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Is it just me or do all scousers think they're hard? Errr he could have got it but he didn't, So why you fucking telling anybody it if nothing happened you dumb scally wanker.

The club is broken The team is broken The fans are broken This will be one hell of a struggle this season. That one yes the others are open to debate We have a small but decent looking side! And who's to say Xisco and Nacho can't be a hit? Depor fans were unhappy in Xisco going and Poyet was trying to get Spurs to get Nacho I believe only to tell Wise about him after Spurs didn't bring him in. Ok I don't want the owner or his cronies at the club but we are in a much better position quality of player wise than under Souness and FS. We'll see how this all pans out but a new owner who's prepared to back his managers instead of choosing a little rat ahead of him will apease me nicely.

Canny senario, however i won't be holding my breath. Wishful thinking I know but it's just a gut feeling I have. It can happen if this Indian bloke is coming to the UK on monday to find a club, Ashley if he gets an offer to recoup the cost and his debt clearing will snap whoevers hand off, he's a business man first and formost. He has no emotional ties with us and surely he's not that thick to stay when we'll never let him forget.

Appoint Chris Hughton until Ashley sells next week and then get Keegan back! KK's been very clever here I think. Keegan knew the support he'd get from us and the major uproar that would ensue if he was forced out of the club, so making demands for major structure change wasn't too much of a risk for him as he knew Ashley would either give in to his demands and thus have what he wanted all along, or if he said no the fans and media would be hounding Ashley to sell up and move on! Now we will see just how stubborn Ashley is but I cannot see a man who bought a club for an ego trip stay when the vast mojority are calling for his head. If a good offer comes in which I think it will I can see the new owners knowing exactly what they should do in reappointing Keegan and giving him the backing he deserved the first time.

Wise ready to face wrath of Toon Army Dennis Wise « Previous « PreviousNext » Next »View GalleryADVERTISEMENTPublished Date: 05 September 2008 By Ian Appleyard DENNIS WISE is not expected to walk away from Newcastle United even in the wake of manager Kevin Keegan's departure last night from the crisis-torn Premier League club. Former Leeds United manager Wise has never baulked at a challenge in his life and is also a master in the art of taking on a hostile crowd. With Keegan's immediate future settled after days of wrangling, Newcastle supporters are demanding that Wise be axed as executive football director. Doncaster-born Keegan was no longer prepared to accept interference from Wise in transfer matters – a situation that came to a head after the £12m sale of former Leeds winger James Milner to Aston Villa. Keegan had threatened to walk away unless the matter is addressed – yesterday was the third day in a row when he was absent from training – but the question of compensation remained a thorny issue. Newcastle owner Mike Ashley had stressed that Keegan had 'not been sacked' in order, it was believed, to avoid a possible £2m settlement on the remainder of his contract. There were suggestions that Keegan will have to pay £2m back to the club as a result of his resignation. As the bullets flew back and forth between the rival camps, Wise was caught in the crossfire awaiting clarification on his role. It may only be an outside possibility, but who is to say that Ashley might not to turn to Wise as a caretaker-manager now that Keegan has turned his back on Tyneside for a second time.? It might sound implausible – considering Wise's current status as 'Public Enemy No 1' in the eyes of the Toon Army – but friendships in football often make common-sense redundant. There was widespread shock and anger among Leeds supporters when club chairman Ken Bates gave Wise the manager's job at Elland Road in October 2006, but did the former Chelsea player bat an eyelid? Not in the slightest. Indeed, Wise, who chose Bates as a godfather to his son, appeared to revel in the unpopularity before eventually dumping the club without a word of apology. Wise was offered a £1m-a-year role at Newcastle on the back of his friendship with owner Ashley and has claimed since that he is no longer interested in day-to-day football management. That may be music to the ears of some of his ex-players. Only yesterday, Leeds goalkeeper David Lucas said that new manager Gary McAllister treated players 'more like adults' than his predecessor. "With training under Dennis Wise, you had to be really at it," said Lucas. "There was no slacking off otherwise you would get a telling-off. Now it seems that the manager treats us more like adults. We have a very professional, laid-back atmosphere now. As long as we are not taking the mick, we can do things at our own pace." Ashley would need to be extremely brave or seriously foolish to put Wise in charge of Newcastle's first team, even if only on a temporary basis. Yet, if he did, Wise might perversely enjoy running a gauntlet of hate during Newcastle's next home game against Hull City. It was being suggested on Tyneside last night that Wise could be reunited with former Leeds assistant Gus Poyet, currently No 2 to Juande Ramos at Spurs, at the Newcastle helm. Former Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder says the latest situation at St James' Park is a 'tragedy' as the club lurches from 'one disaster to another.' Roeder, now manager of Norwich City, said: "All Kevin wanted was to be allowed to manage Newcastle United. Or should I say manage the English way. "It is the fashion today to use the European way of putting someone between the owner and the manager in some kind of technical director role, but it is always difficult for a manager when someone unknown turns up at the training ground on a Monday morning." He added: "There's no stability at the club and I don't think there has been for a long time. "They go from one manager to another and the people who suffer the most are the most important people, the supporters. When they talk about Newcastle being a great club, it's only great for one reason – because it has great supporters." Interesting to see what the Leeds players thought of him as Manager Sounds like the little cunt we always believed he was

September 5, 2008 Gabby Logan Ok, let's all laugh at Newcastle United, the new Manchester City The saying goes that when a man marries his mistress he creates a job vacancy. When a football club who have endured years of ridicule find themselves in the hands of a man many times richer than Roman Abramovich, there is room for a new Manchester City. The strongest contenders for the role are Newcastle United, who are morphing into the club at which most people have a good chuckle and thank the Lord they do not support. It has come to a head this week with the Kevin Keegan debacle. However, we (I am going to have to own up to my allegiance) have been in training for this new role for some time and becoming the new Manchester City may be the making of us. First some background on the training to become the new City: promotion to the top flight, great signings, almost champions, everyone's second club, buy Alan Shearer, flirt with Europe, brush with relegation, two disappointing FA Cup Finals, mid-table mediocrity, a succession of interesting managerial appointments, some strange signings, no longer everyone's second club, Keegan's dramatic exit. It has been an action-packed and at times farcical 16 years. Clubs who get rid of managers before September have either been recently taken over by billionaires, or they are run by people who sit uneasily on the line between genius and madness. Why give someone a pre-season to get a squad of players ready and then sack them a few games in? There is no logical explanation; there is nothing logical about football any more. While City fans are getting giddy with the prospect of some more big signings in January, they need to be prepared for the change in public reaction to their club. All that kept everyone from finding Chelsea's success repulsive was a succession of loveable, charismatic or peculiar managers. We secretly hoped that they would fail and prove that money alone could not buy success. Now Dr Sulaiman al-Fahim has arrived on the scene, we know that there is no point being cynical; City could be in the Champions League final in three seasons. In the face of the new City, Chelsea will resemble a cosy, family-owned club. So, with the power base shifting, somewhere down the global football food chain there is a niche market opening up for Newcastle. While City risk losing some neutral empathy, we should be picking up the pieces. Britain may be fast turning into a nation used to winning and winners after last month's Olympic Games in Beijing, but we do not want to become Australian in our attitude to sport. There should always be room for a football club in the Premier League who are more Fawlty Towers than Trump Towers. I am quite looking forward to our new status, and here is why: We will become more appealing to the neutral. Most fans started getting irked by Newcastle around the back end of the last decade. We were accused of being above our station, deluded in our expectations of being a top-four club. No one can accuse us of that any more. Our expectations are much lower - a good left back and stability would be nice. We make you feel good about yourself. “Oh well,” you will say when you glance around your settled squad of players, your suited and booted chairman who drinks orange juice in the stand and your manager who has been in charge for three years. “It may all be quite sensible and a bit mid-table here, but at least we are not Newcastle.” It is nice to make people feel good about themselves. We can do self-deprecation. One lone City fan was pictured outside the club's stadium with a tea towel on his head when it was announced that the Abu Dhabi United Group was taking over. If that had been us, there would have been at least 30,000 fans appearing in their lunch hour with tea towels at the ready outside St James' Park. We have had to take ourselves seriously in the past few years, maintaining the pretence of wanting to be a top-four club. Now we can let it go and recapture the humour in our football. We will pick our battles and live off the small victories for longer. Didn't you secretly have a soft spot for Sven-Göran Eriksson when City did the double over Manchester United last season? It was that David and Goliath thing. City fans dined out on it for a season. We will treat our Tyne-Wear derbies with the respect they deserve and we shall arrange open-top bus parades if we do the double. In admitting some kind of defeat, I am crying into the page. It is like the middle-aged woman who gives up the gym, the diets and the highlights for old age, grey hair and chunky thighs. Somewhere in the attic there is a photograph of Newcastle United holding aloft a trophy, but we are going to have to give up the ghost for a while. Poor Gabby, come here and i'll comfort you!

Ever thought of eurovision?

Have you posted that in every thread just incase they missed it?

Ashley has to sell there is nothing for him here now! He has no emotional ties with the club, and he was here purely to take the plaudits of giving us what we wanted and now that's gone in one fell swoop I have a strong feeling we will be sold again in the next couple of weeks. There will be loads of potential suitors to buy him out i'm sure so i'd keep Jeff Vetere as he's the only one that seems to have done his job and lets get new owners in and Keegan back at the helm to do the job he was supposed too! Keep hounding and Ashley will go!

Bet people who've paid for 3 years are feeling the worst! Lining that pricks pocket! It's Ashleys fault without no doubt! He said when wise was appointed that every first team appointment would be Kevin's final decision. If I was undermined like that at work i'd fuck off too! ASHLEY OUT!

Player revolt next? Never mind people make Ashley's life unbearable he sells out to someone with real ambition and KK comes back for his 3rd stint at manager

Fat cunt wouldn't back down against his cronies! DRIVE THE FUCKING CUNTS OUT!

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The best news we could hope for is Ashley comes back with an investor on board and Keegan get's what he wanted all along in full transfer control. Think Wise must go if Ashley doesn't want this to happen again a few months down the line, because it will! And the lack of respect shown to the fans in this and the transfer shenanigans is disgusting! Ashley needs to communicate more with the real heart of the club instead of hiding when things aren't going so well.

http://www.ff.e-mansion.com/~phobos/Smells/S2E4Polit03.jpg Just made me think of this

Harry you should get a gun and threaten to shoot a minky whale in the head on the hour every hour until Wise gets the boot! Greenpeace would be up the tyne faster than you can say indian takover and drag him out!

Any truth, or simply Oliver trying to stir up (more) bad feeling against Ashley? After all, it would appear (if you believe reports) that the group that bought Man City tried for us first. So Oliver announces this group coming to buy us (even if they aren't) then when they buy Everton or someone else, he probably hopes the fans turn on Ashley for (again) denying us another 'Golden Goose'! I'll file this under 'Believe it when I see it' I'll Believe it when I see black and white beaded car seat covers in the club shop

Nice line-up but i'd go for ------------Given Beye---Tayl----Colo---Bass Jona-------Guth--------Nach ------------Owen-------------- -------Oba-------Xisco-------- And lets tear them a new arsehole

That'd do for me. As someone said, why complicate matters by having a director of football in there? Just undermines the manager and gives the media easy stories. Unless he's doing something so amazingly difficult that Keegan can't handle (and come on, this is Dennis Wise we're talking about here), just give the power back to KK. Owner is Ashley. Chairman is ladies fanny lips. Manager is Keegan. Scouts are Jimenez and Vetere. Bang, sorted. I'd rather get rid of turkey giblets as well as he's the one responsible in the transfer failings

http://blog.i2fly.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/india-mobile.jpg I could live with it

http://www.roomstoclean.com/displays/keegan.jpg Looks like he's already made a start

I'd stick to the comedy routine about the club being 5 minutes from receivership before Ashley saved us and how well it's being run now if I were you. That's far more funny, and far less racist. No more racist than the we're going for an english sketch from goodness gracious me f***ing hell political correctness gone mad! bla bla bla See you have no come back so glad you know i'm right

Just give him total say on tansfers that's it! Nothing more complicated to it than that

I'd stick to the comedy routine about the club being 5 minutes from receivership before Ashley saved us and how well it's being run now if I were you. That's far more funny, and far less racist. No more racist than the we're going for an english sketch from goodness gracious me Fucking hell political correctness gone mad!

£12?? Best deal of all time... I still would have taken that for someone that can't cross