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That reads like a paragraph from this... http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28676.American_Psycho After you with the nail gun

Well there you go....what do we know about the background to those deals? Who were their agents and what sort of historic relationship did NUFC and/or Carr have with them?....Doumbia by all accounts has in the past looked a good player, but who struck THAT deal with his handlers? Don't know anything about Saivet. Was he signed to replace Tiote, who didn't in the end leave, and just fucked around after? Is any of that in the job description of the man who is basically being payed to identify talent? If his role was too much for him, why the fuck wasn't the problem identified and sorted out by someone? This "board" was just a fuckin nothing when it came to addressing what was truly going wrong at the club and that all comes back to one man.

Had lots of arguments with mates about whether he's to blame for much of our current car crash....I think he's in credit tbh,it wasn't down to him that decent players he brought to the club like Tiote, Cisse and Sussoko have been complelty de motivated for the last two seasons or so, but it's difficult to know what actually went on with Thauvin, Cabella and Rivière, or the Saivet/Doumbia debacle...players often don't go somewhere for "playing" reasons nowadays, look at the shit Dennis Wise and his wanker mates were up to behind KK's back etc.... I bet he could write a really good book about the Ashley years at NUFC, but I expect they'll be some "silence" clause in his leaving deal...shame, strikes me as one of the few actual decent people in the public eye that Ashley has employed.

That's a great career Think it was Stevie who mentioned the 4-2 aggregate shoeing (4-nowt first leg @ SJP) we dished out to the Feyenoord side who would win the European Cup itself 12 months later...that was probably our best result outside of the final.

Agree with most of this apart from the "profit" bit....to build a team to take a club managed by Rafa where he wants to go will require debt, and that's where it's all going to fall down sooner or later....

We might be surprised who stays if Rafa does..

If Rafa stays am not sure he'd give him a chance tbh, he basically said post game that this is how we can play when there's no pressure or fear, and this nondy fucker still loses the heed. Fuckin ridiculous. Those of you who have been whining about him not starting the last few games have got your answer here, Rafa didn't trust him. To be fair, leading the line in his first season in a new country, with a huge step up in quality from the Belgian league was a huge task to be entrusted to a 20 year old in the first place, a ridiculous decision by the club. On the face of it he's not the player Carroll was at the same age, nor for that matter fuckin Shola. He's got ability though, needs to grow the fuck up first though or it'll be wasted.

Isn't he in jail?....fuckin privileges these fuckers get man,need stringing up not Internet, blah blah blah....

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/13/boris-johnson-donald-trump-post-truth-politician?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Seeing as he's responsible for this fuckin train wreck, I'll just leave this here.... http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/inside-story-newcastle-uniteds-dismal-11330852

Head says "meh" heart says "YOWSA YOWSA YOWSA" http://www.nme.com/news/the-stone-roses/93524 Musically as expected (decent) but it sounds like Brown has lost his muse...."all for one"?? ..sounds like he's got lazy in his 50s tbh...

Anyone claiming to know we'd be definetly better off one way or the other is a blatant fuckin liar. One thing that an "out" vote will push us further towards iyam though is the break up of the U.K, so for that reason am "in" .

Cheers Gem,nowhere near where we've been this week then but we're driving to Cairns from Sydney so will pass through that area by the looks of it....he'll not be bad to find

Can anyone remember a thread somewhere or other on here where an Aussie poster , who's name escapes me now,was located on Google Earth and some pictures of his home town were posted? Maybe 12-18 months ago? Am in rural NSW and drove through a very familiar looking place this week... Edit: think the poster was a divorcee and had childcare issues?...

Puss-y galore...

Cheers Never heard of him but what I've listened to sounds really good...and this video looks like it was shot on one of @@catmag's night shifts https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=kevin+morby&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari#hl=en-gb&q=kevin+morby+i+have+been+to+the+mountain&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLSz9U3qCrOLjA1VuLVT9c3NEzOyspIyzbM0xL0LS3OTHYsKsksLgnJD87PSwcATh46HjAAAAA

He apparently doesn't like the word "banter"....... http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/aston-villa-creator-banner-message-11289676

The current Mrs PL is a legal secretary and is advising 3-4 months on average from when an offer is accepted, but that could be just 3 or up to 6+++ depending on what crops up. "It takes as long as it takes" is the erm "legal" phrase she's just used....sorry to hear of your troubles mate, best thing to do is get down to your local branch of Dreams so you can get rid of the Japanese torture rack

I think neutrals liked us, and it was acknowledged our football was great to watch by most, but am not sure we'd have got as much of the near universal approval that Leicester have achieved if we'd have hung on. Not that it was as much of a surprise that we were challenging.

Darlow is quoted as saying he'd watched Cabaye's last four or five penalty's and he'd put them all the same way.....so Karl decided to dive the other way and saved the fucker

Well, that's not exactly news old son, that's the subject Rents has brought up If it's a close "in" vote, they're more likely to get exceedingly uppity, see the Scots Nats post referendum bullshit for details He's been temporarily gagged by the Tory press because they want to present Boris and Gove as the "acceptable" face of the "out" campaign. But it's plain to anyone with a titter of wit that with 7million voting ukip at the last election something had to be done to placate all the anti euro backbenchers. You can be sure that regardless of the referendum result, with the scenes of all the refugees streaming into Europe beamed nightly into our homes, leaving the EU is the biggest political issue of our times and it's frankly ridiculous to suggest any of this drive for an exit will just go away, especially if the "in" vote wins narrowly. Based on what??! What result in the referendum is going to cause that? unless your just talking about normal capitalism boom/bust bullshit then yeah, but that's not exactly putting your head above the parapet. Agree Labour will never win with Corbyn et al, but they were annihilated from the centre ground too last May. Neither can I. Unless someone with a bit of charisma and leadership appears soon they're fucked for a decade at least.

You seem to be suggesting a vote for staying in is likely?... If that's the case, they won't pipe down, it just won't be reported as much by the tame Tory press. The whole thing has come about mostly due to the rise of UKIP and the huge amount of Tory euro sceptic backbenchers threatening to join Farage. Cameron filled his nappy accordingly and placated them with this referendum. If there's a actual split in Labour about direction then I think they'll be one over Europe with the Tories.

Burnham is a decent bloke and a good politician but only slightly more electable as PM to middle Britain as Milliband was, i.e. "Not very much". The idea that Milliband or Burnham would be beating Cameron up at the dispatch box in mid 2016 and taking advantage of the mess the Tories are in isn't a runner for me either when it would be the easiest thing in the world for any Tory leader to turn round and say "your manifesto in 2015 was virtually identical to ours ya knob" i.e. Austerity & stay in Europe. If it wasn't a vote grabber for Milliand who's going have a change of heart 12 months later with "a fuckin scouser" (you can just hear the Sun readers) in charge? In a way all this is academic until the country's fate is known after the referendum. If we're out, Boris is PM, if it's in, it's Gideon. I can't see anyone from the Labour ranks beating either of them as things stand tbh.The thing that may change the game is the inevitable breakaway of Scotland in the event of a vote for leaving. It was interesting how the right wing media were turning on Cameron when it looked like there was going to be a "Yes" vote; "the PM who lost Scotland " etc etc....that could cook the Tories goose iyam but it would probably lead to another coalition unless someone emerges who is acceptable to the right wing press. Thing is the ones with a bit of charisma or an attractive backstory (Creasy,Jarvis?) aren't pushing themselves forward and are pretty inexperienced in any case. It's a shite state of affairs, but one that a year or so of Corbyn and his gang can't really influence until after June. If there's an out vote then that may be a real starting point, a clear difference between the parties.

You keep claiming things would/would've been better with a more mainstream leader Rents...how would it have been different to Milliband if Burnham had got in?..

Named and shamed I'll say now what I said at the time, I thought a lurch leftwards would, with the support of the parliamentary party (haha), would get us somewhere near the middle again. I fully admit to being wrong, Corbyn is a protestor and not a leader, which I pretty much knew at the time, but I couldn't bring myself to vote for any of the Blairites. That was also a recipe for more of the same, i.e. losing an election by being the same as the tories and sleepwalking into the privatisation of the NHS etc, which will still happen and I can't for the life of me see how Andy Burnham would have stopped it. As for the anti semitism bullshit smear thing, I suppose this is what you get when the likes of Livingstone are front and centre of the Labour Party. Pretty much agree with NJS, being factually correct for Livingstone is far more important than alienating most decent people (on the back of the Tory propaganda machine; what the fuck is Goldsmith doing getting involved in it for? I'd have thought being 2nd in a two horse race with Sadiq Khan would be enough to concentrate the mind but he's plainly been told "don't forget the big picture") and indeed a Jewish community that outside the moneyed elite tends to lean to the left. I don't get why you'd call any of them anti Semitic though, unless you've bought the media spun bullshit of the last few weeks, or have difficulty separating criticism of the Isreali government policies re Palestinians with being religiously prejudiced against those of the Jewish faith. In my mind it's a piece of piss to separate the two. So @@Renton, there's my "mea culpa" where the fuck do we go from here, oh great Labour sage?