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He said he was playing devil's advocate and for some of the bollocks he spouted was pulled up by Jenas and the presenter tbf. Doubt he's a Bishop pawn This. He panicked under pressure, fluffed his lines and just repeated "but what if it was your money" as the only argument he could think of on the spot. It was transparent as fuck and a bit cringeworthy.

Thing is, since the transfer window closed Rafa has been hammering home this point about unity and supporting the team inside the stadium and that's the sort of thing that will resonate with the matchgoing fan. When "stand up if you hate ashley" started off in block V today literally nobody joined on. Try to organise a protest in the ground when Rafas saying not to and you risk alienating yourself from a lot of the fanbase. It's a tough one.

I can see why the penalty was given in real time with no replays. I don't agree with it but I can see why it was given. The freekick decision for the winner is just cheating plain and simple.

From the set of fans that bought flowers for the manager's wife And hang on aren't these the same lot that are always banging on with exaggerated stories about us hounding managers out and not supporting them? If I didn't know better I'd say it's almost like newcastle fans just can't win with them pesky mackems

Apparently this was all a misunderstanding based on his affection for terriers and Mr Madley doesn't actually take any interest in the fortunes of huddersfield town

We need to make sure that its clear Ashley is the escape goat He's doing nothing ill eagle is he, noah fence like.

It's because of the false hero narrative. It's because you know that in a matter of months, when SD are no doubt supplying HOF's distribution at a "tidy profit" to you-know-who,you'll see shit like "Ashley has really sorted out house of fraser, which was struggling when he arrived due to a dispute with the distributors" ignoring that he caused the problem himself in the first place.

If you look back at events leading up to her departure I could imagine those left in senior positions would be very keen indeed to do business with her and keep her sweet!!

Thing is with the majority of fans now they have heard it all before an know it’s all just a PR exercise and they ignore it. There will still be some who are taken in by it but that percentage of fans now is very low. On a separate note talking to someone yesterday who knows Dabizas and he was saying if a player throws a shirt into the crowd they get invoiced it off the club. Not sure if that was common knowledge but it just shows what a tight bastard he is. I feel like this should surprise me. But it just doesn't.

Pretty much what I thought, although I can't see there being a direct relationship between our transfer funds and the house of fraser. He can't use the club like a cash machine. Why not? His loan account is in credit, if NUFC receive a large payment of tv money and it's sat in the club's bank account there's nothing to stop him taking it. Not saying he has done like, just that he can if he wants. (Unless you were being incredibly literal in which case I'd agree that he can't put his bank card into the club, press some beepy buttons and then use it to top up his phone etc.)

That was exactly my thought when I saw it. Fits Ashleys MO perfectly- he'll think he's being dead clever and all. Imagine holding professional footballers over a barrel to get the captain to put his name to this shambles. We must be a fucking laughing stock in the world of professional football. As for the bit about the scouting team, I've no doubt it is sincere and they've worked wonders for the owner. Can't be easy working night and day finding a way to stall and prevent so many perfectly feasible prospective transfer deals.

"HIGHLIGHTS - British Gymnastics suspended Louis Smith for two months."

They said on Twitter they had spoken to some people from the original group earlier today. Supporters for Change - as it was back in the day. The principles of staying away from games will have little or no bearing as it did then. The fact McKeags etc all pretty much worked and lived locally made them very reachable by the support. Interested to see what you think might work, if anything? Get relegated and stay relegated. Perhaps go as far down as the mackems. As long as the cash cow is surviving every season then there's not one single chance he'll sell up and move on. In the next 3/5 years we'll drop again - just hope we don't come back up. Or make his association to NUFC so toxic, that it affects his other businesses. Getting people to stay away from the games has always proved difficult, however a full stadium, carrying out well organised forms of protest, particularly in high profile televised games will definitely have an effect in my opinion. Apathy and the 'why bother' brigade are going to be the biggest hurdle to overcome though. Sadly I don't think our supporters have the discipline, focus and bloody-mindedness to carry out largescale protests and sustain them in the medium/long run until he sells.

And then demands top dollar when anyone tries to buy the club. So so frustrating.

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Agree with most of this apart from the rafa bit. You're dead wrong there. See, Ashley has done a grand job of dumbing down expectations, stamping out hope and ambition and ensuring the fan base "knows our place" (ie a bottom half/yoyo club.) Eleven years of this shite has ground people down- the younguns know nothing different. You are probably right that it's all in vein and rafa will likely leave in high dudgeon at some point in the next 12 months. But over the last three years he's given some self respect back to the club, he's reminded us we don't have to - and shouldn't- accept mediocrity and hopefully he's stirred something in the younger generation of fans as to the potential of this football club Say rafa had gone in the summer of 2016 and the usual yes man appointed none of that would have happened. We might have come back up we might not, but we would have continued to operate the same (club and fanbase) regardless. If nothing else Rafa having been here the last three years should make life a lot more uncomfortable for ashley when he leaves than if he hadn't been here. I hope the above makes sense and I don't come across as too much of a bellend.

Youre obviously not that frustrated if you continue to attend and help fund the decline of NUFC . Yes there are many teams worse off ( Hartlepool , Gateshead and Sunderland come to mind ) do you really want to measure our status by comparison to such small clubs ? How low are your horizons ? Youre not happy but youre happy enough to continue to fund your own unhappiness ... It would seem that for you the pleasure is simply funding Ashley in order to watch any old shite ... did you have the same attitude in the Seymour / McKeag era ... did you not get behind the SJH takeover at the time ? Did you not notice the difference under the SJH regime ? Or are you just another fucking muppet ? Mate. Even though I probably exactly the same sentiment when it comes to what is needed you have absolutely bot all clue about how to go about creating unity and solving this. Aye, everyone has their own justifications or reasons for going to the match and whilst you might disagree with them you kind of have to sort of respect their decision. Going around trying to shame them and/or labelling them as selfish or cunts etc isn’t really the right way to go about things. There’s no consistency to it either, if you want to go with Rafa in charge it’s acceptable but if he walks it’s not? It’s still the same owner, still the same lack of ambition, still the same unwillingness to compete financially with teams around or even below us. As great as Rafa is he can only do so much when the club actively don’t want success beyond surviving relegation each season with as small as possible outlay. I personally won’t be spending a penny on the club as long as Ashley is there but it doesn’t make me more of a fan than those that do. Whenever one of these protests or movements come around too many fans get on their high horse and slag other fans off. It would be great if every fan was on the same page but it’s never going to be realistic and trying to convert the others via abuse is never going to work. all true and relevant especially the last sentence. Must say though not sure why some see any protest as a great opportunity to get on their soapboxes and shout about how they go to all of the games home and away, always have and always will. That's super, but we're trying to make a point to the owner here so please pipe the fuck down.

10k is the going rate to hire a Hit Man or so I'm told.

They're probably thinking "what can I do" ? I'll get me own coat

The only real hope I have for Rafa is that when his contract is up he walks away without taking any silencing payments, and.then proceeds to lay out in public in excruciating detail what a horrendous devious lying ballbag of an owner Ashley is. If nothing else there are sections of the media and our support that really need to hear it.

People really need to get over the Liverpool thing. He was just a naive guy from across the pond.

I don't think it will. I think in this scenario everyone will be intent on giving rafa the sendoff he deserves. Over the following summer, some will drift away without making too much of a fuss and others will renew regardless. As long as we're in the premier league I don't think Ashley will be too fussed either way.

Or he has actually realised that low budget shops only have so much milage in them then they trail off eventually. Especially with his online business, there is far more choice for on-line shoppers. Where the high street is a bit more limited to SD or JD. That, but don't you think it's funny that he didn't stick to expressing the company's 'new' direction strictly from a retail perspective. The bloke imho is taking the piss & trolling the supporter/fan base (of NUFC). Clearly taking the piss, but then again he has been for years and still a sizeable proportion of our support base doesn't accept this to be the case. Full on Stockholm syndrome. A not-insignificant element of our fanbase still think he somehow saved the club financially ffs!!

No it'd be from a distance possibly a rooftop. In a way it's a shame there aren't any schoolbook depositories or grassy knolls in town. The co-op building and hippy green just don't have the same ring to them.

Someone should have told him it mattered on Wednesday then when he conceded two and kept passing directly to Croatia players then!! In all seriousness he's had a very good tournament-a superb game today btw- but not a perfect tournament. All of England's players have had very good tournaments, all have played their part in a great team effort. If anyone stands out for me it's the player who led the line in a team that didn't create lots of chances and is likely going to get the golden boot. I can see why people could disagree but don't see how it's that outrageous it's something Adrian Durham would say as a wind-up which was the original comment.