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He'd do nothing.

next.

I read it because i can now, and its a fine opinion sweety. Throw in Habib and we're on.

probably increases them. It increases buyers off? If by this you mean it increases our chances of being sold, I'm not sure. I'd hope all of them expected him to leave, but the fact that, the wisdom on this forum aside, people think he's still a national treasure means that he's an asset, like it or not.

Quote from: Theregulars on Today at 02:25:03 AM I'm glad to read that he enjoyed his four years here, because for me he's epitomised the demise of this club from the first day he signed. Everyone knew he wanted to go back to Liverpool, we were his last resort, and he played like it. I can think of perhaps 10 occasions, and that's being generous, when he put a decent shift in and did something vaguely worthy of his ridiculous wage and price tag. Maybe had the club not been such a disaster, he might have beeen better - it wasn't his fault. Maybe had he not been confined to such a s*** squad of players, who knows. But the fact remains that he was supposedly our star player, and he just did so little to try and help us out when it ever really mattered. So many piss-takingly long injury lay-offs, so many missed sitters for a supposedly world class player, and a man who just showed his entire contempt for our club and our city, for instance by refusing to live here and staying in horse-infested t*** mansion - and charging helicopter rides to and from training to boot! I don't think he's a c***, I just think he never, ever wanted to be here in a million years, realised fairly swiftly that the club was going horribly downhill and knew that he could maintain his apparently sterling reputation by at least "being loyal to his contract". Read: nobody else was daft enough to offer him a wage that was comparable to the likes of Lampard and Ronaldo at the time, so he could just sit here for a few years, put in a shift some days, score the occasional good old Owen goal and by not agreeing a contract extension and leaving it for ages always have athe get out clause that he wanted for himself. The people who run the club are the real pricks for giving him the ridiculous chance to take the piss and get away with it in such a manner. He has no scruples but I wouldn't for that much money either. I'm glad to see him gone, not because he's a dick and not because he's s**** (he's been s**** recently but he's still been alright) but because he single-handedly embodies everything that has seen our once glorious club slip to this most sorry of positions. There you go love, read away!

How much does Owen's departure put buyers off?

I'm glad to read that he enjoyed his four years here, because for me he's epitomised the demise of this club from the first day he signed. Everyone knew he wanted to go back to Liverpool, we were his last resort, and he played like it. I can think of perhaps 10 occasions, and that's being generous, when he put a decent shift in and did something vaguely worthy of his ridiculous wage and price tag. Maybe had the club not been such a disaster, he might have beeen better - it wasn't his fault. Maybe had he not been confined to such a shit squad of players, who knows. But the fact remains that he was supposedly our star player, and he just did so little to try and help us out when it ever really mattered. So many piss-takingly long injury lay-offs, so many missed sitters for a supposedly world class player, and a man who just showed his entire tempt for our club and our city, for instance by refusing to live here and staying in horse-infested twat mansion - and charging helicopter rides to and from training to boot! I don't think he's a cunt, I just think he never, ever wanted to be here in a million years, realised fairly swiftly that the club was going horribly downhill and knew that he could maintain his apparently sterling reputation by at least "being loyal to his contract". Read: nobody else was daft enough to offer him a wage that was comparable to the likes of Lampard and Ronaldo at the time, so he could just sit here for a few years, put in a shift some days, score the occasional good old Owen goal and by not agreeing a contract extension and leaving it for ages always have athe get out clause that he wanted for himself. The people who run the club are the real pricks for giving him the ridiculous chance to take the piss and get away with it in such a manner. He has no scruples but I wouldn't for that much money either. I'm glad to see him gone, not because he's a dick and not because he's shite (he's been shite recently but he's still been one alright) but because he single-handedly embodies everything that has seen our once glorious club slip to this most sorry of positions.

I would add understanding of how a football club works/is to be run, experience (e.g. a football person appointed at boardroom level) and a willingness to let the manager do his own work.

Excellent, I'm running out of toilet paper/firewood/things to throw at small animals.

Because there are too many fkn pooftaz like!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!1

I'm keen to make my (long-awaited) debut if it's in July, June is full up with work and gigs...

I don't think Fergie has ever forgiven us for the 5-0 and probably hasn't forgiven Shearer for turning him down. I reckon it's a decent shout that he won't exactly be unhappy if we go down. That Man U team is shocking, so is ours, the defence in particularly is laughably poor. Not sure about fitness but may as well have risked at least Enrique as it's the last game of the season, maybe their last game for the club.

I had my first dream about it - everyone drew...

Presumably in my mate Dave's living room, armed with cheap lager and kleenex......

All this stuff about Man U and their weaker team: slightly worried as remember the Tevez goal that sent Sheffield United down, but also, Fergie hates to lose, and won't want to do so just before the Champions League I imagine. Will put out a weaker team than normal, involving Welbeck and Gibson and the like, but the roll they're on Hull winning would be a massive upset.

Re: where to sit... i tried the Milburn for the first time since 1998 on Monday night, and it was quality. Obviously, the situation was ifferent because the atmosphere on the whole was cracking. I don't know the science of it, but i guess if you're somewhere near the very top, the noise doesn't escape as easily. For instance, it was quite deafening when Boro scored, and i was miles away from their fans. Was a really good noise in the Milburn all in all. Plus it's just like watching it on TV. Cracking view of the city aswell. You can get a megabus from London - it should cost you £10-15, although it takes about 6 hours and isn't particularly comfortable. Try and find a bed and breakfast - I was up there for Christmas time and found one for £30 a night for a plush double room, although that is because I cheekily told them I was media and would get them a good review (was on a one month's placement at BBC Radio Newcastle). The further out from the centre, the cheaper, and it's about £1 (I think?) on a bus to get in, or a cab won't be too pricey.

Better than Butt, Nolan, Guthrie, Smith...

If it should be anyone, it has to be Beye. The captain has to be a talented player who is capable of leading on the pitch and vocal. Him and Taylor are probably the only options. We have a dressing room full of overpaid, cowardly hasbeens and no-hopers bought on the cheap by a regime doing their best to turn us into a charva clothing chain. It pains me to see this money whoring, horse owning, past-it fool wear the armband that since childhood many of us have dreamed of wearing. Everybody in this forum is better suited to wearing it, because at least we'd give a shit.

I know Louise Taylor - she's a family friend through my father, and is actually a really nice woman - she would be as devastated as many of us if we go down. I remember when I was doing a sports bulletin for my journalism course and needed an ex-player to comment on the rot at Newcastle, and she put me in touch with Rob Lee. All this stuff about how she's a dick who has no idea what she's talking about is total bollocks. She's well informed about the team, the area and the supporters. Re: Danby, it's a stupid gimmick. Our fans our derided by the London rags for being drunk, overweight and blindly optimistic idiots. That man sums up all the stereotypes they throw at us. I don't care if they swore or not, I guess he got the crowd going, but the fact remains that we shouldn't need him to get up for games like Portsmouth. But the crowd was understandably nervous - sure, we can try and forget about how utterly awful our team has been since Sir Bobby quit, but five years of underacviehement, misguided sigings, false dawns and "heroes" failing to live up to their billing has left us bereft of hope and optimism, and full of common sense - the fact is that right now, our team, for whatever reason, hasn't performed for a long time, it doesn't look like anybody can get the best out of our squad and we have an ownership structure which has provedit does not know what it's doing. My friends, my family, people I know at college and anybody else laughs at me for being a Toon fan. Hell, I went on a date t'other day and the girl almost pitied me when I told her I supported Newcastle. We're a laughting stock. It's fuck all to do with Louise Taylor either.

I am in the States right now - does anyone know any way I can get this game on TV over here?

Reckon he'll get a lot out of Owen.

Mike Ashley, you strange, infuriating lardy maverick.

If Darren Bent can get in the England squad, Owen should.

I never thought I'd see the day when I felt vaguely nostalgic about this man running our club.

We'll storm the Championship with captain Shola bagging the golden boot award. Anyone who doesn't realise we have an ice cube's chance in hell of staying up is deluded. We can't win a game for anything - when we play top teams we put in a decent shift but get inevitably overrun in the end, when we play shit teams we play shitter than them. The two men in charge of first team affairs - one coach who never wanted a manager's job and has the charisma of a shrub and the other who nearly took forest to league 1 - can't do anything about it but are stuck, the owner is a crook and a clueless one at that, the first team lack any direction, there's nobody who can really score or create goals, and on top of it we have our usually squad decimation by injuries. But aye, everything will be fine. Reality check, we're fucked, it's over.