Chris_R

Have you seen our current one?

What, aside from us being bought by a multi-billionaire just 10 years ago?

Plot twist - She did the edit herself.

Personally I think that with every week that goes by it's looking *more* likely they get out of that division this year.

Bloke (some "expert") on totalsport saying its a game changer cause it means the buyer will be able to invest in the squad while still buying the club Tend to agree with Odin. None of the buyers of Man City, Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal's investors, Everton's new guy nor Bournemouths new guy have needed to stage payments to be able to invest in the playing squad. Strikes me that no 'big' players are sniffing if he's got to incentivise potential buyers with staged payments so publically. This. And if the buyers need our revenues to finance the deal to buy the club, we'll not have much money to spend going forward as it'll all have to be fed back into paying Ashley.

He's selling the club to Amazon. Which will also be the name of our Stadium. It'd be the Prime Arena.

Shits all over our usual policy of signing talentless mercenaries.

Norwich-supporting workmate was gutted when we signed him, so he can't be a poor player. Maybe it's confidence, or pressure, or adjusting to a new area, or any number of other things, but I don't doubt he'll have some talent in him.

It's been a long day. I'm changing it.

I'd suggest an official name of: Geordies Attempting Loud Locally Orchestrated Waving Gestures And Then Ensuring Flapping Loudly At Games Sometimes That's a bit of a mouthful though for everyday usage, so maybe most of the time you can just abbreviate it.

Gallowgate Fl@gs

Wor Hyem is absolutely terrible, definitely change it. Someone suggested strawberry flags, I like that as it identifies with that end of the ground with leazes flags at the other end. Or TAFKAGF. Or just a weird symbol.

Reading the article, it seems the old group was called "GALLOWGATE FLAGS". If the name must change, and I'm not convinced it must, then I'd therefore suggest calling the new group "Gallowgate Flags".

Well, if you head south from Detroit, you hit Canada.

I heard was offered to Hearts and Hibs, and was prepared to get the train there every day, however neither club could afford his wages. Wow. Boro, Hearts and Hibs. Really casting the net wide. But 2 of them can't afford him. So still pinning all his career aspirations on Boro then.

Pretty sure he would have went and done that if his wife wasn’t heavily pregnant. He wanted to stay local in case she went into Labour and to be there when the baby comes home. Eh? The window of time where she's likely to go into labour is about 2-3 weeks. At most. Surely he can work around this?

Turned down Hull for geographical reasons. He's quite literally limiting himself to Newcaslte, Sunderland and Middlesbrough. Given that we don't want him and Sunderland have already got rid of him once, the only club on the whole planet he might even possibly entertain are Boro. I have no words.

He's more bothered about his FIFA career than his real one. Amazing.

The owner understands it, he just doesn't give enough of a shit. Newcastle's job is to advertise Sports Direct by being in the Premier League. Provided we do that, anything else is a waste of money and effort.

God, Pardew was mortified enough with having to play in the Europa League, can you imagine how awful it would have been for him if he had to play in a competition like the Champions League, where he'd have actually had to field a decent team and try to win some of the games?

4th. End the season now please.

Nowhere that I can see is there a quote from Rafa about having the final say, or indeed any day, in the transfers.

What, like if we'd appointed someone like Chris Hughton?

I'm sure wherever he is, he's got Sky and a mobile phone. Not being there will still have an effect though, of course.

You can get 50/1 quite easily, I posted a link 2 or 3 pages ago. Again (To everyone, not you): Mike Ashley is not putting up £20m. He's staked £400k @ 50/1 and will use the winnings to pay the players. This saves him over £600k vs what he was going to offer for league placings, ie £1m+ depending on position, which would have been much harder to cover with a bet as the odds of us finishing 17th or greater are nowhere near 50/1. He's a known big-time gambler and I'm as sure as anything I've ever been sure on that this is what he's done. This is not affecting our transfer budget at all This is not costing Mike Ashley £20m, nor is he risking £20m if we do win it This is not money we could have spent on players by Rafa, in fact if anything Rafa now has an extra £600k to spend because of this though of course a far more likely outcome is a guesswhowinsagain moment where he just trousers the difference I hate that fat cunt as much as anyone for what he's done to the club, and this offer is still shit for a number of reasons, but let's not pretend this £20m is anything that it's not.