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In the being professional stakes it also pales into comparison with the Meyler headbutt and "facking owld caaant"

Love this tweet from him. One line in support of his team and then reverts to standard vitriolic fuelled rage. ExileGwent12 @EGwent12 · 11m Good luck to SAFC today at Cambridge. NUFC will get beaten at Arsenal If they do gain anything it will be moot as its been bought by a murdering regime and paid for with the blood money from their disgusting crimes.

You don't need a DoF to sign players or negotiate. It's an important role for the future but as long as Howe identifies who he needs then there will be people available to open talks. In a way, it might be beneficial in the short term not to have an extra person in the decision making as we'll need additions in quickly. Last thing we need is a DoF and Howe disagreeing on targets and getting bogged down!

Man City and Liverpool are the only "as good as" 0 pointers out of our run til New Year. Everton and Leicester are bottom half Man Utd are on the slide Norwich and Burnley are "should wins" Arsenal - point would be nice

Would clearly swap our position with anyone else so am shitting it a fair amount. But this December "horror month" is a bit much. Points from Leicester, Man Utd and Everton are clearly achievable at the moment. Not from the NUFC of the first 11 games of course, whether that's the same NUFC going forward is still to be decided but Dubs likely would have won us the game today and we can score goals. 6 for me if pushed but still too early to call.

@54 has played a blinder here, dropping this grenade of a thread and then slipping out of the back door whilst the forum explodes

I remember the only time I've had the pleasure of listening to Wraith and he mentioned his charity work 5 times for no reason.

He's a mentalist. Imagine running to your son to debunk the arguments of a tiny % of a rivals fanbase.

Do we reckon Fraser wasn't training or he's just been shopped out of the pics to avoid another Scotland tantrum?

It's just NewBeginnings doing what NewBeginnings does. If he had only just registered i'd have put money on him being a CalmintheChaos regen. Both fucking idiots either way.

Put this in the EH thread but probs worth a post here as well.. "In 2018-19, Wilson and Fraser scored 14 and seven league goals respectively, directly combining for 12, making them the Premier League’s most effective attacking partnership that season" Could be a really useful player for us if he gets back to that form!

Oooh, yes please... "In 2018-19, Wilson and Fraser scored 14 and seven league goals respectively, directly combining for 12, making them the Premier League’s most effective attacking partnership that season"

Love big Joe L just leaning against the dummy. Want to hear a "wee man!" shout from Howe

I'm just pleased to have a manager who doesn't make me want to cry/vomit/rage to be honest. Hope it works out for us and him.

I'm looking forward to the SB soundbites in response to media links to vacant roles, claiming he needs time to recover after all the abuse he received before taking another role. I also bet he gets no actual approaches from anyone but that won't affect the the narrative.

Another proud Geordie hounded out. Won't anyone think of his parents???

Not everyone is though are they and he's getting abuse - don't care if it is the minority! Some people want to get rid on the basis of those 3 games as manager. Most of my post relates to his coaching so thought it was obvious that's what I was referring to. To be clear, his management has been lacking imo, but I don't see that as a reflection of his coaching or a reason to get rid. I'd like to know why he doesn't play Schaar, Fed or Willock - could be lack of fitness or attitude?

Why are we judging a coach on the managers role? Luton was sufficient to show it's not his forte. I'd be more concerned that he was a party to what seems a lack of fitness and training sessions, but without knowing the full facts I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that it was a SB policy - the fact that Jones immediately increased the days supports that. There were a lot of grim elements Vs Brighton but even if he's started to repair some of the damage from Brucey(fitness etc) then hopefully it's a better platform for Howe (if ) to build on...

FFP is over a rolling 3 year period so to get the benefit of the Ashley barren years I think they'll spend a bit heavily than that if they can/if we need. I'm sure there's a bit of brinkmanship - there's going to be a PIF "tax" anyway so suspect they'll downplay any budgets.

I do find some of his digs at Bruce a tad hollow. Surely if he wanted he could have had them in for extra days training even if Bruce wallowed at home chilling. But who knows what happened behind closed doors, happy if Howe wants to give him a role.

Seems a decent guy, happy for him if he gets to stay on in some sort of role despite his obvious managerial limitations. Dunno why people have to be such dicks about him tbh. Who the fuck else did you want to stand up when Bruce was sacked?

Frustrating end but surely/hopefully something there for Howe to work with.

Christ, at least see if it happens today before crying about it

That is also true

If it did fall through, he's going to start getting a bit of a rep after the Celtic job as well