Mistle17

I actually give up

Here comes Pards playing the poor me card

Leaving the door open to Shearer becoming manager. Apologising to KK. Go fuck yourself, Mike. Seriously, what the hell is he still doing here. Everything he is saying just points towards pure negligence and a total lack of commitment. This is horrific man....genuinely wondering at this stage if I'm more of a Rafa Benitez fan than Newcastle United. Apparently he's going to be here 'a good while longer'? This is hell on fucking earth. Sick.

That blithering cunt being shown now. Just sell the fucking club. Or die, preferably.

Are we even playing? What the fuck is this

The 09/10 side were far better than last seasons lot. Totally different makeup to the two teams imo. But yes, I think as a whole it was better, or at least far more effective in the way it played! A lot more direct, but with Carroll, Nolan, Barton that was a dream tbf. Easy to forget we played a lot of games in that promotion season with Smith-Butt as a CM pairing- and we walked it. That's frightening!

When we last got promoted under Hughton, our incoming transfers that summer were: - Dan Gosling (free) - James Perch (£3m?) - Sol Campbell (free) - Cheik Tiote (£4m?) - Hatem Ben Arfa (Loan) That was in addition to January signings previously that year of: - Danny Simpson(£750,000) - Mike Williamson (£2m) - Wayne Routledge () - Leon Best (£1.5m)

Going off .com, we have spent £31.4m this summer. That's before you take into account incoming fees, and reduced wage bill etc. (if any one has an official figure for our net spend this summer feel free to pipe up) Of course, there's additional costs to every transfer, but that fucking cunt is trying to tell us that for a club like us in this day and age with all the money that's being pumped into the game, plus his fortune (whether he likes to admit it or not), that he can't invest £50m in a SINGLE fucking transfer window? Is this a fucking joke? We haven't even spent £50m and we are a newly promoted side. We are not in the position that Spurs find themselves in whereby we have a number of academy players that can make the step up- not even close. NO ONE at NUFC is screaming for a mega-money transfer, NO ONE has been demanding we go back to the days of signing the Michael Owen's of this world. Bullshit. But we need a squad that can compete and right now it is piss poor. I don't know what the exact figure of the Sky money we will receive is, but it is a substantial figure. ONCE A FUCKING GAIN our club is being beaten with that horrific 'we can't compete, I'm basically broke you cunts, you're just lucky to have a club and it's all because of me' stick. The man is one of the most detestable human beings on this planet, and he doesn't know how lucky he is being able to hide behind Rafa (for now). He is totally dragging our club to the ground. Anyone who sides with him, believes him, 'see's his point' is a fucking numpty. Yes, we have Benitez as our manager (which is brilliant), but the fact is that for so many years under this cunt (nearly a decade) we have just put up with his abuse of our club. Our fan base has tried to scold those who rejected Ashley's horrific negligence of Newcastle United in the past, constantly invested into the Ashley regime and embraced the mediocrity thrown our way. Quite frankly, (not all of us, but in general) we have the club we deserve right now.

Nar, we're NUFC man...we cannit compete!

He should have been given so much abuse from our fans, whilst playing, in public etc. that he demanded to leave and go to any shithouse that would take him. I don't care if that's of low standards, the chap is a horrible little mackem traitor who has never contributed shit to this club. As said above, that 0-3 shit should have been enough to be a permanent turn off for our fanbase but because he fouls needlessly the whole time that is apparently a redeeming feature!... Hope he has a shit career wherever he goes next.

Personally finding that my appetite for the club and the coming season have been reduced significantly after the last couple of weeks. Of course, if we beat Spurs it will turn on its head, but of late it's been a very depressing reminder of just how stifled the club is by Ashley. Watching such an unbelievable opportunity in Rafa Benitez as our manager not being maximized despite the biggest TV deal in football history benefiting the club, I really am running out of energy for NUFC.

Should we stay up (possible) and Rafa comes to next summer transfer window and it is all the same again, he'd be a fool to hang around. It is what will happen, and the better he does the less chance of heavy investment he will have; it will be the classic 'well the team isn't broken so we don't need to fix it' crap. Realistically, I can't see him beyond this season. Interpret this as a doom/gloom, knee-jerk reaction or whatever, but if he quits after keeping us up it will be another shithouse appointment with piss poor investment that sees us relegated. In 10 years time we'll still have whatever dour cunts there are on Sky Sports talking about just 'HOW MUCH POTENTIAL DOES THIS CLUB HAVE, TONY ADAMS?!', or whatever wanker Ashley comes up with next. If Rafa is forced out, whether it be during this season or at the end of it, it really will be a case of what fucking potential? How can a club have potential if there is a firmly ingrained culture of mediocrity and resentment to progress at the top of it? Our objective is to survive in the top division, literally that is it. We haven't won a trophy in most of our fanbases lifetime, whilst the last 10 years have seen us yo-yo between the PL and Champ. Add to that the fact we sell all of our best players on the first offer.....bar Rafa there really isn't much left of this place. I'm off to hang myself, anyway.

Every bad home result will be down to the crowd demanding too much, no doubt. As if I couldn't hate him and Sky Sports any more. Hope their offices go up in flames and he's locked in the studio....alone. Cunt.

It's all Trumps fault.

I think its a bit delusional at this stage to say his time isn't limited. All the signs are there that this is taking a nosedive. He's basically admitted that we have a load of rubbish players who we can't shift, but have to because that is our fucking shithouse policy. As I said the other day, a group of players signed years ago in an attempt to try and beat the system- low/no fee, but Premiership wages. These weren't well researched players, they were fucking cheap and that's all that mattered to the total cunts running our club. They showed total disregard for club legends such as Keegan and Shearer, shit from a monumental height on the gentleman (and savior) that is Christ Hughton in favor of Alan Pardew, yet they won't force Rafa out? Come off it. Our transfer policy is evidently unchanged, and this whole 'every last penny available' stuff was just PR bait to shut us all up, including Rafa. We're back in the game- re the PL money game. We're here to survive and cash in on the TV deal, we're not here to progress and build a legacy under Benitez and win trophies, qualify for Europe etc. I'm at the end of my tether with the club at this point, what's the fucking point.

Might go Derby double chance tomorrow

Just shows though that we're struggling to assemble a squad for the league, the cups will be a guaranteed write-off yet again.

Meanwhile in England... GET RID! The thought of a Newcastle team trying to do that at SJP... Not in terms of ability, but the crowds reactions- people would be having seizures, man!

Well Correa is playing (well) for Atleti tonight. With their issue on transfers too I'd be surprised if it happened!

It wasn't shrewd. Yes, we needed the squad depth but for his price + wages it was a desperation more than sense. I don't agree at all, one more injury and he would've become essential. And he would've done an OK job. Obviously to get these players you have to give them more than a one-season contract, it's just the price a promoted teams pays. Of course we have made some s*** signings too. I agree, we couldn't have gone in that light. But as I said his wages of around £40,000 a week and £5m fee was poor business. Colback, although signed for free, is probably on around that, and now we are burdened with both of those clowns- primarily because of what it will take to get them to leave for less money if possible. Neither were well researched imo, just like countless others over the last few years.

It wasn't shrewd. Yes, we needed the squad depth but for his price + wages it was a desperation more than sense.

Easily 6 players who we could/should dispose of, I agree. You look at the likes of Colback, Riviere, Haidara (I don't think he's that bad but it hasn't worked out), Saivet, and even Hanley and it really does make a total mockery of our whole penny-pinching, austerity transfer policy. Of course, not every signing will go your way but some of the absolute crap we've brought in over Ashley's reign- and some of them not even that cheap- and it really isn't hard to see why we are where we are. It just shows that sometimes you have to suck it up and pay a bit extra for quality players. We couldn't bring ourselves to do that and instead went for unforgivably bad transfers like Colback (to replace Cabaye) and we got what we deserved. I can see why Hanley was purchased but nonetheless he's not close to good enough for the PL, and for around £5m is bloody scandalous for what he has contributed and the contradiction it makes of our policies. Absolutely, we need to shift these players but we just as badly need to sign good new players and not doing so, yet again, is not fucking good enough. The only reason we will dig our heals in is not because we cant shift some of these cunts, but because we don't 'balance the books' enough. It's a load of bollocks.

Need to get players out?! Jesus fucking Christ.

Aye, you'd swear most people just turn up to the match so they can moan and have a very cynical 'i told you so' attitude. An absolute shadow of the 'loyalist football supporters the world has ever had' self-acclaimed title. Fact is, it will be considerably tougher this coming season. I feel we could be lacking goals as I don't think Gayle/Mitrovic/Perez have the ability to score consistently at this level, so home games will be absolutely crucial. I also think that at home there will be plenty of 'sitting in' as such as a team, letting the oppo. have the ball and trying to break us down in our half; our crowd can get very agitated over this sort of thing (I can understand why, sort of), but everyone needs to understand that its for a good reason. The fact that we have the likes of Diame, Colback, Dummet still in the squad shows that we are a couple of injuries/suspensions away from a really challenging season. However, I think Rafa's conservative methods will suit us more in the PL rather than the Championship. I think with the creativity of de Jong, and the additional pace of Murphy we will be more of a threat on the counter attack. Hopefully Lejeune will give us a bit more at set-pieces, and I'm sure will be better in the build up phase than Lascelles. Whatever your thoughts, we have no better man for the job. We have a man that so many clubs in the country would have in a heartbeat. People need to get into the mindset of not being moaning cunts, and unify with Rafa and the players, as we know they all want the best for the club. Go to the match, sing your lungs out, and give as much abuse to the oppo as is physically possible. St. James' needs to be a fortress! As said, hopefully the singing section gets people going. What a man, though! Totally agree with Dan in that in 10 years it really should be the case that he's mentioned in the same breath as our all time greats.