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Keegan 2008 written all over it, except I doubt Rafa will mAke the first few games

Look forward to us being linked with him for the next 6 weeks until he signs for someone else

Its alright saying "well Stoke and West Ham haven't bought anyone yet" - that's not the issue, if Rafa hadn't wanted to buy anyone yet that'd be fine, the issue is we're missing out on realistic targets due to dithering about and being tight, two of them targets Rafa was posturing we were getting Not having anyone in in itself isn't the major concern, it's more the fact Rafa wa certain we were getting players that we've missed out on

Aye you can't really laugh at them for getting behind their manager man. Whether they're happy about it or not, or whether they think he's the right man you have to give it a go. What do you expect, Grayson out chants instead? Feels like we're clutching a bit here to laugh at them

Aye that's positive that there's comments from Rafa on him being hired like. Business as usual by the looks of that article, be odd to see them sort of comments from him if he was on the way out

If Rafa was ringing round the players one of them would have leaked it to the local journos by now so I wouldn't worry about it

Preston will be good - get 6000 tickets for that, just a shame we went there last season so the novelty of it won't be as good

We did the tour in January on the day of the Rotherham game so they do still have the match day tour. Was still pretty good and got to see everything

Any other club I'd dismiss this sort of stuff as paper nonsense, but it's us, and a few have picked it up, so it's probably true. Rafa wouldn't be the first Manager here to be convinced we have players over the line only for them to somehw not end up signing once our recruitment team take over and start the negotiating that seems to take forever with us. Would not surprise me one bit if this was true. Not to be hysterical like, but if it did happen and he did leave, I'd be done this time

Fair play - that's good news then if it ends up like that! Should mean a cracking allocation that we get then, be a special away day that

Pretty sure I heard they're not allowed to open it to 90000 for all games like due to Wembley only being able to host a certain amount of full events per year, safety and police grounds and all that Think it said they can open it to full capacity for 1 or 2 big game so probably Chelsea and Arsenal but the rest will be around 60000 so we'll probably get the standard 3000 allocation

Tell you what they do make these bloody new designs tighter ? I'm a large for every other type of shirt, including retro and they all fit absolutely fine, large of this fucker is ridiculously tight! Problem is it's not tight enough that an XLwould fit well, seems I'm in the middle asXL would bury me! Gonna be a couple months and a strict diet before I can wear it!

Wouldn't surprise me if they've done millions of stripes to try and "beat" us again "Mags home shirt has a few more stripes this season" "Right, we'll show them, let's have loads of really thin stripes!" "Yeah, also they're not having that patch on the back this year" "Ok, lets have a patch as well then, that'll really show em, losers!" Looks horrendous like, as said earlier I reckon it'll look even worse on tv

Used to have my season ticket in block S but moved it closer as the view isn't as great up there, can't see half of the actual stadium which ruins it a bit so a little disappointed if that's where the singing section is going to be like - would have preferred strawberry corner and gallowgate lower tier. Still any effort to get a decent atmosphere should be applauded and you'd hope the noise would filter down

Has there been any indication of the allocation away fans will get at Wembley? 90000 capacity but I imagine the full stadium may not be open as can't see Spurs getting 90000 every week, but you'd hope the allocation would be at least 5000 which would be decent

Lots of them talking about how they will be ''everyone's cup final next season'' - I really don't see it myself. Speak to any neutral these days and they're all sick of Sunderland stinking up the Prem for so long and there's general apathy in regards to them. Don't think they're quite the big fish they seem to think they are in that league, hell there's at least 5 teams in that league that are bigger clubs than them alone, I really don't why they're thinking

Monk has massively overachieved with the squad Leeds have like. Be a big mistake to sack him I reckon

Just being realistic man Problem is, we've/I've let my guard down so many times over the years and ended up hurt because it's just the way this club is. If we won the league I'd be half expecting us to get it took off us for match fixing a week later so would be hesitant to celebrate ? Feels weird being happy when supporting NUFC so always expect a dissster round the corner

In fairness he's not one to come out and give a definite answer. Like last year he left it open as to whether he'd stay on or not until the day he signed a new contract. Aye because he was waiting to see what guarantees etc he'd get from Ashley...the guarantee he did get was renegaed on in January so I doubt he'll be so trusting this time

He's gone. Ashley won't sanction the amount of spending needed/what Rafa will want for next season. Interview said it all, no guarantees, no showing of cards.

We re not relying on anyone at the minute like. Its still in our hands even if Huddersfield win all their other games

Huddersfield lost to Bristol city and Burton a few weeks ago, there's no way they're winning their last 5 to overtake us. We're shite but we're going to limp over the line as Huddersfield aren't good enough

Aye - the dumps are usualy where you have the best away days, give me a trip to Blackburn over Chelsea for example any day. Proper football

Be a cracking away day this like. Shame its Monday though as back to work Tuesday, going to be a killer after a full day on the booze for this. Blackburn have annpunced a fan zone outside the away end btw from 12.30-2.30 and they will be selling alcohol, so that should be alright. Hard to call this one like, think it'll be a poor game and finish a draw