BottledDog

I thought he was on a 3 year contract, in fact I would be amazed if he wasn't, you would not sign a young player on a 2 year contract, that means he's still got 2 more seasons. So he won't bwe available on a free. Even if he were out of contract, he would still cost a club money because he'd be too young to qualify for a bosman. I agree though, no way in hell any team will pay 8-10 million for him, he's simply not shown that class yet, 5 million is the max we'll get. Well considering Arsenal are preparing a £15m move for Brede Hangeland. (*cough* The Sun)

Do you really find it staggering though, considering what manner of dickheads the people running the club have been proven to be time and time again? Dickheads is one thing but to go out of your way to mislead people about something which didn't even need to be brought up is just pathetic. Hope the story is true and only playing devil advocate here but the source for this story is, well, an unamed source.

Huh, where did that come from? The only quotes are pretty positive (if a little old). Non story.

Has to be utter balls. Yes there will be meetings, that's not news, but none of them will have been planned or relying on any set budgets yet considering that so much depends on Sunday.

It's an interseting moral delima and worthy of a poll in my opinion. Do you love your club enough to partake in some mano y mano activities, in much the same way as "gay for pay" porn stars. Ferguson, Hiddink on O'Neil are just longing for some good servicing. Hiddink's already refused to play a weakened team, so that leaves just O'Neill and Purple Face's purple headed warrior. Yup, don't like to blow my own trumpet nevermind anyone elses, but I've already sorted out Gus. Time for the rest of yous to step up to the plate methinks.

As his daughter said, whatever happens he didn't get to see us going down. God bless you sir, you have no idea how often you song accompanies me when I head back accross the Tyne if I've been away for a while.

We came here for eight weeks then we're off, insists Shearer's Newcastle assistant boss Dowie http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1185288/We-temporarily-insists-Shearers-Newcastle-assistant-Dowie.html

Christ no. Apologies, but there's just something about him that really strongly disagrees with me. Fuck Darren Furguson. Fuck his lispy accent, and fuck his rubber face. Darren Furguson out.

Think it came out that he wanted to move back south, but seemed to be more a falling out between him and Keegan. Most people at the time couldn't see the logic behind losing him outside of any personal issues.

With Keegan's history you could make a case for either side although for me there wasn't enough respect shown for someone who knew more about the game than Ashley or his team have been able to grasp. What is undeniable though is that since Keegan left the decision making has been a disgrace from Kinnear's over-staying his welcome to dithering without a manager while he was laid up in hospital. No one else is to blame for that. in a nutshell - if we go down this is why Yup, this. Have a certain degree of sympathy that we may not have been able to get anyone better than Kinnear short term, but as soon as we were taken off the market, the seriousness of our situation needed to be realized and acted upon far sooner. Leaving aside all previous issues like debts or Keegan, they failed massively in this respect.

Indications were that it was a new direction that if done correctly could remedy years of decline from the ground up, but while there are a number of positives that can still be held onto, it is clear that it's all gone tits up whether due to personnel, personality clashes, changes of circumstance financially or otherwise or just downright idiocy from Asley or his employees. I'm not even sure there has been much of a sytem for many months now, never mind whether it had at the start actually been followed in the way Baggio etc had wanted. Blind faith? Nah, from what I saw of it it was mainly hope and a reluctance to damn the model, despite clear incompetence in the implementation. Effectively they're being criticised for being optimistic, and I'm not sure that sticking the boot into people for holding onto the hope that something good might be on its way now that we're even further in the shit is particularly valiant. Everyone is suffering, why make it worse, eh. Ya miserable bunch of Roeder sypethisers, Robson slaggers, Robert kicking, Bellamy bashing, Souness sucking, Shepherd fucking, Allardyce apologists.

A jolly old end of season of giggle? Oh I'm sure that, even if you removed any emotional connection anyone might actually have with the club, as businessmen they were chuckling and rubbing their nips with delight as their investment teeters on the fucking brink. Some guy wears a clearly self-deprecating shirt, maybe as he lost a bet, maybe to deal with the stress everyone is under in his own way. No biggie imho. Yay for the cockney tosspot!

No it's not! If the person was a friend or associate of Ashley's it would mean a great deal. A picture of shirt and wearer would be useful. What would it mean? It would mean Ashley’s talk of ‘moving forward together’ is bullshit. How? To answer that question you first have to ask what this particular message was supposed to mean, and why Ashley’s mate wanted to convey it to a public audience. So, why do you think Ashley’s bodyguard (allegedly) had No9 Cockney Tosser on the back of his shirt? What does it mean? Do you know? I don't imagine he did want to "convey it to a public audience" I personally have no idea what it was on the back of his shirt for, nor do I think it warrants an explanation tbh. Still if people want to be childish & use it as reason to moan & whinge on, let them get on with it IYAM. Why do you think Ashley’s bodyguard (allegedly) had No9 Cockney Tosser on the back of his shirt? Why do you think Ashley’s bodyguard (allegedly) had No9 Cockney Tosser on the back of his shirt?

If true, what do people see it as, some kind of attack? In what sense? Sounds like he was tired of being called it so stuck it on his shirt, was on his stag do, or had to wear it for a bet. Either way, big fucking deal. Gallows humour is all we have at the moment.

Nolan saying he is implementing all the right things for the long term and hopes he'll be working with him for a very long time. (rough summary from nufc TV interview)

Hopefully. Plus prestige for the city, tourist dollar etc. /not rising to your cynicism.

Chill oot, would be great. Besides in 2015 the pitch will be some kind of organic free range nanotube rug.

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That's fair enough, and that's also all he will be judged on ultimately. It's always nice to hear that positive progress is being made away from matchdays though. In theory that progress should follow through. Oh, I agree and Shearer has my total support, though it does seem to be the case that Taylor say's this about every manager that walks through the door. /Grumpy git mode: OFF Regarding Taylor though, not his biggest fan but pleased as punch to see him in contention for the game. We need people to run through brick walls right now, and hopefully his example will pull the rest of the buggers with him on monday.

If Shearer doesn't get results and get them playing with heart on the pitch, and he hasn't so far imo, then I couldn't give two tits that their monitors were going mental the day he was unveiled.

The Chronicle are pathetic like. That is just...... Christ. Not going to defend Barton getting sent of but I wouldn't have minded one little bit if he felt the urge to lamp that twofaced wormy journo.

It is funny how journalists get away with this sort of reporting: - 'Player X' says to journalist "Blah, blah we hate the rules, etc. You can quote me but don't name me." Beye says to journalist "I'm loving the serious nature of the new management set-up. You can name me but don't put what I said as a quote." :lol: PS - BottledDog is a spoilsport. But yeah, even with the quotes, there is a whole shitbucket of writers spin in those articles. It's not like Beye actually is endorsing the rules, the closest he gets to saying anything like that is "I’m happy with what they’ve done up to now, and really believe they will keep the club in the Premier League." which is pretty damn generic.

It is funny how journalists get away with this sort of reporting: - 'Player X' says to journalist "Blah, blah we hate the rules, etc. You can quote me but don't name me." Beye says to journalist "I'm loving the serious nature of the new management set-up. You can name me but don't put what I said as a quote." http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2009/05/05/beye-s-stay-on-plea-to-shearer-72703-23545029/2/ - Quotes are there. Not sure they particularly back up what the writer is implying mind.