Darth Crooks

There’s gonna be crossover like. I don’t see the problem in talking about it. I get the positivity thread being a thing but it’s as if people want to ignore this. 100 people make the same point 100 times a day on 100 topics. It’s just what happens.

Its a pity that as a club we can’t be seen to register distaste at sports neglect/direct in case someone with a worse record buys/invests instead. You may not really care and that’s fine but we weren’t wrong to do it.

I don't care if it's Qatar releasing the story. It's one we should be discussing seriously. It's not enough to simply acknowledge wrong-doing. A man was murdered for criticising a regime. That does not deserve death. Why should we ? It’s got nothing to do with football, if your going to attach the murder to the purchase of the club then also discuss it in relation to live nation, Warner brothers and other Saudi purchases. No one is disputing the murder is horrendous, it’s the hypocrisy that the sale of nufc should be stopped whilst all these other deals go throughout without a murmur. The one thing this deal won’t be stopped on is human rights, it would put the premier league at odds with the policy of the U.K. government. What is blatantly happening here is human rights lawyers are using the high profile nature of this sale to gain publicity, as they know the Saudis buying stakes in other companies just doesn’t draw the same attention. You can’t blame them for this as this is their job, however what I strongly object to is the notion that we should sacrifice the chance of a lifetime for our city and club, If this was blocked these same people would move on to their next cause and wouldn’t give a s%#t about us. So whilst I acknowledge and understand the human rights aspect, ths hypocrisy expecting us to be line drawn in the sand with Saudis doesn’t wash with me and many others. Spot on Whitley Mag. 100% agree with you here, everything you said is spot on. Nail on head Because we argued Ashley was a human rights abuser and used that angle in some of our protesting. Makes us look a tad hypocritical if we say nowt. I’ve done this very overtly and I still don’t like the associations of SD with NUFC. Bothers me greatly that people are even okay with stadium renaming to Saudi PIF interests provided money is involved and it might just be the way it is but it’s not right. Feels like I have to accept any value is sacrificial for a price. Even though they’ll likely invest, I feel I can hold these lot even less accountable if they do stuff I disagree with. Think I’m out of love with modern football if I’m honest.

Hate is always a strong word imo. I just think he’s a bit of an oaf and deluded if you think you can come in an demand respect i the way he did off the back of what happened with Rafa and full knowledge of what Ashley is about. He came at the zenith of mediocrity for the club. Perhaps unavoidable and it’s a bit of an aside from his own matchday/TG ability. I hate what his appt represents and that’s reason for him to go on it’s own.

Jonas had great close control but no end product.

Go outside for a bit. Everybody else seems at it.

Sugar Gay Leonard

He seems enthralled anyway.

I think I have an idea who that might be. Soopafans gutted they weren’t involved. I thought it was great tbh - a farcry from the Twitter gobshites I have in mind.

Complications or bandwidth from corona/project restart issues. At a guess.

I miss the chancellor

God I hate that

God he was a simpleton

It'll never not make me properly fewm. the defence of Bruce is one thing but suggesting he's done better than Rafa, just thick as fuck, man. I thought I'd give that GallowgateShots podcast a go as I'd never listened to it before and wanted to hear what that lawyer lass had to say. Stuck with it through one of them saying "the football under Rafa (I think we can all agree lololol) was awful," but switched it off at "Bruce had done a great, well, a phenomenal job this season." Can't get away with it at all, my ears start bleeding at even a hint of credit. I'm a very bitter lad. They strike me as very comfortable with the club as anyone. They repeat lines re: transfer policy etc. almost verbatim. I’m not a massive fan of their format mind either.

Didn’t put this but close. I had to include Rafa because aside from the rename is was the single greatest indicator of what he wanted the club to be about.

SPORTSWOSHING!?!

It’s harmless. Not particularly funny but harmless. Enjoyed the T. rex

reconnected with a mate recently who doesn't want rafa and pulled the boring line ffs also thinks he's "always at war" with the bosses How can you watch what he’s done re: Ashley and pull that? Staggering. yeah i didn't even bother - the always at war thing irked the fuck out of me, as if it's just rafa booting off rather than standing up for himself in order to improve the circumstances at every single club he goes to man Speaks of a wider problem of people happy to follow PR party lines.

reconnected with a mate recently who doesn't want rafa and pulled the boring line ffs also thinks he's "always at war" with the bosses How can you watch what he’s done re: Ashley and pull that? Staggering.

Ian seemed to really like your answer.

Aw shit, forgot about that Who were the board at that point? Ashley, McLaren and Moncur or something? So much smoke and mirrors leading to him controlling everything. Carr was on it too.