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I take it you mean Supermacs home debut vs Liverpool, hat trick then knocked out and carried off going for the fourth Now that's a debut I wish I had seen. it was just a home debut too, played away the previous week (at Palace ??)

Wages went up this season despite losing Chopra, Bowyer, Shearer, Clark, Elliot, Faye and Boumsong and only bringing in Duff, Martins, Sibs and Bernard. Now we have a higher paid manager, and his huge backroom staff contingent.

You reckon the bank won't kickin some more on the back of the football money next year? dunno. If they look back at how well the club has managed its money over the last few years it may be quite nervous about taking the overdraft any higher than £20m. Th eother potential downer woudl be a drop in season ticket sales. Even a 10% drop would mean £3m less cash in the bank, and the club having to borrow even more money just to pay the players through the season.

Currently have a £20m overdraft, no sponsorship money due as we took it early to buy Owen, the extra Sky money comes at the end of next season as a reward for your finishing position, the Sky money received this year is £3m less than a year ago. Don't see us having much cash to play with in the summer .

If anyone buys 25%, so not the 30% required to go for a full takeover, just 25%, and tried to install a new chairman then Shepherd can resign and demand two years wages. Same with Douglas Hall So someone buying a stake of 25% or more would also have to pay H&S £1m each. It's great when you can write your own contract.

and two of them are goalies doh

and two of them are goalies

On paper a better appointment than Souness and Roeder But making the guy third best paid manager in England does seem a bit daft. Especially as Sam is sure to say he has come here to win things, so surely would have come for far less. Pay him £2m a year with £5m per trophy in bounses. Would pay for itself easily.

27 Sleeping giant 28 Some great players here 29 Break into to top 4 30 Fortress St James 31 Instantly hit it off with the chairman 32 England job is someone else's 33 Double carpet

if it wasn't for Dyer we would never have seen Bellamy score that goal in Feyenoord

Dyer can't pass, can't tackle, can't head, at unbelievable pace all over the pitch

he has always backed his manager

"I have read what Mr Shepherd as said. He is absolutely right in saying I want to play for a top 4 side. This why I joined this club. The chairman told me that he saw this club as being one that would compete at the highest level, that is what I want, that is what the fans want. By the start of next season I will be playing for my third different Newcastle manager. It is up to the chairman to get it right this time. He should be appointing someone that will make this place a place that is in the CL every year. That is his job, he does nothing else that I can see, he just appoints the best person to take us all forward. If the chairman keeps making the sort of appointments that allow this club to finish below Boro, Villa, Blackburn, Reading and Bolton then he will never attract the players I think are needed to get to the top 4. I want to end my career at Newcastle, in a trophy-winning side. The chairman's actions show to everyone he has little idea of how let me do this." !!!!!!!!!!!

From Sporting Life...... Shepherd also played down suggestions Sven-Goran Eriksson is a candidate for the Newcastle manager's vacancy. Eriksson's agent Athole Still has claimed the former England boss had the support of 51% of Geordies. Shepherd said: "Where he gets that figure from, I can't imagine. I think 51% of Geordies might like the idea of Sven's girlfriend Nancy Dell'Olio on the Newcastle Quayside." _____________ Classy stuff, shows the level he thinks at

I struggle to believe anyone playing in a CL semi-final is over-rated. To have Rooney over rated after scoring two goals in a CL semi seems a bit strange. Over rated has to be JJ. That he is in an England squad seems bizarre. What set of injuries would get him into starting position ? Scott Parker is over rated. Again to be on the fringes of the England squad yet seemingly unable to dominate a Premiership game, just doesn't stack up. Any player who gets the label of "intelligent". Just means they are slow, and occasionally get a good pass in.

Steve Bruce ahead of Norman Hunter ?!!!

I thought there was a blanket ban on videos on here ??

Viana's for Bernard against Chelsea ~2003

Quite possibly, although i reckon he wants to bring in a couple more big signings (Hargreaves & Torres/Villa) and leave with a slightly more capable team. If he wins the treble though, i reckon he's gone. he need defenders more than forwards

As you say, Babayaro, Carr and Bramble would need replacements. However, Luque wouldn't need replacing and neither would Parker, if he was shipped out too. we lost Faye, Boumsong, Chopra, Elliot, Bowyer and Shearer from last year, replaced them with Duff, Martins, Bernard and Sibs and the wages bill went up. But that was also probably Souness's fault ? Eh? wtf are you on about now? Why are you asking me this at all? But since you have once again shown your obsession with money ahead of maintaining our status as a PL club, are you saying you think the club should have kept Faye, Boumsong, Chopra, Elliot, Bowyer and an over-the-hill Shearer to help keep the wages as they were? sorry it wasn't aimed at you, it was aaimed at the perso who suggested getting rid of players would reduce the wage bill. Apolgies

I agree. I have no particular gripe with Shepherd. mackems.gif I feel thew board is collectively responsible. You may wish to blame just Hall, but I only ever have a go at Shepherd as he is the one who puts himself forward as the voice of the club. You seem to find it difficult when there are subtleties to other peoples positions.

I agree. I have no particular gripe with Shepherd. The board has two executives on it in Freddy Shepherd and Douglas Hall. They deserve equal praise, and equal blame when things go right, or wrong. A couple of weeks ago, om some other thread, I questioned whether it was okay for us to justify that the manager (be it Robson, Souness, Roeder, Dalglish or whoever) had come to the end of their usefulness, but to not assume that the board could similarly 'go off'. There is very little positive I can see out of the board for about 4 years now, the team manager would long have been out of the door if they had either drifted or declined for that long.

As you say, Babayaro, Carr and Bramble would need replacements. However, Luque wouldn't need replacing and neither would Parker, if he was shipped out too. we lost Faye, Boumsong, Chopra, Elliot, Bowyer and Shearer from last year, replaced them with Duff, Martins, Bernard and Sibs and the wages bill went up. But that was also probably Souness's fault ?

The golden rule 30 years ago used to be that only people with a lack of confidence in their own sexuality cast aspersions at others, suppose things have moved on from thsoe days

it's getting obsessive now. I read that you can now get gene therapy that can control late-onset homosexual infatuations. oh dear. So obsessed as to create a website that acts as a soapbox to an absurd agenda because the board didn't give me a free say in running the football club ? And you said that this bloke who runs the post office would be an ideal chairman of Newcastle United, not me. so it can work. Well done, mentioned the guy without also bringing either his or your own sexuality into it. Still not sure you got allthe treatment you need. Still a "your agenda is ...." gene that looks to need fixing. For many people they read the Chronicle/Shepherd view of how the club finances are doing. They see.... Today's Chronicle Toon announce profit Mar 30 2007 By Nick Whitten, The Evening Chronicle Newcastle United’s return to European football have boosted the clubs finances. United’s Intertoto Cup success and reaching the last 16 of the UEFA Cup saw revenue for the first six months of the year rise by £2.3m to £45.3m compared to last season. And the club’s interim results for the six months ended December 31, 2006 also show a profit of £3.5m compared to £2.7m last year. Chairman Freddy Shepherd said: “Revenues are up £2.3m on last year, principally due to an increase in the number of matches played in the six month period.” and believe it. They believe that profits are up, cos the Chronicle selectively chooses to say so. They see that revenues are up cos the Chronicle/Shepherd says so. I just wait a little while look at the club's bigger report and put all the details out there. I'm sure you'd rather people had all the information, than just what Chronicle views as the correct view. It is easy for people to look at league tables and see the club is currently 12th best, can see that this will be the 6th time in 10 seasons we've finished in the lower half of the Premiership, these are easy to see. More difficult is to try and work out how the great advantage we have from big crowds as been wasted. If the Chronicle took the effort to explain what is going on then no one would visit my site. Today's magical comment from the Chronicle "This is the same Shepherd who has spent around £250m on players in the last decade, had his name chanted by the fans when he paraded Michael Owen", with its implication that Shepherd has spent his own money rather than personally bled the club dry of cash, sums up why someone needed to give an alternative to the usual sources. You take the Chronicle/Shepherd line, many of us aren't as easily led.