Jackie Broon

Good. Last thing we ought to be doing is trying to close down revenue streams for the club. How much money do you see this bringing in? No idea. Have a guess. Why? I haven't got a clue what this kind of advertising might be worth to the right company. Obviously the club thinks it's enough to be worth the bother. As long as we're still making a loss, whatever comes in, is good. It is going to be Sports Direct based on what is included in the application. Therefore sponsorship won't get sold to anyone. Nah, that'll just be a placeholder. They're obviously hoping to sell the space. I look at these applications every day, and this is for a fixed design. Show us (or quote us or whatever) the bit that says that. I can see why planning permission is needed to erect a billboard. I'd need some convincing that every design it was used to display required a further, separate permission. It is in the application form. They are applying for red and blue letters on a white background for each one. The pictorial one would have to be agreed with the council as a planning condition. You know Argos changed all their signs recently for a modern design? These all had to have new planning permissions and were verysimilar to the planning application we see here. OK. I'll take your word for it. Seems weird, though. How could they ever sell the naming rights, if use of the buying company's logo was subject to subsequent planning permission? In determining advertisement consent applications the local authority can only take into account 'amenity' and 'public safety'. The content of the sign can not be considered. So, unless for reasons of amenity or public safety a condition restricting the detailed design of the sign has been attached to the consent (which I have personally never seen done), and as long as the size/illumination of the sign does not change, the content can be changed without consent.

There must be a few zeros added to his value after today. You can say what you like about his general play but those goals were quality. His general play has been top notch too. His touch, passing, movement have come on leaps and bounds in the last 9 months, he wins everything in the air and he even seems to have developed a decent turn of pace!

Aye. Wigan away would be an easy three points for us

if it was arteta cahill or jagielka you can be damn sure they'd have put it in writing They haven't put a written offer to Pienaar either. Do we want rid of him? I think we just do business like it's still the 60's and your word is good tbh. bit of a difference tbh, any written offer given by everton (even just a £1 payrise) would have meant a tribunal fee if it was rejected by gosling They were probably holding out to see how his recovery progressed.

But we don't have a good balance of strikers. Carrol, Xisco and Ameobi are all very similar players. They couldn't effectively play together. We need another player who can play alongside them in addition to Lovenkrands.

Chopra is threatening to quit Cardiff. Putting aside the fact that Ashley isn't going to part with £4m-ish, would you like to see him back at Newcastle?

What if you don't? How long can the club go on living beyond its means, haemorrhaging more and more money? There's no guarantee that a saviour will come along and bail you out.

We won't. Nailed on this is what will happen: If we get promoted, within a week Ashley will announce that the club is back on the market, with an increased price tag of around £150-200m (ignoring the fact we'll need to spend about £50m to stay up). We'll spend the summer in limbo, without a buyer and without any signings. Ashley will give up and announce he's holding on to the club for another season. We'll bring in a few loans and a few panic buys and we'll be bottom at christmas. At which point Hughton will be sacked and Kinnear will be brought back in to oversee our relegation.

The difference is clubs like Hull get underestimated; the top half see it as just another day at the office and expect to turn up and roll over them. However, despise the s***e state of our squad, we're still seen as a big club. The teams in the top half we used to compete with love beating us and will always 'turn up' against us. So, we need to be twice as good as the likes of Hull to get the same results. We're not.

Sick of the sycophancy towards him by commentators. Good old British lad Nicky Butt gets praised to high heaven for wandering into the path of a couple of stray balls (typically followed by him hoofing a 'Hollywood pass' straight into touch). Whereas those fancy dan foreigners Coloccini and Enrique get criticised for having the gaul to actually play a bit of football (despite having played like that and frustrated strikers all season with barely a hiccup). Agreed - the commentators were s****. When he kept saying "These 2 lads will always give you a chance, blah, blah, blah" - Aye, dickhead thats why we have only conceded 14 goals all season All but 6 of them conceded while Butt has been on the pitch. Despite having only started 8 of our 23 league games.

Sick of the sycophancy towards him by commentators. Good old British lad Nicky Butt gets praised to high heaven for wandering into the path of a couple of stray balls (typically followed by him hoofing a 'Hollywood pass' straight into touch). Whereas those fancy dan foreigners Coloccini and Enrique get criticised for having the gaul to actually play a bit of football (despite having played like that and frustrated strikers all season with barely a hiccup).

More self-righteous self-important Phil K rantings

Again, you've missed the point. There are almost no black managers at any level of the game. Nothing to do with PL. But where's the evidence that it's linked to racism? It could be a number of factors. Lack of ability, lack of ambition to become manager or coach etc. - the colour of their skin is irrelevant. Race still influences decisions about people in pretty much all areas of life. A lot of people seem to find it hard to accept that racism still actively exists in Britain. I work for a Local Authority, which are painted as the bastions of 'PC' by the tabloid press. But, I have seen clearly racist views aired and decisions made by councillors (from all the major parties). Just recently, in a committee meeting deciding a planning application for the change of use of a shop to a restaurant a councillor actually said 'we need more restaurants in the area, but not Asian ones' and the application, which there was nowt wrong with, was refused. I've seen perfectly acceptable house extensions called in to committee and refused clearly because the applicant was an Asian who had strayed into a predominantly white area and numerous other dodgy decisions where the applicants happened to have the wrong skin colour in the wrong area. If democratically accountable politicians from all sides of the political spectrum are making clearly racist decisions; I don't find it hard to believe that the same is going on at some level within football clubs. (Although, not in the case of Barnes; he's been given lots of opportunities and is clearly just a bad manager)

I don't want to be taken over by Moat if he can't add to the squad, we need sufficent funds to strengthen the squad end of. Shepherd was not that rich and yet we were challenging for the Champions League, Albeit with him being a bit overzealous with the clubs cashflow. The revenue this club makes could easily see us ok in the premiership under a proper chairman. 1) You make sure you do your homework on players before you buy. 2) Ensure you have a sensible wage structure. 3) Develop youth so you don't have to buy all the time. I would rather have the Arsenal model than one of Chelsea's or Man City's, even though it would be nice to have loads of cash thrown at the club I wouldn't feel the same satisfaction as if it was done from the ground up. If no club had benefactors, if there was no champions league money, then NUFC would be in the top 2 or 3 for finance. What? Look, just pointing out facts. to be a fact it has to be true. you made an assertion which happens to be false. I broughgt up facts based on season ticket sales previous, crowd figures, shirt sales. I brought in the fact that the Champions league brings in millions and build a momentous advantage, I brought in a fact that Chelsea have an finacial advantage over clubs with bigger fan bases. Now if the finance was based solely on fan base my premise would be true. Fact, fact. fact. would it bollocks, you leave out things like wages that we pay compared to the likes of bolton and wigan who even though we have higher turnover and the past euro money have far less debt than we do. it all comes down to wages. it's possible that without benefactors and champs league we may be in the top 2 or 3 in turnover but as we have been a fantastic example of ,a high turnover doesn't mean a lot if we are spending more than you can afford. edit....unless of course you are confusing "finance" with turnover like the papers do when clubs losing money hand over fist are in the rich list based purely on turnover. To be fair, he just said that, on a level playing field, we would be in the top 2 or 3 in terms of income; which is clearly the case. What the idiots running the club do with that income is a separate matter.

Well the politically correct have virtually made it an offence to try to STOP anyone breaking into your home (unless you come from some minorities, then somehow it suddenly becomes different - protecting themselves from their own lunacies, of course) Jack Straw is a turd, a sock puppet for the Guardianista lesbians - Milliband is even effing worse.

44,448 v Burnley in 2007 (their average that season was 31,000) If we can get 50k plus at some point it'll probably be the first time since Man U in the 70s there's been a +50k attendance outside of the top flight. What crowds were Man U getting that season? I.e. the average crowd and the highest crowd? Their average was 48,389. Don't know what the high and low was. Btw, we already hold the record (probably the world record) for the highest average attendance outside the top flight of 56,283 in 47/48.

44,448 v Burnley in 2007 (their average that season was 31,000) If we can get 50k plus at some point it'll probably be the first time since Man U in the 70s there's been a +50k attendance outside of the top flight.

The income that will be lost by not returning the premiership this season (£30m at least) is far greater than the cost of keeping hold of the players who might be capable of getting promoted. Selling Duff and Taylor may save the club £15m or so but it’ll almost certainly end up costing us at the very least £30m, substantially more if we stay in the Championship past the end of the parachute payments. What Ashley is doing doesn’t make any sense. He’s cutting off his nose to spite his face!

He said he'd been treated like a criminal because of his injuries and how he's having the last laugh now.

Because black footballers were taunted with monkey noises and bananas throughout the 70s, 80s (and still are in less racially tolerant parts of the world) due to the colour of their skin. Therefore, calling a Black person a monkey is likely to be seen as racial abuse by most right minded people.

he was paid to score goals and he hasn't for over 4 months, so he has to take a large proportion If it hadn't been for his performances towards the end of last season we would've been relegated a year earlier. It's not Owen's fault we were relegated, it's the fault of the hierarchy of the club for not heading the warning of that near miss and not signing players to fill the gaping hole of creativity in our midfield that has crippled every other part of the team for the past few seasons.

Well, before planing Spurs away we had to win three of our last six, minimum. I can't see that happening. We're down too!

Imo, the seeds were planted in the summer of 2002 when Sir Bobby, instead of strengthening the squad that faded into third, wasted millions on unproven, raw 'talents' who never lived up to their potential in Viana, Bramble and (to a lesser extent) Jenas. That, plus the purchase the one legged Woodgate, left nothing in the kitty for the summer of 2003. Which led to us signing Bowyer on a free and it has been down hill ever since.

Win-win-win for us tomorrow. If we lose or draw it'll dump the mackems into the relegation zone

Saw Tim Krul in the Sainsburys at Benton t'other day. Pulling along one of those girly shopping baskets on wheels, like a big (but, surprisingly, not that big) girl.