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Raylor's back in contention to play! /deleted tweet.

As long as you spare me iam fine with that. http://threadbombing.com/data/media/2/everyone.gif To be fair like, while HBA failed to register, Obertan scored midweek. Deserves his chance...

A THOUGHT THAT NEVER CHANGES BECOMES A STUPID LIE http://www.true-faith.co.uk/tf/editorials.nsf/LookupUNID/267F83DE06E2C0B6802579BE006B1EC2? Whilst we spent the earlier part of last week outraged at the smears and lies Martin O’Neill attempted to spread about the coaching and management team of Newcastle United, post-derby, that playground spat wasn’t the most important development of the last eight days. No, the release of the club’s financial results shone an altogether different light onto where we are right now. No-one with Newcastle United’s best interests at heart won’t be pleased at the direction the club is taking on the financial front and when the Managing Director suggests he and Mike Ashley are deserving of a bit credit, then he is correct. Ashley has made £140m’s worth of interest fee loans to Newcastle United Football Club. This represents the single biggest act of generosity towards our club in its entire history. Bar none. Have a word with a supporter of Rangers, Portsmouth or Leeds United to understand what that kind of investment means to a football club. When Derek Llambias suggests without that money we’d be a Pompey-shaped basket case he is absolutely 100% correct. When the club’s annual losses have been cut to under £4m p.a. from a head-spinning £20m p.a. when Mike Ashley took the club over, then you know something has happened at United to bring sanity to the running of what is after all, a business like any other. An emotional, very special business but a business nevertheless! As we stand in the upper echelons of the PL with a squad with an altogether greater level of value than the one he inherited in 2007, it is time to give credit where it’s due. It is time to give credit to Mike Ashley for not taking any money out of the club. He could not be more different in this regard to Sir John Hall and Freddie Shepherd who along with their mammoth incompetence had a colossal greed which put us on the brink of a financial implosion the like of which is currently being played out at Ibrox Stadium. I am certainly not missing the ludicrous manoeuvring in the transfer market that was undertaken on Shepherd’s watch with sickening frequency but I do celebrate the investment that is going into our youth development, coaching and scouting infra-structure. Talk to anyone who is involved behind the scenes at United, on and off the record and they will attest to a progressive and professional set up, the like of which we have never seen before at our club. Hall talked the talk on this score but Mike Ashley is getting on with business and saying little, as ever. Those of you who have been with true faith over many years will know how we railed at the ticket pricing at United and how it acted to disenfranchise a whole generation of supporters. There are those who may choose to overlook the bonds, platinum club, season ticket hikes and worthless shares sold by Hall-Shepherd but I’m not one of them. That pair of charlatans took our eyes out for years and grew very rich, right to the end of their disastrous ownership of Newcastle United. I’m not suggesting Ashley has made Newcastle United affordable to everybody in the NE. He clearly hasn’t but he has developed a range of offers that have made going to St James’ Park more affordable than it has ever been. Offers have been made to draw in commitment and I’m full of admiration for a family enclosure of just over 7000. Credit where it’s due! Mike Ashley is doing a better job of running Newcastle United now than at any point in my 40 years of following the club. That’s not to say the almost five years Ashley has been at United have been plain sailing. They most certainly have not and there have been times when we’ve prayed to be delivered from his ownership of our club. For a large part it has been gut-wrenching and head banging frustration. His first two years at the club were marked by one bad decision after another, starting from his decision to buy United without completing due diligence (God knows if he’d have decided to jump in had he actually seen the books, mind) and resulting in that gut-wrenching relegation on a scorching day at Villa Park on 24/May/09. Over the last five years we’ve been variously staggered, appalled, bewildered and angered by some of the stunts Ashley has pulled but here we are, the clouds are starting to clear and the outlook is looking better than it has at any time in the last fifteen years. Credit should definitely be given even if it means swallowing hard on some of the stuff many of us have said and written over the last five years. That’s not to say everything in the garden is rosy. I am one of many supporters who will never accept our grand old stadium being referred to as anything other than St. James’ Park. It was this fanzine that wrote to every member of Newcastle City Council and backed the move for a full council meeting to agree never to refer to St James’ Park in any council/official capacity by any other name. I don’t mind how much money the club might make from rebranding St James’ Park. Some things matter far more than money and that is history, tradition and soul. It was this fanzine that wrote to every Northern MP and encouraged the laying down of an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons to articulate parliamentary opposition to the re-branding. It was this fanzine which has started an online petition to the BBC to persuade them to continue our stadium by the SJP name and encouraged supporters to write to the BBC on Barrack Road to press them to do likewise. Those campaigns are working because few media outlets refer to our stadium by anything other than St James’ Park. The fact that the hardly cerebral Sunderland supporting fraternity see referring to SJP by the name of Ashley’s company as some kind of childish point-scoring tells you everything you need to know about the re-branding. I read a wise Mag a few weeks ago who opined that no-one that matters will ever refer to SJP by any other name. He was absolutely spot on! The re-branding saga is currently the only blot on Mike Ashley’s stewardship of Newcastle United I’m convinced the whole episode is an attempt to promote Sports Direct and until there is a sponsor to prove me wrong, I’ll remain of that view. However, just suppose I’m wrong, I don’t think against such strong local sentiment and political opposition anyone would touch the rebranding. That’s not to say an accommodation couldn’t be reached which would give the club much needed revenue but which retains the heritage, tradition and identity of the club and the city. For years, Boro had a stadium sponsor … the Cellnet Riverside Stadium being well established. If a new sponsor was to be, say Microsoft then I think we could live with Microsoft St James’ Park. That would give the club what it wants and leave us with the name of our stadium. But that’s just my opinion. What I do know is this … it is a crying shame we can’t put past problems behind us all, recognise the good things that are happening and unite under a Black & White flag. * I have to take issue with those who tore down the Sports Direct signage at SJP at the Reserve Derby on Thursday night. That was out of order and the manner in which the vandalised hoardings were indiscriminately thrown around was potentially dangerous and should not have happened. Similarly the vandalism to the Sports Direct shop door in Eldon Square may have been something and nothing but again it is not right. Why have these incidents not happened before? There have been plenty matches played at SJP and plenty opportunities for this kind of stuff to happen. It’s my contention the vandalism (such as it was) like the pitch invasion at Darlington in pre-season was undertaken by a group of young supporters, usually around the 17 /18 years old mark who don’t usually get to matches home or away for a variety of reasons and seek to prove their Mag credentials in the wrong way when they get to matches. They are having the impact of making United think carefully about playing pre-season games in the NE region against clubs that desperately need the money as well as convincing the powers that be at United to conclude opening SJP for Reserve games isn’t worth the time, money or effort. Basically, everybody suffers for the actions of the daft lads. The irony of course is that without a big dollop of the fortune Mike Ashley made from Sports Direct going into Newcastle United, we’d be fucked. After everything that has been said and done over the last few years it is galling in many ways to accept that but given where we are in the league, the attendances at SJP on match-day, the developing infrastructure and the excellent work of the manager, it would simply be stupid to ignore the evidence of what is in front of our own eyes. Newcastle United is probably the best run club in the Premier League. Keep On, Keepin’ On … If you haven’t made an official complaint to the BBC about their policy to call our grand old home after a shop, then you should. Go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/forms/?id=TLGNISE6JC275VGFB93LALUP5C#anchor Likewise, sign the petition to record your unhappiness at the BBC’s daft position in the North East. Go to: http://www.petitiononline.co.uk/petition/st-james-park-forever/4027 Hell, you can even by a t-shirt (with all proceeds going to the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation). Details at: http://www.cultzeros.co.uk/proddetail.asp?prod=T You can now subscribe to true faith via the online facility. Simply go to the link below to get all of the details: http://www.themagonline.co.uk/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=SUB0003

And then he went straight to Nottingham to face Forest? That doesn't seem like sensible prep. Aye. Said he was playing tonight when I questioned whether he had played over the weekend. Don't know if this is old news, but said he only left because Shearer wasn't appointed when he was promised he would be. very old news. Beye was happy to say with us in the championship but when things dragged on with appointing a manager, he simply got fed-up and decided to leave. I don't know why he gets so much stick on here. The guy was a quality player and a good proffesional. Pretty sad to see his career drain away like it has. Ahm... because he said he'd stay, got fed-up and decided to leave. Probably the kicker though was when I saw him pre-season, he clearly had already had the change of heart and looked like he couldn't give a shit about the team anymore. As you say, was a massive shame how it ended as he was a good player for us and enormously likable.

Glad I'm not the only one. Same Hi all. Hi.

Sensible fella.

Has anybody said that Tiote is irreplacable? A Tiote replacement could easily turn out to struggle like Obertan has, the more you buy and sell, the more likely you are to make mistakes. Bit of an odd thing to say, equally the more you buy and sell, the more likely you are to unearth a gem. Besides, the more you do something the better you get, right? As for keeping Enrique. Nah, I don't think there was a cat in hells chance of persuading him to stay.

No idea why. Seemed a very good interview to me, even providing a further apology for past mistakes that some people have asked for.

You what? How does that happen?

Could he sell it to someone else for the same amount or more than charging standard interest on his loans would cost the club? If not, the suggestion isn't weakening 'the bottom line' particularly. Not that I think the idea makes much sense anyway. As said, he is free to charge interest or take back the loan anytime he fancies, but thankfully he seems happy to get the club back on its feet first. I'm sure if he could get outside advertising in that would get a better return than the unquantifiable gain plastering Sports Direct everywhere gets him, he would.

Ha, fair enough, all's good then.

Not all sunshine and smiles. HMRC are chasing us for potential tax avoidance due to how we have been compensating players via image rights payments. Could be nasty.

/Should have been Sameobi.

have a proper answer in the summer hopefully. Not sure, depends how Taylor comes back. He won't accept being third choice IMO. I was assuming all these links with big money signings like Vertonghen were if Coloccini was off. We need a good young player to push Williamson down the pecking order. True that, may well be the reason we are now linked instead with his team mate Alderweireld more recently. That said of course, while I have my suspicions it could be a bit of a nightmare how Pardew might handle 3 top class centre backs, it's what we need if we were to step up and consistently challenge the top 6/7 rather that settle as a top 10 club next year.

There seems to be no obvious divide of younger fans and older ones on this board. As one of the apparently older supporters I find it pretty startling that you have so little tolerance of a manager that has yet to see one full season with us and yet has brought in and got the players you hold in such high regard to that 6th position you feel 'youngsters' are getting so blinded by (a position a full ten places higher than the seasonal average for the club in my time). Forgive me for only having time to pick up on one of your paragraphs if that is 'doing a Ronaldo', I gave my general thoughts on the previous page to your post.

I don't hate him as much as I hate his bull s*** and his football. I called him first and I'll be proved right. This isn't me trying to be some kind of sage shamen or something and I wont be happy when I'm proved right but f*** me its staring everyone in the face but our position seems to be blinding many. No side or manager will ever be successful playing the way we do and top players will never shine with such tactics. Pardew from day one has not changed the way we play and its actually getting progressively worse despite our players getting better. Christ, straight out of the NE5 playbook. For me, Pardew seems extraordinarily passionate about the game and his players (check out his post match on nufc.cock for starters). He prepares and gets the players fighting for the cause (Keegan said at the weekend that he gets the best out of players, but that's maybe a little to much to stomach for some at the moment) who while potentially are as an exciting a bunch as we have had for a long time, are not the world beaters we maybe like to portray at times. I also think he has a style of football that is different to the one we have relied on maybe too much this season. Maybe not quite the tippy tappy some crave, but a kind the players seem to be on board with, and it was something Collocini highlighted in his 'why I signed a new contract' interview. I've certainly heard enough from him picking out and praising the kind of teams and players that play good football to still believe that. Now, fair enough, there has been some turgid stuff since Christmas, struggling to get even the basics right, never mind to allow us a platform for the likes of HBA to shine, but injury and individual players loss of form has a part to play in this too, and I appreciate it when Pardew holds his hands up occasionally and admits that he (not the players) should have done better. As it stands, Pardew seems a pretty great fit for the club at the moment, and I'm still excited more than wary to see where he might take us in the future. I had a feeling we may fall away at the back end of this season so maybe that cushioned my expectations a little, who knows, but a change in manager is way down on my to-do list for the club.

Not as much as he rated Jeffers. And I'm sorry, it's nonsense to say that we only got Ba as he was free (or 2m fees etc). The club/Pardew knew his qualities enough to take a (still fairly expensive) risk on him, one which has so far paid off.

Damn, they got him. /I was reffering to Mr Brains liver and onion meatballs M'lud!

Ironically, doing what I was told and clicking the link in first email, I won't get an apology as by doing so removed me from the original mail list.

Got it, and while checking the link URL out, clicked it. Sent me to an unsubscribe page, which apparently unsubscribed me from something, refreshing confirmed I was unsubscribed. Fuck knows what, I'm probably now on every penis enlargement list known to man. Either that or it actually was nufc.co.uk playing around with a new newsletter system in their usual cack handed manner. The link takes you to http://communicatoremail.com/, no idea whether that is genuinely part of http://www.communicatorcorp.com/ or not. Either way, do not bother clicking. EDIT: Domain name: COMMUNICATOREMAIL.COM Registrant Name: COMMUNICATOR CORPORATION Contact: Communicator Corporation Registrant Address: 4 Mandarin Road Registrant City: Houghton Le Spring Registrant Postal Code: DH4 5RA Registrant Country: GB Administrative Contact Organization: Namesco Limited

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Something like this? http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/7974/dirtyprotest.gif Aye, exactly that. 51,999 fit women and me only though, thanks. Aye, righto. Better that than picturing Teethgirl as the sandwich in the letter 'S' I suppose. /it's in your head right now though.

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