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Just watched Goal 3 after downloading it last night. Absolute Shit That is all

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/nufc/newcastle-united-news/2009/06/12/consortium-joining-in-race-for-newcastle-united-72703-23862191/ No mention of wor Rick like

Yep, looks like we've been Rick-Rolled!!!

Headline: Toon Army Rick-Rolled

According to someone on Skunkers Llambias has cleared his desk, handed in the company car and won't be back.

He may have opted out of having his name on the published one, a lot of people do these days to avoid ID theft OK, then if these 5 "North East businessmen" are worth £1 billion between them, why is Parkinson nowhere on the Sunday Times rich list (it goes down as low as £30m)? Here are the 5 richest people in the North East according to the Sunday Times: 144 (232=) Mark Fenwick and family £365m £21m Department stores 178= (270=) The Duke of Northumberland £300m - Land 268= (312=) Alastair and Michael Powell £205m £55m Cabling, Property 309= (397=) Sting £180m £20m Music 388= (525=) Sir Peter Vardy and family £140m £10m Car sales Can you see Fenwick's, the Duke of Northumberland or Sting getting on board??? You only appear on this list should you care to divulge your worth, maybe the guy keeps under the radar

A friend of mine works at a telecoms company in Northumberland and reckons Barry Moat is one of the 5

He may have opted out of having his name on the published one, a lot of people do these days to avoid ID theft

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1192507/Textiles-tycoon-planning-150m-bid-Newcastle-United--30m-set-aside-transfers.html Another link and a photo too.... As an out of the blue report on some random we've never heard of, there's pobably more mileage in this than the other stories I would reckon http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5475/rick.th.jpg

As has been mentioned many times though, this is a consortium with Shepherd as the figurehead. He will be an employee like anyone else and his actions will have to be justified. If they appoint him as Chairman, they may even bring other directors on board who Shepherd is accountable to. Basically it's a group of people who see that he has contacts within the game, and they want to tap in to this and use his "knowledge" of running a football club. If he fucks up royally, he'll be as expendable as anyone else

Normally a tenner does it. Everthing costs a tenner off Smack Heads Aye but we'd need to supply the gun as well. No gun required they'd "tear the very lips off him"

Normally a tenner does it. Everthing costs a tenner off Smack Heads

What needs to happen, over and above anything else is Ashley needs to make a statement outlining the absolute TRUTH of the situation. Why won't he appoint Shearer? Why is he happy to leave an asset worth £100m in limbo which could effectively devalue it even further? Are there really several interested parties or is this just another wind-up. Irrespective of what his answers are, at least everyone knows where they stand. Even if the answers he gave made him even more unpopular, or gave the true picture of where we are, at least we could respect him for telling the truth, instead of being a spineless arsehole sending out his cronies to spout more lies and bullshit. Fair enough, we had his "apology" statement after relegation, but everything since has contradicted what he has said.

Pretty much how I'd feel about it to be honest, and as someone who likes his footy fix on a Saturday/Sunday afternoon, I'd watch other teams whose results I look out for - Gateshead for instance.

It is a bit Knee-jerk tastic, but in reality I could see a rise in our local non-league club crowds come August if nothing has changed by then

That must be from the book "How to not get £100m for the sale of your football club". We'd inevitably face a relegation fight to League 1. Ashley or Llambias wouldn't dare come within 5 miles of SJP for fear of a backlash. The way those two fuckers operate there'd be more chance of them sitting in the Director's Box at the Stade de Plop in red and white scarves.

Does anyone see any mileage in an AFC Wimbledon/FC United scenario? I know it's a bit like treachery, but as things stand it's not our club anymore. Both of those clubs are making steady progress through the football pyramid with better support than other teams around them. I know our situation is nowhere near as similar as Wimbledon, but arguably could be slightly compared to FC United. We could take over Blue Star, rename them the Real Newcastle United. I know it's a bit knee jerk, but the way things are going, it would boil my piss to pay my money to enter Fat Ash's pocket with JFK leading us to League One.

This really IS too good to be true. Would have been better if they'd said they were dealing with the organ grinder, not the monkey

An old Roy Chubby Brown song sums Ashley up completely - "The Cunt"

Not a player but I saw Steve McLaren on the easyjet flight to Barcelona from Newcastle last weekend. Miserable cunt as well, a few young uns asked him for his autograph and he ignored them

True those kinds of owners are very very nice BUT an owner that knows football is also a very very nice option, I suppose getting rid of the thick idiot bastard cunt we have now is the most important thing. In a way I agree, but that's very similar to what we thought about Shepherd. If this group gets rid of Ashley then they'll be seen as heroes, but what happens when the financial reality means that they have to scrimp, save and sell to buy like he did? (Not saying that will happen, but it might if they aren't mega-rich) Although they were in the running when the club was up for sale last year, so I think that whilst they may not have lots of oil money like citeh and chelski, they would be able to provide a sizeable budget to get out of the championship and re-establish us back in the top flight According to their website, they have strong links with ESPN, so ultimately they would probably be looking to cash in on the overseas market for TV rights, possibly even an NUFC channel. You never know it may even mean initially more of this seasons games appearing on foreign channels. No doubt once we were back in the premier league we would be embarking on preseason tours of that area, as the Profitable Group attempt to raise our profile in the far east, using the passion the fans have for the club, and of course Alan Shearer to make us the team of choice in Singapore, selling more replica shirts, increasing potential revenues from sponsorship etc. Our relegation has given them the opportunity to buy a very attractive proposition for less than half of what it was worth 12 months ago, knowing they wouldn't have to lay anything near the £160m defecit between the price then and now to put the club's worth back to where it was. If Shearer is given the resources and the choice to keep some players who want to help the club we should do ok. The one thing we have on our side is potential. If any kind of success can be brought to this club, it would be like nothing experienced anywhere else. We also have hope. For the last 20 odd years of supporting the club,each season starts with mounds of sheer optimism that is slowly chipped away at over 9 months, only to do it all over again 3 months later. The way I see it now, whoever takes over can't be any worse than the current shower of shit. Anyone prepared to lay millions of pounds on the line for a Championship Club has to be ambitious and see the potential, especially as they could buy a Premier League Club for similar amounts.

Isn't that the company that Steve McMahon is involved in? He has been seen at SJP when they were supposedly involved in some business with the club. The board, with pictures, is at http://www.profitablegroup.com/group-executives.aspx Steve McMahon looks a lot younger these days but they do have a former (scottish) manager as "UK Operations Advisor" The European Operations Advisor used to be our commercial director too, maybe there is some substance to this story

http://www.profitablegroup.com/index.aspx They have ties with the Bin Dippers apparently, it's also quite apt that the character you use to navigate their Sports Investment page is a fat bloke in a Black and White striped top :laugh:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/newcastle/2962624/Mike-Ashleys-potential-buyers-for-Newcastle-United---Premier-League-Football.html Could it be the profitable group again???

Know it sounds paranoid, but it'd the only thing which makes logical sense in terms of what could possibly be behind the comedy of errors that Ashley's reign has seen. No billionaire businessman can be this incompetent: it simply beggars belief. The longer this goes on, the more likely this scenario looks. We're a huge joke in close season through this email fiasco, and we pretty much had the piss taken out of us with the Joe Kinnear situation. We've got three weeks until the start of the season, no manager, no policy towards ingoing and outgoing transfers, and we haven't sent out ST Renewals. All the words post relegation about how they wanted Shearer etc are being completely contradicted by the actions (or lack of). When Ashley bought the club he said "He was going to have some fun". Well at this minute in time he's either genuinely full of remorse or sitting pissing himself laughing with his cockney pals somewhere thinking up the next piece of humiliation he can thrust upon us. If he has no interest in us, it would be in his best interests to sell the club as soon as possible. If he does not plan to inject the cash required to gain promotion our value will plummet even further, as he has now seen. The fact he turned down (allegedly) £200m last year which would have given him pretty much his money back is even more sickening and adds some substance to the theory he wants to ruin us. It would seem he now just wants to get back what he can in some sort of damage limitation, and whilst I've dismissed it as codswallop, I'm starting to think he could take us in to administration, which would allow him to essentially sell anyone worth anything (promising youngsters included) and sell the club for a derisory amount, walking away with more money than we could hope to see in a lifetime. We'd then be left with a few weeks till the start of the season, no players, management and on -10 points. If this happens he'll likely be fooled by some undercover NOTW reporter, where he'll brag royally how he ruined a once great club. It sounds like the plot of a far fetched film, but you never know...........................