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Mike Ashley is a billionaire. Therefore he probably knows how to run a business. However, i'm sure you are right and the roles within the club will be delegated willy nilly so that fracas occur and the club plummets into the abiss.

I prefer the chairman/dictatorship rule we had under freddy TBH. Sure we didn't have any sort of structure at the club or imput on what was going on but at least the system was simpler and we knew who to blame when it all went tits up.

It's one paper FFS. Are you really that stupid that you believe it is true, just because it's in a paper? The quotes dont even back up the story. All he is saying is that he doesnt know the details of it, not that he wasn't informed.

Have a look at Ameobis, he looks like Ronaldinho FFS.

Watch this thread go. One life line for all those transfer junkies to cling all of their life hopes on.

What is strange is that KK said he would back by thurs.

On teletext they are trying to suggest that he knew nothing about wise coming in. There are not quotes or anything, it's just the predictable media trying to make something out of nothing.

That sounds brilliant TBH. Hopefully more N'Zogbias and less Luques.

BBC shit stiring. He didnt say that he said that the chaiman will be back on tues or wed (duno where from, maybe transfer dealing) and that was a question for him to answer.

Exactly. It was blatantly a case of he knows about it but isn't sure of how far down the line they are. Just watch, within the next day KK will be signing Wise' praises, mark my words.

People must be off their rocker if they think that KK didn't know anything about this. It's more likely that Keegan is the one that put his name forward. When he said "thats one for the chairman, i'm concentrating on the arsenal game", why do people assume that he's in the dark on it. Personally i'm please to see the club trying to get a good structure going. For me it seems obvious that Mort is ticking one of his criteria by hireing Wise to look after the youth set up. Something which KK doesn't really do. So what if Wise is a little cunt, so is fergy and he's good at his job FFS.

A couple of decent games for Carr isn;t going to gloss over the fact that he has proven incapable in the vast majority of games he has played. If he proves me wrong, all the better, but i don't expect his "good" (i.e. not a shit as he used to be) form to continue too long, if i'm brutally honest. Enrique is going to be interesting, but its too early to say whether he'll be good enough or not (not helped by the fact that fucking Allardyce chose not to play him), but time will tell. I don't have an awful lot of time for Cacapa. You don't go from being captain to only playing a handful of games in one season by getting better, and he has looked very dubious most times i've seen him. Not like a Bramble or Boumsong, but not good enough. Rozenhal has been found out, for me. lightweight, ineffectual and clueless - three words i'd cast freely at him. HOWEVER, compared to recent years, our defence is far better, and now that we have a better manager than Allardyce, and therefore better tactics, i expect them to (a) play together, and (b) grow as a unit. I like Beye, Taylor, Faye and Enrique (with earlier-mentioned caveats) as a group, and genuinely hope they get time to prove themselves good enough. If they prove they are NOT, then I fully expect them to be criticised and dropped. If we are to be positive and not a complete negative cunt (moi?), then we also have to be honest when players are NOT good enough - and move away from the fallacy that signing or NUFC suddenly makes you great. It doesn't, and there is a trail of broken players behind us that prove it. Would not argue with any of that.

Travelling down from manc on the morning of the match. Could anyone tell me the best station to go to and way of getting to the ground. Would be better if it wasn't an early kick off like.

FPMSL Not sure what FPMSL means but I hope it means what a load of drivel, or words to that effect. Fucking Piss Myself Laughing. And yes, at the drivel above. One of the best defences personnel wise in the country Only if that country is Andorra. Typical NM. Making ridiculas attempts at insulting people without any clever arguement or facts. Using words like Drivel to strengthen your arguement because you think you sound like an experianced, knowledgeable, hard, newcastle fan. How about you get your head out your own arse and put up some simple arguement. I don't care that you disagree. It's the fact you wander through this forum making bullshit negative comments without any sort of substance. If you disagree with what i have said then by all means say but please dont act like a complete cunt 24/7 because its boring. Expand...................................... I disagree with what you are saying about our defence. I cannot see how anyone can state that Carr, Cacapa, Enrique and Rozenhal are amongst "the best" personell in the league. Frankly, i don't think any of our defenders are in that bracket, but at least Taylor, Beye and Faye have shown the ability to do well for us, to varying degrees. If I am to be slated for "making bullshit negative comments without any sort of substance", then you should be held to task for making farcical positive statements based on no genuine substance. Oh, and if me being "a cunt 24/7" bores you - good. Wey hey, you do no how to argue. I can quite happily except being wrong because i am by no means "my opinions the only opinion" type of person. Why you couldn't have said something along those lines in the first place i don't know, instead of FPMSL. Anyway back to topic, fair do's maybe i went over bored with my positivity. However, i believe that with those players i mentioned in the squad we would at least have a european standard defence, if compared to the likes of Blackburn, Man city etc. Certainly far from a laughing stock. I believe our defensive problems are not to do with personell but more down to consistancy, communication, poor cover and teamwork. I think some of the problems between Faye/Taylor/Beye/Enrique (especially Faye and Enrique/Taylor) are definately about communictaion, and a general understanding of each other's style of play, strengths and weaknesses etc. Faye has notably been getting caught out of position a fair bit - not in a Titus Bramble "I have fuck all idea where I am, or what i am doing" way, but more in a "whops i seem to be standing here on my own" type of way. But those issues will come with a good run of games, better training, and a midfield in front of them not staffed by retards. If we had backup defenders of the quality of Beye, Faye and Taylor (or in some cases better, and soem of those 3 were the backup), then yes, i think we'd have a defence that would hold its own at 6th/7th. Enrique is an enigma, as he has shown some glimpses of being pretty good, and equally some worrying traits. Time will tell on which side of the fence he falls. However, i think that even as backup (and bearing in mind that injuries/suspensions/loss of form/etc WILL take their toll on our "first" back 4), Carr, Rozenhal and Cacapa aren't for me, good enough to step into the breach and do sufficiently well. Neither Taylor nor Faye, at the moment, appear able of carrying the likes of Rozenhal or the random Cacapa, for example, and they would need carrying i think. I think there is a difference between being good enough, and not being a laughing stock, and outside of a relatively ok (certainly 6/7th at the moment) first defensive line-up, I don't think we are good enough defensively to play at that level over the course of a season with current personnel. I agree with nearly all of that but i think Carr's improved massively under Keegan and at least looks a competant prem RB and Cacapa's capable too. I don't particularly rate Rozehnal but have hopes for Enrique.

Boro's looking like an even bigger game. It could pretty much end our season or be the start of a little run. By that time expect we will have the Africans back and Emre.

I imagine that because Duff had a good game, Wenger will be looking to change things at right back in order to cope with that problem. This will mean other players will have to produce. A draw would be amazing.

Apoligies i didn't have a great morning.

FPMSL Not sure what FPMSL means but I hope it means what a load of drivel, or words to that effect. Fucking Piss Myself Laughing. And yes, at the drivel above. One of the best defences personnel wise in the country Only if that country is Andorra. Typical NM. Making ridiculas attempts at insulting people without any clever arguement or facts. Using words like Drivel to strengthen your arguement because you think you sound like an experianced, knowledgeable, hard, newcastle fan. How about you get your head out your own arse and put up some simple arguement. I don't care that you disagree. It's the fact you wander through this forum making bullshit negative comments without any sort of substance. If you disagree with what i have said then by all means say but please dont act like a complete cunt 24/7 because its boring. Expand...................................... I disagree with what you are saying about our defence. I cannot see how anyone can state that Carr, Cacapa, Enrique and Rozenhal are amongst "the best" personell in the league. Frankly, i don't think any of our defenders are in that bracket, but at least Taylor, Beye and Faye have shown the ability to do well for us, to varying degrees. If I am to be slated for "making bullshit negative comments without any sort of substance", then you should be held to task for making farcical positive statements based on no genuine substance. Oh, and if me being "a cunt 24/7" bores you - good. Wey hey, you do no how to argue. I can quite happily except being wrong because i am by no means "my opinions the only opinion" type of person. Why you couldn't have said something along those lines in the first place i don't know, instead of FPMSL. Anyway back to topic, fair do's maybe i went over bored with my positivity. However, i believe that with those players i mentioned in the squad we would at least have a european standard defence, if compared to the likes of Blackburn, Man city etc. Certainly far from a laughing stock. I believe our defensive problems are not to do with personell but more down to consistancy, communication, poor cover and teamwork.

FPMSL Not sure what FPMSL means but I hope it means what a load of drivel, or words to that effect. Fucking Piss Myself Laughing. And yes, at the drivel above. One of the best defences personnel wise in the country Only if that country is Andorra. Typical NM. Making ridiculas attempts at insulting people without any clever arguement or facts. Using words like Drivel to strengthen your arguement because you think you sound like an experianced, knowledgeable, hard, newcastle fan. How about you get your head out your own arse and put up some simple arguement. I don't care that you disagree. It's the fact you wander through this forum making bullshit negative comments without any sort of substance. If you disagree with what i have said then by all means say but please dont act like a complete cunt 24/7 because its boring. Expand......................................

Some of yous lot are doing my head in. Right. Wise has been severely linked with us but suggestions are that he wont become assistant but DOF, which would be confusing considering his attributes. There is nothing to say that this has been done behind KK's back apart from pure speculation. As for the Pearce/Adams thing, it seems as plain as day that it's just Anal making rubbish speculation on who our next assistant will be. However, we should not be upset with either of them because they are both young coachs with excellent reputations. If we were to hire one of them, it would just be one. So those who are pretending they would fight each other, please shut up.

Ronnie (Anal); "Keegan is facing a race against time to bring in a central defender before Thursday and I wonder if there is any mileage in him going to Bayern Munich and trying to bring their 6ft 5in central defender Daniel van Buyten. Keegan had the Belgian defender with him at Eastlands on loan in 2004 and he did well for the then Manchester city boss." As i mentioned earlier, it wouldn't surprise me if this happened. Although it is rather worrying that me and Anal agree.

Holy fucking shit. Again, i would have absolutely no problem with that.

Would be a good arguement if wise was coming in as DOF.

Really does sound like backroom as apposed to DOF. I hope so thats the only was i could see it working. I'd be delighted with Wise as number two.

I'd be delighted with wise as no2, that would be a great appointment.