Teasy

I know Shearer would obviously turn up to watch the toon but I'd assumed he'd be on MOTD.

Jonas was very good tonight, his final ball still wasn't good but everything went through him and without him we'd have looked pretty awful IMO. We would have been so much better though if we'd had a good player on the right wing. Wednesday could afford to stick extra men on Jonas because they knew we had fuck all down the right.

You mean that other bloke still hasn't taken over Portsmouth? Anyway talking of interesting things to watch for tonight, how about Shearer watching at the ground. Or is he already confirmed as being elsewhere?

Sorry but I didn't post a link or anything. I take it back. There's no way you'll be able to watch the match anywhere, unless you go to SJP. Is that okay with your rules? Don't be a bellend. What for trying to help a fan out who wants to watch the game? Yeah what a bellend but i've apologised anyway. No: for breaking rules that are in place for a good reason and then being a sarcastic fucker about it. Honestly had no idea it was against the rules of the forum just to mention it like. Any other banned words?, what about Voldemort?

Who's mentioned 15k a week like?

Word of warning, there've been many other geordie "fans" in charge of newcastle over the years, not many of them would be accused of putting the clubs best interests at heart. One you even mention in your post. Did Shepherd ever go to watch Newcastle as a fan before being involved with the club though?

Looks like it was written by a blithering idiot.

Well we'll see if he's talking shit tomorrow then.

Apparently Hogdson's paid a very competitive fee for a player of Duff's age and calibre. He must be very pleased to have pulled the deal off according to SSN.

Would be good at this level, alot of pace. Personally don't think he has alot of pace anymore. He is still quick, but he's not rapid anymore by any means. He's not as quick as he once was but he still has a lot of pace. He's a quick player by Premiership standards, which makes him fucking grease lightning in the Championship

On the other hand winning 3:0 last time around and the match not being on TV will convinced more people to turn up. I'm going to guess at 38,000.

Fulham fans are in for a fucking rude awakening like

Where's the two other consortiums come from by the way? (David Craig??) SSN just says "Newcastle confirm club in takeover talks with Barry Moat".

I think there's a big difference between that comment and this one to be honest.

Didn't realise what he was doing at first, sneaky bastard

87,000 Euro's according to that article, who knows if that's true but if it is he's on £75,000 a week He's on £70k. That's what I thought, though that article disagrees.

87,000 Euro's according to that article, who knows if that's true but if it is he's on £75,000 a week

Well obviously he hasn't been appointed yet and won't be appointed until the takeover is agreed. So I assume the rumour is that the takeover is expected to be agreed by Wednesday at which time Shearer would be officially appointed. Is it bullshit?, probably.

AFAICS it would just mean he's personally guaranteeing that the overdraft he put in place originally will still be paid despite the change of ownership.

Fucking hell, I'm going out

Wrong - the motivation is different - lending to a football club has massive PR and reputational risks attached as well as the obvious risk assessment from ability to fund and repay the debt. That has an impact on the appetite in the first place but additionally has an impact on the bank staying in when perhaps they might normally have pulled out - do Barclays want to be the local bank that put the club under? The motivation is profit. If Barclays think they'll lose massive sums of money they'll pull out no matter what. If they even considered staying in due to not wanting to send the club down it would purely be for fear of losing money from customers. Fair enough that eliment doesn't come into it if I got a loan there, but lets not make this into some convoluted discussion. My point was simple, Barclays are motivated here by profit, they aren't doing us a favour. You've already agreed with that earlier so I'm not sure why we're still discussing this.

I was talking about the motivation for it being no different, obviously the scale of the overdraft is different.

A favour? Don't be stupid, its an investment. No different to giving me or you an overdraft (it won't be interest free).

And we only have championship income and a championship budget. It's all relative. We really don't, I'd be very surprised if any Championship side has half our income this year. Of course we also still have a ludicrous wage bill. Still as long as we only pay him around £20k a week I don't see any risk.

Of course, but we do have a full part Argie international winger for now.