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Slating Colo Saying we don't have the players to avoid the drop Very negative about Rafa Just, as posted above, the usual anti-NUFC rhetoric. He's becoming a very sad and pitiful man, not only to listen to, but also in appearance. To be fair he has a right to slate Colo. I agree, but does he have to do so in a tone that suggests his dog's just died and then insert what he thought was a clever little bit of sarcasm to round off with? Rhetorical question. Proper punditry is not difficult and he's made himself yesterday's man (oh, he must have heard me - he's just described LvG using the same term - three times).

They are actually trying. They've moved him off MoTD, he's not commentating much any more as far as I can see. The Beeb are using him less and less and, as a result, he's getting bitter. This bitterness is spilling over into his work so he's even less worth listening to than ever. We're supposed to be sharing the pain of his deflated ego but no-one gives a f***, though he's yet to realise this. Like I said, he cuts a rather pathetic figure now. The hubris of being on the top show and co-commentating on the big games is all in the past.

Slating Colo Saying we don't have the players to avoid the drop Very negative about Rafa Just, as posted above, the usual anti-NUFC rhetoric. He's becoming a very sad and pitiful man, not only to listen to, but also in appearance.

It's boring for NUFC fans - does he think anyone else is really interested in his whining drivel? It's not our fault he got demoted and is morphing into Jimmy Hill, being eased slowly out of the picture. He's backed us for the drop, surprise.

Mark Lawrenson behaving like the utter cock he is on MoTD extra at the moment.

Charnley should have got his p45 as soon as Benitez signed. The idea he's due any credit at all for getting RB in is delusional. I don't think I'm alone in having my heart gladdened by RB's appointment, but it was, sadly, tempered by the fact that Ashley and Charnley are still there.

I interviewed him for a UK newspaper during his 2nd stint at Twente and he was a condescending, arrogant prick.

The club didn't issue it, as SkySports just ran with it. Imo this has come straight from Keith Bishop. Article on the previous page said in house PR department. Might well have been Bendy Wendy. She's got extensive form for just making stuff up.

Nowt to do with stones, he just wants his cash as this is his last job in football.

Anyone know where this game might be on in Malta?

Beardsley, of course!

He literally can't help himself though, can he? He's as clear a case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder you'll see this side of the X Factor auditions.

This is it for me, surely you would sue as matter of principal, the money might be pennies but it would send out a strong signal. Letting it fly says they knew more than they admitted. What signal? "Don't be a nonce while playing for us"? They probably just don't want anything to do with it anymore and distance themselves from it as much as possible. Move on and all that That's Nonce Sense, isn't it?

Nee chance he'll play in English professional football again imo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Thomson_%28footballer,_born_1991%29

I remember his home debut, can't remember the opposition. Askew picked the ball up just outside our box and went on a mazy run up the left of the pitch, leaving opposition players in his wake. I was thinking: 'we've got a player here' but he ran the ball out of play and that was it as far as his NUFC career was concerned: five seconds of brilliance.

No he didn't. Nor did 'he' spend £6m on Riviere (£1.8m), nor £12.5m on Cabella (£5.2m), etc., etc. Let's be generous and leave the TV money, all half-billion of it since Ashley oozed into town, and consider the £25m/yr advertising he's getting in lieu of the 'interest free' £130m he 'loaned' himself when he became owner. So on that basis alone, he's into us for about £100m, Sky and prize money excluded, which is pushing half-a-billion. #fuckingthievingfatcunt

Good one!

What do you mean? I think the poster was being sarcastic. The profit warning of sh!t direct is very bad news for the club. He needs that £180m TV money and free advertising more than he ever did. This could end up being the cash that keeps his businesses together...

As we have been able to judge from the entire 4 minutes he's featured for us this season My arse. he's had much more than that and has done and will do f*** all. About f***ing time, he's s***. Soft as s***, over priced, over hyped and utterly unsuited to the PL or the British game. It is considered by the majority that Thauvin hasn't had an honest amount of time on the pitch. Care to cite that?

Oh, it really will be, for the 'club' is his £180,000,000 cashpoint for next season if we stay up. SD are not tanking, but they are struggling, and cash from the 'club' is a real godsend for the Slug to support the rest of his businesses (plus the £25m/yr free advertising) He's had us for about half-a-billion to date.

Clubs are not collecting their taxes? WTF is this idiot on about?

I think there's far too much analysis going on directly above. Ashley knows what he is doing: the absolute bare minimum spend to finish 17th or above and, as a consequence, the amount of money he can misappropriate from the club. That's the beginning and end of it.

That's exactly like us with Lerner for the last five years. So long as we could cling on in the top flight, that was enough for him. 17th is a success for him. Other than the fact that Ashley is also, as a person, a massive, massive c*** (which I don't think Lerner is), their reasons for being involved in the game are the same. All that CGAF / slopey shoulders / just don't get relegated attitude drips down from the top and permeates both clubs like a leaking f***ing toilet. And that is precisely why the rest of the league, let alone fans of teams in other leagues, want the likes of us and you (and Sunderland, for that matter) to get relegated, because as much as it is always funny to see big names suffer, both clubs have contributed absolutely f***ing ZERO to the league for years. Check this out, for example. This is our CEO speaking, yesterday, a day in which we've completed our 19th game without a win. How can you even begin to deal with people with this attitude? What concerns me is that SD is not performing well in many areas (and becoming a very toxic brand - it's hardly scientific but I walked past my nearest SD many times in the lead up to Christmas and it was visibly quieter than every other shop in the centre) and NUFC is increasingly becoming his cashpoint. We will stay up by the skin of our teeth as Ashley literally cannot afford to lose the £180m, the vast majority will be siphoned off, as it has been every year since he arrived, to his other businesses. He'll NEVER let us go.

If you had an ATM card that gave you access to £100,000,000 a year (and rising) in cash, would you chuck it away? The tv bubble will burst within 3 years. Need the guy to get a love for the club again and invest Get a love for the club again? He hates the club and the fans as shown by his behaviour over the last 8-9 years. All he wants is the TV and prize money and, as pointed out above, the free advertising (worth £25m a year and rising) which is 20% interest in lieu of interest on the supposedly 'interest free 'loan' he somehow owes himself, and which he has paid down not one penny. 17th is the goal, that's it. We're not a football club any more. There are only three clubs in the league whose sole aim is to chug along in mid-table and rake in the TV money, it's obvious from the table which they are. It doesn't work anymore, there's too much money available to every club, when every other club is putting in 100% effort no club can afford not to do the same. If he doesn't tear up this self defeating, doomed business model and spend big this month he's going to lose that income. He's not going to be able to fluke his way back to the honeypot at the first attempt this time too, he dismantled the spirit and backbone that did that for him last time. It's not about love, if he doesn't wake up and see that aiming for mediocrity is no longer a sustainable way to run a premier league club he is going to personally lose a lot of money. Absolutely, and this is why a significant section of the support (and maybe 90% of those who've racked it in) want us to go down, perhaps a couple of times. The goodwill towards a new owner who wasn't a thief would be incredible.

If you had an ATM card that gave you access to £100,000,000 a year (and rising) in cash, would you chuck it away? The tv bubble will burst within 3 years. Need the guy to get a love for the club again and invest Get a love for the club again? He hates the club and the fans as shown by his behaviour over the last 8-9 years. All he wants is the TV and prize money and, as pointed out above, the free advertising (worth £25m a year and rising) which is 20% interest in lieu of interest on the supposedly 'interest free 'loan' he somehow owes himself, and which he has paid down not one penny. 17th is the goal, that's it. We're not a football club any more.