Matt

Last year of their contracts, eh? It's perhaps a little comforting that other clubs have joined us in 'Mission: Mediocrity'

They're effectively the same thing. thought for all the P&L activity, we're yet to see this make a significant dent in the cash flow- maybe we'll see that for the year 13/14. So right now the club will be working out what to do the the funds, but we won't find out what actually happened for another 12-18 months.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28305886 A rough calculation shows Wonga's revenues off by 35%. With post-tax margins of 20%, that presents them with a need to rework their business model and will almost certainly result in cost-cutting, so I would not be surprised at all if they exit the sponsorship at the end of this coming season.

Well we have to showcase how other sponsors could get the opportunity to change the stadium name back to what it's actually called.

Another sponsor that advocates fucking people up the arse. Grindr?

Spennymoor are going to have a strong side next year, the top end of that division is going to be very tough with Darlo and Salford having sizeable budgets as well.

He obviously made a strong case for himself in the interview.

The club can imagine their budget however they like, but under accounting rules wages will always be expensed as they are paid and fees will be expensed over the lifetime of the contract.

Relegation would blow up Ashley's business model, you can be assured that as soon as it looks like relegation is a possibility, then action will be taken (just like in the January 2013 window).

Been messed about by a series of managers, played left back, right back, left wing. Gus seems to have got him onside and rarely moves him out of position. He's also started getting into the box a bit more this season. I'd be gutted to lose him tbh. Sorry, I was referring to Poyet's McQueen pose.

Fleetwood's rise is remarkable. Ten years ago they were in the North West Counties league. Mind you, it's no rags to riches tale, their owner has ploughed an absolute fortune into both the ground and playing squad over that decade. Unlike some others in the past, his interest has not waned on reaching the promised land of the FL. The story goes that he actually wanted to buy into Blackpool but the Oystons told him to piss off, since then he's been working on challenging them on the pitch and is potentially only one division away from doing just that.

Why is he trying to escape the SoL?

Happy to sign sub-par players as long as they're cheap?

The NE as a region has suffered from an almost myopic obsession with its largest teams to the extent that there is very little in terms of representation through the pyramid. Admittedly, geography plays a part, but more folk through the gate means such challenges can be overcome for clubs with ambition to grow. I drifted away from my ST partly because of being taken for a mug, but mainly because you are utterly irrelevant. Ticket revenues are increasingly overshadowed by TV money with the fans filling the role of scenery for the cameras. It's not like that watching your local sides. Every fiver or tenner counts at that level and it's noticeable. So I'd urge those who are staying well clear of SJP to rock up to a local game one Saturday. You can pick and choose your games. 5,000 people less at SJP won't be that noticeable. But those same people rocking up across Whitley Bay, Gateshead, Blyth, North Shields, Benfield, Bishop Auckland, Bedlington, Ashington- that entirely changes what smaller clubs in the region can achieve nationally and we can start to see some real representation within the upper levels of the non-league pyramid. I'm not saying it's perfect and I'm not saying it's for everyone, but I'd apeal to people to give it a chance.

They can't even use proper english, it's like it woz writted by a 8-year-old. Club 'sticking to its principals'? Really?

Feeling a bit better about binning the ST Wullie?

NUFC giving advertising away free won't harm SD at all, but there's it's probably 1% of the wider story.

I remember the pair of them spending half the game rolling around on the pitch when we played them in the UEFA.

The success of Sports Direct has little to do with NUFC and much more to do with the collapse of all its main competitors coupled with the relentless thirst of the British people to buy low-grade clobber for knock-down prices.

You can always go to a game. The point is you are doing it on your terms, when, like our transfer strategy, you think its 'value for money'.

That's how he knew Llambias, through Del's time running the Fifty casino in Mayfair. Les Ambassadeurs is Mike's current venue of choice, often alongside fellow retail billionaire Philip Green. There are various reports of him blowing or winning huge amounts in one session.

A former colleague of mine who banks a lot of the big retail clients will have nothing to do with him, similar reasons.

What a save in the hibs-hearts game! Last gasp stuff.

A chance to do what exactly? Deliver on his strategy of stagnation?

"We can't compete with the top six on commercial revenue" "Commercial revenue is the only thing we can control" So you are saying that you're shit at your job then? Bellend.