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"I don't understand Diaby's reaction. I went in one-footed, cleanly took the ball and my momentum carried me into him," Barton said. "I think it was stupid from him. They were 4-0 up, there was no need for him to react the way he reacted. For me it wasn't an issue. If the Arsenal players don't like being tackled, they should go and play basketball or netball or one of the other games." Coenesque

Which is what I said about him having learned nothing and jeopardising us again. I Don't see a "hefty" profit even with survival though. the profit league last year was... Man U £91.3m Arsenal £58.8m Livepool 24.9m Spurs £18.4m Birmingham £13.7m Everton £6.3m Wolves -£1.6m Fulham -£2.1m Mackems -£2.4m Bolton -£5.3m Blackburn -£6.8m Stoke -£7.8m Burnley -£8.9m Hull -£9.2m Chelsea -£11.4m Villa -£13.1m Wigan -£17m Portsmouth -£17m West Ham -£32.8m Mn City -£34.2m http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/footbal...we-1912244.html Given the top 4 have a model based on champions league qualification, the next best model Ashley could look at to try and turn a profit is Birmingham. I doubt their wage bill is significantly greater than ours. If he was able to match their profits year in year out...he might have recouped his loan to the club and be able to start turning a profit in ten years time. There's only 3 clubs there that actually turn a profit outside of the champions league. The cash cow theory is full of holes. Ineptitude is far more plausible.

I'll either move or get my nephew a season ticket. Only Ashley could look at the atmosphere on Saturday and think to himself it needs to be stopped. The L7 corner were brilliant. Half hearted for the first 45, understandably, but as soon as Diaby went off, great for the rest of the game.

"More" than made up? You get more for being relegated than you do for staying up? TV money in the championshiup is a pittance by comparison, even when you're on TV every week. The gates were down 10,000, average was about 43,000 so one fifth less. He took a huge chunk off the wages, but Smith, Barton, Coloccini etc all remained. Our squad was the highest paid in the league by some distance.

He's doing a pretty shit job Is he? - £35mil for Carrol - - Parachute Payment - Duff, Geremi, Owen, Martins, Viduka, Given off the wage bill - Full houses every week - Practically every 3rd game in the Championship on TV I'm struggling to see how he'll be making a loss at the minute with the majority of the squad on £20k or less a week. Are you seriously suggesting that the next set of accounts for the 09/10 season could possibly show a profit? Perhaps 10/11 will....off the back of Carroll, but it's only once in a generation that we can hope to break the British transfer record. that's not a plan for long term profit. This view of Ashley as a genius entrepreneur filtering money out of the club at our expense really has to stop. It gives him, far too much credit. He's been an abject failure. He's thrown hundreds of millions at getting us relegated and back up. If he'd thrown half of that money Keegan's way then the chances are we'd be up there challenging with Spurs now. The worst of it is that he hasn't learned his lesson at all, and has once again jeopardised our premier league status by gambling we can stay up, this time with Peter Lovenkrands leading our attack rather than Michael Owen.

New albums from The Go Team, The Streets and Bright Eyes.

The notion ashley uses newcastle united as a cash cow is preposterous. There's not been any profit whatsoever yet.

Shame I can see your IP address, eh? Besides you're evidently a Mackem and a pathetic one at that so it suits you down to the ground I am Jack. I see you are still having no luck catching me. FYP

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Same here. I'm not that into Twitter, but I know the basics and it surprises me how few people use the features. If you want to reply to one person, use a message. It won't be public. Otherwise, anyone following you will see your tweets. If they don't understand, tough titty. If you want people that don't follow you to see your messages, use hashtags. People use these to search for a topic. So if I say "#NUFC are mint" anyone searcing for #NUFC will see it and decide to follow me for my witty repartee. Similarly if I make a comment @someone, if they respond then their followers will see it and might decide follow. The best bit of Twitter for me is what no-one seems to use when I look at their profile - lists. Whenever you follow someone you can add them to a list. Then you can view ttweets by list depending on what your currently interested in looking at....so I've got lists for Toontastic, NUFC, Music, Comedy, Film, News etc. You could set up a list for phtography or trainspotting or whatever......then anyone else with an interest in those things can follow your list and it saves them looking for all the trainspotters out there and adding them one at a time.

Using it now. Incredible stuff. Even when you get a bit lost it knows you were just pondering where to go. Exponential Intercontinental antidisestablishmentarianism

Muchos gracias Gemillangadindong.

I can't find Swype in the market. Has it been rebranded or summat? Using... Pulse as a news source Astro as a file manager Dolphin as a browser ChompSMS for my texts Advanced Task Killer to kill apps Need to get a better music player than the default, checking online Mixzing seems to be the player of choice. Anyone think otherwise?

This point that keeps getting wheeled out, again by Llambias today, that he's never taken a penny out of the club. Has this ever being nailed as a fact, a lie or is it all smoke and mirrors. I'm not sure but I know he has changed the terms of his loan from being repayable on sale to being repayable on demand i.e. he could now pull the plug at any moment he wanted. I'm sure last years accounts showed that he'd taken out a few million....couldn't fathom why he'd do it when we still had an overdraft/debt that we're paying interest on. I can't see anything in the accounts to say that, in fact his loan increased in 08/09. Our loans to him were up to £112 million at one point during the year but ended at the £111 million. Either he was paid back a million or it was written off.....which I'm sure he'd be bragging about. Rounding error? Bloody accountants. Last years numbers shamelessly stolen from Quayside's summary on N-O The highlights: Turnover was only £86 million (all 3 areas of revenue matchday, media and commercial were down on the previous year) Wages (including Keegan's £2.2m payoff) £73m Profit on transfers £23m Other costs £51m Therefore the Loss = £15m so it was an improvement on 2008 but, due to the fall in turnover, not a massive one. As at 30th June Ashley had loaned £111m making his investment a total of £247m. He took no money out in interest. At one point in the year his loan was up to £112m. Not surprisingly, as the club is technically insolvent by £51m, he was required to give a personal guarantee to satisfy the going concern status.

This point that keeps getting wheeled out, again by Llambias today, that he's never taken a penny out of the club. Has this ever being nailed as a fact, a lie or is it all smoke and mirrors. I'm not sure but I know he has changed the terms of his loan from being repayable on sale to being repayable on demand i.e. he could now pull the plug at any moment he wanted. I'm sure last years accounts showed that he'd taken out a few million....couldn't fathom why he'd do it when we still had an overdraft/debt that we're paying interest on. I can't see anything in the accounts to say that, in fact his loan increased in 08/09. Our loans to him were up to £112 million at one point during the year but ended at the £111 million. Either he was paid back a million or it was written off.....which I'm sure he'd be bragging about.

Thought about this the other day but didn't post it. We all said we needed more strike options before the window even opened. We brought in no-one and got rid of 2 more strikers. Incredible!

jajajajajaja! Ashley's cuckolding you. Man up and stop giving him this 6 month trial period every transfer window.

This point that keeps getting wheeled out, again by Llambias today, that he's never taken a penny out of the club. Has this ever being nailed as a fact, a lie or is it all smoke and mirrors. I'm not sure but I know he has changed the terms of his loan from being repayable on sale to being repayable on demand i.e. he could now pull the plug at any moment he wanted. I'm sure last years accounts showed that he'd taken out a few million....couldn't fathom why he'd do it when we still had an overdraft/debt that we're paying interest on.

Just got this, thought I'd try and get a few more sigs...just short of half a million so far... Takes 2 seconds to sign

We made more on transfers in the windows of 2009 than we have in the last 2 windows. Why would anyone think Ashley will go and spend much more of the smaller amount he's pulled in this time?

Last years accounts are due soon aren't they? I think they'll show that all he has done to put us on a stable financial footing is reduce the wage bill and transfer outgoings. Anyone with half a brain could have come in and taken an axe to the squad/staff as he has. They'll also show crowds down, sponsorship down, advertising down, merchandise down, corporate sales down, TV revenue down, overall income down (or should I say losses up) and total debt up.

Jesus walks

Lampard equaliser. The scum just got them mad. Rooney in the first minute too.