BottledDog

Betfair wont let me bet on him as first goalscorer. Good luck Nile son. Get us the winner.

What a pile of horse plop.

Why does everything that happens have to be an excuse to have a go at "some people on here"? You mean, some people in the world, some people who have a different view to you. Incredible really. "Some people" who were wrong at the time and are even more wrong now. Not naming any names, of course... You didn't really get my question. Doesn't matter like. You could just admit you were wrong about it... As if. I'm only playing, dawg. My point is that most people (everywhere) realised we'd need a bigger squad than what we have now to compete in at least 2 competitions and it was just brushed under the carpet by Pardew when it didn't happen. Now it's dawned on him, when we're 12th, that a few more players would be helpful. Coincidence or stupidity? I don't think its either tbh. AP has to live with our transfer policy or go elsewhere. That policy has done him some real favours in the past but last time round it came up short. So he has his own internal battles to fight with Ashley/Llambias and whingeing about his squad in public after the August transfer window wouldn't have done him or the club any good. But he's winging about it now after saying it was brilliant a few months ago. He knows more than anyone how all that stuff works and it's only now a problem when we're/he's doing badly. If we were currently top 6 I doubt he'd be banging this particular drum. Yeah, he should have been whining about how most of the squad are substandard going into the new campaign. That'd have been helpful. He went about as far as you could sensibly go by saying he'd have liked one or two more at the time, and I don't think his actual opinion has changed one iota. Just that unlike the rest of us, he has to had his gob and give the media what's best for the club or the current bunch of players once in a while. Now, like the last window, he's giving the nudge nudge wink wink to the chairman to, seriously now, get me the fuck some players.

Ahhhhh Malandro, So good to see you bring the best kind of malodorous funk back to the table. Inarguable yet bordering on the suicidal. Awww yeah. good gawd! Hit meh!!

Ah, wonderful.

I don't think that's true. We bought a defensive midfielder who's adept at playing RB and maybe even a little LB if need be. Anita offers a lot of versatility that a pure CB would not. It shouldn't be one or the other. We've known for years that we needed a CB who can improve us but yet again we're stuck with 2 CB's who, at best, keep us treading water. I'd call the "policy" effective but not efficient. We get good players but not enough of them. When was the last time this was not the case? Considering the break even budget we have, I think we have a remarkable number of 'good players'.

I assume everyone is thinking we'll lose heavily then? Worryingly, I cant' help but agree with you. The mackums are on fire.

Like this? http://i50.tinypic.com/14uz4p4.png I like it. fucking cool. Yup.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/newcastles-wonga-shirt-sponsors-spark-1367970 labour MP with a pair of platinum tickets. what a c*** he sounds, complaining about this deal. aye, spending his wage on something he likes, what a c*** Ian Lavery's a total joker: :lol:

Puppet.

He still is, isn't he? I shouldn't have thought so. Never was.

I have been playing around with accents trying to replicate your issue with 'wonga'. This has led me to the possibility that you are inebriated, an Eton educated toff, or both.

want us to pull out of the Barclays premier league aswell, remember those boys that fixed LIBOR causing more distress than wonga could ever have a chance of doing ? Premier League should have cancelled Barclays sponsorship deal re LIBOR I'm sure other sponsors would have jumped at the opportunity to sponsor the PL. Wonga are a disgrace, can't ever remember any of the banks charging over 4000% on loans they offer!! You really cannot grasp the difference between short term/high risk loans from loan companies and long term loans from banks can you.

And bashing the Premier League for having the temerity to be sponsored by them (with journalists bringing up Sharia law, while the MP's throw their season tickets off their nearest available bridges in mass protest? Struggling to remember that, though you may be right and I've been living on the moon for the past 5 years.

Might as well get arms dealers on the shirt then. Poor logic. Wonga = the arms industry now. To be honest, while I'm sure you'd swear of football forever if we got Rolls Royce on our shirts. I'd struggle to generate the moral outrage you manage to sustain. Just a shame a good local company like Armstrong Whitworth aren't still around to sponsor us.

Surely it is the club's responsibility to interact with the fans rather than the sponsors. Sounds like the club will use them as an intermediary so they can continue to avoid meeting those ungrateful Geordies face to face. Oh Wallace.

And that is fairly subjective. I'd actually put Wonga a touch above Virgin Money in the old looks department (and a fair sized grope above NTL).

It'll be a tiny percentage compared to alcohol or gambling. Or by a ginger woman.......you know who you are........... In general, I'd happily be ruined by a ginger woman.

Apparently their complaints are next to zero and there are banks and institutions with far worse feedback than Wonga. Not that that means a great hill of beans mind (it was Llambias and co just trotting out the numbers Wonga would have given them). Out of interest, I wonder what percentage of 'Lives Ruined' is acceptable. I'd probably go with between 2.8 and 4.5 percent of customers.

I'd be very surprised if that was the case.

What they are saying is true though: As a Muslim myself I certainly won't be buying the top with Wonga on it! What they are saying is true in reflecting their particular laws (though it's a joke that the journalists only start fishing for quotes over this particular deal), but the old bollocks I take issue with is the hard and fast rule they are holding onto in the first place. These kinds of short term, high risk loans fill a gap that has only appeared fairly recently and has a lot to do with the speed with which transfers and transactions can be done now. To apply this long standing Muslim law to it as a practice seems to me inflexible, verging on the absurd. Islam is all about perception: if you believe strongly that something is wrong then don't buy it. if you don't have an issue then don't buy it. Quite simple really........... I wish that was the case and it was all down to individual perception (like your good self when wearing a plain Newcastle top by choice, got a few Toff tops myself ), and that the religious law was open enough to interpretation to not get tripped up by new forms of business a few hundred years later. However, what we have here is the Muslim Council wading in and effectively telling a number of our players not to wear our shirt before they get a chance to form their own minds. And, forgive me, but that kinda grinds my gears.

What they are saying is true though: As a Muslim myself I certainly won't be buying the top with Wonga on it! What they are saying is true in reflecting their particular laws (though it's a joke that the journalists only start fishing for quotes over this particular deal), but the old bollocks I take issue with is the hard and fast rule they are holding onto in the first place. These kinds of short term, high risk loans fill a gap that has only appeared fairly recently and has a lot to do with the speed with which transfers and transactions can be done now. To apply this long standing Muslim law to it as a practice seems to me inflexible, verging on the absurd.