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who you going on about please? not you

No Job - No Money -Fuck off Gnat West -The Frank Bank

I'd rather go back to when you weren't on the board you tedious fuckwit

I agree with this. We had definitely lost our way post Robson. Keegan had changed all that - no way were we heading for relegation that season before he got sacked.

Who's fourth. People should all say which one they voted for so we know where we stand. My fourth would be the royal family. I hope he dies btw, I voted for the next option up though because I didn't want to jinx it

Has he now reversed it? Thats a question which no one can really answer as of yet. Arguing about whether we are in decline or not is a fairly pointless. More to the point is the previous owners were making decisions with the benefit of the club in mind(I'm not denying the decisions also had an eye on their bank accounts) This owner appears to not care about benefit to the club, only to his own agenda, anything positive on the field being secondary. Hope I'm wrong His own agenda is not to lose money, he's already in for thick end of £200mill so whilst we might not like the way he'll do things, his "agenda" has to result in positive things on the field or he's screwed and even he must see that. BUT he will do it his way, no-one makes his amount of cash without being hard nosed and ruthless, so we just have to wait and see how it plays out and hope Mikey boy makes his profit. The reason he is in for so much money is because he fucked things up with the purchase, then with Allerdyce and then Keegan. His stupity in the following transfer window and JFK appointment saw us relegated - forgive me for doubting

Has he now reversed it? Thats a question which no one can really answer as of yet. Arguing about whether we are in decline or not is a fairly pointless. More to the point is the previous owners were making decisions with the benefit of the club in mind(I'm not denying the decisions also had an eye on their bank accounts) This owner appears to not care about benefit to the club, only to his own agenda, anything positive on the field being secondary. Hope I'm wrong

It's a good post in as little as it says a few basic obvious things about if you want to sign the very top players then you need to spend the very top money. Which is basically a statement of desire because it doesn't really say where this money should come from. You're competing with Chelsea (sugar daddy) Man City (sugar daddy), Man U (bigger than us) remember, so i) Newcastle's natural resources alone rule this type of investment out, ii) he doesn't expect Ashley to spend his own money, iii) credit isn't available as it was the last time we went out mad spending. So it offers no solutions as to where the cash should come from. Although he protests that he 'doesn't just want to splash cash about' in essence, if you go back through his posts down the years its the only consistent theme that emerges. Ever. That's all it is as an argument. We've got a clear transfer 'surplus' this summer. If that gets used towards strengthening I'll be content with the direction since the relegation season. If not I won't. I don't anticipate the entire amount will be spent either way (and theres an argument it shouldn't be if we're just clearly being held to ransom), but I'll try and judge using those slightly more objective criteria because I realise we were miles off challenging when Ashley took over and Leazes will be a long time looking for his magic wand. I'm talking about you when I'm talking about dimwits, and people who won't admit when they are wrong. It's so obvious, you disagree with me and stalk me like there is no tomorrow. You really are a tosspot. That post not so much

Thats a good post Leazes

Scouse puff

well worth another

His future is looking rosy I'll get my coat

The problem with this is your confusing the fallout from appointing Souness (which I’m sure LM would agree was a bad decision) with an overall long term strategy. LM isn’t saying the last regime were perfect. He‘s saying their overall strategy was sound. Not faultless but right up until they handed Souness £50m it reaped huge rewards without compromising the club’s financial stability. Now letting Souness piss £50m on a load of crap players was a big mistake but pointing at what happened after that and writing off a strategy that clearly worked for NUFC is plain ignorant. One mistake didn’t undo all the progress we made under SJH/FF. It was a set back that required a short term rethink of the club’s finances. We just needed to steady the ship for a season or two and then get back to being a club that had ambition. Ashley has ripped up a blueprint that worked and replaced it with one that looks increasing like delivering nothing but a steady decline in the club’s status. Brilliant. Apologies to LM if I’ve misrepresented his views. Yup, yup, thrice yup

Yes it does to be honest, the years since SBR have been utter shit and were trending down, last season and this have had much better "highs", in my opinion. I don't get all the incessant misery to be honest. I've enjoyed this season more than any season for years, but at the same time its been the most depressing. The realisation that the better somebody plays the less likely they are to be here next season is sickening Only if you let it sicken you, and your realisation is not proven (yet) why worry about next season, until it's here, anything you, me or anyone "thinks" just now might not ever happen. All I see just now, is a team which never knows it's beaten, appears to have pride in itself and works like fuck for the cause, what's bad about that. It's about the game after all. I do agree if someone knocks our socks off (or someone like Man U comes calling) with an offer for Enrique, for example, we'll sell him. Then again I realise if Barca or Real do the same for a Man U player he'll be sold/fuck off as well, it's just the way it is. Edit - the cure for your depression seems to be, the players can't play as well as they are so no-one'll want them which would result in a crap season/matchday experience. Or maybe we may just keep the players - again a long shot because of the way football is, but I'm a glass half full kinda blokey/codger. If I hadn't seen such riches I could live with being poor

Rob if you want to know quite how bad doping is in cycling have poke around this forum -quite the eye opener I'm pretty convinced there are very few "clean" sports or sportsmen out there fwiw. The difference in stamina and power in so many sports is so different from 20 years ago.

Yes it does to be honest, the years since SBR have been utter shit and were trending down, last season and this have had much better "highs", in my opinion. I don't get all the incessant misery to be honest. I've enjoyed this season more than any season for years, but at the same time its been the most depressing. The realisation that the better somebody plays the less likely they are to be here next season is sickening

7th could potentially get you into Europe though. Without trawling through all the missed opportunities this season, just taking the 6 points we were robbed off by Tottenham, Sunderland and Blackburn and we would already be very comfy in 6th on 41 points. And as you say, had Carroll and Ben Arfa stayed fit!!!!!!!!!! Good point about European football possible helping some players to stay a bit longer, however Im pretty much resigned to Tiote and Enrique going in the summer. If a local geordie lad cant resist the big money on offer, then cant see those two doing it. Its quite staggering that Ashley doesnt seem able to see we were only a few additions away from having a very good team. If he is aware then I think he has underestimated the negative and knock on effect the Carroll sale will have on other players. Somebody contact Christmas Tree, his account has been hacked

Great result- remarkably comfortable performance. I really wish I was confident we could keep this unit together over the summer and add some quality - we aren't far off being a solid top 8 team. I fear the summer will be brutal though

looks like I'm wrong

I dunno about anyone else but I think its Kuqi time

68% possession 2nd half -how bad are brum

This striker's automatic.....systematic.....hyyyyydromatic. WHY IT COULD BE GREASED SPASTIC! I think we all appreciate you waiting til the substitution, reverse jinx avoided

Perfect Jonas cross -Best header- Bizarro world

So no answer then. Its always going to be Shepherds fault. ok by the way; Spongprick - sick burn. How can I answer something about a nonesensical statement you made you thick fuck Sorry if it is too tricky for you. Seemed a pretty basic question to me Let me translate into daft cunt for you, I don't think it's being run like s netto, so can't answer it lol ok. Avoid away

So no answer then. Its always going to be Shepherds fault. ok by the way; Spongprick - sick burn. How can I answer something about a nonesensical statement you made you thick fuck Sorry if it is too tricky for you. Seemed a pretty basic question to me