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So what I gather from that is you're asking is it okay to slip her a length? I mean it's unconvential but if you think it'll help then it's worth a shot.

Nah, as you can see from this genuine photo of CT in a gimp suit, they're nothing alike.

Poor form from Bruce after they kept the job open for him when he wanted a break after his bereavements. Appalling cunt imo.

Aye it’s mental. There’s no way he can strike lucky a third time we go down. The first time we had a core of decent PL players who stayed and created a strong group mentality, along with Hughton being a competent manager (which was another total fluke as it was basically non-decision on Ashley and co’s part that got him the role), and obviously the second time we had Benitez. This squad is fucking gopping, and you’d expect the ones with any talent (I.e. Schar, Longstaff, Shelvey etc) will be off in a shot upon relegation, and having Steve Bruce at the tail end of his career in place is a move that’ll solidify mid table championship mediocrity imo. I actually hope it all turns out that way tbh, as I’ve mentioned before it’s clear he’s not selling, maybe a few years away from siphoning off the PL money might change his mind. You’re completely right though, it makes absolutely no logical sense at all what he is doing. Even his most cuntish decisions have been grounded in maximizing money, this is literally the most short term version of that possible.

We turned against Peter fucking Beardsley when he became an Ashley arselicker, why in the fuck did this moron think Shola, Carver and Kevin Nolan would be more highly venerated than an actual club legend? Shola is employed by the club now, so he's tainted, and the chuckle bros Carver and Nolan are failed managers in giz-a-job mode so they'll also mouth anything that they think will get them work (not to mention, they probably both correctly reckon that this is the only PL club fucked up enough to consider employing them.) They can all get to fuck. It is impossible to be loyal to NUFC and defend Ashley. Anyone who purports to do so is lying.

“Seeing former terrace favorites getting turned on” aye, funnily enough when they come out saying Ashley is a top bloke and is good for that club that’s going to piss people off. If you want to come out and side with Ashley, that’s up to you but then you can expect NUFC fans to be completely against you and simply won’t be seen by the rest as a fan. “Let’s get one thing clear” What a patronizing little worm, you pass on stuff you’ve heard mate, it’s honestly the worst trait of these journalists that they see themselves as having more valid opinions than others. No one can say I want what’s best for the club and praise Ashley, those things are complete polar opposites What a fucking human centipede style chain of fucking arselickers. “JC” ( ), and Ameobi (lost being called Shola now, he’s now against us) are kissing up to fat boy and now little bitches like Pete are kissing up to them two fucking idiots. Then the lot of them get outraged when the fans call them out on it, the lot of them must have fucking rocks in their heads. Gan on then Pete tell us again how the club are “starting to put together information on two potential signings for if they sign a manager” when we are less than a month from the season starting while you try to honestly tell everyone that people defending this bloke want what’s best for the club. Wanker. Oh aye, his last sentence is fucking pathetic as well. It boils down to faux outrage that fans are turning against “terrace favorites” like Ameobi and Nolan, I’m sorry like but them “wearing the shirt with pride” does not absolve them of talking absolute fucking shit and weakening any action made by the fan base in the public view, in fact it has the opposite effect for me, they should get more pelters than most as they should understand what’s going on and what the fans are going through. The massive fact he’s missing as well is they aren’t real favorites, they both did okay but were only at Newcastle (either in the first place, or stayed as long as they did) because we had an ambitious less twat of an owner.

And that’s why everyone hates him.

By the time Ashley pays the compo & Bruce & his assistants wages it would have been cheaper to keep Rafa.

Got it, http://inthesetimes.com/article/21965/trump-obama-immigration-raids-crackdown-child-detentions good if disturbing read

No shit? Really? Who'd have thought that...

That’s some cracking self-analysis there to be fair.

Besides, "go back to where you came from" is one of the laziest and most hackneyed lines of attack there is. We already knew the man has no creativity or intellectual curiosity about him, but he's not even very interesting at being a racist.

Pound foolish and penny foolish as well. Let the best manager since Robson go for free having given him nothing to spend on players - pay 4m for Steve Bruce (and might as well earmark his severance pay now for when he's sacked in March) and fund his rebuilding of a depleted squad bereft of quality or leadership. This is 100% to spite us. There is no way even Mike Ashley thinks this is good business sense. It is purely to get one back at us for singing nasty songs and loving Rafa so much.

Hughie Gallacher was a Scottish footballer. Born in Bellshill (as I was) he went on to score 387 goals in 545 league appearances and 24 international goals in just 20 games for Scotland. An unlikely centre forward as he was only 5 foot 5 inches tall. He started his professional career at Airdrieonians, nicknamed “The Diamonds”, moved to Newcastle United (where he was known as “The King”) and then on to Chelsea for a reputed £5000 fee! He was one of the original Wembley Wizards, so called because they were unfancied to beat England at Wembley stadium in 1928 but won 1 – 5. Always anti-authoritarian Hughie found himself in trouble and summonsed to court after a domestic incident involving his son Hughie took his own life by walking in front of an express train. He was just 54. Other teams he played for were; Queen of the South; Derby County; Notts County; Grimsby Town and Gateshead. Wee Hughie Was A Diamond Have you heard the rumour? It’s goin’ roon and roon They say they’ve sold Wee Hughie And he’s heading for the Toon The boys are in an uproar Say they’ll burn the whole place doon They say the sold Wee Hughie And he’s heading for the Toon But Wee Hughie was a Diamond And a Wizard and The King From Lanarkshire tae the Gallowgate You could hear the people sing For Hughie Have you read the papers? It’s there in black and white They say they’ve sold Wee Hughie And he’s heading South tonight They’ve made a pretty penny But that doesn’t make it right They say they’ve sold Wee Hughie And he’s heading South tonight But Wee Hughie was a Diamond And a Wizard and The King From Lanarkshire tae the Gallowgate You could hear the people sing For Hughie Have you heard the story? Of the brave wee boys in blue The papers gie’d them no chance But what do the papers know? Wee Hughie and the Wizards They waved their magic wands The papers gie’d them no chance But the papers aye are wrong But Wee Hughie was a Diamond And a Wizard and The King From Lanarkshire tae the Gallowgate You could hear the people sing For Hughie Have you heard the rumour? It’s goin’ roon and roon They say they saw Wee Hughie Just traipsing through the toon He didnae speak to no-one He just wandered on alone They say they saw Wee Hughie Driftin’ goalless on his own But Wee Hughie was a Diamond And a Wizard and The King From Lanarkshire tae the Gallowgate You could hear the people sing For Hughie Poor wee Hughie

Wednesday fan here. I'm sending a barrow full of cabbages for you lot to lob at the fat git( seems like the villa were right). Hope for your sake he doesn't take you down.

£4 million for that cabbage faced melt?

Tell your wife to send her mam a letter. If she doesn't hear anything in a week, follow it up with a dildo. I think that should do it.

Somebody should point out to May before she gets on her high horse that not only did she say it she actually sent the Windrush people back.

He'll be replacing Benitez who has never quit mid-contract. Looks like it's not just ability separating the two men.

Was just gonna say it's not the first time Bruce has done something like this, proper snake if you ask me

Aye, I think you're right tbh. She needs to work through it, no shame in it at all and it sounds like she has many positives to use to build herself back up if she gets the right counselling professional. Good luck.

You trying to split them up so you get two Christmas presents?

Ok maybe it's not even a couples counselling issue so much as a personal counselling issue. She needs to remember that she's her own woman. Maybe even needs to rebuild her ego from the ground up since her worry sounds incessant. I think the first step might be a kind of intervention style sit down where you all express that you love and care about her, but that her inability to handle what has happened to her is driving a wedge between her and everyone in her life (which is doubtless obvious to her as well, and making her worry worse) - and from there, ask her to go to counselling, maybe even find a good one for her, and indicate that none of you are going anywhere, you're all there to support her, but that this is important and that she needs to take ownership of the situation too. The difficult thing really is that you can't "save" other people. They have to see it and save themselves. But you can at least try to bring the issue to a head. Maybe keep her husband out of it though in case she starts getting defensive and deflecting onto him/triggering some kind of argument. If she does get defensive maybe just wait for her to get it all out every time she jumps in, and then bring her back with "we understand what happened but..." It's a tough one man, sorry you're going through it - I can imagine how frustrating it is for a family that just wants to be happy together. Further down the line I think it might be worth the couples counselling and your Father IL coming to terms with how much damage his actions caused also.

Really difficult situation since she is in effect justified in her paranoia about the situation. I mean it's fairly clear I would think that some manner of couples counselling is appropriate. Trust is a really difficult thing to win back and from how you've described it, it would seem that your Mother In Law's self esteem took a hammering from this - having said that though, if she's not getting any affection or reassuring comfort from her husband then that is unlikely to be helping. If she can't get past it, then they should divorce, clearly. I suspect fear of being alone is putting them off that though. I would say maybe some activities to build your Mum IL's confidence up might help? Make her feel more empowered and in control of her life, not in a constant state of worry about someone else's behaviour? Maybe your wife could take her on holiday or whatever (you could even potentially coincide it with a lads one and advise her Mum that you'll keep a firm eye on her husband if it helps for the first few times). But I think restoring her own agency and sense of value in her own self might be important. I mean if she's constantly worrying about him cheating or straying then she's obviously worried about the extent to which he values or loves her. She can't control that though, so she's better served valuing and loving herself.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/15/sports-direct-delays-results-amid-house-of-fraser-woes I hope the cunt goes bust.

Now we know why CT has been absent- he’s moved to Somerset and flipped out on the Bong. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-48982140

It will only play better to his supporters. Just needs a Confederate flag on the White House, and a lynched black man in the Rose Garden.

We could do with someone - anyone now

Aye depressing really. At least he’s finally shed any pretense so people can stop brushing it off, or pretending he didn’t mean it that way.

Class https://twitter.com/haiderakhtar1/status/1150482891434024960?s=21

Reporting you to the NSPCC, mate. (You mustn't love your nephew treating him to Ashley's gruel).

U ok, babes? DM me. (I'll not @ JC)

Spot on (equally in parts hilarious and depressing ), it’s mental this view of being confused by club LEGENDS getting grief for siding with Ashley, if Robson was still alive and him, Keegan, and Shearer all stood proclaiming how brilliant Ashley was I’d still say they’re talking absolute shite. Standing in the game has nothing to do with it, in any case my respect for two extremely limited ex players, and a complete shambles of an ex coach is so low it’s verging on non existent to begin with. Fucking spot on about them idiots saying that shite as well the best are when it becomes a complete circle jerk, one of the others comes to defend their under siege colleague after another complete windup of a tweet, while a bunch of the “U OK hun?” Type winnets comment wanking them both off. I’ve mentioned in the past I’m related to “JC” (through marriage, I quickly add) so I feel I am well within my rights to call him a complete and utter fucking knacker, despite the fact as Pete points out that he’s clearly a massive club legend.

He's an absolute tit this sky lad. I appreciate he may be limited to what he can and can't say so in those circumstances keep your gob shut or be cute about it. He comes out with shit and doesn't like the criticism, he's a fucking big bairn and then posts a pic of him as an actual bairn reading a programme as a programme cover as if that absolves him of everything. Carver talks shit and was terrible at his job, Amoeba was largely shit and only got runs in the side when we had no good strikers available so why he thinks anyone is going to say 'oh well, I was totally against it but if Amoeba, Nolan or 'JC' (Btw, nobody calls him that, Pete, apart from his mates or arselickers in the media), say it's great then that's good enough for me. Howay the lads!' As the Egyptian yank says, if Beardsley or Moncur can deservedly get stick, then these knackers must have big fucking delusions if they think they can't? (And when a bloke who does presenting on SSN thinks being a fan makes him any less of a target for talking shite he must be worse again! Tbf, I blame social media arselickers amongst our support for giving him that impression, 'Pete what d'ya reckon, mate?' 'Take no notice, pete, mate', etc. Fucking mongs, he's not going to invite you out for a pint and introduce you to kirsty Gallacher whilst she slips her telephone number in your jeans pocket). Wanker.

Spot on, you also have to love the undertones to what him and his mate Keith Dowie are doing in their replies. It’s all hinting that the fans are some sort of problem, that the fans are attacking these people who are just trying to bring ‘balance’ to the discussion. Disgraceful stuff. I wish we could all be more organized and we could just start mass unfollowing all these north east journos who are coming out with utter bilge like this. It’s far and away past time for a balanced discussion on this topic now. Journalists like these two who have a platform to help (as best they could) but have instead decided to give people like Ameobi, Carver, etc a platform to pretend there’s a balanced discussion to be had which suggests the rest of us are just being rash and hysterical. I’ve personally unfollowed all of them, the takeover isn’t happening and they’ve all flipped back to starting on the “aren’t these geordies a deluded bunch, Ashley has given them a ‘debt free’ club in the PL why do they think they should be winning the league?” line of the fence, so it’s completely pointless to follow them as they bring nowt to the table, and it starts with exactly this, getting people to say things supporting Ashley, rile everyone up, then attack them for being hysterical. Meanwhile, the club have known since May that Rafa was gone, we’re now in Mid-July and they’re trying to haggle down Steve Bruce’s release clause, while waiting on having a manager in place to sign anyone after selling/not buying most of the best players we had last season despite the fact they’re trying to put a system in place where the manager is more of a head coach and doesn’t say who to sign anyway so aye let’s keep blaming the fans for having a pop at Ameobi and Carver for telling the world Ashley has been good for the club.

Every single pre-season is a perfect exercise in derailing momentum. Every single year.

Our transfer window is so fucking bleak the Chronicle has decided to run stories on where a player who was released has went

Tbf he’s proven he’s more than up to the PL level, and he probably deserves a shot with a club who will actually try to compete. I don’t blame a single one of our players if they want to leave. NUFC is a waste of fucking time.

While I applaud her anti-Trump stance and her work on LBGT rights she does seem to come across as a bit of a twat.

I don’t see why Wednesday should us any favours. We’ve left them very little time to find a replacement and I assume they were blindsided by our approach. I’d screw every penny out of the fat cunt I could if I was in their shoes, they’re under no obligation to do a deal other than Brucey sheep head being pissed off and demotivated

It’d be funny if they can’t even sign that fat sheep headed pissbag. Sums them up, they’ve had weeks to line up a replacement, what a bunch of clowns

From anything I’ve read about him as a businessman he sounds a complete arsehole. It’s suited him well in the retail world where he’s been able to bully suppliers, especially when his low price model pushed Whelan and JJB to a rough spot. The way he’s done business hasn’t transferred well to the football world as the pool of people is fairly small, and it’s hard to strong arm people as they don’t have to sell to him, they can sell to other clubs and it’s not like he can push out that competition. Saying all that I may be wrong. He’s basically got exactly what he wants, a club that has generally been in the PL and had access to that revenue and advertising potential while throttling the investment in the actual club. This does seem to be a turning point mind and his treatment of Rafa may have been a massive mid step (obviously it’s one from our/a football standpoint) as this 3 year shit housery towards a massively respected manager has seemingly made others take note and they’ve stepped away from NUFC whereas in the past they may have seen it as a possibly stepping stone despite Ashley being a pain. Either way I sincerely hope for the blokes downfall. I’m fucking thrilled members of the SD board are turning on him, and JD sports coming in a cleaning up all the suppliers of the premium level sports wear meaning Ashley’s stores are only left with the bottom tier shite which has also seen JD sports revenue far surpass his bampy chain.

Hughton?? Give yer shrivelled owld heed a shake man Noelie...

I love that the Chronicle are giving by the minute updates and tweets constantly about the IMMINENT signing of Bruce. Who fucking cares . They’re reading the mood about as well as Taylor did after he scored that shit header against Cardiff and went mental.

I think he didn't give two shiny shites what would happen under Ashley as long as he got his last NUFC pay day.

Bruce is an irrelevance I agree. The club is dead, has been for years but we've kind of plodded on getting excited the odd time despite it. Fuck it. It's dead till fat man is dead as I don't believe the cunts going anywhere while he breathes. Just talking to a pal and we remembered getting patronised about Ashley being a businessman and us being dinosaurs by a young fucking divvy a few years ago now. The club's not our club and despite not wanting to sound like some of these 'it'll kill me not being a season ticket holder' whoppers, (who the fuck had a season ticket a few years ago and why do some wank about it?), it will seem strange not actively watching our games or taking much notice or even punching the air when Joselu/whoever gets a lucky break and scores. The man is 100% the worst thing to happen to NUFC in it's history so fuck you very much john hall for that final cash-in, any good work gone up in smoke you thatcher loving bullshit merchant.

Aye what a great few days that was, and there were still people then telling us it wasn't going to happen and continuing to be miserable etc and so on. Well they were right, but at least I got to have a few days there where I enjoyed the news about the club so fuck it. ALWAYS GET HYPED UP FOR THE GOOD NEWS!