BottledDog

Made a decent go of it in the 2nd half, if luck went our way and we had that penalty then we might have scraped a draw. But Christ, what is with our team and injuries. Owen is a fucking crock.

Well.... Arse.

COOOOOOOOOMON!!!!!! Lets do 'em.

http://www.houstonrockshow.com/macros/LincolnRape.jpg /christ that's more disturbing than I remeber.

Absolutely clear now Shay is gone by what CH has said, and that Ebonda may be one of only two coming in. http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10278~1534909,00.html "We have never seen Steve as a number two and what he had in front of him was an outstanding goalkeeper in Shay Given." http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10278~1534888,00.html

How long do you think it will take the club to turn a profit again so that player sales do not automatically get eaten up just to keep the club running, and we can move forward? Will we be implementing a salary cap to make this happen? Despite the worrying nature of our accounts, will we still be able to go for top class first team players beyond any set budget when we need to? It seems our new Youth policy is bearing some fruit. Which of the new players are you most excited about? The greatest issue, which helped nobody not least the owner and led to overeaction on both sides after Keegans exit, was the criminally poor communication with your supporters. What was the reason for your silence? Why has nothing been done to address this, and what will you be doing to rectify this in the future?

Yeah lets hope so. One for the future, still only 16 isn't he?

Let's not forget Mr Andrew Cole either tbh. He was flogged as part of a plan that the manager was happy with. We replaced the c*** with Les Ferdinand. You cant compare that with the Woodgate situation. Agreed. Getting back to Given though, as with Milner wanting away it looks like we may have to cash in, but hopefully we can do the same as Cole and use the money wisely (which may well mean having to hold fire and wait on a player like we did with Sir Les). Indeed but we could do with a couple of loans til the end of the season. Hell's yes. Or i'd be happy spaffing it all on Veloso or the like if available tbh. He says he doesn't want to move but he then hasn't talked to JFK yet has he.

Congratulations you've outdone Stalker! What a crazily negative way of looking at things. So the guy is coming from a smaller league and team and will be on loan at a big team in the top league in the world and could potentially double his salary should he earn a permanent move and you think that he won't give a shit. Brilliant! Quite, it's a mad idea. Whether it's us or another club, who the Dickens is going to sign him up on a big contract if they see him not giving a shit, with no heart for a fight?

Let's not forget Mr Andrew Cole either tbh. He was flogged as part of a plan that the manager was happy with. We replaced the c*** with Les Ferdinand. You cant compare that with the Woodgate situation. Agreed. Getting back to Given though, as with Milner wanting away it looks like we may have to cash in, but hopefully we can do the same as Cole and use the money wisely (which may well mean having to hold fire and wait on a player like we did with Sir Les).

I understand the point of view but it reminds me of the Distin situation, hopefully he's not as much of a mercenary Chin up. Even if he does brilliantly and gets nicked by a big club then we will still have done well if he helps keep us up, it would give me more faith in our scouts and there are plenty of other fish in the sea. If he's shit then we aren't stuck with the lad. Woohoo!

Let's not forget Mr Andrew Cole either tbh.

Lying cunt? If you are referring to him denying that he was our new coach, before contracts were signed presumably, seems pretty fucking sensible and standard to me.

http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10278~1227633,00.html NEWCASTLE United announces that Dennis Wise has agreed to join the Club in the role of Executive Director (Football). Also joining the Club are Tony Jimenez as Vice President (Player Recruitment) and Jeff Vetere, who joins from Real Madrid in the position of Technical Co-ordinator. Dennis will assist the Board on football-related matters, including the development of the Club's Academy and player recruitment. He will report to the Chairman.Tony and Jeff will also assist in player recruitment. The arrival of these three new recruits follows on from the recent appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager. Kevin will be responsible for all matters related to the First Team. Chairman Chris Mort said: "This is all part of the vision that recently helped us to secure Kevin Keegan's return to the Club as manager. "Two of the conclusions of our strategic review, since acquiring the Club, were that the Club would benefit from having a football person involved at Board level, which it has not had historically, and that further senior resources are needed for recruiting players of the highest quality from this country and further afield. "Dennis would like to move away from day-to-day football management to a Board role and, with his considerable energy and intelligence, we believe he will do very well in this new position. "With Kevin able to devote his efforts to developing and running the first team squad, Dennis, Tony and Jeff will each help us to secure success for Newcastle United Football Club at all levels and for the long-term. One or two further key appointments will follow in the months ahead." x 1000 The first bit in bold implies that KK has/had total control but its sort of watered down by the second. Ambiguous at best. Wonder if this was intentional or just a coincidence? What was Mort's profession? Lawyer i rest my case I bet you fucking don't.

Some fine sentiments. Will do my best.

nemeth Spammers sign some guy I've never heard of. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/7851056.stm Sounds like a very good player from what the BBC write-up says. If we are serious about up and coming players then that's the kind of person we should of been looking at. When we are struggling as we are, spending all our budget on a player Tony Adams say's may not even get a game this year doesn't sound the best plan to be fair.

Blimey, there's availability all over the ground. Comon lads, this one has to be a sellout.

Just confirmed on Russian TV, Arshavin to Arsenal is now a done deal.

I haven't looked at it. By the way, I've responded to some of your previous posts directed at me, and predictably you have joined the list of those who are unable to reply and prove me wrong, when you would love to if you could. Are you someone else that insisted we would be better off without the fat bastard [for anybody] ? Which questions have you asked me, sorry if I missed them but your perpetual arse kissing of Freddy Shepherd sends me to sleep. Which fat bastard are you on about, Shepherd or Ashley? well, we are certainly not better off since the last ownership change are we, but I thought that soopa Mike was going to be the saviour to end all those embarrassing days of qualifying regularly for europe ? We are financially more stable than we were under Freddy "Lets hoy some more cash at the problem and hope we get somewhere" Shepherd. You should know that from your sneaky peaking at the financial report thread. We will have to see where we are come May to decide how bad Ashley has been. If we finish 13th or so you could say we are on a par with Fat Fred couldn't you? Well you wouldn't cos obviously you are blinkered. While Mike Ashley is not the man to take the club forward, Freddy Shepherd certainly wasn't either. But at least Ashley isn't taking money out of the club to line his own pocket, unlike Fat Freddy. I haven't looked at the thread, because I know it will be full of people like you slating the old board for anything you can think of, such is your cluelessness. You and people like you were told for ages by myself and one or two others that getting rid of the old board wouldn't necessarily lead to more success and a better club, you were wrong. You are being told again that Ashley is taking the club downwards and downwards, his policy is wrong, you are disputing it, but you are wrong again. I think you have mistaken me for someone else. I have said time and again that Mike Ashley is not the man to take this club forward. But deluding yourself that Freddy Shepherd was is just stupid. Freddy Shepherd was running this club into the ground financially, and getting a nice wage packet out of it too. Its all well and good for Shepherd to come out now and say that Ashley is doing things wrong, but we would have been crippled had Shepherd still been at the helm. He needs to give himself a shake, and you too, and you both need to realise that the reason we are in this mess is because of Fat Fred's policy of throwing money into a bottomless pit to try and put things right, instead of sorting out the fundamental problems with the club. I don't think Ashley is the right man for Newcastle, and never have, but no-one else would have taken the club on and put the money in he has to stop us going to the wall. Others looked at the books and ran!

And yet we are meant to believe the club is no longer up for sale and that we are "Driving the club forward". A wanky summer ahead I think I don't get it. Are people suddenly crying out for Kinnear, Calderwood and Lovenkrands to be signed up on long term contracts? You're all mad. This is madness!

I dont speak redundant languages, what is he saying? That it would be a backward step going to Newcastle. Looking through the thread they seem to have a couple of issues with him sometimes but recognise that he has got good potential and don't seem to like the idea of him leaving.

Heh, at least the guy feels he would be a big loss to them.

View from Forrest fan and BBC Newcastle fella, Matt Newsum - "I must profess at first I was tempted to joke about yet another Nottingham Forest manager turning up at St James' Park? Who next? Frank Clark? However, I am pleased that Colin Calderwood has found himself a new post, even if it is just as a coach until the end of the season. Fact is, in my humble opinion, he's a likeable bloke. I had the pleasure once, in The Dragon pub in Nottingham, and he was a top fella - agreed to have his photo taken with me and a quick natter about Forest's fortunes. And although quite rightly in some circumstances he's had a fair bit of stick from Forest fans, he's not been all bad. He introduced a lot of youngsters to the side, Matt Thornhill, Emile Sinclair and latterly the impressive Brendan Moloney have all made the progression from youth team to first-team under Calderwood's management. Also his work in the transfer market wasn't too disasterous... he signed and then sold Junior Agogo for profit, he brought in Nathan Tyson, who has become a fans favourite, and his use of the loan market has seen Paul Anderson arrive at the City Ground. Even when the Neil Lennon signing went wrong, it was a positive sign for Calderwood that his persuasive and ambitious nature was a factor in his moving from Celtic (SPL champs, European Champions League entrants...) to Forest (League One promotion scrappers). The main gripe with Calderwood was of a tactical nature. With the players at our disposal you felt we could pick teams apart at will in League One, but the Scot's pragmatic, dour methods meant we often laboured to beat teams that we should have buried (on paper). Sometimes we got it right - a 5-1 demolition of Huddersfield lingers long in the memory, a 3-0 exhibition of football at home to Cheltenham and of course last season's 3-2 last day win against Yeovil. Then there were those bad days. The days where we sent our fans home miserable from places like Hartlepool, Leyton Orient and Swindon, messing up accumulators and weekends throughout the country. One evening summed it all up. Yeovil Town, League One play-off semi-final, 2-0 up from the first-leg. Two shellshocked hours later and it's 5-4. To Yeovil. On our own ground. Calderwood's defensive tactics, substitutions and a series of daft decisions by players sank us to the most galling and heart-breaking of defeats. It was a clear embodiment of what supporting Forest under Calderwood was about. However, he's obviously been brought in for a purpose at Newcastle and I would presume it's a defensive one. As a player he was lionhearted as a centre-half, and his outlook on the game tactically is defensive. He's also a former colleague of Chris Hughton, when the Magpies' assistant was a coach at Tottenham. I wish him well. He got us promoted, he's a nice fella. Whether or not he can have an impact at St James' only time will tell."

Kinnear reckons he will be here today, and training tomorrow. Probably the Sunderland game on Sunday. Source? All I have seen Kinnear say is that "Talks have been going very well regarding Albin, and we are working hard to make sure he comes to Newcastle." No timescale, and no guarentee he will come here full stop. The Journal had quoted Kinnear saying he expected Ebondo to be in Newcastle today and training "straight after". Ah right, found it.