Sean

Fair enough, either way Kenyon was either extremely naive to believe Ashley or he earned a few quid for going along with it all. Doesn't really matter which as either way, as everyone could predict, it ends with no sale.

Kanj - agreed. The bid was genuine. That I know for sure. What was never clear and, imho what scuppered the bid, were Ashley's demands. I suspect he's not so keen for a clean break after all and wants to tie the new owners to all sorts of longer term (and self-benefitting) commercial arrangements that AS/PK/whoever would not stomach. Doing a deal with Ashley is virtually impossible as, truth be told, he's probably a very reluctant seller. He buys damaged businesses like NUFC, he doesn't sell them. He's clearly very reluctant to walk away from a profit making enterprise unless the offer is out of this world. The only way you get offers like that is from nation states with huge budgets. Sensible buyers won't work to his terms. I genuinely felt it was different this time from what I knew of the PK bid. I did always caveat that, all along, with 'but Ashley' however. And, once again, he's proven to be the immovable object. Genuinely no idea where things go from here. I wouldn't be surprised if he even gives an interview stating he's staying long term now. Genuine question. You say you know for sure the bid was genuine. Why did Kenyon write Ashley a letter thanking him when they weren't even coming to an agreement? This just does not happen.

This first hand knowledge was given along the lines of "clubs gonna be sold, stop protesting else you'll ruin it". Come on now, join the dots

Same, he was fine. Gonna be absolutely cringeworthy seeing some of the overreactions if he actually does have a bad game.

Anyone who thinks Kenyon was genuine: Can you give me a rational explanation as to why he wrote Ashley what was basically a love letter? It's all been a joke, its clear as fucking day man

Kenyon is on Ashleys payroll, lets be honest here. These crazy comments really need to stop. The way people go about Ashley and Bishop as if they pull the strings on everyone in the world. Kenyon is a nothing really, far from everyone in the world. It''s either that or Kenyon is so stupid that he didn't realise Ashley is not for selling, but it's gone past the point of that being believable now tbh Also, he wrote a fucking letter thanking Mike for great progress blah blah, it fucking stinks.

Haven't bothered looking, but if true some of our fans are even thicker than I give them credit for. Edit: had a look...is it just James?

Kenyon is on Ashleys payroll, lets be honest here.

Yep, easily pleased as a fanbase aren't we? We're the perfect club to fuck with really, we take it all without giving him anything back in effect.

Why the fuck are our fans so fucking gullible man? Was clearly a load of shit all along. Now, how about the Magpie Group et al tell us all exactly who asked them to please stop protesting as it would damage a sale?

With finishing like that were never getting a result today.

Awful defending, and decision making from Lejune there, not that he won't know it himself.

Same, what the fuck are Sky playing at having Nolan on? Have they been unable to find an Ashley apologist today for some reason?

Took this bet, just cashed out as Ive lost money pretty much every single time I've ever bet on Norwich, so unpredictable Got an anytime goalscorer bet on at the minute, Maupay, Pukki, Jimenez and Piatek. 3 down, one to go. Also a couple of small wins too. First good days betting in a while. Now, do I just throw it all on Newcastle?

I'm never going to get over this, we were fucking robbed of 2 points. He's so fucking good.

I'm impressed with Keown's punditry tonight, showing a bit of knowledge and it also appears he can spot good defenders, i.e. all of ours. Makes a refreshing change from the usual idiots with agendas

Top performance, whole team looks full of confidence suddenly. Also, fuck Burnley and their anti football.

Do Burnley have any black players? Genuine question. Holy shit, only just realised...cant be many at all

Think injury happened with less than a minute left on the clock...watch us play 10 minutes after the restart now.

Richie does his little jump just as it hits the net

Is there a link to this? Not sure, I heard them while in the car. They were full of praise for the lad and rightly so, I think at one point they were saying he has to be in the England squad (a bit premature like but hey). They were also speculating whether Rafa will stay next year.

2005. Yeah but in 2007 we still weren't known as being tight as fuck is what I mean. Even then no-one would believe that sentence.

Never mind the 90s, a fan from 2007 would find that sentence unbelievable. Welcome to Ashleyland eh.

No. I think he'll do the minimum possible to try to keep Rafa and 50,000 fans at the club. Will that be enough to build something? Doubtful, especially with the tricks and deceit that will continue unabated.

Aye. It passed over my head that they'd scrapped it already, but it was clearly a fucking stupid idea in the first place