Boey_Jarton

Just got back from game- her are my thoughts: We were very poor first half and look like we will really struggle playing 442 without proper wingers. Perch was a little shakey and would have been sent off if it was a real game. The turning point for me was sticking Guthrie in the middle and Xisco was suprisingly useful on the left flank. Tarvenier looked canny decent when he came on- shame he won't get a look in. Guthrie on the left was woeful as a few pointed out

Saw Jose this morning, walking past leazes terrace towards the Rvi with his girlfriend. I thought about mentioning last night's own goal to him and how it was all simpson's fault but decided against it.

Sorry, you are wrong. I am an auditor by the way. Oh so your talking about next years accounts now? The discussion is about the accounts that are due to be filed in 3 days, I made that perfectly clear tbh. Yes what I'm saying is, if we set off on a path of not filing the accounts for this year, chances are the auditors won't be very keen to sign off next years. There also would seem to be little point in not filing them if we've managed to convice the auditors to sign them off in the first place, would there? Still missing the point. Never said they won't file them just they are under no obligation to file on time, the auditors won't give 2 hoots if they are filed on time or not, just as long as they are. Anyway there's no way you are an auditor though, coming out with stuff like that. Right-o Says you who thinks the only issue there'll be is writing out the fine cheque if they don't file them. I've never heard such a lack of commercial common sense. Given that we're talking about a company which was loss making with a turnover of c. £100m, coupled with the fact that that turnover post balance sheet has reduced to about half that figure, the minute they are late, their customer base, debtors, creditors and football in general will be all over them chasing money & reducing trading terms given to the club. Promotion means a massive amount to whoever is signing the accounts off in terms of going concern & the later they are signed off (if it hasn't been done already) the less risk there is to the auditors. It's basic stuff tbh, you'll probably come across it in the next chapter of your text book. Beat me to the punch, was going to ask how his exams were going. I'm 37 man been doing this all my career. They can send them to whoever they like, the major creditors and other important stakeholders probably already have a set of accounts, for example the European money league people already have numbers from this years accounts. You don't think the important creditors etc have wait and have to pay the £1 to get a set of accounts from CH do you? As its a private company now I don't think Ashely will really give two hoots about what the auditors think. They certainly don't dictate to the club when the audit work is completed because it is less risky for them. If mike wants the accounts early that's when they are done, if he wants them late that's when they are done. If the numbers are as bad as we expect then maybe he wants promotion before they are made public to prevent the inevitable backlash. According to you though on Thursday the whole of football will be all over Newcastle like a rash due to late filing of accounts. Hardly likely. There's no external shareholders to appease anymore. They were filed in early January last year, I am only summising why they are later this year. You were the one going on saying the auditors won't allow them to be late. Which is pure nonsense. And you still go on as if I am saying they don't have to file them at all. Anyway they have today and tomorrow to see if you are right. Auditing for 15 years? I feel deeply sorry for you!

who? Ray

My wish has come true - well done Chrissy Hughton.

Routledge is like Cristiano Ronaldo in the championship - wish we could have him in our midfield

Its not a bad team with the exception of the full backs. It looks like a solid midtable team and the midfield is a significant improvement on what we had last year.

must have missed that, was that on look north? i turned over and got distracted by the bizarre jacko memorial!

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/nufc/Malaysians-fly-into-Toon-again.5436853.jp shields gazette are saying it was the malaysians in the chopper edit - didnt see above post!

Dont agree at all. Duff was not our worst player for 70 minutes. If Duff had been a bit darker and his surname was N'zogbia you would not be saying the same thing.

West Brom were wide open to the counter attack and we took off all our pacy players and resorted to hoofing it long to shola and Xisco. Hats off to Duffer - he was the only player who seemed to put his foot on the ball. You could see him trying to urge the other players to push up as the others were content sitting deep on the edge of the box.

I wish we could just do straightforward wins.

What i hate about Shola is the unnecessary pressure he puts on the team from the top. He gives away needless fouls and doesn't understand the offside rule. You wouldn't mind so much if he learned , but the lad is 27 and still makes the same mistakes.

The Journal article mentions the debt now being equity as explained by Chez - Equity which Ashley has made part of the sale price. Yes and equity is not debt whether it's part of the sale price or not. As I said it could be described as semantics - if there was no debt/equity the price would be approx £100m less - so an owner has to find that amount anyway - although I accept from Chez's explanation that equity is prefereable. The "he has cleared the debt" statement is being sold as if Ashley got his wallet out and handed over the cash which means it's "gone" forever - that is clearly NOT the case and I'm sick of people talking as if it was an altrustic act on his part. If he was to remain as owner then the debt not being on the clubs book would be good - but even if he stays for 5 years he'd still want that back. I'd also argue that given the choice between finishing 13th every year and being debt free and taking on a serviceable level of debt and showing some ambition. I'd take the latter. The market value of the club before was approximately 210m, but approximately 80m of this value was attributable to debt holders not the shareholders. Since Ashley was buying into the equity of NUFC, he paid the MV of this equity net of the debt , i.e 130m ish. Now there is no debt (or very little) , the MV of NUFC would be attributable solely to the equity holders, so any sale by Ashley would obviously be at around the 200m + mark. Ashley is obviously going to include the debt he paid off in the selling price because this would be the price that reflects its economic worth. Ashley has paid off the debt - the fact this had lead to an increase in his selling price of the club is irrelevant.

I got to watch a training session and eat with the players at the back end of last season as part of a prize a family friend won at a charity auction at the NUFC fashion show. The banter and atmosphere did some to be generally really good between the players. One thing i did notice though, is that Faye got in a strop on quite a few occasions. After Diatta had been involved in a late challenge on another player (possibly smith IIRC) , Faye got involved and was really aggressive, moody and complained for the rest of the session. Keegan had to take him to one side to tell him to settle down. Im not sure if there was a rift of any sort between him and other players but he definitely did not look too happy.

Zola always seems to rank overly high in these polls because he is little loveable Italian who did funny interviews. Very strange list outside the top 10 Russel Latapy > Marc Overmars ?

Yep, hopefully these will work as im not too good at these linky things: Martins with his lollypop again: http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/1268/dsc01240mu5.jpg Habib Just wins his race against butt and barton: http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/9510/dsc01205lz0.jpg Martins tries (unsuccessfully) to save Geremi's free kick in a cameo stint in goals: http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/3610/dsc01231jb8.jpg

I love that line. I always wondered what he would be like outside of the stadium...makes me like him that much more. Great post tho Boey_Jarton, Its glad to see the lads in better spirit - to be honest I wasn't shocked about Carr...I always thought he had some pace...But not so sure he has it in long distances anymore. Shame about Zog, but like an old professor once told our class "Shape up or Ship out." Martins was proper bling bling but very friendly! http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/4618/cimg0451ke4.jpg

Our players seem in great spirit for this game- I have been lucky enough to attend this mornings training session, meet all the players and have lunch with the players at the training ground. (A family friend won this at the charity auction at the NUFC fashion show) I thought id share some of the experience of the training today- After the warm up, the first team divided into 4 teams of four, each team competed in relay races around cones. The one thing that struck me was that Stephen Carr (yes really!!) was actually one of the fastest at the sprints winning all of his races. Micheal Owen and Oba won nearly all of their respective races also. The players then split up into two teams for a match on a half-pitch. The most impressive player in this 20 minute match had to be Duff (yes really!). He looked pacey and dangerous, and set up a few goals. Geremi was wearing a yellow T shirt with abuse on it because he had been voted the worst player in the previous days training session. I was impressed with the team spirit- Martins in particular was always involved in the banter. He was the last to leave the training field; he was diving about in goals whilst Geremi was practicing free kicks. Im not sure if the Zog is injured but he trained all alone and looked fairly grumpy. Emre and Milner did not train at all. At the restaurant i also noticed we seem to have employed a Vicor that goes from table to table speaking to the players! Barton in particular was talking to him for ages. Strangely, Habib Beye and the Duke seemed to be great pals, the 2 were laughing away for ages on their own table. Oba ( who was dressed like a proper gangster and sucking a lollypop), said he is looking forward to the reading game and thinks he will score!

I thought he looked quite nippy the times i have seen him.

he scored against west ham last season

Just back from the game and the one thing that stuck out to me was how confident the players were on the ball. N zogbia was top class at centre midfield today especially, i hope he stays there for bolton.

I have an NUS card so am entitled to the £200 10 game tickets in blocks a and b in level 7, or the 130 quid tickets in block h. Can someone advise me whether it is worth forking out an extra 70 notes for blocks a/b rather than h? Cheers in advance.

Im from Cardiff but have supported Newcastle all my life since my old man is from amble and put the curse on me. I now live opposite leazes park and can get from the match to my front door in less than 2 minutes!

sorry if its in another thread, but are england under 21s on the box tonight, cannot see it on anywhere