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Had a double take there, thought that was @Blue 2nd from the right

Fair enough (charge depending). No one should be allowed to comment before the game on a referee, positive or negative. I know the FA will only punish negative.

A real Brexit news topic instead of the monthly spasm about how it's going is the clash between the socialists and the FBPE at the Labour Party conference.

They've had one before. Club used their local mouth piece journo to say it's nothing serious. Perhaps more interestingly though, there's someone on the inside leaking things to Craig Hope at the Daily Mail. To do so you'd have to have an agenda against the team, against Rafa.

It's got to the point where a local MP is trying to petition parliament to force the FA to make transparency a regulatory requirement of fit and proper.

The club have cancelled tommorows fans forum as managing director Lee Charnley doesn't want to face any supporter questions. Coward.

Even there though you say for others they see Bond as white. For people without a racial lens turned on, the very idea that Bond is white is a bizarre persona they never saw in the first place, they are therefore amenable to change. They could see all those other traits you listed and more but skin colour wouldn't be one of them. It's all about what is salient to the individual and why that might be, but my general point is to be seeing race here is of a certain lens. Daniel Craig doesn't have a northern accent in the Bond films. Bond is always a posh role. Even Sean Connery is speaking in a very gentry Scottish voice. With accent you can act it regardless of your personal background so I for example might oppose change there and yet not oppose changing race.

I can't agree with the idea that it is just an aversion to change. That makes the assumption that racialist or racist thinking is an isolated cognition rather than manifesting from a pattern of thoughts which in some areas overlap across other processes and behaviours. Aversion to change is also not one all encompassing process in itself, it can be because of fear, anxiety, values, loyalty, laziness etc. It requires digging beneath the surface. Why I say racialist (which is not necessarily the same as racist) is because I don't believe there is good justification to see Bond racially. To any frequent observer of the forum, the names speaking out against a black Bond are the most predictable on the basis of the way they talk about all ethnic groups. There is, in my opinion, on that basis, a philosophy and way of thinking around race and ethnic groups that has to be present to be in opposition to a black Bond. Particularly when placed in contrast to someone who thinks differently such as Rando.

I'm old enough to remember when Daniel Craig got the position and there was all that hype about how great it was that a working class man's son from Northern England got a posh persons role. I don't recall posh people froffing at the mouth over it and refusing to go to the cinema. There was largely good old fashioned indifference to identity. Fast forward to today and the racialists seem to have a megaphone on most mediums.

Net spend since promotion: Brighton -£118.9m Huddersfield -£75.3m Newcastle +£0.7m Thank fuck we've got Rafa. Supporters are asking a simple question. Where's the money gone? Why don't they answer that question? They hold us in such contempt that they won't entertain talking to us. We have no choice but to fight such arrogant distant ownership of our communal club. Our chief executive sat in his seat shaking his head when we chanted for Ashley to fuck off. If you are so right and we are so wrong answer our question scumbag cuntbag ballbag wanker. The anger was allowed to build and build and build because of their silence and contempt for us. The PR advisor is telling them it will all blow over by September so say nothing. Meanwhile we have to put up with tosser pundits saying what we have done is fine and Rafa should shut up. They are just braindead docile fucks. Tell us where the money is and then we can all judge how the club is being ran properly with evidence.

No protests in the ground today until the last few minutes. Everyone with the players and Rafa in game time. There was a peaceful protest with a few hundred people outside Sports Direct on Northumberland street and they gave a bag of chocolate bars to the Sports Direct staff as an apology and to say no hard feelings

The clubs official twitter have been blocking fans who tweet #AshleyOut at them

Two new reports this weekend after we failed to score for a 3rd friendly in a row. The times claims the reason we aren't providing the funds for transfers is down to Mike Ashley refusing to buy players in installments (as per the normal way) because it will effect the club value and profit he makes from selling the club. We are only allowed to buy using cash reserves and first installments from player sales. We can't spend the Mitrovic money until it is in the bank account over the next couple of years. Lmao. The other report is from the local press who say the hierarchy is listening after we lost 4-0 to Braga and have promised Rafa 3 more players through the door. Not pricey ones though, just bodies.

I'm not saying he would or wouldn't be good. Fact is he doesn't come in as a first XI signing. He starts life as 4th choice. We don't have a problem with that. Lejeune's injury means he's likely to get an early shot but he's going to have to take it straight away. We are not asking for an expensive centre half. We had one of the best defences in the league last season, particularly the Lascelles - Lejeune partnership. We have a problem scoring goals. We need solid investment in attack and have done for some time. Squad players are all well and good but we need to be improving on our weak points in the first XI as well.

You're complaining about dressing up when you've just called a £3.5m centre half "a previously highly touted CB with experience in Germany and Spain". I heard you were after a quota filling first team centre mid, would you like former England international Jack Colback? The transfer argument is really quite simple, fans want to see solid attempts to improve that starting XI. The anger is the result of a culmination of important questions we are simply not being given the answers to. We are not emotionless lemmings who are just going to say oh you won't give us answers, that's ok, we'll assume the best despite history. We want to know where the money is going, we want to know why a club with our revenue is buy to sell, we want to know why the last set of financial accounts contain financial engineering that neutral football finance experts cannot fathom. We want to know why the club has made a £23m profit in this transfer window with press reports saying we can't afford the £6m asking price for a left back. We want to know where did that money they told the local press we offered for Jorgensen in January go? Was that a lie? Which is the lie? What has happened? Why won't you bring clarity so that we don't live in perpetual fear and expectation of being misled. Bringing a couple of last seasons loans back are stand still moves. The only new addition with any liklihood to go straight into the team without the helping hand of injuries is Muto, but even then it depends what he looks like in training compared to Gayle as on paper there's little difference. Ki and Schar start at the back of the queue needing to earn a place over others. That is not normal procedure for signings that are about the intent of improving your starting XI, that's just a hopeful squad numbers game. Cheap hopefuls that's what we got. Mbemba is also not a loss of any note under Rafa. He was 4th choice centre half. You might need to download the latest patch on FM.

Wum. As if all that matters is that you sign someone with a pulse

Players refusing to talk to the media as bonuses for the new season still haven't been agreed. Such a poorly run club.

Rafa after tonights 4-0 defeat to Braga “Am I optimistic? Thinking that in ten days we can do what we didn’t do in two months? “I don’t think so. “I think it’s obvious we need people, we need (more) bodies. “I said two months ago what we needed and 10 days before the start of season we still are where we are. “There are four or five players we thought we could bring in…but we haven’t.”

I had to factor in that we will be taking 3 points off you at St. James' Park as per usual

We just got beat 4-0 off Braga 10 of the 11 starting players from the Championship side. First half 0-0, couldn't do shit going forward as per usual. Half time Lascelles is subbed off for new boy Fabian Schar and the defence collapses, could have lost 6 or 7 nil. With our horrendous fixtures this could all be very ugly within 6 weeks.