HaydnNUFC

Yeah, let's talk about the Spurs game, it's only in 3 and a half hours. Cunts.

Seems that they've done a relatively lengthy interview with Rafa inside SJP so hopefully it's not as much of a joke as last week seemed.

Wonder if they'll be anything like this from last season.

http://i.imgur.com/6JaJXqC.jpg?1

Would love Batshuayi here but if Rafa's already ruled out any more strikers coming in then why the fuck are they penning an article about looking at getting another striker?

Who is this Praet? What position does he play? He any good?

Lee Lawler.

Ah, see they're using us as the benchmark.

Arnautovic and potentially Reid out of the game next week?

If a player is named in a starting lineup, but gets injured in the warm-up and needs replacing, does it count as a substitution?

I wonder if he checks social media or has someone do so to see what fans think. Maybe he checks this forum...areet Rafa

Their craic is absolutely lifting. Utterly vile. Can feel my IQs dwindling away just reading that board, don't know how The Fish and Sima manage to post on it.

Why on earth didn't we bin this c*** after the 5-1 Chelsea mauling. Almost 3 weeks to prepare for 2 winnable games in Stoke away and Bournemouth at home at a training camp would've been perfect for Rafa...mongs.

Found this when searching for posts regarding the Rafa quote above. This was after Liverpool absolutely pummelled us under Allardyce in late '07. Seems very similar. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,45262.175.html Found this in that thread. Some of you lot taking the p*ss out of Rafa? Disappointed.

I thought this from his interview the other day. He's saying it in a pointed way too. Yeah, exactly. He looks like he's fuming when he says it too. I could be imagining it but didn't a Liverpool fan (Dom?) post something about this when he either first joined or signed back on after relegation? Could've sworn someone warned us that he started coming out with similar comments when he started getting screwed by the Liverpool board?

Started at Villareal, unhappy spell at Man City, got mojo back at Arsenal, legend at AC Milan.

I'm in two minds. Think back to the quality in that 12-13 squad but with Rafa as manager, bringing in players that are at the same level as Ba, Cisse, Cabaye, Debuchy, Ben Arfa, Enrique, Coloccini etc but that are all players that he wants and who work within his system. On that basis I think we'd definitely be in and around Everton tbh. That's when we should've went for him (Rafa, that is). Pardew had us confirming survival in the penultimate game at QPR thanks to Bosingwa after 2 consecutive humiliations at home, we had a team with some quality (Cabaye, Ben Arfa) and all it needed was some players of their ilk and strength in depth. Rafa left Chelsea at the end of that season. Shame, really.

Hopefully we get another iffy penalty in the first 10 minutes like last season. The 2 goals in the first half last season shut the crowd right up, hopefully we can have a similar start again this time round. Especially as they'll probably bring those horrid clapper things out.

I just want to enjoy it whilst he's here. Fretting about him leaving time after time gets really tedious more than worrying, analysing every intricate detail of his quotes in the press and doing detective work to try and link it to Ashley et al is just as soporific now. IMO.

If he so desperately wanted to stamp on him, at least try and shatter the cunt's kneecap, otherwise what's the point of doing it?

Split fans smashing Goodison Park up?

Someone bursting a transfer bubble before Ryder, wonder what's wrong with him... http://i.imgur.com/Gr8a2Lz.jpg