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Andy left the club to save the club. Geordie Martyr tbf, living over there.

turn out I have two tax offices who perhaps are not communicating with eachother. this could turn out worse than I thought. gulp.

Blade Runner

nice work Fish. That lass puts out to anyone mind.

I'll take requests Redknapp "hanging out the back of it", please? I fuckin KNEW you'd be first in there. but, aye, canny request. Keys whooping in the background?

nice one Chez.

This thread has reminded me of your dormant artisic talent Fish. along with the lack of any decent pixel porn on the site. Any more MSP masterpieces you can conjure up?

Harpooned the poor lad.

I wonder if we'll ever see this endgame, if he'll get us to debt free and stable. He could keep us in perpetual crisis if he chooses. I mean off the field, but on too. Will he make it or will he flog us before he gets there?

Mike Ashley isn't bankrolling us. Like Shepherd didn't. Well with the free loans he has put into the club he clearly is bankrolling us to some degree. Of course it is his money, his club and his choice as to how far he is prepared to invest, or indeed speculate, with Newcastle United. For me it comes back to the question why would anyone want to own a big club in the world's top league? There are five reasons I can think of, but I would be interested to see if anyone on here has any others? 1. A hobby - a bit of interest, crack, fun etc. 2. Kudos, you are a massive egotist and wish to show off etc by owning something very expensive and exclusive 3. Advertising - a big club presents a huge international opportunity to promote your interests 4. Money, there's a lot of money sloshing around the game and a bit of wheeling and dealing you can perhaps make a pretty penny - either through transfer dealings and other income or through eventually selling the club on at a profit, ideally both. 5. Ambition - you are driven to make that club a success for its own reasons, money, kudos and advertising would be a bonus behind this. I understand your neverending war with Leazes, but I suppose outside of that I want to ask you - where do you think Ashley's approach lies within the above? I think he is mostly 3 and 4 with a splash of 2 and in the early days 1, 5 is the least important to him with the exception of having just enough ambition to be involved in the top flight to keep 3&4 up there on a budget. The Halls and Sheperd were mostly 4 and 5 combined. I know which I would prefer, but I also know how much debt the latter accrued at the club, which of course brings us full circle. Ashley started as a 1,3 and 5. Failure to do due diligence and the fallout with the fans puts him now at a 3 and 2. I don't think 4 is really what he's about, he makes enough from Sports Direct, the ball ache of trying to make a premiership club profitable for him on a personal level is probably pointless, because the profits would be relatively small to him anyway. If you offered him break even right now he'd probably bite your hand off though. It was much easier for the Halls/Shepherd to be a 5, because they were doing it 1) in the middle of a footballing boom and 2) without any personal risk I think he is at 4 to recoup what he lost at the minimum, which you state (I perhaps should have expended 4 to include 'not make a loss' but that was tacit). I don't agree that he thinks he makes enough from SD, many rich people are invariably interested in making more and more money. Otherwise he would have quit when he reached his first million/10 million/100 million/billion. Why make a special case out of us?

He hasn't thought about bringing in temporary cover after selling the best striker we had for 35m? Staggering, wtf he is up to? Nuts deep in Wilson's misses?

That's what I am on ffs. BR.

Mike Ashley isn't bankrolling us. Like Shepherd didn't. Well with the free loans he has put into the club he clearly is bankrolling us to some degree. Of course it is his money, his club and his choice as to how far he is prepared to invest, or indeed speculate, with Newcastle United. For me it comes back to the question why would anyone want to own a big club in the world's top league? There are five reasons I can think of, but I would be interested to see if anyone on here has any others? 1. A hobby - a bit of interest, crack, fun etc. 2. Kudos, you are a massive egotist and wish to show off etc by owning something very expensive and exclusive 3. Advertising - a big club presents a huge international opportunity to promote your interests 4. Money, there's a lot of money sloshing around the game and a bit of wheeling and dealing you can perhaps make a pretty penny - either through transfer dealings and other income or through eventually selling the club on at a profit, ideally both. 5. Ambition - you are driven to make that club a success for its own reasons, money, kudos and advertising would be a bonus behind this. I understand your neverending war with Leazes, but I suppose outside of that I want to ask you - where do you think Ashley's approach lies within the above? I think he is mostly 3 and 4 with a splash of 2 and in the early days 1, 5 is the least important to him with the exception of having just enough ambition to be involved in the top flight to keep 3&4 up there on a budget. The Halls and Sheperd were mostly 4 and 5 combined. I know which I would prefer, but I also know how much debt the latter accrued at the club, which of course brings us full circle.

you've lost me here ASM. Mike Ashley is hardly a tramp.

Aye I'll try and work oot what ye dee. In hindsight I should've told them and The Telegraph that I want paying. They came to me not me going to them, and the way Talksport approached that interviewer "you were writing in The Telegraph", I should've said right £200 no regrets, and they got their 6 minutes off me on Talksport. Cheque written to SMB then? One for the wall I suppose.

Looked into it, possibly screwed. I was under the mistaken belief that they know what they are doing (naive I know), but the onus is on me to make sure that they know what they are doing. At least the mafia just take from you, they don't expect you to check their fucking records are accurate too.

your alter ego. start a blog, you'll already have a canny few followers.

Well what did ye expect you can't have it both ways man!

very good Stevie.

Steve Marshall-Barnes

struggling to listen to these cunts like. can someone tell me when to turn it up?

can people post a few times so that it's both time and posts.

Stevie should have his own rant column somewhere, far more entertaining than the vast majority of football bloggers/writers etc. Of course the censoring might make the articles rather short. What is your twitter Stevie?

I've had a look for our thread on this but can't find it. You my recall in late summer last year the govt announced that 1.4 million people had underpaid income tax, through their own ineptitude. clicky I just received a letter from HMRC demanding a fair wedge and that I pay it within 4 weeks. Did this happen to anyone else on here and if so have any of you managed to weasel out of it? It seems if you can prove you provided all the correct information to them then they may waive it. As I was employed I imagine that means I am reliant on my (ex) employers records. Having just been hoyed out of work thanks to government cuts this feels ever so slightly like having the knife twisted. Thanks in advance.

Happy Birthday!