The slippery slope

[LeazesMag 0]

Ok then but I reckon it's an insecurity tbh. And I'll just reiterate, I know it's your business-it doesn't bother me because it's nowt to do with NUFC anyway, just like my job isnt.

 

with all due respect to PP and his new thread, which I will try and adhere to, it isn't me who is denying someone else has called it correctly for the last 4 years and disagreeing with everything he says, even though I try in my own little way when I post to others, that I have fairly much the same views.

 

"Insecurity" indeed......

[LeazesMag 0]

I would bring my anti-Asley stuff over (early doors) if NO wasn't in maintenance.

 

is it ?

 

I suppose that's a positive side of being banned, you don't know such things. As well as trawling through a pile of bollocks on a regular basis looking for the odd post worth replying to.

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I'm not lying. I had reservations about Ashley from day 1 [the same as I had reservations about going PLC and for EXACTLY the same reason, which is precisely why I made that comment in that post]. The difference being that my doubts about Ashley were quickly substantiated whereas the ones about going PLC were quickly dispelled. I saw, VERY quickly, certain comparisons between my perception of Mike Ashley and the directors of the club prior to 1992.

 

I was banned from NO for taking this stance, in a big way for a long time, there is no other reason I was banned. Can you think of any reason ?

 

I'm not exaggerating any powers of foresight, but it makes me smile when self proclaimed whizz kids claim they are "clever" etc when they could not see the obvious and argued with me that I was so wrong. When I wasn't anything of the sort. Who's stupid ?

 

The odds are stacked against ANY owner doing better than being the 5th best performing club over a period of 15 years. The odds were stacked in my favour when I kept reminding people of this, you do see that don't you ? It makes me wonder why people argued about it. The logic and common sense was overpowering, I knew it and that is why I kept repeating it, and didn't really see why people disagreed.

 

I don't think it's an accident you'll say "I had reservations" which I think almost everyone did to some extent and makes you look serious, and follow it with "they could not see the obvious" which makes others look ridiculous...despite it not being obvious, just something to have reservations about. Those are 2 very different things and you know they are.

 

Worst of all, your taking out your N-O arguments against people on here. It's a shame you can't rub their noses in it if you were telling people over there what it would come to in late 2007, but you weren't telling anyone on Toontastic that....by your own admission.

 

I'm not purposely "taking out NO arguments on here", generally speaking, the posters on here are far more knowledgeable and older than on NO, and the admin people approach the running of the site with far more maturity too.

 

I'm just responding, but while I'm aware that most of my posts are about the politics of the club, I'll repeat what I've said before, which is that it interests me, far more than playing pick your best team with the likes of deano for instance, or automatically declaring any old French player to be the next David Ginola just because we've signed him. People also still say "I don't reply to posts", when I DO reply to the vast majority of the ones I see. You can't have it both ways.

 

I didn't post on here between February and November 2007 because of something which happened that got sorted out in the end to the satisfaction - hopefully - of both parties. I don't know if I would have had the same sort of opposition to the views I had at that time too - well, I probably would, but not with so many people.

 

I don't disagree with YOU about football, do we disagree ?

 

I've got no problem with you replying to posts. I like it when you do, the posters people complain about most are generally the ones that keep me coming back for infuriatingly circular debate.

 

But, you claim to have been banned for your anti-Ashley posts on N-O. You never made any anti-Ashley posts on here until late in Keegans stint. Now everyone knows what Ashley is up to you're bigging up how you told us all from day one and how we wouldn't listen. Thing is, you never told anyone on TOONTASTIC, and TT posters aren't the ones to talk down to like idiots if people on N-O disagreed with you about anything.

 

We only disagree on stuff that hasn't happened, so there's no right or wrong. For example, I think Shepherd would have the club in financial ruin by now or would have been forced to sell at a lower price than he got from Ashley. I get the impression you think we'd be thriving having spent our way into europe if he was still in charge.