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January? I'd love to know how he successfully laid foundations for the club to survive the Premier League next season in January. What I see is a bunch of average players who will probably look out of depth and ineffective next season. Now thats a totally different question to what you asked now isnt it?

A picture paints a thousand words I'll have the same bet with you. I'll pay £40 to a charity of your choice if I lose. You stop posting for 6 months if I win.

Fast having very little to say about any alternative or a decent counter argument. Just the usual wine wine wine. TBH

Manager appointed to gain promotion Manager backed in January window Major players not sold in January you've overstepped the WUM marker CT. Tedious in the extreme now. Talk about the Halls and Shepherd ffs, now THEY gave us something worth supporting. Im talking about the current Leazes , not fucking history. Hall and Shepherd are as relevant to today as Malcolm McDonald.

stop harping on about Ashley man. Talk about a board who gave us a good team and signed top players..... <_< :icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol: Pot and all that

They've said sorry.... get over it. Didnt Shepherd call Newcastle women dogs and laugh at the fans because he could rip them off with £5 tat shirts and then slag off Shearer????

Manager appointed to gain promotion Manager backed in January window Major players not sold in January

Someone who mouthed off left right and centre about how good Ashley was for the club but when put on the spot by Pud and asked to put his money where his mouth was (for charity) he suddenly didn't seem so confident.. Very confident but money is money for some of us. £40 to charity seems fair to me.

Ok, lets cut the shit. Fuck off bleeding hearts, fuck off FM2010 and fuck off Freddy Shepherd. The 60th RICHEST man in the UK currently owns us. The 60th RICHEST man in the UK currently owns us. The 60th RICHEST man in the UK currently owns us. The 60th RICHEST man in the UK currently owns us. Most enjoyed his ownership under Mort Most revelled in his decision to appoint Keegan Lots took his money in the big market And............Then he fucked up. Most reasonable people realise a lot of this was down to his faith in Llambias to run the show. Ashley was busy trying to stabalise his retail empire during the worst recession in living memory. He fucked up. Get over it for fucks sake. We were heading for the rocks under Shepherd, regardless of what Leazes would have you believe. Too much debt Too many journeymen Too many spent sponsorship deals Too many players on rediculous wages. Regardless of all that has gone on......He is still the owner and still the 60th richest person in the UK. It is time to stop the childish abuse It is time to stop trying to second guess every financial decision It is time for the minority to grow up and get behind the club, owner and all. He has apologised for his mistakes. He has stabalised the club. He has been proved right in his decision to appoint Hughton He has backed Hughton in January We are on course for a return to the premiership. Stop fucking moaning you miserable bunch of twats.

Tell us the best lower league player and your best trick on FIFA 10 or you'll be next. Never seen it, dont know what it is or what you do so i guess im fucked.

Younger than you , you old fucker

your problem is with me? Who are you?

Another poster hounded out by the FM2010 committee no doubt?

Like I say, now that you deem us good enough to get your custom back then give it a go, fiver says you dont sit in the same seat twice. NUST????? NUFC. Now that youve randomly decided to end your self imposed boycott (just in time for the promotion party). Nothing random in it. You asked me too and as I always do as you say I agreed

Not at all but i do think we will spend about 15-20mil in the summer...we HAVE to and he knows that! Totally spot on. Ashley won't risk relegation again AND has the cash to do what needs to be done. Ok then, money where your mouth is. £14m is the set point, £20 per million either way, winner chooses the charity. If he spends £10m you pay £80, if he spends £20m I pay £120. You never know he might show hes a billionaire and spend £100m then Id be fucked Its a canny idea, the only downside is I think poor Chris's bottle might go having to spend £10 million. And I wouldnt want to take your money off you, what with a little un on the way and all. If he spends less than 15 million I will donate £40 to the charity of your choice.

Like I say, now that you deem us good enough to get your custom back then give it a go, fiver says you dont sit in the same seat twice. NUST?????

Well...and im not supporting him for one second btw, but he spent 5.5mil in january which is typically where u spend less than in the off season, so if that is anything to go by then i expect him to spend a bit more in the summer. They have already identified that we need another striker and midfielder. Money will be spent, how much is anyones guess but it NEEDS to be the bare minimum of 15mil...remember we will be going up with a smaller wage bill, lower running costs and the bonus of higher gates and much more TV revenue. Dont be so pessimistic man. Well said

January?

Not at all but i do think we will spend about 15-20mil in the summer...we HAVE to and he knows that! Totally spot on. Ashley won't risk relegation again AND has the cash to do what needs to be done. Lol, more chance of knitting fog and you know it. You do know all these threads will be getting dragged up again next year when all is going well and I am the new Leazes Mag. (However such will be my victory I will probably get banned and have to spin my lines of woe on Newcastle Online.

You do, I agree however you dont get so used to it that you look forward to the down season in order to experience the rush of promotion. Thats akin to a junkie going cold turkey with the express view that when he does shoot up it'll be so much more exhilerating. No club has a divine right to being in the top flight however some clubs have the necessary levels of support to ensure enough turnover to keep them there. We are one of those clubs. Fuck off man, you know exactly what I was saying about relegation and promotion and the nailbiting "excitement" of both. And with regard to I dont see how we do. We were not self sufficient Under Shepherd last few years and havent been since. We couldnt afford it keep on raking up the debts trying to keep up. Thats why us and so many others are / were really fucked. It amazes me that some seemingly sensible people on this board think that crowd size and tv money is enough to compete with the big boys. It simply is untrue. You need a benefactor these days. Those who simply think we can go back to the spend spend spend days of Shepherd are fucking clueless. A different approach is needed and if and I agree its a fucking huge if, Ashley has learnt his lesson and is interested, then he could be our best long term route back to a serious contender. I dont think there are any quick fixes however if some of you have any you should spell them out, rather than just moaning about Ashley. He is a British Multi million / soon to be billionaire, his empire is growing again, his brand fits in well for world wide promotion. Hopefully he will get it right in the summer. If not the prospect of a sale to a Barry Mort type is truly horrific. Its fucking Moat you spanner Barry Moat and hes got less chance of buying our club that you have of getting "One Mike Ashley" chants started in the Gallowgate. I agree however that should he take over then we truly would be fucked. When promoted the good (majority) will sing to drown out the bad (minority). Rumours have it he wasnt even abused once against scunny

I dont see how we do. We were not self sufficient Under Shepherd last few years and havent been since. We couldnt afford it keep on raking up the debts trying to keep up. Thats why us and so many others are / were really fucked. It amazes me that some seemingly sensible people on this board think that crowd size and tv money is enough to compete with the big boys. It simply is untrue. You need a benefactor these days. Those who simply think we can go back to the spend spend spend days of Shepherd are fucking clueless. A different approach is needed and if and I agree its a fucking huge if, Ashley has learnt his lesson and is interested, then he could be our best long term route back to a serious contender. I dont think there are any quick fixes however if some of you have any you should spell them out, rather than just moaning about Ashley. He is a British Multi million / soon to be billionaire, his empire is growing again, his brand fits in well for world wide promotion. Hopefully he will get it right in the summer. If not the prospect of a sale to a Barry Mort type is truly horrific. Why? who is Man U's benefactor? Liverpools? Arsenals? Spurs? none of those clubs have benefactors, Man U have levels of debt that far surpassed anything raked up by Shepherd (although Ashley is doing his best to get to that level). If you want to go from nothing to world beaters overnight then yes, a multi billionaire who will pump in the cash is needed. If however you dont have that then you need to steadily build up a winning team, going into debt to get it but knowing that the success it brings will more than pay for it. Nobody (or at least not me) has ever said we were self sufficient under the previous regime, what we were though was pushing towards success, our problem is that at the point where we needed that final push, that bit more cash injected we lost our bottle and pulled in the reigns, it was downhill from there. I still argue that Shepherd had passed his time, he'd ran out of ideas and was never going to take us to anything like the heights he and Hall had previously however at this moment I'd crawl over broken glass and shit to carry him to Gallowgate if it meant replacing Ashley. Anyone who thinks Ashley is going to push us forward in any real capacity is simply off their tits. I agree with all of that but Ashley has done us a favour in a sense by the ways of trying to sort our finances out. If we are to get to where we were or even close then money needs to be invested, gambled if you like. FMA is a gambling man but when it comes to us he is a tight fisted cockney fuck. I've said it before and il say it again...i just hope there is a few consortia looking at us and prepairing a bid once we are promoted, consortia with a bit of money to take this club forward AND be ran properly and with respect for the fans. And some hens teeth while your at it

I dont see how we do. We were not self sufficient Under Shepherd last few years and havent been since. We couldnt afford it keep on raking up the debts trying to keep up. Thats why us and so many others are / were really fucked. It amazes me that some seemingly sensible people on this board think that crowd size and tv money is enough to compete with the big boys. It simply is untrue. You need a benefactor these days. Those who simply think we can go back to the spend spend spend days of Shepherd are fucking clueless. A different approach is needed and if and I agree its a fucking huge if, Ashley has learnt his lesson and is interested, then he could be our best long term route back to a serious contender. I dont think there are any quick fixes however if some of you have any you should spell them out, rather than just moaning about Ashley. He is a British Multi million / soon to be billionaire, his empire is growing again, his brand fits in well for world wide promotion. Hopefully he will get it right in the summer. If not the prospect of a sale to a Barry Mort type is truly horrific. Why? who is Man U's benefactor? Liverpools? Arsenals? Spurs? none of those clubs have benefactors, Man U have levels of debt that far surpassed anything raked up by Shepherd (although Ashley is doing his best to get to that level). If you want to go from nothing to world beaters overnight then yes, a multi billionaire who will pump in the cash is needed. If however you dont have that then you need to steadily build up a winning team, going into debt to get it but knowing that the success it brings will more than pay for it. Nobody (or at least not me) has ever said we were self sufficient under the previous regime, what we were though was pushing towards success, our problem is that at the point where we needed that final push, that bit more cash injected we lost our bottle and pulled in the reigns, it was downhill from there. I still argue that Shepherd had passed his time, he'd ran out of ideas and was never going to take us to anything like the heights he and Hall had previously however at this moment I'd crawl over broken glass and shit to carry him to Gallowgate if it meant replacing Ashley. Anyone who thinks Ashley is going to push us forward in any real capacity is simply off their tits. We shall see

Not at all but i do think we will spend about 15-20mil in the summer...we HAVE to and he knows that! Totally spot on. Ashley won't risk relegation again AND has the cash to do what needs to be done.