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It doesn't though, because I also show where it's chepaer to buy tickets for all 19 games as a member than buying a ST for the next seat along. The Mag is what the contributors offer. There doesn't seem to be any editorial watermark, if they're sent something, they hoy it up. Which is fair enough in an online edition where there is no competition for space. They're trying to get away from a string of articles that knock each other off the front page, irrespective of quality though. The front page directs you to opinion or news and that and the editor classifies as "must read" what he sees as the best of what they get, stuff that might have gone in the print edition. Every writer has their own page too, so you can bookmark anyone you like or add them to your Feedly etc. and ignore those who produce reams of statistical bollocks. Submit something and give everyone a laugh. I'd add you to my Feedly

Blowjob please. My next Mag article has a swear in it. And one attempt at being funny. It doesn't come off, but I'm trying.

Tell me something I didn't point out myself.

Cheers Wasn't it a few weeks ago you were telling me what brilliant stiff I was producing?

http://www.themag.co.uk/2015/03/newcastle-season-ticket-holders-paying-more-than-general-public/#sthash.5VSeFtaH.dpuf

Ben arfa was much more positive for a year. And Gouffran. Takes time and a few trouncings to get the nerves running through a club and put the shackles on players.

Recommended on tell em steve Dave last week too.

Think its all the BBC. Rather than bought from a prod company.

Think it's a bit daft to think Clarkson leading his 2 lickspittles to Netflix will lead to a product half as good as the BBC show, unless the whole production company goes with them. I think Clarkson is a twat and hardly watched an episode in years, but I got back into it in this series and the soundtrack, camerawork and scale of some of the stunts pulled off was incredible across the board. Clarkson saying "On that Bombshell" at the end of fifth gear wouldn't make that a better show.

Godspeed album leaked

10 Didn't even realise the order of the years was most recent at the top until half way through like.

He might have been convinced if Carver went on a run, but the two options open to Ashley now both come at no personal cost to him whatsoever. Previously, if he wanted a better manager than Kinnear, Hughton or Pardew, he was the one that put the money into the club to pay the wages. If he wanted to keep Carroll or cabaye, it was £50m of debts to him that the club couldn't pay. As someone who didn't want to spend any of his own money, he only had one option really, bring in the best that the club could afford without making a loss. Now thatthe debts are paid and the club is profiotable to the tune of tens of millions he can keep going for the cheap option or not. Either the club will get richer while stagnating or it will get better. But if he wants 52,000 cheering fans involved with the promotion of his shop, he's more likley to sanction the club spending what it can afford and bringing in fans to watch.

What we had before Ashley and what we have with Ashley is a club that has to pay for itself. No change. With Ashley the club doesn't have to pay any dividends, board member salaries for 8 people in the same families and exorbitant rates of interest. The previous owners got away with that level of waste by borrowing more money to spend and keep fans deluded that we were a strong club. They were always happy that there would be another TV deal around the corner. The problem came when we had to recalibrate our spending to pay the bills, even with the new TV deals. For example, the 2 biggest net spends in the history of Newcastle United were in succesive years in 01/02 and 02/03. Bellamy, Robert, Jenas, Viana, Bramble Woodgate and Ambrose were bought at a cost of £45m with literally nothing recouped whatsoever. This was fine, because a new TV deal started soon (03/04), however because we spent big on borrowing it had to be repaid when that TV deal kicked in, so in 03/04 we bought no-one. We sold Solano and Cort to turn a small profit, then we had to sell Speed and Woodgate to meet costs. Every other club was rolling in cash and improving their squad while ours was worsening, so we finished 14th the following year. Ashley is taking the opposite view. He is not spending a single penny the club does not already have. Even wages are accounted for up to the end of a contract when a player is bought, so the club are not caught short with expensive wage bills 3 years down the line on a player who wasn't good enough and is rotting in the reserves. It's an infuriatingly riskl averse strategy, but longer term it means all the money the club earns can pay for new players, facilities, managers, coaches etc, rather than going on debt (assuming the debt is now "clear") What this has led to is (almost) a year on year increase on gross spending that need not necessarily end at any point.... I've left out 2014, where we bought no-one. That was a gamble that paid off, we could have gone down, but without replacing Cabaye we stayed up, which meant we were closer to the break even point where the club can start progressing sooner. None of this is to say we'll soon be challenging for Europe or that other clubs won't continue to outspend us. We're just much less prone to Summers where we stagnate as we pay off the debts.

It will be clear. Accounts always state the debt position of the club and as all of our long term debt is to ashley We'll see if that comes down to £111m or further. There was a few million on an overdraft last year, but that can change week to week.

This was why I thought Ashley would be getting a better manager in. http://www.themag.co.uk/2014/09/mike-ashley-ready-invest-manager-now/ That was back in September, 3 months before Pardew left.

The only previous time that Ashley has promoted from within was with Hughton. He soon decided he wanted "better" once promoted, so dumped him off unceremoniously once he'd taken the time to find the right fitting manager for him. Can't see any different with Carver. Clearly holding the role for someone else. Whether that someone else is up to scratch remains to be seen.

That was my first thought like. Corey hiam and Feldman were never brat pack.

On a similar theme... http://xkcd.com/1491/large/

I'd add... Earl Sweatshirt Godspeed You Black Emperor Young Fathers Built to Spill Sun Kill moon

They have more often than not. Only once (2011) has the club spent a lower amount on transfers than the profit/loss reported. 13/14 will be the second time that's happened, once we see the books, but then we followed it in 14/15 with the largest net spend and gross spend since Ashley arrived. That suggests to me that the club will continue to spend all it earns. The question is whether it will start paying off other outstanding debt as well. My hunch is it won't, because Ashley said it's not repayable. He's a liar, but he has been open about the relegation debt being repayable.

Good write up of the changing nature of the TV deal here http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/the-premier-league-tv-deal-master-and.html

The only game in town was survival...but only as long as the club was reporting losses. His approach has been to cling on to Premier League status until TV money made the club profitable. Better coaches and players can be paid for now, without incurring a loss that he has to subsidise.

1% Carver is getting the same treatment Hughton, Keegan and Shearer got. Invited to meetings told that their hard work an diligence will be rewarded before being let go without so much as a second glance. Why would Carver arse himself for the last 5 months of a season if the club said there was no chance of extending his position. The club is going to fundamentally change it's approach this summer. When the accounts are announced that will be the first time under Ashley that the club has made a cumulative profit... No longer is it a club that works from a loss and has to sell before it buys. There is cash in the coffers before selling anyone, we'll spend that cash. We might still sell players when good offers come in, but that will only add to our warchest. The priority for that surplus of cash will be to earmark it for a top coaching team at every level in the club, not the makeshift set of inexperienced randoms we currently have. Ensure the kids through to the first team are getting top quality coaching. Secondary, we'll still chase bargains, but we'll occasionally top the squad off with a better calibre of player, rather than always getting the injury prone, unproven type that has been our bread and butter.

6 of his 10 games at Palace have been games he'd already played at Newcastle. That's how results compared. Scored more than twice as many. It won't last.