Mick

The actual text is: "....one of the most unfortunate things about Newcastle United finances at the time was the amount of money still owed on players signed in comparison to the amount of income that was due off players who had gone. There is still £27 million net to pay on transfers that were done before I came." I thought that this would all be gone after he cleared the clubs debts. Perhaps it was just immediate debts rather than drip payments on fee's paid previously? I'd be interested to see how much we're owed in comparison. Can't be much. He paid off less than £80 million, I think it was something like £77 million and the club had more than £100 million.

What should have they done then? Bit difficult to play if the other team isn't there yet. You can hardly anticipate something like this. They should have arrived the day before, not the same day then any delay would have had no impact.

Changing the kick off this late is pathetic, people will have made plans to travel for the game.

No.

No, not that one.

Agreed.

Roeder didn't scout Kuyt for this length of time.

It was taken down, edited and put back.

I can see him and Joey hitting it off.

The Wiki page has gone.

I thought he would get us relegated so at least my worst fears didn't materialise.

I was gutted when he was appointed, it's possibly the worst feeling I've ever had regarding Newcastle and I've been through relegations.

I think we're in for a good season and wouldn't bet against us getting back into Europe, at the minute that will depend on us avoiding injuries but even that could still change during the next 3 weeks or so.

It's a bastard when you have to work for a living.

It looks like you're back.

I'll wait for 2J to enter the thread.

I thought he was Heneage.

No, are you?

Baggio has a lot to answer for.

It's not me.

Excellent, babelfish now translates Mong to English by the looks of it.

Sir John gave him a limited amount of time and that time wasn't long enough to allow them to go through the books in the detail that they were looked at later.