Mick

Out of interest. can the forum be set up to change the grounds shitty name to St James Park automatically in posts?

They'll probably cover everything with some lightweigth crap in the hope that it will blow away.

I would be getting it back.

He mentions Arsenal getting £6 million a year from 2006 when the global economy was probably at its height and he claims that £10 million for us in the middle of a global recession is more than realistic and is an actual bargain.

Fair enough.

1 minute 27 seconds and beyond.

This is the context of the post I replied to. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,36257.msg3329123.html#msg3329123 This is going nowhere, we might as well agree to disagree.

The bit in bold is all that was needed, the rest hasn't been mentioned. Nobody claimed he'd profiteered, like you said, unlike others in the past which is beyond doubt.

Has anybody ever suggested that he's profiteering from the club? I've always defended Ashley on the money he's put it and will do so again. I just don't agree with "We can't have repaid 'debt' because the debt is held by Ashley and as Dekka keeps saying 'Mike hasn't taken a penny out of the club."

I was replying originally to this: Ashley has taken £6 million out and it's in the club accounts. The £6 million is nothing compared to what he's put in and he's put a lot more in since taking that out but that wasn't the point of what was said and I don't think I'm being pedantic considering what I was replying to.

The December deadline will be to produce for the end of season, the shirts usually turn up a couple of games before the season ends.

Nobody can stop it, unfortunatley. The only thing which could have prevented it would have been something in the lease for the land but I doubt changing the name was even considered a possibility.

Agreed, somebody has changed the name of the ground to promote his shitty brand of sports gear but some kid needs to be exterminated for being daft.

I didn't say he'd make a difference.

Lesson to self, must learn to type faster.

To be fair to him, at least he's doing something.

Shit, that's me sussed.

I just thought I'd get the disclaimer in first.

Of course it was, not that I was around at that time. St James' Park has been a football ground since September 1880 when Newcastle Rangers moved from Gateshead.

I'd buy his drink.

I've been in the same position as Ashley but on a slightly smaller scale I helped set up an engineering company and made an interest free loan for 3 years, three years later I took the loan back. I took that money out of the company as it was in the company bank account on the Friday and I had it in mine 4 working days later.

Of course it's taking out, I take money out of my bank account on a daily basis. I put it in and I take it out. Suppose you loaned some of your money to a company. If the company paid some of it back (with no interest) do you consider that you have taken money out of that company? I can't see that you have since all you have done is get a repayment of what you loaned in the first place. On the other hand if you charged 6% interest on the loan then you have taken money out because you did not put the interest into the company in the first place. The company has had to somehow earn the interest in order to be able to pay it to you. If I loaned a company money and they re-paid it of course I'd consider that I'd taken money out of that company. I understand that Ashley has saved us money by not charging interest, he's still taken at least £6 million out, even if it is the money that he put in.

When did Rocker thump somebody?

Of course it's taking out, I take money out of my bank account on a daily basis. I put it in and I take it out.