Rafalove

Hugely conflicted. I’m an active prisoner in many respects, when it comes to NUFC. I can stop going to matches, I can stop buying merchandise, but to completely divorce myself from the club would be too difficult. Ive tried over the last five years to not give a fuck, but just can’t do it. I miss going to games, spending time with friends and the buzz of the whole day. I miss being fully involved with the whole club. I don’t think I can really be assed trying to fight off another regime, especially if we’re going to be good. At the same time I don’t know if I could be fully behind the club in the way I would be when Freddy Shepard owned the club. Any success that came would feel relatively hollow compared to the success we might have had under more benign ownership. It also means whatever happens NUFC would forever be tarnished as the club that contributed to the sportswashing of war crimes. The other question is aren’t these responsible for wahabi-ism the most evil interpretation of the Islamic doctrine? Don’t they fund Mosques that teach that stuff? Aren’t they the mosques that are responsible for terrorism and grooming gangs? Some of which have been found to be operating in Newcastle. Now, what about the game itself? We’d simply be contributing to the ruin of the game we love. Success wouldn’t be earned, we won’t have struggled for it, it would have just been handed to us on a silver platter. Ideally someone local would buy the club and give it back to the fans to become a democratic institution, but that for many reasons just isn’t going to happen. We need the 50+1 rule ASAP. Governments and ruling bodies need to do something about this.

f***ing hell, that should be a landslide man. Not on Twitter, what are the results?

Wasn’t there something earlier that said the leaks came from Ashley’s end?

Keep 10% sell remaining shares in 10 years time when we’re worth 5bn. Not daft like

Just fuck off :lol:

Agreed. He’d be in his element. Rafa loves all that infrastructure stuff. A chance to build a football club in his image with unlimited resources. Love the idea of having someone at the club who has always believed in us. Staveley likes him too doesn’t she?

Bring Rafa home

Imagine Bruce managing Neymar and Mbappe

I really don’t like the ethics of this, but we don’t have a choice do we? The game we love needs to come up with a way to get fans owning clubs.

Saudis are a whole other level to Ashley. Man.

Saw that the other day. But yeah It definitely feels like large swathes of our fanbase lack information on the most important aspects of our club. It feels like no one really talks about what goes on behind the scenes. Like Ashley selling land at strawberry place, or the 40 companies Ashley has set up on companies house in relation to selling assets owned by NUFC. Everyone can see the problems on the pitch, but what’s less known is how far the club is lagging behind its competitors on a financial level. You can look right through every aspect of the club, and say “falling behind”, or “not up to date”. I really think the media have and are playing a part in the destruction of our once great club. It’s their job to get this information out there. Though we as a fanbase could also be doing more to spread knowledge of what is really happening.

Mate who was at the game said a section started a rendition of “Steve Bruce’s black and white army”, which was greeted with booed by the rest of the away section.

Been scouting Josef Martinez according to Ryder

Mint ??

I case you’re bored and looking for something to entertain you for the night

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Kin hell how loud was that scouse bloke?

Tbf a proper sit in could work if done properly How? Not having a go or anything but I fail to see how handing over money and then sitting in afterwards shows how much you want Ashley out. If a restaurant served you up a plate of s****, you wouldn't go back every week to buy another plate to show you're protesting the owner serving up s****. If 52,000 stopped back for an hour or two Every game it would be terrible pr for him which he hates. Don’t get me wrong I’m massively in favour of boycott aswell. Just saying other options could work too. Something else that might work is deliberately trying to get games abandoned, ie throwing tennis balls, pitch invasions etc etc. Of course none of those options with our fan base are realistic.

Those drawings definitely aren’t accurate. Look how long Pickford arms are.

Tbf a proper sit in could work if done properly

That j Enrique doing punditry for alligator tv?

don’t disagree too much with what has been said tbh. That’s not really the point though is it? Bruce is a yes man. He’ll be happy to not have any real say on anything at the club, not being able to take the club forward with his vision. He also probably doesn’t really have much of a vision. We need a vision, more than anything else. We need long term planning, infrastructural changes. A complete review and change of the club is required. There is literally no one else in the world I would want more to do that job than Rafa Benitez.

Shame Merino didn’t stay longer

His skill and agility is something else. You think he’s going one way then in a blink of an eye he’s gone the other.

Shola doesn’t half waffle