Ken

I think Ashley will, but if we aren't spending that and then some I think we can fairly forecast quite accurately a battle against relegation. A battle that we're more than likely to lose.

Player development is pathetic, so too talent identification. For years and years. Someone needs to take a trip to Southampton and see how they do things and follow their blueprint. To not see more locals come through the system in a catchment area the size that it is is a disgrace.

He can't get the best out of foreign players. He never has and never will, hence his desire to try and bring some Brits in now. He doesn't have a history of bringing youngsters through either so you are right there. But the fact is there aren't any good youngsters to bring through. Not good.

And how long has this happened for? This isn't Ashley's fault. This is a grassroot's problem.

Ashley, Ashley, Ashley. Sometimes, and that includes Geordies, just aren't good enough. Have a look at the history. But fuck it, I want to belong, so I blame Ashley too.

This cath will amount to nothing. Fucking hell

It is a decent squad. Better than the last two. I think England were the Titanic, they tunred the wheel two years ago but were heading the same direction. Now it is heading the way it steered.

I admire your forethought, and I do wish what you bring up comes to fruition. But encouragement or no encouragement, tide or no tide, this cath will own the club for a very significant time and nothing will change. Our very own Bill Kenwright.

Ashley's footballing education is growing slowly but surely. English players are too expensive. French players are dirt cheap. But English managers are shit. So go after a French mamager to manage them. Progressive.

If he was ambidextrous I'd sign him regardless of his stats which are shit. Fact is he has no confidence with his left peg whatsoever which means he'll amount to very little regardless of service provided. Goodbye and thanks for trying.

It doesn't matter. He still has a job and Ashley will never give a fuck about the supporters. Perfect partnership. Carry on lads.

Sorry.

GF insisting on taping this. Means I have to remove programs to make space for it. What a waste of MB.

Weirdo northerner cunts.

Perspective from someone watching from Australia here; Watched the game with keen interest purely for this 60-69. The frenzy prior to the first walkout by the crowd was very audible as opposed to the eery quiet from the crowd in the first half. It was very noticable and the commentators alluded to it. Anti Pardew and Ashley chants were very noticeable and frankly quite clear for all to hear. Cameras panned to the banners around the ground, unfortunately for the most part when they did they weren't unfulred properly, but at least there were no spelling errors on any of them. Unfortunately it looked as though people were heading to the toilet for the first walkout, but the 69th minute walkout drew quite a serious alert to and response. Not sure Ashley would even bat an eyelid to it, I suspect not, but at least it has gained attention to the broader media (outside of Newcastle).

And I stand by it. A majority French squad in the PL managed by a Brit is a recipe for a fuck up.

Silly reply. The makeup of the squad and how successful it is is dependable on the manager. Pardew did OK for a short time but couldn't sustain it because he relied on one player to virtually carry the side. Ashley will continue on with a British manager if Pardew is punted - Bruce or Moyes. None of them can manage a team dominated by continental Europeans, British managers aren't canny enough to do it with the exception to the rule being Brendan Rodgers who was schooled by a continental manager. Looks as though fat Ashley has seen the light.

I understand that that is Graham Carr's area of expertise and it will be most logical that players will be signed from there, I'm just making the point that filling the squad with so many players of French decent is a recipe for disaster - if not in the shorter term then most certainly mid to long. I'm at the point right now where I'd be more than happy to see Moyes become the next manager. At least Moyes has a history of buying and developing decent British players to play in the first team at Everton in his time there. That is what Newcastle desperately needs right now.

That's my point - we need more decent British players in the squad. Gosling, Taylor and Shola should be pissed off immediately. Williamson and Elliot are decent sqaud players and should be retained particualrly if there aren't the funds available to replace them on top of the others who hopefully will leave and of course those who have already left the club or about to (Cabaye, Collocinni and Remy). In a perfect world with a decent transfer kitty I'd sell Obertan, Marveaux, Yanga-Mbiwa, Santon, Debuchy and Cisse too,

Still debating the positives and negatives of this waster...

Jack Colback is a good player - better than any midfielder at the club at the moment. Plus he's English, I don't give a fuck where he was born. Need more British players in the team and less Frenchies who tend to bottle it when the going gets tough in football and during wartime.

The Chinese are looking in the wrong place using technology that is about 20 years behind America's. Why the Chinese sought fit to start looking in the area on their own is a mystery and has sinister overtones if they are proved to be correct. But to make this bold and premature announcement about their 'great discovery' on their state television network is embarrassing for them. They think that this is some kind of race and whoever finds the blackbox can claim some kind of superiority over everyone else who is looking. Childish behaviour. They will be a serious danger to the world in 10 years time or so when their power projection capabiltiies improve that will cover territorial disputes they have with all their neighbours in the region. But back to this Chinese 'discovery' - I am looking forward to the excuses they make in an attempt to save face when they realise that what they have detected is not the blackbox at all and they are not superior as the Chinese population think they are.

Anyone who thinks Game Of Thrones is shit is a turd.

Dumb Yank pricks. They'll never learn.