BottledDog

Aye, the vocal stuff is done and dusted, but there's nothing like starving the club of funds to make them even less attractive to a future manager. Yay!

This isnt Ashleys appointment. As if he's ever heard of Joe Kinnear. Ashley phoned Kinnear personally. ..and hasn't even spoken to Wise about it. Ashley? Bullcrap. Where do you pull that from. Kinnear hasn't spoken to Wise, but then why should he?

This isnt Ashleys appointment. As if he's ever heard of Joe Kinnear. Ashley phoned Kinnear personally. To appoint him. Nothing more. After discussions, I'm sure Ashley has phoned every fucker on the list of applicants before he got round to Kinnear.

I'm not disgusted with the appointment, just shaking my head and laughing. Unbelievable. I agree with just how low have we sunk, but what were people expecting considering the situation we are in. Good luck to the bloke. Am 100% behind him, for what good it'll do.

His hand was forced. If he had said nothing he was fucked and the protests would have got worse. If he had said nothing publicly, he would have still had to come clean to any prospective manager so we would have ended up in the even worse a position because the protests would have put even more people off.

Shows the state we are in. Fair play to the bloke for being one of the few not to turn us down. Full support to the guy, and we'll see what the new lot are like in october. Keegan and Shearer to placate the fans though huh, what a joke this club has become. 8 months till the new owners are driven out?

Christ. What a miserable sod. Hope you fucking enjoy your winnings if it happens.

Good luck with that. Sounds like a plan someone drew up on a napkin. At least they have backing from Keegan. Good thinking on that extra £50 million Chris, you're going to need it. Forgive me, we are talking about investing in Newcastle United Football Club here right? Right?

That sounds far more plausible than a lot of the other theories we've heard. If this does turn out to be true, and KK's walkout leads to us being taken over by a wealthy individual/group who inject money and lead us to sustainable long term success, the 3rd coming could yet turn out to represent the most enduring part of Keegan's toon legacy. Saving the club from what though, what on earth was Ashley doing? It may not have gone to plan, but all I saw was at least an effort to see all the elements being put in place for long term stability and future growth within our means. I'm happy to be proved wrong though. If as Jackyboy has said, he was walking out to expose Ashley's plan, to save the club, then what the hell is he waiting for, expose the evil! All he has currently exposed us to is more uncertainty, and the gamble that someone a damn sight worse might replace him.

I'm not sure that's as certain as it was a couple of weeks ago. Exactly my thoughts. His walking away has put them in the shit as much as anyone and there must be a sense of betrayal or loss of trust from the older lads (just as there is amongst a number of the supporters), and who knows how the new players feel about him.

Hahahahaha! Freddy Shepherd was attacked for less put it that way by a large majority. Everything Ashley has done while owning Newcastle has failed, backfired or put us a step or two backwards. But hey, he loves the club... So much fucking so when someone lights a fire under his arse he sobs and spits the dummy out before fucking off around the globe demanding ridiculous sums for the club. In between making himself look an even bigger tit of course. Christ. You used to make some half decent posts, the sentimentality being somewhat endearing. Yet now, it is hard to describe just how painfully embarrassing you get sometimes. Chill the fuck out.

bah, only the 48th richest person in the world. He`s a pauper compared to Anil Ambani http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasser_Al-Kharafi Fuck him then, who is with me for the first and bestest Ashley IN protest?

He said he was willing to subsidise up to £20 million a year. Not that now we'll ever get to find out if he would have or not.

And......? Ashley never said he did did he? All he said was that he was advised not to go. That may have been from colleagues, or iirc, he was told not to turn up or join the travelling support in statements made by the fucking fanzines themselves. Not a threat of course, as they never specifed what would happen if he did.

Your efforts are appreciated.

This There has been no sugestion Keegan wants to come back, the ticket thing would be a gimmick, making a scapegoat of Wise or anyone would be a horribly cowardly thing to do, and the idea of him just telling us 'what we want to hear' whether true or not just turns my stomach. I can't see how anything like that would help him or the club now, all it would do would just cut away at any respect he still maintains. While I was happy with him keeping out of the spotlight, I guess it was just not enough for most people, and all he needs now, as before, is simply better communication. Not to placate the fans. But just to keep them in the loop and feel part of the club again. Anything else will just be jumped upon with cynical abandon.

TBH I think it confirms to everyone which league we'd be plying our trade in had we not brought back KK. Even if he doesn't come back, he saved our arses again. Did Keegan really make such a massive impact? By pulling in 21 points since new year, yes we stayed up, but it's hardly the most glowing endorsement of his tenure that every other manager bar those that went down managed to get more.

Why a warning flag? We were hardly going to try and keep hold of an unhappy player. Reports at the time said that he wanted to go.

You state "The facts you cannot ignore are" and then proceed to give us a list made up mostly of media fuelled misinformation, assumptions and total bullshit. Good job. What! 1) He did state there would be a WOW signing. Seriously, I would hate to pull you up on stating bollocks as fact. Do you have any quotes to back that up.

I agree that having a supporters club is a positive thing I just worry that the timing of setting it up is wrong. If it was set up during a more positive period for the club then I'd expect the meeting to attract a wide range of people with differing views but I think the majority of people there tomorrow night will want to carry on with protests which could potentially further destabalise the club. This. Terrible timing when emotions are running high. Doubt there will be more protests though, they have got what they wanted.

I was very happy with the Ashley model. Very excited by building the club up in the right fashion, developing and buying in the best young talents while bringing in some great international players to top things off. Now that that has gone up in smoke after a molehill turned into fucking Everest, the prospect of a sleazy shit like Shepherd, or some foreign megabucks tycoon bringing in his own players, or some faceless consortium coming in just depresses the hell out of me.

@ the logic. Ashley controlled the fans through the dark arts of spin and PR and got them to demonstrate on saturday? Spectacular. He certainly knows which buttons to press to get a reaction. Like he says - he's not stupid - so he knows what his actions will provoke. So had there been no protests at all he would still have put the club up for sale this week? Amazing co-incidence that like. Imo he's been waiting for the opportunity to put us up for sale in the light that he's the victim. Yeah, because nothing is more enticing to a prospective owner to offer a healthy profit than seeing the club in turmoil and the last owner being told to get out, that he and his staff are cockney mafia, having his family threatened and deciding/feeling forced to walk away from this fucking madhouse. What an opportunity!!!!

I wonder why? Perhaps it was because they were certain of the facts in this case, but weren't in the other? Nah, that can't be it, it's far to realistic a situation to have happened, not to mention nowhere near evil enough. Amazing isn't it. Refuting yet another story damaging to us, yet rather than a sigh of relief, people seem to prefer to see the worst and hammer the club further.

Not too far off from the way I see it sadly.