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Team should be: Harper Beye Faye Cacapa Enrique Duff Geremi Barton N'Zogbia Martins Owen Team will be: Harper Beye Faye Taylor N'Zogbia Barton Butt Smith Duff Viduka Owen

Given that our midfielders are well below the average height for a modern day Premiership midfield, we should find it easier than other clubs do to hide their midfield.

Still haven't answered this question NE5... because its a bit daft isn't it ? Its obviously the children, but this is going off on a different tangent altogether. Where will it lead ? Starving people in Africa ? Getting rid of President Mugabe ? Cancer research ? Unbelievable. So when people are praising a man for giving a significant amount to charity, you come in with the following response: aye, smashing. Never mind that the team is in the shite though, taking the thread of in a complete tangent about the board by implying that Ashley should be spending his money elsewhere. Unbelievable. I'm lost for words.

Still haven't answered this question NE5...

Not saying he should start, but should be allowed to develop from the bench - unless we get relegated, in which case we should pull out all the stops to sign him and build a team around him.

The main issue though is this: What is more important? reducing the number of children dying from HIV/AIDS related illnesses by 3000 over the next 6 months, or Mike Ashley having an extra £150k to give to his manager. By complaining about this NE5, you are implying that the latter is more important.

One of the reasons that Keegan came here was because he knew that Ashley would give him the money for a trophy push.

Nothing worse than someone making out a young player is better than he actually is. I've seen him play live as a sixteen year old, saw Walcott at around about the same time. Thought Sinclair was better. His running on the ball and movement scared people, he seemed instinctively more inteligent than many quick strikers we see in the Premier League.

Was £15m at 11pm when I tuned in, just after someone rich and anonymous had contacted Sports Relief to pledge £5.5m. Hope it wasn't Ashley, as this thread could become 5.5m pages long.

mackems.gif best I heard for years. Then how can you the complain at Ashley?... laughable that you don't understand the meaning of the word complacency, nor the value of backing managers, I'm also pleased for you that you think staring relegation in the face and as soon as the fat bastard and his mate have left the club, heading back to where they found us, is an improvement. It's all spin with you, you can take one particular set of facts and twist it in a positive or negative manner depending on whoever is being talked about. "spin" ? It was never me who said that qualifying for europe and playing in the Champions League meant the club was run by incompetent fools, or whatever of the dozens of phrases that were used. You accuse Ashley of being complacent and not backing the manager during one period of his ownership, yet when someone points out Shepherd was similarly complacent and did not back the manager by only signing Bowyer during the most critical period of his reign, i.e. the summer after our 3rd place, you revert to a defensive stance. That is spin.

aye, smashing. Never mind that the team is in the shite though, 150k last December FFS (and no, that does not stand for Fat Freddy Shepherd) Hardly going to make a difference given Ashley's wealth and business interests. Charity FFS. the point is that I don't really care if the chairman/owner is a "good bloke" or not, I just want them to back their managers and run good football teams. Who says both can't happen? As Ashley is unlikely to make a profit from NUFC in the foreseeable future (haven't noticed any undeserved dividends recently), its probably just as well that he is portrayed as having a generous nature. Who is better, Aston Villa's Randy Lerner, or Freddy Shepherd? get the football club sorted out first then, before trying to show he's a "good bloke" or embarking on poxy PR gimmicks like buying people beer in pubs. I'm not interested in Randy Lerner. We qualified for europe more than anybody but 4 during the time the Halls and Shepherd ran the club which should suggest to anyone with any sort of logical brain that it makes them a damn sight better than the vast majority of their competition. We are in a relegation fight, and they should have tried to prevent it in January. For the record, he donated to Sport Relief before Allardyce was sacked. We were in a relegation fight before we sacked Allardyce due to our oncoming fixtures. He tried to do something in January by pushing the boat out to Keegan. He even attempted to back the manager in the transfer market, only a mixture of player preference (Woodgate) and Keegan's personal choices prevented this. You should care about Lerner, as he's currently showing chairmen at other clubs how it should be done. It took him time (over a year) to make results on the pitch happen. Perhaps we should give our new board time.

aye, smashing. Never mind that the team is in the shite though, 150k last December FFS (and no, that does not stand for Fat Freddy Shepherd) Hardly going to make a difference given Ashley's wealth and business interests. Charity FFS. the point is that I don't really care if the chairman/owner is a "good bloke" or not, I just want them to back their managers and run good football teams. Who says both can't happen? As Ashley is unlikely to make a profit from NUFC in the foreseeable future (haven't noticed any undeserved dividends recently), its probably just as well that he is portrayed as having a generous nature. Who is better, Aston Villa's Randy Lerner, or Freddy Shepherd?

Nice edit by whichever mod changed the thread title, for this thread truely is.

You are heartless woman. Why have you not updated your sig yet. Alan Smith still rated as 5, are you not watching the games? Everyone has been poor, but you've got to take fixture difficulty into account. All resumes on Monday night.

mackems.gif best I heard for years. Then how can you the complain at Ashley?... laughable that you don't understand the meaning of the word complacency, nor the value of backing managers, I'm also pleased for you that you think staring relegation in the face and as soon as the fat bastard and his mate have left the club, heading back to where they found us, is an improvement. It's all spin with you, you can take one particular set of facts and twist it in a positive or negative manner depending on whoever is being talked about.

aye, smashing. Never mind that the team is in the shite though, 150k last December FFS (and no, that does not stand for Fat Freddy Shepherd) Hardly going to make a difference given Ashley's wealth and business interests. Charity FFS.

Lampard is only good in certain teams built around his strengths. We could pay £5 million for Lampard, but it would cost another £50-100m to build a team that he could look remotely good in.

You are heartless woman.

Scott Sinclair. I reckon he's someone we could get regardless of whether we go up or down, as long as we are willing to pay for him. Chelsea seem possessive of their young players, but lets face it - a manager would never dare pick him for as long as he has several proven strikers at his disposal. He's a bit like Dyer, but with more end product - something we need. At 16 he was one of the best players in the Championship, and his general play is already better than Obafemi Martins.

The only thing that I can think of in favour of this is that Mike Ashley is a good friend of the Redknapp Dynasty.

ExiledGeordie faces exile.

Really? Why is that? I just don't understand it. I mean, surely we're all following the same cause? Well before forums became popular, it was very much a case of 'their way or the highway' when it came to independent internet coverage of events at SJP. This place isn't independent though is it? Mort has N-O in his pocket blowing cool air over his ball sack. I'm fairly sure I'm going to get whooshed here, but what the hell is that meant to mean? I think he's saying that he reckons the Board have an influence over the editorial policy of this website. I'm unsure about the whooshedness of that statement myself though. wow, i'm intruiged by this, i really really am...how can i make that sound not sarcastic? the strength of happy face's comment tells me he knows something mind blowing It's all common knowledge. Mort contacted every single major Newcastle website or fanzine, and met with representatives from all, including us, .com, True Faith over tea and biscuits, listened to some comments on general operational questions such as questions about the Box Office, ticket allocations, and then took email addresses so that club representatives can ask questions as and when they have them. They've contacted us twice since to ask about ticket allocations away at Chelsea and Brum. Nothing sinister.

Really? Why is that? I just don't understand it. I mean, surely we're all following the same cause? Well before forums became popular, it was very much a case of 'their way or the highway' when it came to independent internet coverage of events at SJP. This place isn't independent though is it? Mort has N-O in his pocket blowing cool air over his ball sack. I'm fairly sure I'm going to get whooshed here, but what the hell is that meant to mean? I think he's saying that he reckons the Board have an influence over the editorial policy of this website. I'm unsure about the whooshedness of that statement myself though.

Really? Why is that? I just don't understand it. I mean, surely we're all following the same cause? Well before forums became popular, it was very much a case of 'their way or the highway' when it came to independent internet coverage of events at SJP.

When they say "stop writing shite on message boards" the context has clearly been misunderstood on here. They clearly mean "stop writing 'shite' on message boards" - clearly a message aimed at Northern Monkey.