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By ambition I don't mean spunking tens of millions of their own money though, just running a club that had been turned into one of the top revenue generators in the world in a way that would take it forward. We don't know how bad the debt was when he took over, or what might have happened but to blame Shepherd for the state we are in now is ridiculous. When Ashley took over he paid off the debt in cash- as we were told time and time again. Of course it is impossible to know how much truth we have ever been told about the state of the finances by Ashley, he has lied from the minute he took over, the noises that come from the club have been nothing but misinformation and downright bollocks from the get go. Without wanting to defend Shepherd particularly he isn't the one who sanctioned the contracts for Viduka, Smith, Barton, Geremi, Capaca, Rozenhal, Beye, Jonas, Colo, Xisco, Gonzalez, and it wasn't him that sacked and therefore had to pay for the contracts of Allardyce and Keegan within acouple of months of each other. I'm pretty sure Shepherd didn't have Wise on the payroll at £1m a year either. To blame anybody but Ashley is ridiculous, and if he had any idea about how to run a club well we wouldn't be signing Shefki Kuqi whilst being £49 million up on transfers This is the one thing in this debate that boils my piss. He paid off the existing debts by creating new debts. The club owes more money now than it ever did under the last regime. Yet this line about him paying off the debts’ gets reeled out time and time again. That aside I agree with your view. Ashley should be judged on his own actions, not those of the previous regime. He chose to buy the club. He chose not to undertake due diligence. He chose to force Keegan out. He chose to appoint Wise, JFK and Lambias, piss Shearer around, sack Hughton, sell Carroll, rename the ground, deface the roof, put the club for sale, take it off the market, put it up sale again, take it off the market again..... he chose to take on the responsibility and he’s accountable for the state of the club now. I wasn't claiming he was white knight by paying off the debts, or as you more accurately point out loaning the club the money so the debt was transferred to him, I was trying to show the stupidity of blaming the shepherd debt legacy for the place we are now.

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Good article that seemed to be starting out in the traditionally wrong-eyed insulting fashion, but finished off being refreshingly complimentary Fantastic stuff

Ambition doesn’t equate to spunking tens of millions on new signings. Ambition in footballing terms is about wanting to fulfil your potential and loitering around the PL is way below NUFC’s potential. Take the ten year ST freeze bollocks. It’s a blatant admission the club are expecting to do jack shit over the next decade, that they have no interest in increasing their revenues though giving the punters a better product. Inflation alone will reduce our ability to bring in better players unless our revenue rises. But there's no tie-ins so how is it an admission? It's more of an admission that people hurting from the Carroll sale might not renew, and is designed more for the short-term than the long. A ten year price freeze is a short term plan - what now?

By ambition I don't mean spunking tens of millions of their own money though, just running a club that had been turned into one of the top revenue generators in the world in a way that would take it forward. We don't know how bad the debt was when he took over, or what might have happened but to blame Shepherd for the state we are in now is ridiculous. When Ashley took over he paid off the debt in cash- as we were told time and time again. Of course it is impossible to know how much truth we have ever been told about the state of the finances by Ashley, he has lied from the minute he took over, the noises that come from the club have been nothing but misinformation and downright bollocks from the get go. Without wanting to defend Shepherd particularly he isn't the one who sanctioned the contracts for Viduka, Smith, Barton, Geremi, Capaca, Rozenhal, Beye, Jonas, Colo, Xisco, Gonzalez, and it wasn't him that sacked and therefore had to pay for the contracts of Allardyce and Keegan within acouple of months of each other. I'm pretty sure Shepherd didn't have Wise on the payroll at £1m a year either. To blame anybody but Ashley is ridiculous, and if he had any idea about how to run a club well we wouldn't be signing Shefki Kuqi whilst being £49 million up on transfers

I laughed out loud at this. Honestly though Best's heading was abysmal in the Arsenal game, but he obviously has a decent shot on him if nothing else. Best- quick feet;slow brain

I'll keep this as simple as possible. You know nothing about football. ... and now I'll take it into more detail. There is absolutely nothing at all to indicate that Enrique is on the 'wain'. For something to be on the wane would indicate that it was on a slow gradual decline towards it's eventual end. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here because you can't even spell the word so it's unlikely that you even know what it means. I don't think you actually mean he's at the start of the end given that he just turned 25 last month. The discussion should end there. He's obviously not on the wane. Now, I was singing Enrique's praises in general. When he first played for us to me it was clear that we had a player who had the fundamental skills to be a great defender. He was strong and quick two areas where our defense was lacking. He stays on his feet and doesn't give up. Where he was lacking however was in his link up play with the rest of the team. Defensively he still had plenty to learn in terms of positioning and the like, but the fundamentals were as clear as day. In getting forward however he struggled, he seldom had a short passing option to play to, or at least felt he didn't and so resorted to the long ball far too often. When Jonas arrived in his second season he did start to form a good relationship with Enrique that gave Jose a direct short passing option. They were able to link up and this allowed Enrique to get further with much more frequency than his first season, though ultimately not a great deal came of his attack. Part of this was down to the players that he was crossing to and the general negative feeling at the club. Part of it was down to him missing a fair few games with injury. Part of it was that his crosses weren't that accurate. Certainly in direct contrast to Jonas, Enrique gets a lot of pace and movement on his crosses. If you can get these sort of balls into the right areas then you'll be a goal keepers nightmare. Unfortunately Enrique's crosses weren't consistent (they're more consistent now, but plenty of room to improve) and so not a lot came from them. Last season in the Championship the area where Enrique really developed most in my opinion was in his possession of the ball. Defensively he wasn't often tested in the Championship. In attack he should have been getting even more involved in my opinion, because he quite clearly was better than the players he was coming up against. Back in the top flight and he's now confident on the ball and will take players on on the dribble. When he does he routinely beats his man. If he stays on the dribble he'll often get closed down by second and third men coming in, or will be limited in his ability to get off a shot courtesy of being quite heavily left footed. Now you try to cite a few points to carry your paper thin argument - one being that Enrique doesn't do many slide tackles. That's been busted already by many others in this thread. On top of that you try to claim that he should have tried some sort of slide tackle on Damien Duff in the Fulham game. This is further evidence of your lack of knowledge. Whilst that was a horrible bit of defending from Enrique there was no way that he could have at any stage made a tackle of any sort on Duff once Duff had the ball. If he did he would have received a straight red card. I don't know why you've brought Danny Simpson into it at all, because frankly he has extremely little to do with the way Enrique plays. Simpson has been having some good games of late which is excellent to see. I think he's a good player with a consistent cross who reads the game pretty well. Even still 10 times out of 10 I'd rather have Enrique defending than Simpson. Has Enrique had a bad game and an ordinary half in his last two starts? Yes. Does it need a thread of its own to bring it to everyone's attention? No. Another nice try but Im afraid you've already shot your bolt with your nasty little comments earlier on. Its plain for all to see that while slagging me off when I said that I thought Enrique attacked well previously, the FACTS were YOU actually AGREED with me. Very hypocritical. Had you bothered to argue some decent points at first, rather than lie, I would have debated them with you. As it is, its too late baby. A simple sorry would have done. When you find yourself in a hole - stop digging

Fuckin Lazio LAZIO. Reports coming from Spain suggest Wolves are interested in taking maverick Atletico Madrid striker Kun Aguero, the validity is yet to be ascertained, but it's a trusted source it really is. Some fucking dilemma that for Ashley

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More obsessed than Leazes, at least some things are predictable this season

Harry Rednapp, Paul Gascoigne, Chris Waddle, David Ginola, DannyB, and because I used to live in Harringey. And Ashley supports them. They do trail in a distant third in my hate list though - they aren't a permanent feature like Sunderland and Liverpool - they could be replaced by a team less irrelevant at any time. When you drop back down to your normal mid table mediocrity I will probably forget about you again.

Erm i was posting on the spurs board about it before i came on here. I came on here to tell you lot and someone had beat me too it...god knows why as you dont have a vested interest (obsessed) link link In all seriousness I would like alink -I m interested to know how the Spurs fans are reacting Howay Danny - link us up

The handful of nutjobs inhabiting the settlements and surrounding areas aren't the problem for world peace. They're just pawns. The illegal settlements are advanced by a nuclear superpower, and accepted by THE world superpower. No other country dares do anything about that....or could (as countless UN resolutions show). In those terms one side is much worse than the other. I actually don't think the settlers are quite as bad as islamist nut jobs that are willing to blow themselves up in an public places with the aim of killing as many Israeli citizens as possible but their actions are similar in that they want to provoke the extremists on the other side and prolong the conflict that most moderates on both sides have had enough of. I think they are worse, but I refuse to justify my position

They should be known as Renault-Lotus and Lotus-Renault then, surely no-one could find that confusing As someone on Twitter wrote: "We don't refer to Marlboro McLaren or Vodafone Mercedes so it'll simply be Renault". lol at me and the power of advertising -I do pretty much still think of McLaren as Marlboro McLaren. So the one that looks like the old JPS Lotus isn't a JPS Lotus, but is a Renault, but is called a Lotus, and is better car than the heir to Lotus name which doesnt look like a JPS Lotus, but is Lotus green. Amarite?

I will admit am cracking on a bit -not RobW territory, but pretty much staring into the abyss. I saw my first match in the 60's which(and Ive only just realised this to my horror) means this is the 6th decade I've watched Newcastle, but this season.... Supporting the lads has always been part comedy, part tragedy and 100% soap opera, but this season is a ridiculous roller coaster ride that is quite frankly beyond belief. The season starts with me worrying the squad simply isn't up to it and we suffer a standard thumping at ManU that bodes ill for the year ahead. We follow it up with a 6-0 hammering of Villa, which at the time I considered the most surprising result I'd ever known, seems pretty small potatoes now mind. The season progresses by losing at home to Blackpool and Stoke but winning away at Everton and Chelsea. We have signed Tiote and Ben Arfa- both turning out to be magnificent buys, but the joy of Ben Arfa's wonder goal is quickly followed by the horror injury We get humiliated at home by Arsenal then put 5 past the Mackems and win away at Arsenal. Ok things are on the up, lets get beat at home by Blackburn and West Brom and have Bolton put five past us - obviously relieving the tedium by a thouroughly entertaing draw against the Champions So we all seem to be feeling the love for the team, for Chris, maybe the man in charge has changed his ways, Oh no he hasn't Hughton sacked, Alan Pardew put in charge - Alan Pardew!! Stiill lets hammer Liverpool 3-1. But hold on theres a quick humiliation away at Stevenage. Throw in a couple of injury time goals to deny us victory against two of three teams I hate more than any other, and Oh yes follow it up by selling our best player to the team I DO hate more than any other... For 35MILLION quid....and it looks like he might not even play again this season... What the fucking fuckity fuck is going on Arsenal...4-4, a game that pretty much defies rational explanation, but a microcosm of our whole season in 90 minutes And now to replace Britains most expensive player we are bringing in Shefki Kuqi, thats right Shefki Kuqi If I had been asked to predict the most bizarre season I could have imagined I wouldn't have come close to what has actually happened. I'm not a religious man but part of me is starting to wonder if this is some sort of cosmic joke at my expense. God only knows what the rest of the season might bring -it could be anything

These are the basics You need to ask them what is the minimum number of parcels per night - you dont want to drive over there to be be given 10 parcels. Also you really want to be doing the same area every night - avoid being one of the nuggets who gets the sweep ie all the crap parcels nobody else wants which are hard to find and are miles apart. If you hear the phrase its a different place every time so you dont get bored you being taken for a mug You should also try and find out how big an area you will be meant to cover - they break the areas down by portions of postcodes - you need to avoid posh areas where the houses are miles apart and have names not numbers which you cant see in the dark. you also need to avoid tower blocks and dodgy estates obv. Ideally you want a area with a high density of terraced/semis in a block of residential streets, avoiding main roads where its a twatter to park and anything with a high shop ratio Good luck Every scenario you mention to avoid will be the ones he'd get I'd imagine, the cream will be left for their permanent staff so they're more productive i.e they get value for money from their employees. You get very few non self employed drivers working out of hours - it just isn't viable to employ people to do it. The vast majority of multi drop companies don't employ drivers at any point, much more cost effective to use self employed owner drivers,small man and van companies or franchise routes out. Employed drivers just won't/don't put the graft in to make it worth the expense of employing them Its always hard to get a good day route but it's not a bad time to get in for evenings now because a load of the people doing it over Christmas leave at this point because theyve made their money over Xmas, and can't be arsed doing it at the lower volumes, so he might get lucky and find a decent spot.

These are the basics You need to ask them what is the minimum number of parcels per night - you dont want to drive over there to be be given 10 parcels. Also you really want to be doing the same area every night - avoid being one of the nuggets who gets the sweep ie all the crap parcels nobody else wants which are hard to find and are miles apart. If you hear the phrase its a different place every time so you dont get bored you being taken for a mug You should also try and find out how big an area you will be meant to cover - they break the areas down by portions of postcodes - you need to avoid posh areas where the houses are miles apart and have names not numbers which you cant see in the dark. you also need to avoid tower blocks and dodgy estates obv. Ideally you want a area with a high density of terraced/semis in a block of residential streets, avoiding main roads where its a twatter to park and anything with a high shop ratio Good luck

That's because he's already a permanent fixture of the first team squad having being on the bench for the last 5 or 6 games....... Not to open a can of worms but that's because there's nee fucker else who can play wide left in the squad. Dont disagree and I appreciate he may be a few years off getting a regular start (if good enough), but currently, when Jonas is having an off day, I see no harm in letting the lad be an impact sub as Ranger has been. Youth doesnt have to mean no good. I think as sure as eggs are eggs, Lua Lua will be the permanent left winger next season. I've seen him play for Brighton - if he is our permamnent LW then we will be in trouble

Some time? Mackem fau paux? Whats your obsession with ppl being mackems? Get a grip man. Black and White through and through. I would have Barton in for Solano and Pedro in for Lee, that line up is far too defensive Thats mental like. Solano was a much better player than Barton on the right. And i love Barton too. Pedro in CM? Defensive? Hahaha ok marra Your laughing at me for Beardsley - good enough for Keegan -good enough for me. I've just gone for the same front 6 that beat ManU 5-0 but with Barton and Tiote in for Batty and Lee. On reflection I would keep Lee ahead of Barton

I would have Barton in for Solano and Pedro in for Lee, that line up is far too defensive

65p a parcel - so you need to deliver 100 parcels for £65. That could take 20 working hours alone. Even then you're banking on 12 minutes between drops non stop for 20 hours. True mate, They say they can drop parcels off at your home then you will need to sort and deliver them before 9.00 p.m £65 for at the very least 20 hours work, and you have your petrol to take off that. What a piss take, you should say do I look fuckin Polish? That's not really how it works, you should be able to do 10 - 15 per hour - they will be grouped close together, often multiple deliveries to one address. I had drivers doing over 200/day in the run to Christmas

Its not a bad way to make a bit extra money. As far as I know (London) its mainly a a part time thing, and they also only pay the 65p for bigger parcels. Unsigned deliveries 40p signed 50p so make sure you know what you are getting into. It should be a no risk deal - you are self employed so you can just walk away if it doesn't work, though some companies will try and charge you for the route. Shoot me a PM if you want

Chezney, if you are going to play the contrarian you can surely do better than this. Even Christmas Tree wouldn't have the temerity to pass this off Oh come on, was just asking a question. How can it be contrarian if i also state i am not saying the position is wrong? Well as you very well know correlation =/= causality, you might as well say he second half atmosphere was so good because Mr Marshall-Barnes left early Well i definitely wasnt trying to associate the better atmosphere with the increase in family numbers, just saying that it would be strange to blame the increase in family attendance on the worse atmosphere in the modern game compared to 20+ years ago. edit : wrong way round, ye knaa what i mean. Aye, the atmosphere was a lot better when the average age of attendees was lower -I'm all for increasing the number of kids going, it does seem that the club is doing it in the most aggravating way possible though.

Chezney, if you are going to play the contrarian you can surely do better than this. Even Christmas Tree wouldn't have the temerity to pass this off Oh come on, was just asking a question. How can it be contrarian if i also state i am not saying the position is wrong? Well as you very well know correlation =/= causality, you might as well say he second half atmosphere was so good because Mr Marshall-Barnes left early

A lot of assumptions in this post - none of them accurate