Exiled in Texas

Which entity is blocking the beIN sports broadcast to Saudi customers? Is it the Saudis who are blocking beIN within the Kingdom? Or beIN refusing to broadcast to SA? Wondering how Saudi TV consumers will get to watch the PL (and Newcastle)

Follow up - but I suppose that when I turn it around and look at the state of Newcastle United, I assume that corporate direction is set by Ashley, ans that Charnley (and all employees are only following that direction). So maybe I am harshly judging them.

Don't really understand this. Those people make the decisions, who are the "club" who are to blame in your opinion? It's the way that they make "the club" blameless for anything, and put all the blame on Short/Stew/Bain etc. They completely absolve anyone at the club from any responsibility for their position. There is not one Department manager or club director or team lead or employee who has done anything wrong. All the spending and lack of control is down to only the owner. The Financial Director has no culpability for how they go where they got? They are so afraid to place any part of the blame on the club for the actions of the club, because that would mean that they would have to accept responsibility for their predicament. I just find it incredibly naive and denial to pass all responsibility upward to Short/Bain/Stewie when I know that there are multiple layers of accountability/responsibility in any organisation. How they can say that "the club did nothing wrong" when the clubs financial situation is so dire amazes me. No, RTG-lore says that its all (and only) Short/Don. But hey, its not my problem that they prefer to live in eternal denial.

Bain was to blame (because they have to blame someone). Short gets a lot of the blame too, but next one down from him is Bain, so he is target #2. I love how the "club" is entirely blameless for anything during their relegation(s). Its all the fault of Short, Bain, The Don, Charlie Meths but the club itself is blameless.

That’s Airbus’s wing delivery plane. Nicknamed the Beluga, it’s a modified A300 and it delivers wings built in Wales near Chester to the plane assembly factory in Toulouse.

Anyone notice that Mainz vs RB Leipzig had crowd noise (chants, song, general excitement) played into the game? (I watched in US on FS1 so it could have been a US feed only). I thought it sounded great. And really helped the TV watching experience. You wouldn't know it was "closed doors" unless you saw the empty seats on a wide shot.

FTM - Follow the Mags? (isn't that it? )

Werder Bremen - lebenslang Grün-Weiß

Grumpy is a retired Accountant. I actually like him (well, his online persona). He explains the financial side to RTG and corrects/exposes so many myths that they try to create as facts. Its a tough job though. Most of RTG don't want to hear the truth about their finances.

Desperate to be linked to anything that isn't League One. Jordan Henderson winning a Premier League medal is really a medal for Sunderland etc. The sad part of that SAFC page is that they are not actually linking with Koln. It doesn't look like Koln even know about it. It's just follow any Red-and-White team. And as the RTG already realised.... they're more like FC Kaiseralutern (in Germany third tier) that any Bundesliga team.

They are much happier when they can live in their own little isolated world of denial, in-jokes and matched bitterness. Their world is burning but instead of looking for ways to put out the fire, they are creating an imaginary perpetrator so they can be happy blaming a Mag..... all while their world burns around them. Not an ounce of responsibility, or self awareness. It's sad. It's also funny. But mainly its incredibly sad.

The problem is that they sold their soul for each "Great Escape" and the "Six-in-a-Row" and now they have nothing left to bargain with. Devil says.... "I already have your soul, that's why you're where you are. Got anything else? No? Nothing?"

I have this scar-like memory of some mackem getting this as a tattoo (with Di Canio having a weirdly huge cock) This one? http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Paolo-tattoo.jpg

I don't get it either. We are currently in bed with Mrs Doubtfire..... and people are complaining about whether we get into bed with Jennifer Aniston or Selma Hyak. I say, lay back and enjoy the ride regardless

RTG loves their isolation and being able to live in a contained world of in-jokes and half-truths. They hate having Mags there who call them out on things. Their self-awareness is amazingly lacking. It's obvious that there are Knacka's on both sides. I am amazed at how they claim superiority by saying they don't shout at shops, when they shout at statues. They don't punch horses but they do shit in stadiums. Mags are gravy stained while their stadium is a rubbish tip. They hate being called out from their fantasy world of "mag" cliches.

Yes, I have thought the same that if Sunderland had gone down 2-3-4 years earlier they would have been in a good position to bounce back up. But as they continued to mortgage their future year-on-year in a desperate attempt to stay up they dug a deeper and deeper hole. That's the funniest part of their current plight - they did it to themselves. Their trophy cabinet of Six-in-a-Row and We-Relegated-Them just sums up their attitude. Well, that and their desperate attempts to credit Sunderland for Jordan Henderson almost winning the league. They really put the "Sad" in SMB

Was nothing better when Fox Sports had the Premier League and Newcastle won ..... WB would always have a beaming smile and just be so full of happiness at the win.

Mutual Consent - You're fired .... I know.

I'm going to go with not very. So you're saying it is connected to some degree? It’s a site run from Texas.. Don't look at me

Trying so hard not to be bothered, or not to be believing it.... but deep inside its killing them (as it would us, if the situation was reversed). They were about to ride the Dell Monorail back to the Premier League but instead they are stuck with a broken lift in League One.

Watching STID I couldn’t help thinking the AOL was a good setup, and then wondered just how bad our facilities really are.

Some of the stuff with the fans was really cringy. But you have to factor in that the producers are looking for the extremes for the show. The guy with the Shrine to SAFC stuff - was probably selected over other fans just because of his collection. The guy spray painting his beard.... probably only did that because he was on camera (may even have been encouraged by producers etc) The taxi driver guy was the most normal (and a carry over from S1). He had an opinion, spoke well, and didn't seem to play up for the cameras. Overall, you know that these people are really just caricatures of the real fans as they are looking for something a bit more extreme for the show.

I've always thought that Ashley will only sell up when he thinks he can earn more money by using his money for something else. While NUFC is chugging along in mediocrity, but he is pulling in a reasonable return on his investment, he will stay. When he finds a new opportunity, where he can use the proceeds from a sale of Newcastle, to put it into a new business opportunity that will earn him more money he will be away is a flash. To me the questions is whether NOW is the time (where the economy/state of business is in tatters) that he has found a new opportunity that has a bigger upside that status quo at NUFC.

I did like the generic shots of the North East - I thought Fullwell 73 did a nice job showing the nice side of the North East (something that those who have never been there, will have no idea of). I miss the NE.

My company went through a similar process two years ago. The new CEO said that we were all in the boat together, but that we needed to be rowing in the same direction and pulling together. He asked that people who didn't want to row, or wanted to row in a different direction to get out of the boat. It seems that the marketing team didn't want to row. I agree that clocking in/out from 9-5 is antiquated way of working for salaried business people. You have a job to do and should get on and do it, whether you need to stay later or need to leave early for a Dr etc you should be judged on getting your job/tasks/assignments done and not on when you arrive/leave. Hourly staff, such a ticket office is a different matter. The lack of understanding of the state of the business was amazing (and appalling). They seemed quite content to be a loss-making business. I think they just assumed that all football clubs lost money, instead of trying to find ways to be profitable.