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You didn't think we needed a left back in January so your opinions on fullbacks in general need to be viewed with some sodium based culinary condiment type stuff

What an astute observation Plainly been to see Snow White and the seven dwarves at Cinderella's castle more often than you've been to see Newcastle anyway

We've gone into the last game of the season twice in the last three seasons staring relegation in the face. This time were effectively seven points adrift with a month to go, requiring a fuckin miracle to escape. This has been coming since the season we finished 5th. The only constant at the club in that time has been Ashley. As HF has pointed out he's not invested anything more than the club has brought in, chiefly through TV money which every other club gets too, and as everyone can see his appointments to this fuckin mythical management "board" are down to him and no one else. Us, Villa and the tramps have been the three worst run clubs for half a decade or so now, only saved previously by cannon fodder promoted clubs. We're getting what Ashley, Lerner and Short's "policies" deserve. Basically all three owners have either distinctly lost interest or didn't give much of a fuck in the first place and had alterior motives for any interest in English premier league football, i.e. In some way lining their own pockets with the obscene amount of money swimming about in the game at the top level in this country.

Does the same go for Forest fans, Sheffield Weds fans and Leeds fans who were/are all at least as badly run as NUFC? Your claim to be in any way a "supporter" of any club is frankly fuckin bizzare. These clubs have had it a lot worse than us but still their attendances hold up pretty well despite all the shit they've had to endure in the last two decades or so. Care to hazard a guess why that is?

More Mason.....this time Port Talbot...birthplace of Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Sheen and thousands of highly skilled steel workers... https://medium.com/mosquito-ridge/steel-crisis-they-do-not-give-a-shit-86516750a1e0#.fzq55i92m

"Not my fault guv....." http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/mike-ashleys-message-newcastle-fans-7603937

Not on earlies today then

The brass neck on the fucker.., http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/11-ways-iain-duncan-smith-made-life-harder-for-the-most-vulnerable-people-in-britain-a6941116.html

Turns out she's a property lawyer in Sydney http://www.kreissonlegal.com.au/team/claire-martin/ Not allowed to book it though..The current Mrs PL (who is still avoiding murder despite 4 weeks in a camper van ) has asked her friend in Sydney to sort something out so we've got to wait till she's heard back from her... This friend she's not seen in 6 years...who is asking her friend...who's a travel agent...

https://airbnb.com/rooms/11826656?s=8&user_id=63679148&ref_device_id=d9747c026b056987ffbf5c9b0a2d796024f7f0be Don't think it's traceable on trip advisor?...

Didn't see any of it, we're in Invercargill NZ and it was on at 0230 this morning. Briefly shared a txt conversation with a "refreshed and relaxed " Howmanheyman this morning so didn't really get to ask if anyone reckoned we'd have got a point with McLaren in charge?... EDIT: just seen the "thanks Rafa" thread...nothing to see here....

Airbnb.... I know some of you have used it, looking at something for Sydney in the first week in April, a flat came up on the south side for the same price as a room in roughly similar areas but the landlady's profile is completely blank with no history or details. Common sense tells me not to touch with a shitty stick with CT strapped to the end of it, but it's a bargain and ideal for what we need

Fish got banned for actually calling them wall pushers Theres not one of those ex Liverpool players worth listening to. The media promote manu's 'brand" every time they utter the U word. Fuckin criminal.

That article makes horrific reading if you weren't around in those days and are judging it by the safety standards of today. Am not really trying to play down what happened (it was obviously a horrifying thing to happen) but am just wondering how a lad from Ulster has a chip on his shoulder about scousers from 30 years ago? Some kids on bmx's booted my car door when we were trying to get away from Anfield one year, but the Berwick supporters bus I was on got bricked at Filbert Street in 92. I know what shit me up more but I don't really have a problem with either set of fans. There's violent pricks everywhere in society and always has been, most have stopped going to football now though, mostly because they can't afford it anymore.

Still sore about being banned from rawk

A ruck inside a football ground in the mid eighties was hardly an uncommon occurance. The ground was deemed fit for purpose (as was Hillsborough) and the article points out both clubs don't bother much about it now. So am not sure what the point is here.

Fair amount of spin here is imagine but interesting all the same... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/barack-obama-saudi-arabia-us-foreign-policy-syria-jihadism-isis-a6927646.html

His man management leaves something to be desired, according to that paragon of virtue Craig Bellamy According to Bellers book, he told him to find another club on the flight back from Athens after the scousers had been beaten by Milan in the 2007 champs league final. But he's also the best tactician Bellamy has worked with, but there's no personal relationships with the players as such, it's strictly business. But he's won 12 trophies so it might not be worth worrying too much about. I think there will be a huge clear out this summer if we stay up, there certainly won't be any sentiment shown to anyone....that's you, Steven Taylor, and while we're on about it the same goes for you, El fuckin Capitano

Rafa is a member of the seemingly still existing football board and hadn't met Ashley yet... http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/mar/12/newcastle-rafael-benitez-relegation-battle?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Also, he says the city of Liverpool is similar to the city of Newcastle upon Tyne....don't tell Stevie ffs

I think it was driven by the agent they employed to get a new man in. Carr is the only one with any idea about modern day football and he wanted his mate McLaren badly, so am thinking he wasn't consulted. Charnley would barely know Benitez from fuckin Benny Hill. I think Ashley gave this gig to what was referred to in the media last week as an "intermediary" and it's him who either approached Benitez, or took the first call from Beniez's people, and also the same person who handled most of the negotiations when our esteemed football board were fuckin train spotting at York station.

I remember Rafa brought Liverpool here in his first season as manager there, sometime maybe in Feb/March? beat them (think Souness was our manager?) and I told a Liverpool supporting mate that they were the worst Liverpool team I'd ever seen and the Spanish manager wasn't much good....3 months later they won the Champions League This on paper is a great appointment. If he keeps us up he could change the entire "mentality" of everyone associated with the club. This man also knows how to win cup competitions. And Allardyce fuckin despises him, with the feeling somewhat mutual

It's being done by an agent, possibly approached by Charnley, to approach Rafa's agent to see if Rafa is approachable?...press as usual keeping the names of the "shady middlemen" out of reports. Anyone know who the club's pet agent is? Most have a " go to man" at times like this

He wouldn't take it even if he was offered it, which he won't be. Wrong end of England and Alan Carr giving him a list which Charnley says yes or no to money wise isn't how Redknapp works. It'll be Moyes or Pearson, probably Pearson iyam.