Shadow Puppets

...with no symptoms whatsoever. There’s probably hundreds of thousands of people just like him walking around without knowing that they have it. Makes the death rate likely much less scary, but also means that chances of catching it yourself are higher.

Aye, he’s a twat in general, but I don’t really see what he’s done wrong. One Everton player has shown symptoms of the virus. Those symptoms, for all we know, are as minor as a cough. It would be mental to think that everyone who has been near someone with cold like symptoms has to self isolate. It’s just not workable. No ones going to do that, unless it becomes actually the official advice / law.

Totally agree with this Ian. It even gets to the point now, where someone will pipe up with a bit of football talk, and I am instantly bored. Roll the eyes and just switch off. The whole thing just bores me rigid. So bored that you spend your day on a football section of an internet forum? Here he is On his high horse as per usual. It was a joke

Totally agree with this Ian. It even gets to the point now, where someone will pipe up with a bit of football talk, and I am instantly bored. Roll the eyes and just switch off. The whole thing just bores me rigid. So bored that you spend your day on a football section of an internet forum?

I mean, I love Rafa and loathe Bruce as much as the next guy, but we were regularly dominated by big teams (pretty much every time we played them) under Rafa. We weren’t dominated by Norwich though!

Well that was absolutely woeful!

I had a conversation with a lad at 5 a side yesterday, where he said looking back he thinks "Rafa was a bit of a fraud".

That was because his child was ill I believe. He did an interview about it in the summer and apparently everything is much better now.

Obviously he won’t. We won’t go anywhere long term with any manager. The quality of football is literally no different to the last 3 seasons.

Don’t know why you guys are bothering to moan at him to be honest...he’s doing more than we could have ever imagined he would. 25 points at this stage of the season is excellent. There’s nothing wrong with just being happy for him you know ? I get the anger surrounding Ashley and Rafa leaving, but can’t ask much more from Bruce like.

As far as I can tell, and I’m no Steve Bruce Fan, the football/tactics are basically identical to the last two seasons, except now we have Saint Maximin who can produce some moments of magic to make it feel more attacking (in reality it’s basically the same). And to be honest I’m fine with that. I haven’t disliked watching us this season anywhere near as much as I was expecting to.

We’d be really fucked off if that happened to us. Literally every player on the pitch stopped playing apart from Shelvey. Big linesman error. Every team at the start of the season was told that linesman would keep their flag down if it was a close call.

I rest my case m'lord. Some fans man! He’s right though isn’t he?

I would say last season's 2-1 win over City, the previous year's 1-0 win over Man Utd... they were up there for atmosphere. Very reminiscent of the "good old days".

Shadow Puppets has finally accepted it’s less than reported Yeah, the Watford game was definitely significantly down on crowd. I would say 38-40k. Maintain that from every picture I saw, the Arsenal game still looked in the 45k region to me though.

Shame you couldn't muster the courage to make a stand for the club you claim to support. I hope it comes in the future. Attendance = Acceptance For your information, not that it’s any of your business, I was there in a corporate box with work entertaining clients. In future, keep your f***ing nose out of other people’s business and decisions. Ta. ? Arguably even worse. How?

Shame you couldn't muster the courage to make a stand for the club you claim to support. I hope it comes in the future. Attendance = Acceptance For your information, not that it’s any of your business, I was there in a corporate box with work entertaining clients. In future, keep your fucking nose out of other people’s business and decisions. Ta. ? You really are pathetic. Why? I was answering the question of why I was at the match. I was at the match because part of my job requires that I take clients to the football 4-5 times a year. It's part of my job for fucks sake. We're on a rota to do it. As I've already said multiple times on here, I gave up my personal season ticket in the summer in frustration / anger and Ashley. How the hell does that make me pathetic? I don't expect an answer by the way... you tend to disappear when people give perfectly good responses and you can't think of a smart response.

Shame you couldn't muster the courage to make a stand for the club you claim to support. I hope it comes in the future. Attendance = Acceptance For your information, not that it’s any of your business, I was there in a corporate box with work entertaining clients. In future, keep your fucking nose out of other people’s business and decisions. Ta. ?

See I was there today, and there was definitely only about 40k there (official attendance was 44k). Huge sections dotted around everywhere with empty seats.

How do modern posters on this forum still not realise that players will never come out and slag off their manager and paymasters (apart from very extreme circumstances when things have totally broken down)?!! I worked for some absolute dickheads but even I can recognise I'd be in the s*** and get sacked (fined / frozen out) if I slagged them off in public and in the press. Some of the subsequent post Rafa understanding of how football and world works have been a disgrace. Yes Greg, I want players to come out and praise Rafa whilst slagging off Bruce and Ashley. That is exactly the point I was making. I accept the players presenting a unified front and praising the current management; that's standard PR, as sickening as it is. I do not however, understand the sly digs at Rafa and the only reason I can give for this is they are happier without Rafa, which, if that is the case leads me to my point about them not being able to recognise quality in management. You've made a nothing point there. You’ll have to point me in the direction of “sly digs at Rafa”?

Bellend

I don't. He could get 4th and I'd still hate him If he got 4th, as you say, I don’t think you’d find many people complaining! How old are you man? You post with the volatility of a 10 year old.

Like him or not, one thing’s for sure, he’s under a lot of pressure to get things right as fast as possible. Faster than probably most managers of NUFC have been afforded. I hope he does. Got a lot of work to do based on the second half vs Arsenal.