Darth Crooks

Surpassing the lowest of bars is their forte.

Clearly calling for Rafa out.

Basically their business model is Deliberately say something stupid/uninformed/controversial about a club - club's fans tweet, text, and call in - profit I mean, it's as good as bottled water as a business model.

Lee got lost in mind maze and couldn’t get over the line.

Can still remember the pro-Pardew Ian W. The North remembers...

Wind me right up when they produce all this PR guff with 'take the club forward' Where exactly you twats? you have no intention of the sort.

Just seems like hearsay. Pure and simple etc.

Where's this idea come from like? Seems to be out of someones arse.

I take a lack of FCB in an instant.

Well he's a buffer in the sense that some fans want to back him and the team before considering anything else. People need to accept theres that risk involved tbh.

I agree he’s become a shield or buffer but it’s not through complicity. He hasn’t let us down like.

It’s preaching to the choir in here like, football is short termist in nature unfortunately - people think season by season. Personally I think any potential boycott has no power if we’re already safe but people were more pliable for the spurs one for that reason. You have to get across that Ashley negates EVERYTHING somehow

Fair enough. What is it if you’ll indulge me. Genuinely interested. It was for a full boycott of a game, and offer those who won't stay away altogether to go in 15 mins late. Hardly groundbreaking stuff i know but there you go Yeah. The 15 min thing is my personal preference as it’ll test the waters. Was listening to the chronicle podcast earlier and I get the impression people that PL status is somehow at risk by doing full boycott. I’d argue that’s moot as this point and hedging your bets but it’s out there.

Fair enough. What is it if you’ll indulge me. Genuinely interested.

I think bizarrely that for all the rhetoric and consensus agreement following the TF forum last week about keeping voices loud and front and centre there’s been next to no fanfare about Saturdays protest and the media presence or correspondan has been poor. I say this with the utmost respect for how hard it is but if they are truly not letting things blow over then it needs to adapt.

It's a forum and i'm offering my opinion, as is everyone else, you don't need to tell us all to get more involved everytime we offer an opinion or idea mate. With respect, it’s a point worth raising if you are going to make the same point more than once (which I agree with and I have no problem with btw) the next logical step is to suggest you get involved.

The super gay-weight title fight

Because reasons.

I don’t understand what he’s supposed to do other than just do better. He doesn’t have the players to play we way people talk about and we don’t have any match winners. Make earlier subs? Motivate players towards what exactly? Fight for the badge and pride in the club? Refuse to sign anyone because he can’t get 1st choices. I don’t get why you’d put such focus on the minutiae when the macro is clearly what’s inhibiting everyone involved.

Unfortunately it’s a must-play game this.

Day outs and now almost meaningless platitudes like ‘what is a club in any case’ are easier to do. At least with Rosa Parks it was fundamentally affecting quality of life. I get the impression many are happy to pay an Ashley tax to get together. I don’t like knocking people and their social lives but to me it’s not worth some fat rich cunt laughing directly at me whilst picking my pocket.

It's also how you end up in a position where £10m is spent on someone like Murphy and rather than it being viewed as a pittance for a young, British player, it's viewed as a waste of a lot of money and we're in a position where some of our fans are thinking like Ashley, completely divorced from the reality of modern day football spending. If he ever played Murphy I would feel differently. This was someone he wanted. Who was our most expensive signing that summer. This isn’t about agreeing with Mike Ashley. Don’t be so fucking stupid. This is about taking the rose tinted glasses off for a moment and actually seeing that Rafa has done a decent job but not amazing, certainly not in the transfer market with what he’s had to spend. The state of the team this year is on him. The same bunch played far better last year. This beggars belief