Dr Jinx

Wolves were good in that second half, City just soaked it all up, didn’t lose their nerve and put them to the sword in the end.

 

As good as they have been though, this season will only be a success if they can do it in the CL

 

Domestically though, they have to be up there with the best we’ve seen? 100 & 98 point title winning seasons, first team to ever win the domestic treble, even in their ‘dip’ year they finished 2nd by a mile, and look like at least the domestic treble and an easy title win is on the cards again.

I think Liverpool were going to be their only real test and once they were crippled the league wasn’t too much of a competition. The rest of the euro places this year are the closest in years.

Will be interesting to see how deep the pockets of Arsenal, Spurs and Liverpool are if they don’t make top 4 this season.

Wolves were good in that second half, City just soaked it all up, didn’t lose their nerve and put them to the sword in the end.

As good as they have been though, this season will only be a success if they can do it in the CL

? that’s cheered me up

Everything to do with this “takeover” is absolutely cringey right now. I hope that Keith Lemon chap can afford whatever he’s spunked on that legal nonsense because he’ll be getting nout from Mandy now her Barclays meal ticket has sailed.

We all made a lot of assumptions about what the Saudis plans were for the club, like they would throw money at the situation to succeed, we never considered that they might not do that which could have been equally as likely. Just a punt like they made with Uber and other investments that they dipped in and out of just as quick.

Let’s face it, aside from Mike Ashley looking for compensation from the PL we’ve had absolutely no proof that the consortium are negotiating with him again. Zero. Again all assumptions from jaded supporters who are akin to the pilgrims going to Lourdes each year hoping their cancer might be cured. It’s as grim as that.

The takeover as it is or was only exists now in the ramblings of a bunch of male Karen’s on Twitter. We should want nothing to do with it. Stop giving them the attention and the bullshit will stop.

Maybe one day we’ll wake up to a story that it’s all done but right now all we have is a club that’s in limbo, with (mostly) detestable people from top to bottom (the owner, boardroom, manager, coaches and playing staff)

It needs burning to the ground with a wicker man in the middle of the pitch for said detestables.

I think this morning it’s actually dawning on people now that we’re going down. A few have been in denial for the last few weeks but there’s no way to shine any positivity on it now. ASM out, and even when he’s back it’ll take him a few games to get into his stride. Has Almiron been injured yet since he’s been here? He’s been kicked about yes but we don’t have a gauge on how he’ll return. Same with Wilson, he’s going to lack sharpness.

Where are the goals coming from?

We had a better chance with the squad we had in 2016

The inactivity in trying to protect PL status is significant I think. Two ways of looking at it, the legal stuff is going ahead but going to take another year to sort out. Mike Ashley doesn’t care about relegation as he thinks anyone with a pulse could bring this club back up. (Showing his lack of regard for both Rafa and Hughton)

Or.. and get your tin foil hat on. The legal stuff is going nowhere so the club are deliberately moving down a division to take the decision away from the PL and for a much easier test.

By the time they and Wilson are back it might be too late by then.

I’ve thought for weeks now that the goal difference between us and Fulham will come into play by last day of season.

We could be 3 points down needing a 6-0 win.

He's a complete f***ing joke. Only kept around because he's pals with the right people in the media/ex pros. You just know once he's eventually binned off here he'll walk into another job no problem.

 

He will 100 get a promotion chasing championship job after we bin him

We won’t bin him, we will go down and he’ll be giving it Billy Big Bollocks about how he’s the man to reshape the squad etc.

It will only be 7 months later when we’re languishing in mid table that those dopes in the office realise that there will be no immediate bounce back like the last two times.

He’s made some positive contributions in recent games, in actual fact all his positive play has been when he’s dropped deeper and pressed to get the ball back or had some nice link up play with more pacey players. When he has the ball he doesn’t give it away cheaply.

I’d play him on the right side of a 3 man midfield and then push Willock further forward. We’re going to need some pace up front if Almiron is missing.

This is needs must, if we had a stronger squad and everyone to choose from he shouldn’t be anywhere near the starting 11

Funny isn’t it, with the money Ashley gave the two Steve’s, if he’d given that money to Rafa we most likely would be a top 6 team now. Revenues would be far higher from tv, final placings etc and we’d be worth more in terms of sponsorship.

It literally wouldn’t have cost him any more than what he’s spunked on one and possibly two relegations.

At this stage in the season, looking like no takeover, Ashley having zero interest, I’m not sure i want someone else coming in and carrying the can for what Bruce has done all season.

He should stay here and own it (if we are relegated), if he leaves and we still go down those fucking pundits will drive this narrative of “you never know, he might have turned it around”

I don’t want them having anywhere to hide.

My hatred of Steve Bruce is heavily outweighing my love for this version of the club right now

I’d love to have Keane here as manager. Just imagine what he’d say to Shelvey

Ah that’s really sad news. Had no idea he was in bad health. Suppose explains why he hadn’t managed full time in so long. In fairness, his cv was good enough that I’m sure he would have had another crack in the PL if he’d been able

RIP ?

 

Poll reset.

 

Same as last time. No and don't want actual murderers and war criminals owning the club.

 

100% this

 

Would you both rather stick with Mike Ashley for now in the hope of getting taken over by someone else who would most likely run it in the same way?

If all the Reubens could be convinced to get involved we could be in a good position but it’s not looking that way.

Honestly think Staveleys part in this story is done now.

We’ve been in this position with Mike Ashley before, I think last summer he was interested again, maybe just to spite Rafa but he got burned on the Joelinton thing which reaffirmed his beliefs that spending big money in football is a fools game so he’s reverted to type now.

He’ll always take advice when it comes to this club from the wrong people, he’ll never appreciate the ones who would steer him in the right direction.

If we do go down, he will still be our manager come the new season in August - just watch. He’s going nowhere under this owner.

If/when we go down and this absolute clueless loser is still in charge, this will be the beginning of us “doing a Sunderland” maybe not quite as severe but once we’re in it, it’ll be a long journey back

Sleep walking right into it. Relegation, then mid table obscurity in the championship. This is what Steve Bruce is all about.

But sure he’s a “great man manager” and “we’re really lucky to have him”. We must not get above our station after all, us deluded fans who think we should be playing the champions league

A costly 3 points if we can hang on

I see this going the same way as Mayweather v McGregor, letting us get a few shots in without really taking any damage and watch us knacker ourselves out before they turn the screw.

I did mention a while back I’d heard there was a version of the consortium that didn’t involve her going ahead.

We spend too much time worrying about the Saudis and Staveley, it’s the Reubens we should have been keeping an eye on this whole time, if anything is to happen it’ll be them.

Do you think if the takeover ever did happen that MBS would even attend one game at SJP?

Yes and he’ll be cheered

I find it really weird how people are getting all dramatic over reading something that they already knew about 2+ years ago.

The Americans literally shot up a bunch of journalists from a gunship, hooting about it while it was taking place. They are in no moral position to make judgements on other scummy nations.

This is how extortion happens at the highest level. Once the Saudis start buying more weapons and at a higher rate, all of this will die down.

As for the takeover. Fuck knows, it’s a release to think it’s a dead duck. I can stop caring about the club and the fuckwit managing it. It causes me nothing but stress and frustration. There’s more to life

If he ends up at Celtic or anywhere else, it would give me some kind of closure in regards to the takeover here. I do believe, albeit just a very tiny bit in me, saying that Rafa knows what is going on with the takeover and once it is approved, he would come back. If he goes anywhere else, then I really don't care to follow any developments about the takeover until it happens (if ever it does).

Rafa might have somewhat more of a direct line to the buyers but right now the only updates will be coming from Mike Ashley’s legal team. It’s anyone’s guess what will happen. I’m not holding my breath as far as Rafa is concerned

Undoubtedly the club could burn for me if the takeover doesn’t go through. This is a good point made by Keith though, I think we have to be extremely confident in the legal argument club has.

 

 

Well that's not true, barristers have no choice but to take on a case if instructed, there are only very limited circumstances where they can refuse and feeling they can't win is not one of them.

They examine the evidence and inform the client if they have a case or not. This would have happened before it became public knowledge that they had been hired.

45k NUFC fans turned up to this c***s first game after he replaced Benitez ffs 

 

45k  and we wonder why this club is f***ed

I don’t subscribe to the notion that supporters are complicit by turning up. They didn’t turn up for Steve Bruce, they turned up because they love the club, even in its current state. Some people can switch it off like a tap but not the majority.

And yes there’s been a few idiots speaking up for him on social media, every single club has them. I guarantee you there’s a small percentage that prefer him over Benitez simply because he’s British. You’re never going to reach those people.

And this includes the media folk too, ex players etc. I guarantee you there’s a union of ex player/managerial hopefuls that just resent the fact that foreign coaches (and players for the most part) are better in every way.

The supporters aren’t the problem. The people running the club are. They can see what’s going on like the rest of us. The only difference is that they don’t care.

I didn’t hate the guy when he took over, I thought he wasn’t good enough for the job but results last season kept the spotlight off him to a degree.

He’s done in less than 12 months what it took Pardew a few years to do, which is bring the hatred levels up to a point where if was breathing standing next to me I’d want to punch him.

Literally every single word, expression, gesture fills me with a rage I can’t describe adequately enough.

I reckon he’ll be back for the Brighton match, that would be 6 weeks.

 

2 week international break after Brighton, I think it’ll depend on how many points we get in next 3.

Is stem cell treatment allowed for professional football players? ?