Howay

Burner phones, didn’t know Ashley was in the wire.

I for one love being updated on every single goal the bloke scores.

Aye that’s it like, just a shirt and jeans that actually fit would be a start ffs. It goes with what seems to be his personally based on his ownership of NUFC, a half arsed, cheap, ill fitting carpet bagger.

Was going to say they must be children’s size. What a fucking state he is mind, the money he has and he goes out dressed like that.

Aye, one defensive type of midfielder then over £200m worth of attackers and we’ll get slaughtered for playing 5 at the back and sitting deep. They have players on the bench that cost more than our entire team, yet fucking arseholes like Gray and his hairy sex pest mate will be having their weekly pop about how Ashley is spot on so they can try and stay relevant.

I agree tbh. Obviously fans would love to see their team win it (especially fans of sides like ours) but it’s clear as day no one takes it remotely seriously until maybe the Semi Final.

That’s spot on. Went and saw Hannibal Buress last night as he was at a small comedy club near me, he was class tbh and it’s made me want to start listening to the Hansome Rambler again as it sort of fell out my podcast rotation. Anyone still bother with it and is it still any good?

Class that Craig Hope had a pop at Ryder for basically being a puppet over the Ritchie and Lascelles thing, then he goes and writes that.

That’s class. I can’t wait to see the well measured and thought provoking response of “reet ootside noo ye soft bastard” from Ryder.

What a bunch of bastards.

Aye it’s pathetic, your earlier post about how if we hadn’t have signed Owen the signing of Shearer at £15M would still be our record highlights what a fucking disgrace this owner has been. I can’t remember the fact I heard the other day but the amount of players signed by PL teams that exceed our record signing is a ridiculous number. It also makes the fucking grief Rafa gets off pundits after games like this all the more ridiculous. They brought on Giroud and William, both of those players would probably be the best player at the club for basically all of Ashley’s ownership. The gulf in quality is a fucking canyon for most, but for Rafa it’s worse as he’s honestly dealing in scraps.

Aye, I suppose it gets them all out of the way and we could potentially get a bit of a run together. Saying that it could also result in low confidence and complete lack of form going into more winnable games.

Joselu is unreal

Referees are fucking hopeless

Not sure about that sub mind

The average spent per player for Chelsea is 8 times our average. We should just open up and have a go, also we should stop trying to tackle that poor lad Hazard.

I disagree that Hazard is being targeted like he’s implying. The guy gets more touches of the ball in congested areas than any of their players so he’s bound to be tackled more. The most cynical tackle of the game was committed by Kovacic, and all Beglin had to say was that he was frustrated due to the treatment of Hazard. We are bound to double up and close Hazard as he’s their best player, if he wants to see a player being targeted he should watch the way Wolves played against Silva.

It’s the same for most the league tbh. Sides like Chelsea have players who would probably be the best players on the squad of most PL sides sat on the bench. It’s why I’m getting tired of them wanking over how great these sides are while slagging everyone for sitting deep, other than the bizzare favoritism that seems to be emerging around Wolves.

Jim Beglin so far has said we are playing a flat back 9, accused us of being cynical and targeting Hazard with dirty fouls, and generally kept mentioning that we are playing negatively. As I say yesterday they were wanking over how astute and well drilled Wolves were despite them kicking lumps out of Silva and commiting numerous fouls in their own penalty area.

I love that Wolves played similar to this (except resorting to a lot more hacking players down) against Man City and got a load of praise, so far we’ve been slagged to bits off the commentators.

Aye Jim Beglin is a total bellend.

I don’t think it’s that strange, they always make utter shite up and have saw our two best players out of the squad without going off injured or anything in the last game, followed by an unusual formation for us being chosen. Not saying it isn’t a bust up, it would just be totally against Lascelles character from what I’ve seen. I think it would also be pretty strange if it was only Shelvey and Lascelles involved if it was something like that.

Aye, it’s a mix of injury and bust up reasons everywhere I’ve looked. I’m going to trust that they’re injured for now and that Rafa doesn’t trust the other CBs to play in a pair without Lascelles so he’s playing the 3. It would go against Lascelles attitude the entire time he’s been at Newcastle which is why I’m leaning towards the injury reasoning being more likely.

I find it impressive that every time he discusses his career it makes me think he’s even more of a bellend than before.

If that utter ball bag thinks the fans’ issue with Ashley only relates to the timeframe of Rafa’s tenure then he’s even more clueless than I thought (which was an incredibly low bar anyway).