PaddockLad

So our owners get into bed with medieval murdering bastards for their money and then show extreme moral cowardice by not answering pertinent questions at the outset and let a new employee deal with it all? Can people not see that they’re acting abominably on this issue which in many ways backs up what people say about the current regime at NUFC? Did we think Ashley was less of a cunt for never talking to us? I get that the media are fuckin hypocrites, I get that other fans are opportunistic fuckin arseholes, but we’re all sticking our heads in the sands here. This should’ve been addressed the week they bought the club, instead of a cosy sit down with those wankers at Sky. I didn’t like the look of Staveley/husband and Jamie Reuben from the outset but I’m a sucker too, I want us to progress as a club but iyam they’ve utterly failed at the first tricky hurdle, worst still they’ve let EH deal with it seemingly on his own. Let’s face it folks, they’re wankers and we called Ashley every blue bastard under the sun for acting in a similar manner. If EH is happy with this I’m plainly talking shite, but ffs, am fucked if I’m making excuses for them. They should front up . Then the focus moves from us and EH to precisely where it should be.

I think all this “Eddie is doing ok, let him face it, it’s working” is bollocks tbh. Completely agree we shouldn’t try to shut down questions but I think the people at NUFC who actually did did the deal in the first place should be answering for it, not an employee. At any other corporate entity we’d be getting annihilated for letting this situation continue. Who knows what EH thinks of being put in this position but if he’s deep down uncomfortable with it all who knows what it could lead to. He’s utterly compromised and the press know it. We as a club are going to have to face it head on at some point and that can only come from the owners. I think they (and the Premier League) should answer questions. If they want to manage the situation , get the right journo etc that’s fine. But avoiding it and using EH is bullshit. And Id further add, fuckin typical.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/mar/16/chicago-cubs-owners-ricketts-family-ken-griffin-bid-to-buy-chelsea-roman-abramovich?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

So ignoring it will make it go away? … it just creates a vacuum iyam that any prick in the media with an axe to grind can pour nonsense into . Eddie Howe needs help. I take your point about how PR can go disastrously wrong (Prince Andrew springs to mind) but he looks like he’s working for Mike Ashley at the moment, sat alone press conferences with no back up.

An interview with Yasir Al-Rumayyan and/or other directors would put an end to all this. Perhaps it needs to be pointed out that nothing changes in Saudi Arabia without more western influence at the top level. The make up of the board should be emphasised; a woman, Jewish folk... I don't actually beleive any of this will change a thing in Saudi but the club need to get their media/PR department to put a full stop on this.. Maybe at sit down with that sappy twat Dan Roan at the BBC. Something needs to be done because on the face of it Eddie Howe is getting no support whatsoever

Has Johnson paid the 400 mill we owed Iran in return for access to Iranian oil & gas? 🤔

Yeah. Your flights home from New Zealand will just have to wait till next year Andrew

Stans

Word on the street is he is the actual Nigerian prince 😬

Can't find in Google play store...

“Comedy policeman Dave”

Class from Boro Given the reasons for these sanctions, for Chelsea to seek to invoke sporting "integrity" as reason for the game being played behind closed doors is ironic in the extreme

"Senior government source" is code for the current Malcolm Tucker....hes not really holding much back here

Fuck off Chelsea, you’ve won more than anyone in twenty fuckin years with bent roubles and now you’re concerned with sporting integrity?

Leicester players have a history of downing tools too….the title winning squad did it to Ranieri six months after they won it….think it’s Vardy’s missus who’s the instigator

Villa are well financed but being run by Christian Purselow…. he was drummed out of Anfield iirc…thick with relative rookie Gerrard. Eddie Howe has had five and a half seasons as a premier league manager, Gerrard has had five months…

Sorry to hear @strawb it’s hellishly difficult, and it’s easy to say it will get better , but it will…

Am I right in saying the government have to agree to this proposed sale? ….. even for these amoral fuckin twats that’s going to take a lot of balls in the current climate… I expect they’ll find a way all the same…

Rare sighting of CT & Rents on manoeuvres….

So sorry to hear mate, not sure how much digitally getting things off your chest in this space helps but without trying to sound patronising but failing pretty miserably am pleased/encouraged/whatever that you feel able to do so....

<applause> @thebrokendoll