Sean

I think it's safe to say this is all a load of bollocks, like the last dozen times.

Think you're exaggerating tbh. Look at Sheff Utd, Brighton, Villa, Norwich and their squads. They've not got top-class managers either. Just needs someone with a bit of ability and confidence and we're back above those 4. Agree. I don't think this squad is that great, but they are being made to look worse by an absolutely disastrous managerial appointment. Bruce had no credentials at this level, at least not in the modern era. Even his supporters in the media haven't been able to give any meaningful endorsements. It's all vague nonsense about him being a good sort, or having plenty of experience. None of them go on to admit it's experience of being shite. Hard to judge, seeing as Bruce has a £40 million striker (undoubtedly cost closer to £20 million lets be honest) as well as Almiron for the whole season as opposed to about 10 games, whereas Rafa had Joselu this time last year. There is a case for believing that no matter who came in, the drop off from Rafa's meticulous micro-managing of the players through games was always going to leave the team looking a complete shambles. I mean, Bruce hasn't been ridiculed by all of his previous clubs fans. What if he is just average? (not saying I believe this bit btw)

To be fair we have fans who believe this shit and regurgitate it, which is more unforgivable in my eyes. Samuel has an agenda...probably keeping in with a chance of getting 'exclusives' off Mike.

He probably says something Pardew would be proud of, such as "I bet you're shitting yourself, aren't you boy?"

Rafa is a geordie. Bruce is a cunt. Basically.

Yeah, the only blueprint the club will be following is Ashley's blueprint. The sooner those still giving him money walk away the better.

This is exactly how I feel also, just put better than I could manage.

The only depressing thing for me about yesterday is the fact that Ashley still owned the club. In those circumstances the afternoon couldn't have gone better.

It's disgraceful in the current circumstances. I don't remember them going on like this when we got hammered in better times past, so why now that the club is dying on it's knees, enabled by many of those people. I wish Netflix were doing a documentary on us this season, it'd be a must watch. Our fans would probably rival Sunderland's for stupidity, though sadly not for anger.

Ashley, selling club, PR stunt, diversionary tactic. As has always been the case.

Tactics are nonsense now according to Steve, this is comedy gold.

And all because the previous guy had the nerve to keep asking for a better gym and a swimming pool I still can't get over how beautiful Charnley's quote about "of course we'd like to have a swimming pool" was. Just can't quite afford one I assume

Lascelles' interview man, what a fucking mug.

I'm just finding it all hilarious tbh. It's karma and it's nothing less than Ashley's club deserves. Life's too short to be angry, and trying to support Ashley's club just induces anger in me, so now I just enjoy watching the slow motion car crash that was always going to unfold the moment Rafa left.

Yep, giving me a fucking headache. This is not worthy of support for fuck sake.

Timing

Just needs a Perez goal to top it all off.

Club is getting exactly what it deserves today. It's great to see too.

Really good goal.

I particularly like this quote from him: “I agree with the policy. I agree with it because it’s everybody’s policy. There’s not many that want to spend big, big money on a 29-year-old,” So £16 million is big, big money now is it?

I would too if I was a member!

That’s it for me. While putting the membership down to £1 and never once promoting ourselves as a protest group. As an organisation we will do more and achieve more with a bigger member base. What we're working on in the background is really exciting and is why we made a big drive for members (event at a quid). We've done a hell of a lot since the summer, but you won't see most of it yet. In most of what we do we can't do it with a running commentary in the public eye or else things will fail - this is how the world works - half baked ideas, plans, programmes - they fail. I can agree with this, as I remember asking a few questions in the summer which you took the time to answer really thoroughly. I was concerned the group wouldn't be 'militant' enough for my liking (for want of a better word). I didn't join at that point, instead I've waited to see what develops and if it's something I feel I can get behind. Currently I'm still at the waiting and watching stage, but it's hard to watch and see what develops if it's all behind closed doors. But again, I've learnt from yourself now that things are going on behind the scenes. This all makes sense. Almost all of what I've talked about us doing really is the bread and butter of any trust but there's some exciting things we're working on as well but need a bit more time. NUST isn't perfect - a lot of things need to improve and reducing the board down to 7 through these elections is just the start of that process. Your position makes perfect sense, if people were expecting instant change from giving an organisation £1 I am not sure what planet they are living. Some of the falsehoods and rhetoric we have to get around just to have a meaningful debate becomes tiresome, we're a group of people giving up a hell of a lot of spare time (and it's not just the board we have volunteers that have got in touch working on various things as well) and more often than not are met with unfounded nonsense. Like the lies that we all get free tickets and hospitality from the club - did you know all members of the so called NUFC fans forum get this mind? Free corporate hospitality - NUST representation on fans forum was one of only a few on it who turned this down. No wonder some of the fans forum are very cozy and don't ask any questions - we've been pushing for significant reform of the fans forum. Good post. Yeah I have heard that about the fans forum, I also believe (could be mistaken) it was the fans forum who were calling for no criticism of the clubs communication over the summer during the fakeover (having been asked by the club to do this). Things like this happening in the past within certain groups can make it easy to assume the same is happening elsewhere tbh.

1) 100 percent false. Complete lies if you have been told this. 2) It's got nothing to do with the board and this is very normal in any similar organisation - you need to be nominaed by two members - there's nearly 10,000 out there - not by members of the board. Considering we are reducing the board down from 12 to 7 (for good reason) no it's not a sneaky way of keeping people in the board, there's no need for us to even have this many of the board up for re-election but given where we are we felt it was right that the majority of the board were up for election. Have you read the Election Policy? https://nufctrust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/NUST-Election-Policy.pdf Greg can I ask you, without any malice, how many board members, like yourself, don't attend matches currently? 50% of the board don't attend anymore. Thanks. What would happen if that crept up to, say, 100% though? It would be a strange situation to say the least (even only 50% attending is strange really).

That’s it for me. While putting the membership down to £1 and never once promoting ourselves as a protest group. As an organisation we will do more and achieve more with a bigger member base. What we're working on in the background is really exciting and is why we made a big drive for members (event at a quid). We've done a hell of a lot since the summer, but you won't see most of it yet. In most of what we do we can't do it with a running commentary in the public eye or else things will fail - this is how the world works - half baked ideas, plans, programmes - they fail. I can agree with this, as I remember asking a few questions in the summer which you took the time to answer really thoroughly. I was concerned the group wouldn't be 'militant' enough for my liking (for want of a better word). I didn't join at that point, instead I've waited to see what develops and if it's something I feel I can get behind. Currently I'm still at the waiting and watching stage, but it's hard to watch and see what develops if it's all behind closed doors. But again, I've learnt from yourself now that things are going on behind the scenes.