CaliMag

As things stand now, Ashley will keep the club and will run thsi club on the cheap. We'll sell our salable players to lower the wage bill and offset our massive income loss (Beye, Martins, Bassong, S Taylor, etc), have the Chuckle borthers or Kinnear as managers, have the lowest team morale in the league and be resting our hopes on our academy juniors and reserve team - who will lose the vast majority of the league games. Relegation is very a real possibility. You think there's a 75% chance of us getting relegated? f*** me man And if you read through the thread you'll see that I was at a 7 since January and only moved up to an 8 after losing to Fulham last season. - People laughed at me then as well back at the New Year.

Yup. Its a win win for Ashley.

As things stand now, Ashley will keep the club and will run thsi club on the cheap. We'll sell our salable players to lower the wage bill and offset our massive income loss (Beye, Martins, Bassong, S Taylor, etc), have the Chuckle borthers or Kinnear as managers, have the lowest team morale in the league and be resting our hopes on our academy juniors and reserve team - who will lose the vast majority of the league games. Relegation is very a real possibility.

Just read The SUN, does not seem too promising.

Aye, we're f*cked.

The SUN http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2533306/Good-Beye-and-good-riddance.html

I am inching up to a 7.5 as it now looks that Ashley's stubborness is going to do us in. As said before I'll go to a full 8 if the season starts with us in the same sad state of affiars.

Heard we're taking a look at Brett Emerton.

Yes, he was. The only reason we weren't relegated was because he started with a pretty good team built by SBR.

I find your optimism shocking. Especially since you are as old as me and remember the last couple relegations.

As things now stand I would put us at 7 for the third division/ League One. If we get no movement on ownership and management by the first game of the season I'll move this up to an 8.

I remember when Didi Hamann broke his leg in his first game for Liverpool after leaving us... good times.

I, for one welcome my new Malaysian overlords. http://lizrohe.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/kent_brockman.jpg

Maybe he has nowhere to go? Who else is that pastey and that short? (5'6")

Jonathan Godsmark

And that wasn't enough for the editors - they went BACK wrote essentially the same article about how Barton is now free to roam the training grounds. Shadenfrued enough for two articles and we're a championship team now. You'd think they have had enough.

I was just sickened to see Shola, Butt and Barton back in these pics if anything else. Butt looks the way I feel.

Buried in a rticle about how NUFC supporters no longer care is some information on how training went today (yesterday for you in the UK): Full article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1196882/Newcastle.html?ITO=1490 Another version of same article (with Barton focus) with two different pics: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1196765/PICTURE-SPECIAL-Ready-Championship-Holiday-bad-boy-Barton-leads-Newcastle-United-training.html http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/01/article-0-058DD4C1000005DC-836_233x443.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/07/01/article-0-058DCEDF000005DC-158_468x345.jpg

...because they don't have relegation. Mismanagement is not exclusive to Britain. My point has nothing to do with relegation at all. There are very few professional sports teams in America ran like a f***ing circus. Disagree - there are plenty of examples of similar circus type management. Al Davis - Raiders Mark Cuban - Mavs De Bartolo family - 49ers Marge Schott - Reds

I have also speculated that Anschutz is the American interest... however, It would not be him personally taking over. He is not like Glazer, Hicks or Gillett - Anschutz is more hands off. It would be AEG managing Newcastle with a Chairman running things in the UK working for the UK AEG office. Anschutz owns over half a dozen sports teams and he is rarely seen watching the games or getting directly involved... that is just not his way. And when he dies AEG will live on without him. We could do a lot worse.

I am at a loss for words. That MJ kit can't be real... but then the US beating Spain is also impossible.... I think my head is about to explode.

See... cursed. "One of us. One of us..."

DeMerit? Are you scoffing? He did well today... maybe your defense is simply cursed like ours.

Jay DeMerit has athleticism and some skill on the ball whereas Bocanegra is a chronic cheater and is slow. Bocanegra = Carr in my book. I will admit that Bocanegra actually shows comittment and passion for Fulham which Carr almost never did for us, but there ends the difference.