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Think he's been banned from SJP by Ashley.

not sure if it was the 80's or very early 90's but remember being in the scoreboard and having a snow ball fight with the corner!

I can honestly say that i've never been as cold watching a game of football as that day/night in Metz. 4 of us drove there but is was a mistake letting Steva do the driving, he's got to be the worst driver in the world anyway but driving in France was a nightmare, i saw my life flash before me at least 6 times on that trip. Bizarely it didn't put us off that much as he drove us to Monaco a few months later and had the local police entering our hotel room 5 mins after or arrival, i just slumped on the bed but he followed me in and slammed shut the window only for the window pane to fall out and crash onto the pavement below, could've caused some damage coming down from 3 floors up, following a few screams and raised french voices, there were police galore on the street. For some strange reason me, Mickly and Danny pretended to be asleep and Steva jumped in the shower, getting back out the shower stark naked to answer the door to the police while me and others pretended to be asleep thru the whole incident and we somehow blagged our way out of it despite the owner of the hotel wanting to chuck us out there and then. i do miss the Euro away trips!

Beardsley's hat trick on NYD 85, my first derby match was class.

i think you point the finger at McShane's comical defending before you blame Shay. Given should've done better as well mind....

Ranger is on international duty added to the fact that Vuckic and baheng are injured, Lovenkrands has to play as we had no one else!! Some new players in the squad tonight like Leadbitter but missing the likes of Ferguson, Morris and Inman who like ranger are on international duty and Tavernier, kadar and Lough all injured. Thats a bit unfortunate for the people going to watch tonight for the 1st time as they will miss probably 5 out of the clubs " 6 best prospects", only be kazenga playing (Inman, Vuckic, Nile, Tav and Ferguson being the others).

er you've heard wrong then! Elaborate pleae. whats there too elaborate on? The lad doesn't struggle at reserve team level, don't know where you have heard that but its wrong. Only last week he came off the bench and almost single handlely rescued the game for us after being 3-0 down.

er you've heard wrong then!

Not sure we should be offering a 3 yr deal, this lad doesn't have a club and rather than giving him a 3 yr deal and putting him back onto "easy street" give him a short term deal so he comes here hungry with a point to prove, if he then delivers then extend the deal.

my personal opinion is that Moat has just been used by Ashley to try and attract interest in others to buy the club and this is just another piece of Ashley propaganda rather than NUST propaganda like someone said earlier.

Don't know if anyone has seen this on True Faith but apparently the PR company that Ashley has employed to try and attract a sponsor is from Liverpool called Ampersand. They also put on the contact details should anyone wish to maybe contact them and maybe ask why they want to associate there company with Ashleys brand which can only really be described as "damaged" following the recent courtcase with KK.(for some reason Skirge is in my thoughts regarding anyone from here firing off an email). The PR company are also apparently refusing to answer calls from the journalists from Thomson House!! Many thanks to all of you have contacted true faith to give details of where the company Ashley has engaged to bastardise the St James' Park name can be found. Please see details below. If you do contact these people to register your objection to the work they are undertaking please behave in a courteous fashion and do not allow yourself to be dismissed as a caveman. Its up to you. Ampersand Communications 4 Staten Court, 84 Tradewind Square, Liverpool, L1 5BG Tel: 0151 709 4547 Fax: 0151 703 0018 [email protected] (Director) http://www.ampersand.uk.com Other stated address: Ampersand Communications Liverpool Science Park Innovation Centre 131 Mount Pleasant Liverpool L3 5TF 0151 709 4547 0151 703 0018 [email protected] Emma Blackmore (Director) [email protected] www.myspace.com/ampersandpr

Strange to be playin a reserve on a Tuesday as home reserve games are normally Mondays, actually i'm suprised we are playing this match at all when most of the youngsters like Ferguson, Ranger, Inman, Kadar, Morris etc are on international duty. Also noticed Tavernier and Lough were missing against Leeds, presumably injured like Bahend so god know what team we'll put out. With the game switched to SJP some senior players could get a run out. Scoreboard82, your logic for going is the same as what got me and my old man going about 6 years ago as watching the match was better than stuck in on a Monday night as the wife watched Corrie, Eastenders and Corrie again on a Monday night

Would like to know myself. try to contact NUST direct as they sent off the old strips to the orphanage which in return had the orphanage making the donation back.

The overdraft is an unknown however its less than £40m now as per Barclays rules. We;d only really find out the true stuff when we do due diligence, if the clubs in a s*** state and we couldnt afford to run it then we wouldnt buy otherwise we'd be putting the club in deeper crap than it is now. This is what kind of f***s everything for everyone at the moment. We only find out how much the club costs after due dilligence... Yes but then again, all that the NUST have done so far is asked for people to REGISTER there interest in the idea, the next step will be to pay a 10% refundable (minus 5%) deposit, followed by due dillegence if it gets that far, then pay up the rest of the money and hopefully the end result is we get rid of Ashley. At the minute people are getting too far ahead of themselves.

Ashley and Llambias may already be rattled, according to the Chronicle llambias was trying to set up a meeting with NUST an hour after they launched the campaign. NUST have apparently turned down the request as they aren't in a position to discuss it with the club. I agree that NUST shouldn't be talking until they are in a position to act.

No its got nothing to do with Graham Roberts.

just out of interest how much would people be prepared to go up to? Would £50 be too much, bear in mind though that all you need at the minute is 10% so for a stake of £50 you need a fiver now and the rest wouldn't be needed till the bid goes in, say that was March for example it would only need you to put a side a tenner every month and you'd virtually have your stake.

You can invest via your pension or make a cash investment of £1500, obviously not that many people have that much cash to throw around but we can invest as a group by as Cp40 says 150 put in a tenner each.

losing 3-0 now and Ranger missed a penalty with the score at 1-0.

£10 isnt laughable. those who want to go down the 1500 route still can, but those who cant, who still want to contribute, could own part of a share. CP, i think getting loads to put in £10 each will be a nightmare as you'd be canvassing too many peoples opinions when it comes to voting. Ideally think it would be much more workable trying to get 30 people off here all investing £50 each.

Looks like i will invest but not on my own, having got one or two grand spare but after talking to a few people tonight am putting a little consortium of 10 and we'll put £250 in each, initialy deposit is only £25 each. Also would recommend that people who haven't joined NUST previously, for whatever reason, sign up and pay there tenner, just think of the cash boost that say an extra 10000 people joining up this week adds to the pot, even better if 20000 join! The NUST are also linked to easy fundraising by signing up for that doing your xmas shopping online at places like amazon also puts money in the NUST's coffers. Also saw today on Facebook that the ASHLEY OUT - UNITED FRONT protest group are selling ashley out t-shirts and all the money made from those t shirts are going to NUST as well.

I think they may have had tentative talks, i was reading something on the NUST forum yesterday and it mentioned that the woman in charge of the financing of the SIPPS has/was in process of doing due dillegence. Also shows why NUST took a back seat in the protests at the weekend, don't think it would look too good for them to be organising a big protest when they are wanting to open dialogue with Ashley to buy him out.

email thing is strange, they have my email address cos i've had emails off them before but i haven't received one about the launch yet!

Incidentally why isn't Moat part of it? Has he been approached? Has Shepherd? I would have thought fans with that sort of financial muscle would be ideal investors. It's been mentioned before that Moat has been approached. Has it been mentioned whether he's backing the NUST bid? Incidentally why isn't Moat part of it? Has he been approached? Has Shepherd? I would have thought fans with that sort of financial muscle would be ideal investors. I think I read somewhere he has been approached but didn't respond/wasn't interested. Well, I wish the NUST good luck but if fans with the clout of Moat or Sehpherd can't be persuaded to back the cause the whole premise of wanting a club owned by fans looks like wishful thinking which is unlikely to stand up in the face of cold hard financial reality. Having read the details on the website, there's a very good reason why Moat/Shepherd won't be involved - its one member one vote - so if you put in £20m you have the same influence over the club as someone who puts in £1,500. This might end up being stumbling block to those with serious money to put in, or on the other hand it might end up being an example of perfect democracy, who knows. Yeah I agree but by the sounds of things they already have a fair few big players involved. I like how anyone can be involved and their money gets put into a pool so that NUST can buy that group of people a vote. Also like how you can buy a vote as a group of people you already know. It looks canny. If it runs the same way as Barca where you vote in a new president of the group every 4 years and he has the final say I think this could really work. The club can already bring in cash of it's own and then with the extra backing from the group I think the club would have more than sufficient funds. I'm sure i saw something last week where a group of friends/work colleagues can group together and buy a share, say 10 people put in £250 each or 5 put in £500 etc. That was something that interested me, i can't afford the full amount but think with a few mates and brother, dad we can get a couple of grand between us.

Just seen this on True Faith as well........ Fans Launch Buy Out After months of discussions with interested parties, Newcastle United Supporters Trust (NUST) is launching the 'Yes We Can' Campaign which aims to raise funs to lead a fans buy out at St James' Park. The Trust will be revealing partners over the coming days but has in place a buy out structure lead by local firms and reknowned names in the financial world. The Trust is mailing out to over 40,000 supporters to ask them if and how they want to buy into the campaign to lead a city-wide bid to buy back the club. There are a number of ways supporters can buy into the model which has been dubbed by the financial community as the 'Barcelona on the Tyne' which would see a 'democratisation' of the club to ensure that the current state of the club would not be repeated. The idea is based on fans investing in the club through a number of financial opportunities which will be held by a local solicitors in an ESCOW account to demostrate to Ashley that the fans have 'proof of funds'. Supporters will be asked to pledge 10% of their investment into this account which would be returned if the bid was unsuccessful. It is believed that this is the first stage of a 6 week campaign including advertisements, the opening of an advice shop in central Newcastle and the unveiling of high profile backers. Mark Jensen, Spokesperson for the Trust on the campaign said: 'Its clear that we have no knight in shining armour to end the charade at St James' Park so we must look at how we can do this ourselves. The club is a fantastic investment if run properly and we aim to attract the type of investors who will seek to bring back the values of integrity and honesty to the club. We've been in discussions with serious people in the city and beyond and they have thrown down the gauntlet to supporters to lead the charge. We've been obsessed by protest but this is the ulimate protest. If people want more info they can visit www.nust.org.uk and find out more. There are a range of ways to invest but fans can be sure that it will be on a 1 investor 1 vote basis with fans electing 6 fans representatives through the Trust and a President who will bring in a professional team accountable to the fans ulimately. There are serious investors who want to back this idea because they can see the potential in the club. This is an investment which is not only ruled by the heart but by the head also'. The Trust will be launching an exciting Business Plan in the near future which will set out further how the financial model will benefit fans and investors. Over the next 6 weeks the Trust has a total to reach but they are refusing to reveal how much because 'this is clearly a commercial issue' and 'we want to negotiate with Mr Ashley on our basis not his'.