Sir Toon

The Mackems never could count. There must be 25,000 there at the very best.

https://www.nufc.co.uk/nufc-tv/latest-videos/rafas-review-cardiff-a-reaction-16-17

Liverpool's kit is so close to their 70's and 80's ones. Maybe they'll think it's 'our year' next season again although they always say that dont they?

So it was on Llambias and Pardew's watch then... Interesting.

The Sun article has a few flaws in it or Carr has cocked up, one of the two. In one hand Carr is explaining that he knew of the whereabouts and what was going on with Ashley to find out, bearing in mind Rafa said he has never had any contact ever. Carr also said he expected to get a knock on the door but as he was only a scout, he doesn't even know the wages the players are on. Bullshit alert. I thought the main idea of a chief scout is to target players and find out via their agents what wages etc it would take to get them. Even as much as collecting this all in a little black book or computer system. Carr sounds more like a quiet chairman than what Charnley does based on his job role.

I dont know why Ashley becomes so important all of a sudden. Rafa himself has said he doesn't deal with him and everything is done through Charnley. Even then a private text or phone call would hardly have Rafa heading for the nearest journalist to ease everyone's fears. If anything, the question will crop up today in the press conference and it'll be put to bed.

The tramps will be lucky to get £12m for their keeper.

Forgetting today's shite but what a week eh. With us securing promotion at home, the mackems will be guaranteed goners at the stadium of tramps amidst their empty pink seats and the usual close up of rubbish blowing around the pitch at the weekend. We had expensive firewood to sell to invest in coming back up, theirs isn't fit to make a barbecue. They're going to crash and burn.

Wait, ashley let charnley buy a laptop for business use from the club's account? SHOCKED. Yes it cost 5Million Quid! May explain the new sponsor as well. Dell. (for those who dont get the Llambias pun)

This explains who runs the website then. As soon as Charnley gets out of his cell or gets his laptop back then he'll publish the statement.

Apart from being able to dip into an overdraft I presume, we're forgetting the new sponsorship deal, the next payment of Wijnaldum and Sissoko, the Thauvin cash, any sort of whip round made out of selling the squad dregs or those wage saves for them who are out of contract and advance ticket sales. The likely sales of one or two of the first team lot, maybe even Gayle if we get offered £15m or so. Aye, there's cash there and there'll need to be.

Today is one of those days that dont come along very often for footballers. A day where the pressure is off and the ultimate prize needing no introduction. They should be all busting a gut to be a hero.

I think it's been said that the new kit won't be unveiled until June. The new sponsor I would imagine would be revealed pretty soon after confirmation of promotion. That's what I meant really. Just thought with the recent gloom that a quick upturn may force things through quicker and a bandwagon opportunity on the feel good factor. Id still bet good money that there'll be a gif or 2 out of an Ashley celebration on TV. Just got to win first.

If we go up officially this week then expect the new kit to be unveiled, the new sponsor to have more coverage from the ronny gill and Mike Ashley to be caught on camera dancing a jig with Charnley.

There's too many Southern teams in the premier. Id prefer any from Sheff Wed, Huddersfield or Leeds.

Expect an appearance from Ashley at St James' now with the cameras all panning on him and Rafa at the whistle if we win for some sort of story. Was nervous as fuck the other day but am now feeling like the pressure is off and we can enjoy the occasion. An occasion that most of us haven't seen at SJP.

It is no age but yet again a case of someone taken when all logic is lost. Ignore the shite, live your life the way you want to as long as you're happy. Whether that's cream cake filled or greasy fry up-aholic. makes no odds. The only guarantee in life is that you're going to leave it anyway. As for Ehiogu the footballer. Was one of them solid types that instantly stood out but was in an era of great defenders so saw greater recognition unrecognised. Life just continues to kick you up the arse the older you get.

Is Perez not Spanish anymore?

The more we flap on, the harder it's going to be. We give the same, if not better support than the Leeds game and we'll be alright. We're a team. We're supposed to be called United. It's time to get this shit done

Reading can still overtake us on points. We have 3 games left Not if we win on Monday they cant. They could only finish on what we would have but with a 30+ goal swing in our favour. They wouldn't overtake that in a million years as it's never happened in history apart from the match fixing instances.

a non win for Huddersfield and a win for us is official enough. Apart from that, they might get a clap from me but nee pitch invasion and inevitable ban is worth it.

To clarify: If Huddersfield fail to win against Fulham, which includes a draw, at the weekend then a win for us over Preston is enough. Forget Reading. Even if Reading win on Saturday, the only way they could 'overtake' us would be if we lost our last 2 games and they won theirs then somehow swing the goal difference which would be a minimum of +38 for us and +3 for them. That would be the equivalent of us losing something like 9-0 twice and them winning both theirs 8-0. *edit: The same applies with Huddersfield's goal difference if they draw one game but with a slight goal difference of +3 over Reading for them which means a similar goal swing although instead of us losing 9-0 twice, an 8-0 and a 7-0 would be of similar standing. Hope that clears it up.

There's definitely something went on in the background and aside all this talk of Rafa staying, his persona recently hasn't been that of someone genuinely happy with things. Whether that means he's getting more attached to his job I dont know but even whilst we've been talking over basic maths in another thread, the fact remained that not one player HAD to be sold from the premier league squad. The club were quite vocal in this. As it was and for that reason of a stockpile of £30m+ being created, that should have been Rafa's in theory to strengthen and make his job easier. He was hardly going to come out and say the personnel aren't good enough. Can see grief ahead personally once it's sorted either way.

Just saw a daft bit of info on twitter there which sums up this daft league. We started the day needing 7 points to go up, we play shite and lose which in turn causes the biggest meltdown since JFK rode back in on his drunken horse but go to bed somehow only needing 5 points at the most. [move] :frantic: :frantic: :frantic: [/move]