The Mighty Hog

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/fan-unrest-no-signings-no-16582341 Another good one on the futility of the club under Ashley. Even if Bruce could do a good job he'd get no further help from those above. He'd not be able to alter their thinking in any way.

I wonder if it'll ever click with him that he's the one doing football ownership wrong, not everyone else.

The return of the "incentive based" contract. Paying a manager a million to stay in the PL when it's worth hundreds of millions to the club. https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/17769337.steve-bruce-involved-5m-wrangle-newcastle/

Probably the best Chronicle article of the week. Bonus of Ryder being huffy in the thread too.

Anyone for mangled cliches?

I see The Trinity Mirror Regional Sports Journalist of the Year 2014 has seen off the young pretender to his throne, Waughy is going to be covering NUFC for someone else.

It begins....

Redfearn was a midfielder for Barnsley for most of the 1990's. They had a season in the Premier League but were relegated and he had another season when he moved to Charlton. He's done some managing, notably at the mad house that is Leeds. He helped out with reserves earlier this season when Beardsley was suspended.

Neil Redfearn & Ben Dawson. Youth Team/Academy guys. Simon Smith is GK coach and is still there as he wasn't one of Rafa's core group of coaches he takes from club to club.

Only reason he's knocked it back is in the hope he can get a job where he'd be dealing with agents of his own choice.

As the tone slowly shifts from the local journo's this will probably ring true

It was as baffling then as it is today.

To be fair it looked like they would pay Derby for McClaren, but he knocked us back. Then he got sacked and we signed him up in the summer

Puce faced twat. Been too long since that insult was used on here.

Aye, that's the other thing with this lot the "pay in installments" shite they go in for.

Northern Echo saying £20 million. In this inflated market that's fuck all.

Interview with Caulkin:

Was a fucking disaster by the end of Carr's reign too. Cabella and Thauvin wanting to be anywhere else but here. Mbemba not looking like he could cut it in English football, Yanga-Mbiwa was peddled sharpish too.

Early reports seem to point at them wanting a head coach that makes do with whatever the scouting team can find. Naturally the criteria is young and potential to flog them on, not what the team actually needs.

Hell has frozen over, Liam Fox is the one making sense.

HF statting him into submission

I have just fled my own office in horror at his fucking dimwittedness Watching Deadwood from the beginning again before I watch the movie. So many killer lines.

Home

Just an American thing, I suppose. Don't some class themselves as Italian or Irish despite being a few generations removed from the people that actually came over?

Highlight of the first half: