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Young as the woman you feel tbh. Happy 16th marra!

Jooooooooooooke!

I wish The Fish and Toontastic were mutually exclusive ffs.

Glory hunting baseball ghosts! They'd be worse than the Irish at Man U tbh.

Aye. Seriously it'll look stupid. Plus that article reads like Freddy's started to see himself as some sort of civic visionary. Fuck right off! Speaking again as a bit of an outsider-I wouldn't trust that fat twat with redesigning my city-have you seen the state of Shearers Bar ffs?! The fat dickhead has zero class.

That just tells me we havent got the money (ie £300 million) lying about in the bank. Doesn't necessarily mean we won't end up paying for it in some way though.

"Planning"

New corporate facilities, hotel and ground expansion. Fred says it's to keep us one of the top clubs in Europe. Not on the pitch Freddie! Precisely my thoughts. Apologies for the (effective) double post.

Brilliant! £300 million for us to keep up with the likes of Arsenal/Man U/Liverpool on the stadium front (and let Freddy sit there at the top table smiling outwardly about the fact he's the chairman of a big club) yet with nowt to back it up in the trophy room.

Good ideas on getting rid of the pop drinks and the table service but I'd include live music as opposed to a DJ. Wouldn't the removal of the alcopops make it a less female friendly place? Replace them with rohypnol. And to be honest most of the lasses I know gave up alcopops when they were 18. Two of the funniest bar names in Viz (in Tasher Slapper's Mam comic strip): 'Bar Rohypnol' and 'Glassaz'

I think that might have been down to the drink tbh.

Go and lick yourself out you sad fuck. Their i hope that helps. Can't believe they're's actually a thread on it tbh There, there!

I really don't understand the vitriol for this statement (he does sometimes spout rubbish but this isn’t one of those occasions), all he's saying is that next season he expects to be in the top 6. Is that really such a bad thing? Ok he might not be able to achieve it, and if he said he was going to win the league then fair enough that would be lunacy. But what exactly do the people on here want him to say? "Next year, injury-free, we will piddle around and end up 13th" That’s not much of a statement of intent. He's not saying that, he's guranteeing us European qualification, whilst making excuses about injuries in advance ffs! FYI, he does have the option of saying nothing you know. For which he'd get castigated as well (although I'd have thought he'd have tried it anyway by now), plus I very much doubt he thinks of something and goes looking for a reported to say it to, it'll just be part of his general press contact. He has said some stupid things, but this isn't really one of them. I'd be much more worried about having a manager that WASN'T aiming for 6th place or better next season (whether or not we can do it). If he's going to come out with these sorts of soundbites then the time to do it is on the eve of the 07/08 curtain raiser, when he's no doubt performed wonders in the transfer market and got all of his targets in. Not in the immediate aftermath of a loss at home to Manchester City, with the benefit of a virtually full strength first team squad to pick from. It smacks of desparation and a complete sense of cluelessness.

I thought that must have been photoshoped at first because of the reactions of the person behind the barrier. They're non-existent ffs.

Anyone seen that Towelie episode of South Park where the boys are after their Okama games sphere back; the Tyna Corp boss keeps explaining the truth behind Towelie.... Thats all I think about now whenever I hear Roedent or Shepherd trotting out the usual excuses. "Oh my God..don't care" Just fuck off.

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Aye......I heard if any change was likely it would be a more prominent role for his progeny, Freddie Prinze Jnr. Jesus wept. Depressed to fuck here.

If we're naming names, can I report Wacky Jnr for persistent their/they're abuse. It goes way beyond the more common their/there misdemeanour.

Well said! Don't think it needs any more of a response than that tbh.

Agreed. That's why I made the point about there needing to be a sense of responsibility about pushing this agenda. I speak with an outsiders perspective on this-I am constantly perturbed about how the local press covers NUFC-it's 'own' football club. It doesnt act as a check and balance as it should. It's alarmingly different to the Manchester rags that I have experience of. It's basically in bed with Shepherd and that above all other things sustains his position. It is in effect his PR tool and I for one can't imagine less healthy conditions for an improvement in standards. This has to change absolutely. You're absolutely spot on Manc-mag with this and your previous post. I'm so fucking sick of the situation it's unreal. Sickening because it's cyclical. Wish the psychophants would print that.

Agreed. That's why I made the point about there needing to be a sense of responsibility about pushing this agenda. I speak with an outsiders perspective on this-I am constantly perturbed about how the local press covers NUFC-it's 'own' football club. It doesnt act as a check and balance as it should. It's alarmingly different to the Manchester rags that I have experience of. It's basically in bed with Shepherd and that above all other things sustains his position. It is in effect his PR tool and I for one can't imagine less healthy conditions for an improvement in standards. This has to change absolutely.

I might too if I'd understood a fucking word of what he said.

This isn't knee-jerk to today's result, in the same way that my opinion will not change if we go and beat Sheff Utd next week-I hold the following things to be self-evident about NUFC: 1. We are going nowhere with the current manager picking the team. The man doesnt have a clue-as has been well chronicled, this is most apparent when his players come back from injury and he actually has to make tactical selection decisions. 2. We are going nowhere with the current chairman picking the managers. Yes Fatty-the buck stops with you. If you think the fact that you've 'provided' (for which the correct term is actually 'made available') a transfer fund means you escape criticism then you assume you should be treated as an exception amongst chairmen the world over. Ultimately all chairmen are judged on the success (or otherwise) of the managers they appoint. The season will probably end with a couple more wins and a couple more losses. It won't really matter. The usual soundbites will be trotted out in the press about where we're going wrong and how we will put it right. It won't make any difference. The two points above will remain inalienable truths. One of two scenarios are likely over the summer. 1. Glenn will be given money to go and strengthen the team, or 2. Glenn will be sacked and a new manager brought in. Neither alone is acceptable. In the case of 1, because Glenn isnt fit to be spending the money, and in the case of 2, because Shepherd isn't fit to be appointing Glenn's successor. Neither alone solves the problems of this football club. I feel it is now the responsibility of the local media to start pressing this agenda.