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It should be a priority for someone who doesnt sound like a complete twat to be available for comment. If the supporters could have someone to speak who was eloquent and sensible it would be a huge step forward.

peasepud - newcastles own Rogan Taylor

Think how fans of Ipswich and Notingham Forest feel. lacking in whores? That's the second Ipswich ripper joke you've knocked out this morning. It's not 2006 you tiresome oaf. Glad I never came to your comedy nights if this the standard expected. booyah!1 Sick internet burn

The most depressing thing about this current farce is with Keegan I was starting to feel how I used to again. I felt like it was my/our club again. To be honest getting older and living on the south coast had already taken its toll, so I was already seeing much fewer games than I used to, but over the last six months I had started feeling the old passion. I dont know if I wll ever get it back now

There is only one possible candidate - Harry Bassett Come On Down!!

The people brought in by Ashley are clueless and lead by Dennis Wise. The man who owns the club has just backed Wise over Keegan twice. We have no squad to speak of. We just lost to a team who previously lost 5-0 to Wigan. I think relegation is pretty much a certainty as things stand

Youve really sterlin the sher!

Not one word explaining why Keegan left

Exactly that Whole thing is a bad break up. Kind of hope KK could come back again, but all know it would be stupid and wouldn't last anyway. yes but the sex is always fantastic!

I think he should probably stick to the lemonade anyway

scab tbh imo

anybody got stream for the riots?

Last season we has Keegan to come in sort things out and put together a good run. I think we're in genuine trouble this season, manager-wise, squad-wise and of course Wise-wise. I agree. The squad is ridiculously short of any quality and depth. I can see a tailspin happening here,

Look how much the Halls and FFS made and they were paying out big wages and transfer fees. TV money is going through the roof, internet money will probably dwarf it soon.IF they get enough owners to agree to stop a collective deal for the premier league and for each team to sell its own rights it will go up even more Hes got people buying season tickets three seasons in advance, every player isavailable at a price and he is scouring Europe for cheap talent to sell on at a profit. Sounds like a tasty erarner old son. The Hall's FFS argument doesn't really compare though as they bought the club when it was at its lowest ebb (after years of a board doing exactly what you are saying Ashley is doing) and therefor cheap. They floated it when the PLC craze was in full flow and made shit loads then. At the time the club was in a faw worse state than we are seeing now and they realised that all that was needed was a bit of reasonable investment and they could make a fortune on the back of the 'sucess' that the investment brought. Ashely doesn't have that oppertunity now that it's already been done. The TV money argument only stands up if we stay in the premiership and he doesn't alienate the customers. He's already failed in the second part of this and if he goes along the path you believe he will fail in the first part too. I just don't see it as a sustainable way to make money out of a football club. I dont know the figures for the Halls and Shepherd and how much they were earning from the club for the last few years, and tbh I havent got time to go looking. I take your point about buying the club at a low ebb. I still think they were making a fairly good packet year on year, but I may be wrong. I think that he plans to do enough to keep us in the Premiership, but on a budget that wont harm his bottom line. I dont think he is thick and the team he has put in place does seem have unearthed some talent. I think though that selling players at a profit whilst staying in the Prem is the aim. If he can get a steady stream of young foreign talent coming in who can acheive mid table placings and generate a profit after a couple of years he will be more than happy. As for alienating the customers I think he is banking on the combination of loyalty blind optimism and apathy that we can already see overcoming any short term anger. HE obviously doesnt care what anybody thinks about him personally, revels in it possibly. A team with a production line of young talent, too good to go down but without the serious investment to break into the top 4, with a huge fiercely loyal high spending fanbase. loads of media generated income. I think that is a hell of a way to make a lot of money. I'm sure the Halls/FFS still took a fair bit from us in the last few leaner years but this was probably financed by the fat man mortgaging the club to the hilt to pay for transfers. With regards to Ashley, if he won't/is unable to splash out the sort of cash that will allow us to comepete for the title, all we can hope for is to use what we have over the rest of the also rans (a bigger support/global name) and that he will allow us to spend what net income we can make on transfers to go as high as we can. We have to accept that any club that's not amongst the top four is going to have to be a selling club, because the way player power is now if one of those clubs comes calling the player will make sure they move. This is the best scenario I can see happening (very much what is happening with Spurs) and tbh is what I hope is his plans for us if he hangs around because I'm convinced he will never be an Abramovic type owner. The other side is what you're suggesting and that he's only here to make more money and will leave us with the bare minimum to ensure our premiership status and therefore his income. I may be just be being overly optimistic (if you can call it that with such low expectations) but despite a good potential revenue stream from TV, I just don't see it being an amount of money that's worth his while with all of the hassle that it brings (especially with such an initial outlay). We are certainly following the Spurs model in acting disgracefully to the manager, Spurs treatment of Jol was appalling. I just dont see any scenario where Ashley will run the club in a way other than to make a profit. He isnt in it for the glory of winning trophies or for public acclaim. His lack of personal investment and handling of the Keegan business shows this. Ashley could have easily resolved the situation if he desired. I think Keegan beleived to the bitter end he would step in, I also think Keegan would have swallowed working for the system had it brought in the players he seemed to beleive he was getting. He has bought the club for a reason and if you look at his business history it shows the same pattern, maximise profit and bugger what anybody else thinks. His history, events so far, the people he has put in place all point firmly in the same direction, and isnt pretty. I will concede that I dont think we are likely to be the new Leeds, he will protect his investment, having said that I think we could easily struggle this season, the squad is frighteningly small and I worry about anybody getting as much out of the squad as KK would've. Absolute best case scenario is we might win a cup, but even then we will have to get used to seeing the best players flogged off at any sign of a decent profit. The only good I can see is we will be profitable and streamlined enough to make an enticing target for takeover.

1 The vast majority of fans put their team before country, and expect the same from the players. 2 Englands players are on the whole vastly overated 3 I forgot what point I was trying to make

People say the Czech's are good, their second best player of the last 15 years wasn't good enough for Manchester United in Karel Poborsky. Individually Spain are a better side than England, as individual players I don't think any other country has as many top notchers as us, like Ferdinand, Gerrard, Joe Cole etc.. If Joe Cole, played for Italy or Germany for instance he'd be their best player imo. There's a very very very fine line between unbelievable success and abject failure in international football as Sven found out in 2002, 2004 and 2006. Thats a much overlooked and very important point. England are portrayed as World Beaters until the point they become abject failures, but the truth is luck and tiny incidents make the difference

I dislike Carragher as much as the next man, and my hatred for the pool would put Stevie to shame, but I wouldnt criticise Carragher over this. He said on Talksport yesterday (Iwas in a cab who had it on honest) that he supported Everton as a boy and to him Internationals meant players like Lineker leaving because they did well at the World Cup or Neville Southall breaking his ankle with Wales when Everton were in the chase for the Double. He also said ne would support Scotland because Graeme Sharp was his favourite player. I felt exactly the same, I used to support Scotland over England when Bobby Moncur was playing, Bellamy playing for Wales with dodgy knees not to mention EMO. Added to the general London bias around England I think he just looks at England like we do, and I cant criticise him for that. I dont think you can say anybody has greater pride in playing for England than Beckham, and you mention Shearer who gave up England for Newcastle.

Look how much the Halls and FFS made and they were paying out big wages and transfer fees. TV money is going through the roof, internet money will probably dwarf it soon.IF they get enough owners to agree to stop a collective deal for the premier league and for each team to sell its own rights it will go up even more Hes got people buying season tickets three seasons in advance, every player isavailable at a price and he is scouring Europe for cheap talent to sell on at a profit. Sounds like a tasty erarner old son. The Hall's FFS argument doesn't really compare though as they bought the club when it was at its lowest ebb (after years of a board doing exactly what you are saying Ashley is doing) and therefor cheap. They floated it when the PLC craze was in full flow and made shit loads then. At the time the club was in a faw worse state than we are seeing now and they realised that all that was needed was a bit of reasonable investment and they could make a fortune on the back of the 'sucess' that the investment brought. Ashely doesn't have that oppertunity now that it's already been done. The TV money argument only stands up if we stay in the premiership and he doesn't alienate the customers. He's already failed in the second part of this and if he goes along the path you believe he will fail in the first part too. I just don't see it as a sustainable way to make money out of a football club. I dont know the figures for the Halls and Shepherd and how much they were earning from the club for the last few years, and tbh I havent got time to go looking. I take your point about buying the club at a low ebb. I still think they were making a fairly good packet year on year, but I may be wrong. I think that he plans to do enough to keep us in the Premiership, but on a budget that wont harm his bottom line. I dont think he is thick and the team he has put in place does seem have unearthed some talent. I think though that selling players at a profit whilst staying in the Prem is the aim. If he can get a steady stream of young foreign talent coming in who can acheive mid table placings and generate a profit after a couple of years he will be more than happy. As for alienating the customers I think he is banking on the combination of loyalty blind optimism and apathy that we can already see overcoming any short term anger. HE obviously doesnt care what anybody thinks about him personally, revels in it possibly. A team with a production line of young talent, too good to go down but without the serious investment to break into the top 4, with a huge fiercely loyal high spending fanbase. loads of media generated income. I think that is a hell of a way to make a lot of money.

Look how much the Halls and FFS made and they were paying out big wages and transfer fees. TV money is going through the roof, internet money will probably dwarf it soon.IF they get enough owners to agree to stop a collective deal for the premier league and for each team to sell its own rights it will go up even more Hes got people buying season tickets three seasons in advance, every player isavailable at a price and he is scouring Europe for cheap talent to sell on at a profit. Sounds like a tasty erarner old son.

gan on then

Do you honestly not see any logical fallacy in this statement?

There isnt going to be a transfer kitty, Ashley isnt trying to get succes as we see it, he is trying to line his pockets. The only hope I see for the future is if he cant make money out of it then he will sell up

I blame Ashley - Alex ...Stevie......stop the madness

You better get used to the club not spending any money, and they wont feel the need to explain it either

Exactly The highspot of Ashleys ambition is to pocket a fuckton of cash