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Why the fuck would Arteta ( and Dyche and Hughton, Keane too),want anything to do with Netto FC ?4 points
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If by that you are insinuating that because of recent fan unrest, the desire of some of us for the club to be relegated etc., that us Newcastle fans are as fickle as the fuckwits down the road, howay man. Most of us have tolerated (just) Ashley’s ownership of our club for 12 years, 12 fucking years. Yet we are fickle?? Do you even know what the word fickle means? Our radgy friends are up and down like a fiddlers elbow, depending on which way the wind is blowing, or what day of the fucking week it is. FFs man get a grip you mackem apologist.3 points
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Seen they've a thread about top 5 realistic appointments. Names include, but are not limited to; Allardyce, Hughton, Sean "7th in the Premier League" Dyche, Roy Keane, Sewpa Kev, Arteta! I particularly enjoyed 2 year project to get back to the Premier League3 points
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It would also shut those fuckers in the media who spout the "it's a well run club" rubbish endlessly - especially the hairy-handed one, who I see has raised his hands above the parapet again to slag off Rafa2 points
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The most likely event preceding a sale of NUFC is the failing of Sports Direct. If that happens Ashley will want cash in a hurry and it removes the reciprocal benefit to him through free advertising. In the meantime I'm not bothered by us being relegated, principally because if we stay up it's an endorsement of the way Ashley is running the club because that is all he's interested in. Controlling the purse strings as tightly as possible whilst maintaining premier league status. If you support Bruce and the club in a traditional sense at this stage you too are passively endorsing the way the club is being run.2 points
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That was one of the lines that jared most from his interview with Samuel. "He's a prince and got £30bn, why would he argue over £10m?" Because he's not a fucking moron, and you've got £1bn, why are you quibbling over £10m?? £10m isn't an irrelevance, even if you're Carlos Slim. If we go down and stay down I can see him slashing costs, dumping assets to try and clawback the debt we owe, then selling us for far less than the £300m he's reportedly demanding.2 points
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Who do you think your lot will replace Ross with? Also…2 points
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He also seems like one of those fat blokes who’ll have a strangely stubborn heart.2 points
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I think it’s important to at least try and respect both points of view. Even allowing for apathy, we all love the club and the fans aren’t the issue here.2 points
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The thing is, it's becoming increasingly apparent that Cummings is not a genius. He's a baldy little virgin who thinks he's cleverer than everyone else. Every briefing from the "senior Downing Street source" (aka Cummings) about how they can do this, that or the other, is comprehensively dismantled in minutes by actual lawyers. Whatever he comes up with for the 19th, the fact remains that the Benn Act is the law. In the event that he tries to subvert it, the court will order that someone else can sign the letter, and it'll be incumbent upon Parliament to remove him from office. If he refuses to send the letter, there'll be more resignations on the Tory side, and it'll be Johnson, Cummings and the dickheads in the ERG stood trying to take everyone on. This won't go the way the bald virgin has dreamed it up in his wank fantasies.1 point
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Nah they won’t buckle. The only reason they backed his proposal was because they knew they could veto it before it came into effect but after we’d left. This idea removes that power from them.1 point
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You know when a manager is struggling when he mentions the amount of injuries he has then says he's not using injuries as an excuse.Young not playing up front to win pens and free kicks through diving hasn't helped their cause.VAR isn't perfect but diving in and around the box isn't as common as it was a couple of seasons ago.It's definitely fucked up Alli at Tottenham.1 point
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Aye, worryingly, the strongest, (and thickest) advocates for it in my personal experience have all been 30-40s.1 point
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Unfortunately it's not that straight forward. I can think of quite a few who are under 60 in some cases well under 60 who are decent enough people but have blancmange for brains when it comes to brexit and who've fell for the bollocks hook, line and sinker.1 point
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Although I suppose it could just be a politician saying what he thinks more people will like than dislike1 point
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Corbyn has increased his standing in my eyes. Anyone who can get this thin-skinned prick's chins to quiver in pudding-like indignation can't be all bad. Mean old Jezza said nasty things about you, does baby need his bottle? Bless.1 point
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It's almost like when he was saying he shouldn't be a football club owner and was a negative to the football club in the summer that it was part of a disingenuous pr campaign1 point
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He's a right thin skinned bastard, isn't he? Quick to open his mouth and release interminable "statements" whenever someone says owt nasty but not too fast to justify his methods of ownership.1 point
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Yeah I played all the way through school (no formal football in PE at any Borders high school in the 80s) but almost always for B teams as I was frankly bone idle. I played with and against some serious lads though, quite a few Scotland u18s/U21s and a sprinkling of late 80s/early 90s full caps. Some of them are in the pic; Kelso RFC Scottish champions 1988(?) 6 Scottish internationals, two of of whom went to our village school, one of them was a British Lion (the skipper) there also four other lads from our village in the pic, including my old man’s best mates son. I came across the pic a few years back and realised how steeped I was in rugby as a teenager, how high the standard was and how much I did actually enjoy it. I knocked it on the head when I left school to go and watch Pedro & Gazza every other week. I was asked to go back to the U18s by a club stalwart (this was also the man who first took me to St James Park) but declined. He didn’t speak to me for two decades after that1 point
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Either Allegri or Wenger as caretaker manager. Personally, I think Allegri has got his heart set on succeeding Pochettino at Spurs and apparently he doesn't want to move until the summer. Nah, the time has gone. As PaddockLad said, we did have a few injuries (Shaw, Lindelof, Wan-Bissaka, Pogba, Martial from our starting XI, Lingard, Jones and Bailly from the squad) but that is no excuse when before the season even started it was clear that we needed at least another midfielder and a couple more attacking players. Instead, Herrera went along with Lukaku and Sanchez and all we did was bring in James who should have been eased in as a squad player but instead he's been thrust into the starting lineup. Was clear before the season started that we'd do poorly. When Ole first came in, we did well then it fell apart. Was stupid to appoint him as permanent manager when we did - the only reason I can think is Molde's season was about to start and their owner wanted to know Ole's future so they could plan their season. The final few months of our season after he was announced as permanent manager were dire. Only nice thing I can say is that compared to Van Gaal and Mourinho who were obsessed with starting Rooney and Matic respectively when they were clearly past it, he has changed players in the lineup when they're not working. Examples being putting Martial up top instead of Rashford, Tuanzebe playing over Lindelof, dropping Lingard from the starting lineup... basically the minimum you'd expect from any manager but Van Gaal and Mourinho really were stubborn with who they played. Downside with him being everything else.1 point
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People with that sort of money aren’t stupid enough to pay way over the odds. They also aren’t going to be held to ransom by Ashley. Ashley can’t negotiate when he can’t bully the other party1 point
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Wearside Jack didnt sound convincing with regards to the takeover still being on.1 point
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Johnson will blame the EU if brexit 'deal' doesn't get done, by law we can't leave with no deal, EU extension is vetoed by one of the EU members, parliament has to revoke to prevent disaster, election time afterwards and Johnson sweeps up the betrayal vote and doesn't have to worry about brexit which he doesn't give a fuck about but he does give a fuck about being PM and having a majority which he'll hope to do by splitting the opposition and trying to make the brexit party an irrelevance if his betrayal spiel is up to scratch and the media are 'on message'. No brexit but five more years of a Johnson Tory government. Time will tell if he eventually jettisons some of the ERG from prominence once that ship has sailed and they're no use to him. Or I might be completely wrong and be misunderstanding everything so far? If only CT was here to guide me.1 point
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All time rugger bugger great I see Ireland's last game my be hit by a 160 mph typhoon which will make qualification for the knock out stages very difficult indeed as the game will go down as a 0-0 draw. Scotland may benefit enormously from this. Oh dear how sad never mind1 point
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I'm not saying it would be more fun. I'm saying that it's only marginally less fun. If fun is indeed the right word. I'm saying that the risk is very slender for me because the margins of enjoyment are so fine. Look, if all you need is your weekly kick of excitement to get the blood going and you could care less about the wider direction the club is taking then fair enough. But for me, the former isn't enough. So I don't care if we're beating Man Utd on occasion, with the slim exception that a young local lad scored and that this is always nice to see, because the overall lack of direction makes it impossible for me to emotionally commit to any of this. I can't take it anymore, I'd rather see us go down and hope that if we languish long enough, it'll force him out. I didn't care that we beat Spurs. I didn't really care that we beat Man Utd. I mean a few years ago I would have been jumping up and down around my living room even with the club owned by Ashley, but now it's gone. So it's not that I want us relegated because we'll win more, it's not that I think it's good for the club in general, it's that I think it's literally the only way that Ashley will ever go, and that I can't enjoy this football club properly until he has. And really, for me, it's because this club isn't on a journey to anywhere. It's at its endpoint under Ashley. This is the destination. This is all there is.1 point
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More quickly than what? Cos it looks like he's here forever at this rate. I think 3 years in the Championship mid-table would do it. Parachute payments run out, level of investment required to push us back is extreme. So the question in my mind is would I prefer to spend the next 3 years 14th to 17th in the PL with no hope of progress, the whole concept of supporting the club reduced to simply the enjoyment you can get out of a single match at a time rather than any bigger picture - or would I prefer to spend the next 3 years in the championship with an elevated chance that Ashley might fuck off at the end of it. It's easy for me. Even with the risk that he doesn't sell after 3 years, so what? You still get the enjoyment from a single match at a time and an otherwise non-existent bigger picture in the championship. We've lost basically nothing more than the occasional, inexplicable victory over "big clubs". Also, even if he does stay after the 3 years, it'll be fucking painful for him. Which is a plus.1 point
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An educated guess though. He clearly prizes PL advertising revenues and income and is prepared to spend extensively to get us promoted at first time of asking. It seems clear that the only real reason he keeps us is to promote sports direct and going down and staying down would absolutely harm that goal. It's also the only position under Ashley that we haven't really occupied which makes his reaction unknown rather than set.1 point
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I think he’d probably sell if the club was a financial burden to him for any sustained length of time. And I think that’s the assumption being made. Obviously it’s a guess but it makes sense and it’s the one scenario which hasn’t played out so far. It’s not exactly a choice which fills many of us with joy. What should be a relatively simple pleasure, ie following our team, is always a complex range of emotions under Ashley. You should be able to enjoy a young, local lad scoring the winner against Man Utd. But once the joy subsides you’re left with that bitter taste where you still have a half-witted dinosaur managing a club owned by someone for whom mediocrity and survival is the goal. The flip side is that even if we went down and stayed down then there are still no guarantees. But it’s gotten that bad, with no prospect of Ashley ever changing, that it’s a chance some are willing to take.1 point
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Due to your age you don’t get much abuse, due to your opinions you don’t get much credit1 point
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Guantanamo. Shit himself again on a flight in the US and got charged with discharging a dirty bomb.1 point