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He finally starts to come good and then gets crocked when we need him most. Typical NUFC

Just another troll thread by Baggio. He comes from the same wummery school as CT, where they make a thread to "discuss" some seemingly unrelated point, but it's all a smokescreen for them to push their "Ashley's great" or "Jonas is shit" agendas, respectively.

Diatta's nine minutes.

I'd definitely have blown the train up.

That was a nightmare. I hope that prick Dean never shows his face at SJP again. He's certainly got no right to after that farcical performance. Krul was immense, as was S. Taylor until he got injured, and who knows how long he'll be out now. HBA did nothing. Ba was very unlucky. We sorely missed Jonas. I think we've seen Tiote's last game in black and white, personally. I can only hope the injuries to Taylor and Colo aren't serious, and that we'll be ready to give as much effort against Norwich as we did today.

I wonder how different this thread would've gone if the crazy cow was ranting about Muslims fucking off rather than 'blacks' and 'brown people.'

Thanks for the memories, Brucey. What was that song again lad? The one you were going to play after you beat us...oh, wait. I hear Kinnear's looking for work! Maybe Dennis Wise?

It would've been so easy for us to go all the way to the final this year. If we'd put in a performance against an atrocious Blackburn side in normal time, that could be us on our way to Wembley. Cardiff and Palace, dear me. Ba, Ben Arfa and Jonas would have them for breakfast.

I reckon you'd get the same result on N-O. Nee fucker (in his right mind) likes Ashley. Everyone knows he and Dekka are reprehensible, slimy scum who lie with every word and think we're thick Geordie bastards. They have no redeeming qualities. The question is whether he's been a net positive or negative for the club. I think it's apparent to basically anyone who loves this club that Ashley is essentially a petulant chancer who gambles constantly on the club's future. Even removing the debate over whether he's just using us as free advertising for Sports Direct, the fact remains that he has no cohesive plan and is just rolling the dice. It has failed him before. For now, it seems to be working, and long may it continue, because confidence and enjoyment are at a high we hadn't thought to see again for some time. But a few good results shouldn't obscure the basic problem we've always had with Ashley: there's no predicting what he's going to do next, and it probably isn't going to be good news. We were doing fine under KK - Ashley's puppet Wise undermined him. We were doing fine under Hughton - Ashley and Dekka contrived to remove him in favour of Pardew. Now we're doing great under Pardew - how long until something happens that will screw that up? Ashley has no plan for sustained success and never has. He's just gambling again, seeing how long his luck will last, seeing how many idiotic blunders he can make before it all goes pear-shaped again. He's on quite a streak at the moment - sacking Hughton, selling Carroll without spending the money, letting Enrique go without replacing him, letting Barton go for free, not buying another striker in the summer (in fact, spending none of the Carroll money at all), trying to rename a piece of history. But it won't last. If that's the kind of person you think is going to bring this club lasting success, you deserve whatever you get, tbh. Ashley is both odious as a person and terrible for this club, and us fluking a top 6 finish or getting to a cup final won't change that. Only sustained investment will, and you'd be better off whistling for it.

RIP Speed. Legend. We'll miss you.

Rooney should've gone in the book for that bit of madness. Obertan has made poor decisions but has been involved and dangerous. It only takes one opportunity like the ones he's creating to score though. Horrific miss by R. Taylor. Ugh. We could've been up easily. Either way, we're a match for them so far and long may it continue.

I reckon Blackburn are doomed. They look exactly like we did in 08-09: lost and confused, a club ran by incompetent owners who got rid of a perfectly capable manager (even if he is a frog-faced slimy fat bastard) to install someone who has absolutely no clue and who the fans (and likely the players) despise. Expect sales of key players in January and a rapid slide toward relegation unless something drastic changes, which it will not because the deluded chicken salesmen really think that Kean is the man.

We've played 12 games. 12. The season has 38. Let's not start wanking ourselves silly - I hear premature ejaculation is a major problem among Ashley supporters either way. 07-08: Ashley is a megabillionaire, we're ganna win the league now, Geremi and Alan Smith, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... 08-09: Ashley is so brilliant, we've got King Kev, all these South Americans and Spaniards we're signing sound pretty good too, ohhhhhhhhhhhh... 09-10: Ashley has turned the club into a lean mean financial machine, we're ganna be so sustainable now, Mike is 'as good as it gets', ohhhhhhhh.... 10-11: Ashley is a financial genius, selling Carroll for 35m means major investment in the squad in the summer, I believe every words, ohhhhhhhhhhhh... 11-12: Ashley has got us back into Europe and sorted us for the financial play rules, ohhh---wait, what's that? It's only November? Well, I've already overdone it, the super Ashley balance sheet Sports Direct Arena sex wee cannot be held back any longer---ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

Better than Jonas, should've been a first team regular this season. Good luck to the lad wherever he goes.

I'm on board with everything else, but I thought Marveaux was excellent wide right against Everton and didn't look uncomfortable at all. He's a big loss. Calls for R. Taylor to be dropped are perhaps a bit premature. He was torn up by the best attack in the Premier League and he isn't a left-back (or really any sort of defender at all.) But throwing Santon in the deep end seems like a bad plan as well. I think we should persevere with R. Taylor for a couple of games, but I do have two questions: why aren't we even giving Santon minutes? If we don't want to drop Ryan for him, I understand that, but he's made what, three appearances? He could've come on as a sub yesterday once we were 3-0 down, if not for R. Taylor then for Simpson. Secondly, why is it that we sold our only left back and then replaced him with a right back while playing a (sort of) right back as left back in the meantime? In other words, how did we lose our only recognised left back and STILL not have one when the season began? Criminally poor planning from gambler Ashley yet again. It was bad enough that we never brought in cover for Enrique, but having no specialist left backs is mismanagement at its finest.

More likely it'll be one and we'll be told we're lucky that deal got "over the line." For all that Pardew has done a good job on the pitch, he has no say off it and his comments should be judged accordingly. He mouths the empty bullshit that Dekka cooks up and that's all he knows.

We've been worse. Time to move on from this game and I hope Pardew makes it clear that this loss doesn't change anything. We played decently and only individual errors, which will always be punished more harshly by the better teams, cost us. Colo, Krul and S. Taylor were incredible, and Ben Arfa showed that he is still the player we signed last summer. Gutted for him that his shot didn't go in, it was very well worked.

Can't agree there like. Turning his back on the ball was terrible and so was extending his arms to defend a shot. Basic stuff. Like you said, it doesn't mean that Santon is going to somehow be magically better, but Ryan Taylor isn't a good defender and hasn't ever really been. He's had a bit of a charmed life this season with Jonas shielding him but against a superior attacking side like City it was always going to show.

Disaster. Can anyone explain to me why that stutter-step penalty is legal? Sickens me every time I see it. Just stand up, be a man, and shoot. Doubt R. Taylor will emerge for the second half. Shame, we were doing quite well. Oh well - I didn't expect anything from this game either way.

Cue sniffer showing up to tell us he's glad FIFA aren't going to waste their time investigating the claims of every darkie who thinks someone said a mean word to him.

Shit article as per usual, but a couple of interesting subtexts - Ryder didn't use the horrific 'SDA' (can't even bring myself to type it out) and his continuing praise for Shearer, who's been vilified in the press by Dekka a couple of times now, suggests he may not be playing the arselicker role as overtly as he has in the past.

All of the factors you named except probably fatigue after a long season. Plenty of other top national sides have 20-team top flights with two domestic cup competitions, like ours. I think it's blatant that most of England's "stars" don't care about playing for England, not to mention that we've had, in quick succession, a mercenary, someone who was completely out of his depth, and another mercenary as England manager. Where we go after Capello will be a big turning point. We need a manager who will focus on young players who have the drive to represent their country with pride. Hopefully he can get to them before the huge cheques, Benzes, and booze do.

This is all our fault. We demanded a striker and they've had to sell the stadium name to provide us with one. Never mind that Mike & Dekka will never get anyone thick enough to take them up on their offer, so they'll not get the revenue needed to buy a new player (as if that were ever their plan.) Then we'll be blamed for driving away potential investors with our "toxic atmosphere." Next summer, rinse and repeat, perhaps this time with the strip or the stand names. I honestly think the fat cunt sits in his office and says to Dekka, "Here man, things are going too well - what can we fuck up today?" Slimy, odious, treacherous CUNTS, the pair of them, and may they rot in hell. We play our games at St James's Park. I hope the BBC, Sky, and the rest will not use the false name - after an initial period of piss-taking over the "sportsdirect.com @ SJP" debacle, they reverted to calling it SJP - but even if they do, it will not change anything except ruin the harmonious environment and team spirit. Pardew must be livid if he has an ounce of honesty about him.

Only the Wall Street Journal is Murdoch's. The New York Times owns itself and also owns the International Herald Tribune. (The NYT is one of the last reputable papers in this country. The phone-tapping Aussie scum hasn't cornered the market entirely...yet.) Why are we being featured more in American media? The Premier League's profile has never been higher and it continues to soar. I see high-schoolers walking around in EPL strips all the time - sure, mostly Man U, Chelsea and Arsenal, but a handful of Tottenham, Everton, and yes, even NUFC. Kids talk Champions League with their American football coaches. The game is on the rise at the grassroots level here - it seems to have fully shaken off its tag of "girls' sport." So while I wouldn't rule out these recent mentions being part of some Ashley spin, I think it's more likely that we are a big story in the Premier League so far this year, and the Premier League is becoming a relatively big story in America.

Let's just say that second half wasn't exactly a vintage performance and leave it at that. Guthrie has done well as Tiote's stand-in. Marveaux seemed very lively and dangerous throughout - hope he's not been hurt too badly by that pathetic tackle from Heitinga. Good defence again from Jonas, Best was quite poor and Ba didn't look his usual sharp self. Lucky we've got the international break now to help us with these injuries and knocks.