wolfy

Nobody is asking you to believe anything. Accept it for what it is and for everything told if you feel that it's correct. Look at the maybe's if you are of the mind that MAYBE they are literally playing games with the mass populations of the world. Does any of us know that any of any of this has really happened or are we totally reliant on media? So let's assume they let this thing off. Where did they do it and was it far enough away from any civilisation as to be sure not to cause any aftermath? Or did they deliberately let a thermo nuke off to deliberately destroy a city and it landed way off target? Or is it all just scare tactics to ready us all for the fakeness that will be bestowed upon us all, which will have most of the populations cowering in their homes. Make your mind up as to what you think it is, but just remember that your media sources can and will and regularly do LIE to you.

When Ashley goes I just hope and pray that we get in an owner that is not a chancer and hinges all his chips on one spin of a roulette wheel. If we get a country owning Sheikh or some Chinese multi trillionaires in, then enjoy the extravaganza but remember that you'll be enjoying it with a lot less money in your pockets as well as not recognising the majority of the fans as the working class down to Earth fans that make this club as special as it always is and was. We then become cheats, just like Man utd ,Chelsea , Man City, PSG and all the other clubs that are working way beyond their genuine means. It sounds like a right prospect for excitement. I agree. It also sounds the death knell of this football club. The real issue is, what do we all want and what do we all think we deserve for being a fan of Newcastle United football club? I prefer a football club that has players that do not hold it to ransom. I prefer a football club that runs from what it legitimately generates. I prefer a football club that can produce its own legends. When you walk about with your football shirt on, or you chat about your love for the club, people know you're doing it because you are genuine. When you get owned by a money no object sugar daddy and play with the elite, you become nothing more than a bandwagon jumper to the outsider, no matter how long your allegiance to the club has been. Does that matter? Not in the grand scheme of things, because it's only sniping talk...but it lowers the real tone of what being a real football supporter is, because expectations go through the roof and nothing less than serious flirts with success and also shares of it, will suffice. As for Ashley. I actually believe he should leave the club. Not because I think he's destroying it or anything like that. I just think that his tenure is creating another frenzy that will once again become epidemic, even if we finished a few places above relegation. Fans (mostly) will only be pacified when he walks away and that's fine. As long as he walks away and leaves the club financially stable (which he will) then all we have to hope for is the long term future of this club becomes what you dream it to be. Just remember one thing...or two things. 1. The grass isn't always greener on the other side. 2. The postcode of this club ensures that it is fed on the scraps of the elites.

Maybe by simply making a pretence of a missile explosion out of a genuine earthquake.

In my opinion we are just being fed an ongoing soap opera to keep us all on our toes. There's more things to worry about in life than what some fake arsed nuclear nonsensical nations put out to constantly worry the populations. It's like a big bloody Hollywood type charade with ready to show and go, props.

If Rafa feels that the club have went against his wishes or not allowed him to buy in what he believes is required, then the club will have went against his contractual stipulations. I assume he will have made absolutely sure what was on offer for him considering how long it took for him to go over it all before agreeing to stay on after relegation. He now has some easy choices to make. 1. He can walk away right now with his head held high and with most fans' blessing in not blaming him. 2. He can get on with the task ahead and see where it takes him. If he chooses the second option then he will have no scope to just walk away after so long and expect to be thought of as anything other than a weakling. This might sound harsh on him but it would be more harsh on us and the team, because the team is virtually his. It doesn't matter what Ashley and Charnley etc, might be, it only matters that we have some kind of decision as to where we go from this exact point and with what manager and staff. Hopefully it will be Rafa and co, because if it is and he does something beyond what we all expect, then he can quickly become a legend here and also enhance his managerial reputation in terms of being able to work on a much smaller budget than those managers of the elite clubs who have almost blank cheques and cheating minds.

You have the power to do that and is your only weak way out. Do what you need to do to keep your little army of weaklings pacified.

Yes he did, as stated, Ant. Throw some stick and stones, they work better.

Maybe you should pay attention...and Ant.

The quote above is what fish asked for, Ant. Simeone is on the map right now as a top manager because he did exactly that.

I was asked to name a manager. I named one. It's not about running back to anywhere to do anything. Accept what I say, or don't.

Who mentioned Atletico Madrid?

None of us know what we have to spend. Only those in charge of the club coffers will know what's in the pot. I'd hazard a best guess that we have more than enough to cater for a couple of double figured (millions) players.

Getting someone like Remy would be a monstrous error by this club. Remy is well below standard and on sickening wages. He did well for us when Q.P.R had to offload for the season but soon showed his true mindset. Preferring to sit on the Chelsea bench whilst his bank account fattened up.

Snodgrass to Villa on a season long loan. Someone said he was better than what we had at Newcastle. i can't remember who but it shows how desperate he is to enhance his career. It actually shows how desperate West Ham are to get rid of the half hearted waste of effort. Ambition at its best.

It's nice to get Riviere off the wage bill and also looks like de Jong is about to piss off to Ajax. We have a bit of lee-way for bringing a player in and being able to finance it without any issues, if Rafa has one or two in mind/negotiations. We should clear the decks fairly easily from now on because those were the two most difficult to shift for me.

It's much less complicated than what is made out. The point still stands and that point is, you build a football TEAM to play in 3 parts of the pitch. That means defensive battles and midfield battles, as well as attacking the opposition back-line. The word 'tactical' has took on a pathetic scientific meaning when 'tactics' in the true meaning is much easily implemented by any competent manager and a competent squad of players with motivation and ability. We aren't in the championship, we are in the premier league and he cannot continue to play negative for most of the game, in most games or the fans will soon get pissed off and Rfa will soon find out that he's not a god. He bought strikers and wingers and has plenty of attacking options. He should use them, because we aren't going for titles or champions league slots. We are supposed to give a full account of ourselves and have a crack, then build from there. I'm not asking for full on attack all game. I'm asking for a full on balanced performance that includes it when the opportunity presents itself. We do have enough attacking wise. We don't use it properly. Nobody is asking for cavalier style. Needing to be solid is a complete load of baloney if you think that's how we are set up. We are set up home and away as a defensive/cautious outfit that relies on a wing and a prayer in keeping a clean sheet and the hope of nicking a goal. Rafa is far too negative in his tactical set up and it's no wonder players look frustrated at times. We have enough quality across the pitch to give most teams a decent game and a bloody nose. We don't have enough bottle to go and do it in the team because Rafa appears to be telling them to be cautious. That's why we tend to fall apart when we do forage into the opposition half. Diego Simeone.

A lot of the youngsters today aren't interested in much of the football history, unless it's for bragging rights in terms of success stories. Most of them live on their football manager games and generally become experts on the players of today around the world. Most are only just starting to get to grips with their legend packs on their football games. Football has changed a lot from brass tacks/grass roots for the older one's. The youngsters see the razzmatazz and are happy to go with that.

Very clearly it is. Of course and is something that Rafa fails to allow his players to do on many occasions and instead tried to stop the opposition team from doing exactly that to his team, ending with us eventually being battered for most of the match and last ditch defending. He needs to strike a balance and also put teams to the sword with what we have attacking wise, which is more than enough to break teams apart if he allows a bit of freedom to do so. Yes there is and it's usually down to lot and lots of money to basically buy in what's needed to saturate the entire pitch with top quality. Something that most managers will never get the chance to do. Put these managers in lesser teams and they become normal and fighting on the same front with win rates that take massive nose dives. The real top managers can build their own teams by turning decent players into top players.

It's not about catching on. It's there for anyone to see.

Of course we have the players to play a more attacking game. We'd only get hammered if we didn't balance it out, as in going for the jugular as and when, which is obviously not going to be the case. We give teams too much attacking freedom against us, without reply for much of a game. We cannot afford to sit back and allow these premier league speed machines to keep battering us. We have to fight fire with fire and take chances. It's ok saying we won a game one nil whilst we had 2 shots on target and the other team had 12 plus 7 off target, then say we held strong. It's not about holding strong, it's called being fortunate and is one reason why we tend to lose players to injury, because we are always last ditch attempting to stop wave after wave of attacking teams. Make teams think about the pace we have and the ability to attack them with full on passing and movement, instead of hopeful balls and stop start passing around their danger area. If Rafa's attention to detail is as good as said, then he needs to apply it to a balanced formation against the better teams and a more attacking mindset against team on par with us. Huddersfield were there for the taking, had we been less worried about conceding again and concentrated on taking advantage of their latter leggy defence.

But they are good enough to get us away from relegation if managed properly. They aren't good enough if Rafa is going to set them out in a negative fashion against all teams. Horses for courses should be the order of the day but Rafa runs all courses with one blinkered horse.

Yes we do have the players but Rafa is too negative with his set up to get the best out of those players. We might have had chances against Huddersfield but the reality is we should have had a hat full of chances against them but spend too much time allowing them to put us on the back foot, as we tend to do. We got away with it in the championship but this is a different kettle of fish, Fish.

Basically, this.