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I was talking generally. About football fans and pundits at large who bang on about it. I apologise if it hit a little close to home. I don't really understand the rest of your post, sorry again. It kind of seems like you thought Pardew was shit (correct), but Mike Ashley is the main problem (correct). So therefore we must write Schteve off as a lost cause? Venn diagrams/mutually exclusive etc..

Any offers on a better pun? Ewerk is whinnying at the moment

Very poor

Always thought Ponies were young Horses, apparently not.

Mad Max by the look of it

Was at a works do last night. A higher up had been passed over for a promotion. He proceeded to get rat arsed and tell people what he thought of them, the company and the entire world. Was pretty funny tbh. Went in this morning to find he had been placed on "Gardening leave", nice one knobhead..

I agree with that. But we must be the only club/fans that would take the selling price into account, Nani just went for what 5 Mill after 8 years of a 100k a week and costing 15mill to buy (not sure on any of those figures) are they arsed that it cost them however much for relatively little product? Anita was at worst a 7 mill buy on 40k(?) who hasn't yet worked out. Fuck the money. Stand by him, give him a shot, it can't be worse than the last couple of seasons anyway. If it doesn't work out then sell him.

You were only proved right because they appointed Carver instead of a football manager. Buzzing for you that you were right like, congrats. The thing I have never got about Pardew is that the 5th place finish was definitely an abnormality in his career if you look at in the whole, yet pundits and certain fans point to it like John Gregory never got Villa to 6th and a cup final. Its like collective Alzheimers, its mental. Carlton Cole > Carlos Tevez, Hayden Mullins > Javier Mascherano ffs.

Yeah I'm not getting into that again. But to say he needs a move when Captain Colback strolled through 90% of all our fixtures last season is wrong. Maybe he isn't premiership level but to peddle him when he can play in a couple of ways in midfield and at both fullback positions is nonsense. Especially when you take into account the make up of the rest of our squad, 80% of which should be sold before him.

Its a waste of time man, the bloke is a spanner.

Sorry mate, you are talking huge piles of absolute shite. Nobody is debating that is Ashley is the ultimate problem, that is a given. I am not going into the reasons why Pardew was a forced abortion of a manager, its been done. I can however go into reasons why a new manager with a new outlook can improve our upcoming season as Newcastle United supporters (although I doubt this in your case) more enjoyable, despite Mike Ashley, if you like?

All my Boro supporting mates are sure that Downing will be going back there. Great signing for them if true. Is he 31 now? A season getting them up and a season in the prem then retire at his home town club. Better than Woodgate's last few seasons at Boro "allegedly" getting wrecked and doing "substances" at a bar that rhymes with "the chickens" near Teesside Uni.* * Definitely haven't seen this personally, and it is all conjecture.

Hang on. Nah, still nonsense.

...Anita. He just isnt suited to the PL unfortunately. Seems like a nice guy but he needs a move... Based on what?

This post gave me aids. The fact 14.5 million is our third highest fee ever, in 2015 and the current climate is an indictment of the current board rather than a reason to think a corner has been turned.

I am a 30 year old, single (not married) man. Im confused, I will be £80 a month better off according to the calculator (ignoring my student loans) but if my landlord ups the rent (likely given tax restrictions) how is this bettering me personally? (It is all about No1 obviously). My GF is self employed working for multinationals but under an umbrella corporation, how will this effect her tax situation? I am also looking to buy a house here in Manchester but on the new build site 2 minutes walk from my place, the houses are all sold to and I quote "Buy to let, investors" how does this improve my personal position (No1 is No1) again? There is no rebalance, its simply the rich looking after their own.

You were driving drunk, refer to my previous comment

Confirmed arsehole.

Its pretty simple, like as an example, landlord owns a house which pays for itself and makes £200 profit a month. Once these restrictions are in place it will make them £50. How are they going to make that £150 quid up? If only I could afford to buy a house a £999k house in the home counties

Using that calculator I will be £80 better off. But I live in a property rented from a private landlord, so the my rent is probably going to go up because of the restriction of tax on the landlord. Maybe the rent on parliament members rented properties in London will go up and I can pay for that too?

All I know is she chucked all my figures out with my micro machines and he-man stuff. I remember there being a M.A.S.K cartoon as well.

Remembered another, quite young playing with my M.A.S.K figures, obviously put one of the figures in my mouth because why wouldn't you. Part of it come off and I started choking, me mother picked me up and ran across the road to a neighbour who was a nurse. She was carrying me upside down and battering me on the back, the part came out in the middle of the road, but I couldn't tell her cos she was hitting me so hard.

Fell out of a tree as a kid and bounced on my face. Split eyebrow and a couple of lost teeth, but kids are indestructible. And testicular cancer at the start of this year but caught it dead early, so I was proper lucky.

The first bold bit is just wrong mate sorry. The second bold bit. The reason football in this country is different is because of the kick and rush nonsense of previous generations, the lack of investment in kids football, lack of quality coaches/opportunities for coaches and a culture that demands instant success. Not because in England football is inherently a game played by big strong people. Lets put it this way. I think Anita is a better footballer than Colback, yet Colback plays every week because he "grafts". Anita plays a good game, two average games then is benched for 8 weeks or whatever. I think playing Colback over Anita is a false economy and it would bare out if both played a full season.

But the bigger players you mentioned are also world class.. Its pretty obvious to most that Anita isn't in the bracket but its nowt to do with his physicality. Just smacks of the old school "run, try, strength, height, power" nonsense that has ruined creativity, flair and actual footballing ability in the english game.