anywhere near a Premier League job. Of course we had Rafa as the exception to the rule but look what happened there.

This poor fella getting a bit of stick.....

Didn't even watch it. Watched a programme about the making of Home Alone on Channel 5 instead. For those who did watch, you have my sympathy.