Mick

He has done something positive, he's gone. Other than that, he's been a waste of space.

He has so much protection in front of him.

He's probably not getting a new contract, I can only guess that us making no announcement has something to do with us expecting compensation for bringing him through ranks.

He wasn't.

Agreed. I'm glad to see the back of him, I've never liked him as a footballer but I have nothing against him as a person and hopes he does well in future.

He started well, he was destroyed as a left winger by Pardew using him as a 2nd left back and he's finished on a high after coming back from a terrible illness. I think he should have had another season with us, even if only for his personality as we have very few of those, if any. I wouldn't have started the Jonas who went to Norwich, the Jonas that played against West Ham was a different player.

We'll have lost money on not replacing Pardew and sinking like a lead balloon.

Appointing McClaren would be about as typically unadventurous as we could get.

I've also got sniper high on my wish-list.

The fat bastards interview yesterday was no more than Crocodile tears and some will be taken in. Things might improve next season but most know that things will only change for the better short term as they'll repeat what they've already done, more than once.

Christ, how could anybody think that was an achievement?

Yep; he's created a benchmark to be judged upon: the backlash should he not deliver now will be huge: Also puts a bit of pressure on Charnley now IMO He didn't say when we were going to win something, the interview was for his benefit, nobody else's.

WTF?

He was giving himself another 3 possible trophies to win, the league, FA Cup, League Cup and 4th to 2nd in the league.

That's shit luck, I hope that you stay strong and beat it.

Finishing 4th isn't winning a trophy, you'll have a better chance of winning one if you're one of the top 4 clubs but it's still not a trophy, no matter who or how anybody tried to dress it up.

Here's his interview if anybody has missed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6X_zJWnox8

He talks like a gibbering idiot.

He also claimed that he's now definitely going to try to win something, does that mean he wasn't trying to win something in the past?

He did, he had no alternative to that though because he's ultimately responsible. At the same time he was blaming Llambias and Charnley for appointing managers. He claimed that the only think he was directly responsible for was the finances. He even claimed that he would continue investing in the club while he's investing nothing.

No doubt he has a veto but I do think he relies on Charnley et al on football issues. I read the TV interview as saying that Charnley is going to survive and get a chance to bring in his own man. I think there was an admission that the squad is too small and lacking in sufficient quality. Also a move to compete in the cups. What was also significant was that Ashley /Bishop arranged the interview independently of NUFC. He's looking after his personal reputation and distancing himself from the Carver decision. I thought the interview was a positive thing yesterday, not so much for the content, but that he felt the need to give it. As many have said we'll all know more once a coaching team is assembled. The TV interview was a case of 'I'm unpopular but it's not my fault so please leave me alone.'

Yesterday has proven that the players are not as bad as the results have suggested and it's all down to Ashley, Charnley and Carver. The players were self motivated yesterday because they needed a result and they got one. Since January they haven't been motivated and nobody within the club was capable of motivating them. Get a decent manager in, upgrade the squad and we could do reasonably well, even with the pricks we have in charge. The only problem we have is that the pricks in charge aren't likely to get a decent manager and if they get one by mistake they're unlikely to know how to back him properly and they're just as likely to repeat mistakes than they are to learn from them. I will be surprised if Carver is manager next season, no sane person can look at his time in charge and think he's been anything other than a totally incompetent moron who has no grip on reality.

It's Keegan outlining why he feels his second stint didn't work out. Ashley wouldn't spend his money, and Keegan didn't have the free access to the owner that he had under Sir John Hall. He doesn't need to explain why his second stint didn't work out, the tribunal did that when they said he and the fans had been repeatedly lied to, idiot.

Ashley is a coward, he distanced himself from the negatives and tried to claim that he was responsible for our financial position when it's others who are responsible for that if he has as little input as he tried to claim. Yes he's loaned the club money but that isn't the reason we have £millions in the bank. The reason we have money in the bank is because we haven't spent it, unless he's claiming it on the grounds that he hasn't taken his loans back in full.