Dontooner

Find something you can agree with in life and build on it. It is often the case of a divorce when the philosophy of something you love do not match up with the one you have. Especially when it is the polar opposite of our expectations , just move on in life until "the philosophy" matches yours again. Applies to all things in life not just football.

In Pardew there was a charlatan(fit the regime perfectly). Bruce is just plain stupid...I can see this burning down fairly quickly. Without any understanding on how to put the players to work, i can see the players not caring. Maybe when the players stop caring , the fans will stop caring.

I hate him for taking the job, but not that much. Anger and hatred should be directed to Ashley. Anger should be directed towards the fans who make Ashley United possible. He's gone if we want him gone. True so True

Looks mentally weak...possibly a Mitrović situation all over again.

Heads dropping when we went behind, no clue how to put/build pressure on the other team which Rafa teams are good at. There were no indication of tactics while defending or attacking, going to let in like 45 to 50 goals this season i believe. This team is out of Bruce league.

Smells something fishy with this transfer, not sure if Joelinton is worth 40 mil given his short track record. The resale value could be tough to recover as well. Sounds like 20 million quid is going into some very full pockets to me.

Sad state of affairs. Pardew is my 1st choice, if we do sink might as well make it a splash.

Calm on the ball, smart without the ball. He is one of the missing pieces in Rafa's chess game, very neat and tidy yet quick to move the game along. He probably a better fit in our midfield then Shelvey or Diame in Rafa's game plan as we often sit and counter. A real holding midfielder like Gary was for us, Ki could be the decider how our season goes. (Like when Shelvey in form) He offloads alot of the pressure in midfield build up play, allowing the wingers to stay in their positions. This in turn allows more freedom and attacking posture from our wingers. I love the fact we have 3 very influential midfielders in the team, if they play to their potentials probably no need to too worried about relegation this season.

Player with low awareness, poor touch, the distancing of the ball in his runs is a huge suspect as he often loses in duels. His shots and attacking positioning seems slightly better than average. However there is so much to refine as a player before he can lace Ritchie boots. I dont seem him being part of the future plans unless Rafa works incredible magic on Jacob, his general impact in games are just very low due to his inability to retain ball like Kenedy, work hard like Ritchie , or make space like Perez.

Rafa being a tactical coach probably sees stability first. If he given very little money, i can see him buying and setting up a very negative team. The problem with the negative football is just compounding itself with Ashley attitude towards the club and a highly safety 1st attitude Manager. Honestly think we have a much better chance of surviving with Rafa's Turtle/counter style than a Rafa's lets attack and try to win style. Longer term wise, Ashley is the sabotaging agent. He is consistently trying to be smart and run us like a dollar store. Its just not a enjoyable and pretty picture to look at. Rafa can do much better than us, i respect him for that alone for sticking with us.

Ashley's smoke cover 100% , he use it to divert attention from the troubles or pressure he is facing. Seen it many times with us and SD.

Not got good memories of Rafa's Newcastle team going on the attack while on a losing run. None of our players apart from Kenedy can make a difference on their own. I got zero confidence in our front line, probably a worst combination of strikers then last season. I could see us going down, if none of the strikers start showing form. Looks like we will be on a real struggle to score this season if no one takes responsibility fro it.

Obviously Rafa was given a shoe string budget, doesnt matter who we did sign. They were definitely not the A ro B list he wanted. This team won't survive if we don't play turtle tactical football. Lacks quality all round. Ashley has to go or nothing will change. The players has already over delivered for Rafa, they are not as good as we make them out to be.

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They said on Twitter they had spoken to some people from the original group earlier today. Supporters for Change - as it was back in the day. The principles of staying away from games will have little or no bearing as it did then. The fact McKeags etc all pretty much worked and lived locally made them very reachable by the support. Interested to see what you think might work, if anything? Get relegated and stay relegated. Perhaps go as far down as the mackems. As long as the cash cow is surviving every season then there's not one single chance he'll sell up and move on. In the next 3/5 years we'll drop again - just hope we don't come back up. Agreeded Might not be such a bad predicament if we can get rid of Fat cunt eventually. It soul wiping to imagine another 10 to 30 years with him still owning us. Sad really.