Odear

Oh Rafa..

I hope it fucking bankrupts him.

We’ve called him a fat fucking bastard for the best part of a decade. Water off a ducks back. We should start picking on things he can’t change through diet. His nose for example. Give him a complex. Then when he finally has a nose job we start on something else.

Vuckic is my biggest disappointment. Didn’t he miss months due to a sprained finger at one point? Lad must have been 6’2 at least. Looked a beast even at 18. Are the youth team being treated like snowflakes?

No, Keegan and Terry Mac thought they had Schweinsteiger lined up. It wasn’t lies from up above (on this occasion)

Terry Mac is quoted about when they sanctioned the Milner Sale. Madness. They thought they could get Bastian Schweinsteiger for the same money but were shocked when they were told he’d cost 50 million.

I think when Ashley bought the club first he thought things would be different. Success would be easier to come by perhaps. His fatal mistake was bringing Keegan back. As soon as things went wrong, there was only ever going to be one winner. He never recovered from that and whatever buzz he got from being amongst the fans drinking or whatever would never happen again. It’s no coincidence that he’s been a total cunt ever since.

Fair fucks Watford. They had a great team last year and should be worse this season but someone forgot to tell their manager that..

That would be all well and good if the club was actually for sale. Ashley is worth enough to not have to sell to other billionaires. He’s worth enough that he has an army of media c***s on the payroll to back up his lies. He’s worth enough that he can literally take the p*ss out of a football club, it’s fans, even the premier league itself. Nobody with any clout would dare take him on. The reality is that we were probably once upon a time a very attractive prospect to buy but not anymore. Not since he’s turned the club into a living breathing sports direct coloured pot noodle suit. We’re turgid to watch on the telly. Turgid to watch in the stands. It can’t be an attractive prospect for overseas markets any more. So what mega rich c*** is going to watch us and think.. “that’s the club for me”? The playing squad isn’t fit for purpose. The stadium is in need of an overhaul. And there’s generally a toxic atmosphere which more often than not filters down to the supporters. The training facilities are worse than plenty of teams from the lower leagues.. The club are still probably under investigation for dodgy payments and avoiding tax. Despite it all going quiet. The only thing going for it is a manager who will very soon be out of contract. Ashley is getting everything from this club that he wants, which is free advertising in the most lucrative league in the world. It would probably take about 2 billion quid to fix all of the things mentioned above. So with that in mind, if Ashley is happy with the current arrangement and some mystical benefactor isn’t forthcoming. Why the f*** so we still think there’s going to be a takeover? There’s no evidence for it. And before anyone brings up Amanda Staveley, that bint never had the shillings to be taken seriously. It wouldn’t surprise me if she or her husband were tied to KBA somehow.. The stadium, playing squad and training facilities you describe are pretty much exactly that of Man City pre the Arab take over. If you think no one will ever take us over, then what exactly is the point of all the anti-Ashley rhetoric and activity which is taking place? You might as well give up supporting right now. If all that we have at the moment is some (even small) element of hope for change, then I’m willing to give the club (not Ashley) my full support still. At some point, all the demonstrations, positive press etc, if it keeps rolling onwards in the manner that it is now, will cause a tsunami of change at the club which I want to be there to see. It’s the fans that make our club what it is. Not the annually changing squad. Not the training ground or even stadium. Certainly not the owner. All those things eventually come and go. Believe me, ive had more than enough of Ashley- the blokes a prize c*nt. Sometimes I think that I can’t bear to watch the games, and each time matchday comes up, I tell myself that I won’t be there. But each time, there I am, cheering us in. He’s a c*nt, a sh*t owner, BUT there’s no way that he’s going to drive me away from our club- he will leave before I do, that I promise. I still love the club so it’s going to take something drastic for me to turn away but make no mistake, Mike Ashley is here for as long as he wants to be. There’s no right or wrong way to go about this because I’m fairly sure in the context of top flight English football, this has never happened to another club. We’re screaming out to be unleashed but are being purposely held back. There’s no stopping that. No amount of protests will make him think “oh yeah, I am a cunt, I better sell up” He already knows he’s a cunt. It doesn’t bother him. Being talked about before and after games on the telly now will only serve to make him more vindictive. He’ll blame all of this on Rafa and the supporters like he has already. Pure sociopath material. Same as the fucking loan he has hanging over us. The fucking neck of him to do that as if our relegations had nothing to do with him.

That would be all well and good if the club was actually for sale. Ashley is worth enough to not have to sell to other billionaires. He’s worth enough that he has an army of media c***s on the payroll to back up his lies. He’s worth enough that he can literally take the p*ss out of a football club, it’s fans, even the premier league itself. Nobody with any clout would dare take him on. The reality is that we were probably once upon a time a very attractive prospect to buy but not anymore. Not since he’s turned the club into a living breathing sports direct coloured pot noodle suit. We’re turgid to watch on the telly. Turgid to watch in the stands. It can’t be an attractive prospect for overseas markets any more. So what mega rich c*** is going to watch us and think.. “that’s the club for me”? The playing squad isn’t fit for purpose. The stadium is in need of an overhaul. And there’s generally a toxic atmosphere which more often than not filters down to the supporters. The training facilities are worse than plenty of teams from the lower leagues.. The club are still probably under investigation for dodgy payments and avoiding tax. Despite it all going quiet. The only thing going for it is a manager who will very soon be out of contract. Ashley is getting everything from this club that he wants, which is free advertising in the most lucrative league in the world. It would probably take about 2 billion quid to fix all of the things mentioned above. So with that in mind, if Ashley is happy with the current arrangement and some mystical benefactor isn’t forthcoming. Why the f*** so we still think there’s going to be a takeover? There’s no evidence for it. And before anyone brings up Amanda Staveley, that bint never had the shillings to be taken seriously. It wouldn’t surprise me if she or her husband were tied to KBA somehow..

Richard Dunne is a certified piss head. The rest though, got Bishops hoof prints all over it. 100% they have a narrative that these ex players & managers are more than happy to swallow. If all of these fuckers appearing on sky are or have recently been represented by KBA, should we be complaining to Sky about it? Has to be some sort of conflict of interest, or are they supposed to give a balanced view of things? Am surprised the local journos haven’t written more about this.

Thought BBC were fair with him. Asked him if nufc was a happy club but he side stepped the question. I think if he had made his mind up about leaving he’d be burning the house down around him.

My f***ing word Robbie from York. Of course you are! ?

Beaten by two excellently taken goals with poor defending leading up to both. Suppose it’s better than being dismantled but seems like we were playing within ourselves the whole game.

Diame’s knees look shot. Was Kenedy at fault for the second goal? Rafa hauled him off straight away. And now Rondon off for Hoss. It’s like Rafa wants nothing from this game..

They just made a good point on the telly. Rafa spends so much time drilling the players on what to do without the ball, they never seem to have a clue what to do when they have it. ... it’s all just so negative. Why not have a go at them from the start of the match? If they pick us off and score then we can go all negative and keep the defeat to as few goals as possible.. but if we never try we’ll never know.

Once bitten twice shy is our Rafa.

I’m pretty sure the pigeon is actually Rémy Cabella.

The way I see it, if he somehow manages to resurrect this shit heap into a side that doesn’t get relegated, it’s only kicking the can down the road. If he’s not going to sign a new contract (and why would he) it’s just delaying our misery. The best thing that can happen once he goes is a mass walk out. For the city to turn its back (not on the club) but on Mike Ashley. And to not return until Ashley is gone. It shouldn’t be up to us to get rid of this cunt. Let natural causes do their work. Pancreatic cancer would be good. Quick and nasty. Next summer will be a bigger fucking mess than this one. The players we sold replaced by loans, the decent players in our squad looking to move for obvious reasons. Can’t really emphasise how bad this situation is.

Almost every other club in the league has had significant foreign investment. It’s simply not believable at all any more that Ashley ever had any intention of selling this club, if he did he’d have sold up or at least sold a part of it. So what are protests going to do other than piss him off royally? Well for starts he’ll throw his toys out of the pram and make decisions to make the fan base as miserable as possible. But that’s it. No protest is going to force him into a boardroom with some wealthy Arabs or Chinese. It’s just not going to happen. I hate to condone violence but to have scenes like they did at West Ham last season against a Sports Direct backdrop would do serious damage to their brand. And it would damage us in the short term too. But Rafa is leaving any way.. there’s no way this season ends without us being in a shit heap. We may as well take as many of these clowns down with us as possible, whether still in the PL or not.

He’s making millions of pounds to play football, his partner doesn’t have to work ever, he can even hire a whole army of nannys and servants to look after the whole family. Or else just use a f***ing condom the babies can likely come in his mid-30s once he’s set for life. It’s a poor excuse. It doesn’t matter how much money a person is making, if they’re a good father he’ll want to be close to the kid. This includes waking up numerous times during the night.. Newcastle is just a job to these players. Work will always come off second best to a newborn.

The situation that Ashley has created has bred massive uncertainty in the players and Rafa can’t shake it. Last season it was almost as bad at times but we had this Amanda Stavely shaped carrot being dangled from very early on in the season. It had everyone on here occupied, I’m sure Rafa was excited about new possibilities, the staff at the club certainly were. But now here we are and the realisation is that Mike Ashley is going nowhere. The hope has been trampled on. The players aren’t thick.. they’ll have been aware of this too.. they’re definitely aware that Rafa will no longer be at the club after this season and that they could also be somewhere else. If you’re spending a portion of the day speaking to your agent about options, would it be hard to keep your mind on the job at hand?

There’s a combination of many things going on. What’s happening with Rafa not being backed / contract running out is definitely one of them. Kenedy has been terrible so far this season. But he’s just become a father, as have I in the last few weeks. It doesn’t matter who ya are. That kid will be sleeping in with them, and will have him awake every 2/3 hours. I’m gonna give him a pass on the last couple of shitty performances. Could go on and list individual performances but it’s irrelevant. The bigger picture is that there’s huge uncertainty surrounding the club, the playing staff and coaches, the ownership of the club, everything.. these players should be able to handle it but history has proven they don’t. At any club with problems like this. They need to sort it and they need to sort it quickly or it will suddenly be February and we’ll have a mountain to climb. Rafa needs to up his game as well. There’s no way we should be losing games like this but here we are..

At what point does Rafa start getting some flack for this? The team we're playing have a far worse squad than us yet are by far the better team.