UncleBingo

Jon Dahl Jorgensen. Champo here we come.

Would pay good money to see Mitro attempt a backflip.

A few mentions of Sandro on loan from Everton. The £20m striker mystery solved.

Agree with this.

Ashley assembling a warchest ahead of next season's Championship push. Forward thinking.

In a state of shock here.

I smell another Ruiz ruse.

Was told that Rafa really wants Sturridge, but isn't confident of getting him in due to the sort of money involved, and other clubs being in for him. Same script with Slimani. Fuck knows who will end up with, hopefully he can pull a rabbit out of the hat somehow.

And Mitrovic.

One in tomorrow (Kenedy) according to my man at the club. He seems to think Slimani is off elsewhere though.

Couldn't get the new signings under the line.

My/Paully's mate reckons the deal is not dead. Apparently they'd agreed a price with Ashley and he changed his mind.....the stuff that came out about the deal being off was from a drunken business lunch, and was watered down. They valued the club at £220-250m because of the investment needed on and off the pitch. So basically, Ashley is a massive cunt.

Relegation threat/HMRC issue would be my guess.

The same Allardyce that he sacked?

Very much this. It needs things like 'GREED, NO HOPE and SHAME alongside pictures of Ashley. Would be very effective imho.

Bet you wish you never took your kid to that FA Cup game that made him fall in love with NUFC just over a week ago. It was kind of me wanting to find out where I sit exactly with NUFC and football too as much as wanting to introduce the boys to it all. I’ll continue to take my boys if they want to go, but in the same way I take them to soft play, trampolining etc. A day of doing something. I would never not want them to not like football and enjoy NUFC even, because as a kid, it’s the best. It’s only when you become older and a bit bitter, a bit too intense and into it massively, can it warp you. When I first got into football thanks to KK man, not much beats it. Even today as a 38 year old with knackered knees I love playing football, absolutely love it, I love watching it too, not in its current guise, but just watching a 5 aside match or a kids’ game where it’s all about the sheer fun and hell of it. You can’t beat it. It’s kind of sad really because I f***ing loved NUFC and got quite emotional taking the bairns to the match, every bloke’s dream and right of passage and all that s***. But... well Mike Ashley? f***ing... a player with 6 months on his contract at the centre of a 35m/250k a week tug of war? f*** that. What an utter fanny.

Fuck off.

Crazy talk.

Striker, creative midfielder/10, keeper for me in order of priority.

Not satisfied with a window that brought in £30m profit and the Championship title. What a parasite on this club that man is. TBF, a lot of our fans share the same view.

Very much this. I think this time would be very different.

It's all down to fine margins at the bottom, defensively we're sound but very little quality elsewhere. Sign/loan a decent striker and we'll stay up comfortably imho, probably about an 8 if we don't. I'd quite happily take another relegation, if it meant that Ashley was brutally murdered in front of his entire family tonight mind.

Agreed. But we didn’t and as such it was 0-0 at half-time. What we did second half was allow a totally awful Swansea side to take the lead, dominate possession and basically have the second half. When you are dominant and creating chances you keep going, keep knocking on that door, eventually one will go in. We just didn’t turn up second half, a complete contras to the first half. Again there is no excuse for that. If we go in 2-0 up then you can relax etc. Go in 0-0 despite having the best chances and unlucky not to lead and surely you keep going. But oh no, not Rafa at home. Negative, boring, counter productive and total nonsense. This kind of ‘result’ can send you down. Swansea will draw huge confidence from this, for us it’s another game in the league at home we’ve failed to win. It’s definately a ‘tactic’ of the manager because he was constantly instructing certain players to not get too far forward, to hold a line, to drop back and when the captain tells the keeper not to release the ball early and then bollocks him for even thinking about it, despite a break on and the crowd pushing for an early release... It’s like the manager is happy just not to lose at home. Me, I don’t get it or the tactics, it’s s*** and costing us big time. Swansea were there for the taking and one of the worst sides I’ve seen at home, yet second half they bossed it. First half only one winner and comfortably so, but only if we kept playing in the same vein... Second half. It was like a different team, a different game. I'll be honest. I always appreciate your opinion because I have this sense that you come from a similar footballing background to me, and I see your point. For me, 1st half we piled pressure and should have been 2up at least. 2nd half, we tried to let them come on so it would expose them on the counter. Given the results away from home that isn't stupid, but we paid the cost. At 1-1 we should have went hell for leather and instead we cautiously pressed. It was frustrating, but we've taken 4 points from Swansea this season which is good. All being said. We didn't win today because of a lack in quality (again) and not Benitez. He isn't void of criticism but after the last ten years of Ashley this probably the first team you can say you like and are proud of for a decade (at least). Naa prefered our last champo side that gained promotion over this. And our side with Demba ba Tiote Cabaye etc. Although managed by a cock end. Are you feeling alright? There's a difference. I enjoyed them. They did well. But we are now something to be proud of. Imagine if Benitez had that same crop of players man... Yes but if we are proud of them why if we are not blaming Rafa are we blaming them instead. Its constantly mentioned this is the worst side in years, only again today the worst in the league by some. Im not really proud of this side or much of a fan of the football, its dull boring s***, but im not daft enough to not understand Benitez trophy haul speaks for itself, if we lose Benitez we will never get a decorated manager again for a good while. But all the same there has been games where collectively Rafa has been as much at fault as the players. Benitez cant really be blamed for Dwight Gayle being a poor header of a football and missing good opportunities, he could be blamed for crap and poorly timed subs though. I hope he gets to deliver his true ambitions with us and is backed. But with the fat t*** still here this will be another window where he might just not be thick skinned enough to deal with more p*ss taking from the hierarchy. I think that his dull, methodical approach could be the difference between us staying up or enjoying one more game with a win that's all. 4 draws are better than 1 wins nd 3 losses. It's that sorta craic... Even though what I have said is over simplistic. FWIW I agree with the rest of your post. He isn't blameless but he is the smallest contributory factor. Any points are good points. I agree with all sides of the debates when it comes to us, thats why I can see with some members arguments that they are unhappy with our hopeless approach at home, and our cautious style, instead of bossing the whole game at home when you know a side is there for the taking. I love hearing the St James roar on motd when we go at sides and attack, its what most of us were attracted to in the first place. But sadly its missing at home atm because we are not going with that approach. [emoji1303] I appreciate your sentiment. However, on the subject of fans, it's the cat we have 26,000 there wanting to be entertained and sighing / booing at every opportunity that I'd also killing us. For every roar there's equal discontent. We knew where we'd be pre season yet some only remember the last pass. We're not alone like but there's no such thing as fans these days. Not in the UK. Just customers. Speaking in the majority of course. I know what you mean about some of our fans mind. Loads near me offer absolutely nothing in terms of support, but love to get on the team's back at every given opportunity, when they can be bothered to look up from their phones that is. The old goat in front of me spends the entire game sighing and shaking his head, I've had to bite my tongue as I'm there with my son, but he's getting right on my tits.

The home form is disgraceful especially when you consider there is only Man City who were a top team all of the other games were certainly what I would class as winnable games. And 2 points out of 21 is not good enough. The fact that there is probably no signings of the required standard to come in it’s essential we beat the teams which you would think we should especially at home. Rafa obviously doesn't trust this group of players to open up and frankly I think he's spot on. Maybe he doesn’t but then again it doesn’t hide the fact that 2 points out of 21 is not good enough He's playing the margins but the s**** he has available to him are missing key chances at key points in games. I don't know what you want, we probably have the poorest squad in the division, if we go at teams at home they'll pick us to bits. Almost certainly. Somebody like a Demba Ba in this side, and we would have been just about safe by now in my opinion.

The home form is disgraceful especially when you consider there is only Man City who were a top team all of the other games were certainly what I would class as winnable games. And 2 points out of 21 is not good enough. The fact that there is probably no signings of the required standard to come in it’s essential we beat the teams which you would think we should especially at home. Rafa obviously doesn't trust this group of players to open up and frankly I think he's spot on. Maybe he doesn’t but then again it doesn’t hide the fact that 2 points out of 21 is not good enough It's not good enough, but then again, neither are the players.