Bimpy474

Harsh on me that like

I can't see him selling because he needs the money, it'll be if he's had enough of owning us, which we can accelerate hopefully with the relentless attacking of his businesses, business partners and everyone and anything else associated with him. Peacefully of course.

Aye it's the make us back off, total made up PR bollocks. Best case, it's PR to attract a buyer back. Hopefully but as Gimp said, he can just pick up the phone. But we can have that little bit of hope it's the beginning of the end game.

Aye it's the make us back off, total made up PR bollocks.

We've not had a numerical advantage in a PL match since Boxing Day 2013. That can't be right mate, i think it was Stoke at home when they had two sent off, Ben Arfa was brilliant and got dropped by Pardew for the next game Unbelievable, wasn't it. The game prior he came off the bench and took the piss out of Palace at Selhurst Park, then took the piss out of Stoke. Then dropped for Arsenal. God it's been almost 5 years and it still riles me. It was utterly mental, the day he was dropped against Arsenal was the day i knew that was it. It didn't matter how well he played Pardew was just going to treat him like shit.

We've not had a numerical advantage in a PL match since Boxing Day 2013. That can't be right mate, i think it was Stoke at home when they had two sent off, Ben Arfa was brilliant and got dropped by Pardew for the next game Which was on Boxing Day 2013. Yes, if only you had waited just a little while longer.

No you're are right, is it really that long ago

We've not had a numerical advantage in a PL match since Boxing Day 2013. That can't be right mate, i think it was Stoke at home when they had two sent off, Ben Arfa was brilliant and got dropped by Pardew for the next game

2-1, interesting.

Penalting.

Davy Pröpper has been proper plopper.

Love those skimmers, in as soon as he hit it.

Maybe it might help someone else, might make someone who's had a similar letter spot something like what Gary had, must admit it's a hard read

Never said you couldn't, I'm just talking from my perspective. You may or may not have noticed that Tubes does my utter nut in, with his trillionth post about how Rafa should be walking away, and me asking him to shud up already.

Footy and opinions, ha it would be boring without them. I find it hard to write down exactly what i mean sometimes, it gets lost in translation although to be fair to me I'm from Essex so i have a ready made excuse I've no doubt if we all discussed Rafa, the club, the football etc face to face things would be interpreted differently. Obviously there are knackers who can't see he's the best chance we have of winning anything (if we can get shot of Ashley) but then they're entitled to that view, mad as that is.

Rafa has been a cult on here for some time. It’s a combination of our situation and his ability which in light of the situation is incredible he’s still here (so all situation really) He’d be under far more scrutiny if we had a proper owner I’m sure, but it seems you can’t say anything negative as all you’ll get is that it’s the situation and Ashley is to blame...which is hard to argue with as he has created it, but sometimes you can do more with the hand you’ve been dealt rather than just keep blaming the dealer. Rafa has been screwed left right and centre any fool should know and see it. I get the 'just keep blaming the dealer' argument, and the obvious and perfectly correct his squad isn't good enough because of Ashley, so what can he do. My point and i reckon others on here is, even if Rafa had spent £100m i would still comment on a sub, the timing of one or a certain tactic or approach, a poor starting pick etc as that's football. And what i love to talk about, scrutinise and study more than anything else.

Are we not overreacting, when i moan or point out something within a particular game, that's for just that incident in that game. It's not slating Rafa or not wanting him, it's the type of thing a fan points out in any game, winning or losing. Sometimes it's as if we're waiting to jump on anything or something anyone says about Rafa that isn't praise. Or we've developed the cult of Corbyn in here too like.

may be something in this i guess, last season was about exceeding expectations and so forth this season we've deliberately had the chair kicked out from under us by ashley, has probably had an impact on everyone Aye, last season was more of an unknown as we'd just come up (again) but actively sabotaging your own club this season really is peak Ashley, then again he's been doing it for years.

For me it feels like we're a club with no heart this season. Rafa will do his best but from the very top of the club the apathy, carelessness and vindictiveness is killing the team, killing any hope. We may have a team to stay up but right now we have a team that doesn't look like it can stay up, we just look like a club that will go down. It's the feel around the club, not because of the manager or players, but because we're run by thick as mince idiots who can't see what's happening right in front of them, for the third fucking time.

Now, fucking now ????

Nothing like a defeat to bring out the turning on each other posts

Burton it's amazing how things always come back to bite them on the arse

No but we had one in goal...amirite ?

He has a formula, which he sticks by because it's won him loads. We haven't the squad to win with 5/6 first teamers out but that's Ashleys fault, not Rafa's. Think that's what i was implying with the 2nd sentence but carry on.

Rafa is very firm on players coming back from international duty, but most other managers don't do it. This is where a squad comes into it, they can chance playing them knowing they have just as good on the bench.