The Fish

Rattled.

Your position was to believe the "take it or leave it" offer made sense. My position was to dismiss it, because it makes little sense. I offered a more likely scenario, where this rumoured bid is simply the first of a back-and-forth, moving towards a potential sale. And my pants are dry, where yours are sodden.

You said You big nervous norman

Aye, but rather than the stupidity of the rumoured move giving you pause to doubt the stupid move has been made at all, you react to the rumoured stupid move.

Sir Bob called him "Alec", so I will too. I will also call Shola "Carl Cort". and you a cunt.

Ba wit da Bugger off

Eh? Ashley has Benitez now. Rayvin suggested Ashley would bin him off in favour of Pulis. I said that was daft. You're now saying "aye but he signed Kinnear". Well he did, but that's because he didn't have Benitez. Which was my initial point. Mad head.

Nope. Piece of piss that.

Fucking Hell

No it's not. You're assuming the reports that it's a "take it or leave it" offer are legit, when really, we have no proof of that. What's most likely is that this £300m official bid is the opening salvo. He might want £400m but that is ludicrously high. PCP are looking closer to £300m, which is still a good price for us. There'll be a back and forth and the final price will be somewhere between the two, if it happens. Both parties are apparently open to flexibility in terms of payment structure, so making your first bid a "take it or leave it" offer would be a bit fucking counterintuitive, wouldn't it? Newcastle's stock will never be higher without significant investment, and if Ashley wants to get a decent amount for us, now's the time to sell.

Well, sure if you discount his good work with Wales it's not hugely impressive. But if you discount Alec Ferguson's work with Man Utd his career isn't that impressive.

Go die in a house fire.

He must be kicking himself that Pulis got the boot so soon after he joined Sunderland. fwiw, I agree he's a limited coach, but he's surely better than Grayson? Though that superiority may count for naught given the funds he doesn't have and the squad he does.

Half way through The Punisher and so far it's much, much better than the last two Marvel Netflix offerings. Not for the faint hearted at times, but a good mix of humour and darkness. In Iron Fist and the Defenders most of the fights felt lightweight, like they were showing off stunts. Whereas this feels more visceral. Think Bernthal is very good and is a great bit of casting (up there with D'Onofrio as Fisk and Tennant and Killgrave imo) and the support cast is decent too. For people who're put off by the Comic Book source material, this has no spandex, no "superhero" vibe to it; it's a vengeance tv show. There's still some OTT violence, but it's in-keeping rather than gratuitous, imo.

Ashley wants a Premier League club, Benitez will deliver that. Shepherd wanted to sort out the dressing room, and thought that Souness would sort the idiots out and stupidly thought that alone would deliver top 5 finishes.

Go have a wash, you pant pissing Peter.

He's back in training going off twitter.

Haddaway and shite, he's not going to trade Benitez who has us midtable, for Pulis who had West Brom 17th. Didn't Pulis moan about not having control of transfers and so on? You big nervous Norman.

Pardew's leaning back in his leopard print chaise lounge, that smug smirk on his fucking face. "Keep off the line Tina, I'm expecting a call"

4-4-2? huh

At 15:14 "Playoffs must be our aim." "Get in!!! Hopefully this is the start of our winning run." "Gerrin! Just need a clean sheet now "

Was it a deft touch?

They've now been ahead for 7 minutes thus far this season. Seven.

Anyone? No, me either.

If Short had money to spend, why didn't he offer it to Moyes, McInnes, Grayson, Karanka, or O'Neil? Coleman is a very good appointment for them, but he's not so good that he's a guaranteed safer bet in charge of funds than at least three of the above. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a phat contract with release clauses galore. fwiw I think he'll get them pulling in the same direction at the very least and that could be enough to get them out of the relegation spots. His performance in the second tier, by the way; Matches W D L Goals Points PPG 107 30 35 42 112:140 125 1.17 Doubt Coleman will be able to get them promoted 17/18 without significant investment (which will surely only come with a new owner) and 3 years away from the Premier League money trough will leave lasting damage to that club's already shaky finances.