Unbelievable

Get the fuck out of our club you clueless wanker

Yup, it's the Ashley way

Get the fuck out of our club you clueless wanker

What is Colo thinking (twice FFS) coming so far forward to challenge Pelle in the air.

All of the pairings are s***. That's what happens when you don't spend money. Fair enough, but there have been people saying they should play together. Will take us down.

Not a peep from the fans, that's maybe the worst about this whole thing. Make it clear we will not accept this buffoon in charge FFS

Colo and Dummett are a shit centre back pairing like.

They'll give it to Carver after the game, and he'll take us down. No doubt about it.

Oh Dummass

Great cross Haidara

FFS

Oh Yoan

Decent start to the half. Howay the lads!

Oh wow Ayoze, so close.

Good finish Gouffran

Wahahaha

Could have been 2

Colo owned by Pelle

Opportunistic try by Janmaat

I thought Ryder was Chief Sports Editor, so effectively Douglas' (and the others') boss?

Ah yes, the Twitteratis

I know it's Lee Ryder and he can barely write, but this phrasing is ominous if you ask me: "By that stage, we should hopefully know whether managing- director Lee Charnley has decided to go public on whether the Magpies will wait until the end of the season before naming a head coach or if he decides John Carver is the man to take Newcastle to the end of the season." http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/forget-newcastle-united-head-coach-8460614 Edit: this too: "The good thing for Carver and Co is the Magpies were so poor between beating West Ham (Cabaye’s last game) and the end of last season they surely cannot be any worse than they were in those final 16 games."

I'm sure it came out that he never actually said these things but could be wrong. I remember reading the quotes at the time and thinking 'this is it' Ashley never gives interviews and Im pretty sure the paper made this guff up. Its everything NUFC fans wanted to hear, where in reality we constantly get told the opposite, cant compete , 5 year plans, no money... "wallop" Such a northern expression, no way would Ashley used that kind of word. IT came out on a sunday, to sell papers. Load of guff. That is simply not true. Before the relegation/promotion there were plenty of statements from Ashley, Mort and Llambias indicating a similar level of ambition. Hell, Keegan was ordered to London for crunch talks for daring to suggest top four might be beyond us without very significant investment. Ashley never came out and said a peep. Mort may have done but I dont ever recall them saying they wanted to compete at the very top. Just because you can't remember doesn't mean it didn't happen.

All depends if it is his little media barrage, or the club's. The quotes are obviously from the pre-match presser, but the fact that the local newspapers issue article after article on them without even questioning if such an appointment would be befitting of a club of Newcastle's stature tells its own story really. John Carver for Newcastle manager man, any self respecting journalist should be tearing him a new one for having ideas above his station, but there's been none of that, which strongly suggests they (the local media) are on a very tight leash indeed.

Are The Chronicle not banned any more? Seems to me they're more likely to just be writing whatever guff comes to mind on a daily basis. I seriously doubt they have much (if any) actual knowledge about what's going on. The ban was lifted in December (http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/newcastle-united-lifts-ban-local-press-telegraph-journalists-remain-barred). It's not far fetched at all to believe that they have been given a heads up that an announcement is imminent and to start spreading pro-Carver stuff imho. The Bishop knows exactly what he is doing.