Ishmael

Made me chuckle. Sad, but true.

Is that supposed to be a negative? No in the short term, but yes in the long run.

From a QPR supporting friend from another board:

Owen wont go and probably shouldn't. That, of course, may change over the next few months.

Jose :aww: :aww: :aww: :aww: :aww: :aww: :aww:

Fabio to win it for England

Pleased with how that went.

Ashburton Grove.

Well Arsenal have a £3m a year deal for example. They have one of the largest match day incomes in Europe and yet still opted to sell the stadium naming rights. All I'm saying WBCP is that you should deem this as a valid means of making money.

OK, so everyone here who is arguing against Ashley now. If say we had a more reputable chairman and were in the same situation as we currently are - nobody give me the "WE WOULDN'T BE lol" arguement please. Would you all still be against selling the naming rights? Knowing that it was needed to help secure the future of the club.

Basically we need a whole new squad But yeah, I agree that £6m wont be anywhere near enough to avoid immediate relegation back to the CCC. So, people must really come to understand just how important fund raising is for the club currently - by any reasonable means.

That's what they want you to think. Well we wont see any money in Jan anyway as he isn't selling the rights till the summer, probably expecting us to be back in the prem. He did say he's looking for 6m which Hughton will get so I assume if we go up his budget will be whatever this stadium bollocks generates. Pretty essential that we strengthen the squad to survive, IF we make it back to the EPL. Basically, we need to ensure our EPL status to ensure the future of the club. Which selling the stadium naming rights would be a step towards. Better to loose one aspect of our tradition than the whole club?

That's what they want you to think. Well anything else would be somewhat illegal, no? I mean the only thing they can legally do with sponorship money is invest it back into the club. Whatever means they choose to invest in, of course, is up to them.

The problem is that too much money is being filtered into the team, via the some of the extravagant wages we're burdened with. Maybe selling the stadium rights will ease that burden and we could potentially see new arrivals in January?

Care to expand on what it is exactly that I am missing here? Ok bugger tradition. Lets change from black and white stripes to red and white stripes. And lets not play at our traditional newcastle location, lets move to Milton Keynes instead. And Newcastle United sounds too traditional, lets change to something more catchy. Catch my drift? Look I get that people are somewhat upset about loosing tradition, but we need to consider what is best for the club at the moment. I imagine that many were origionally upset at sponsors names being printed on shirts - but now it is common practice and nobody cares. It wouldn't suprise me if the selling of stadium naming right expanded significantly over the next decade - so why not move with the times? Also, take a look at what selling stadium rights can potentially earn a team/francise: http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/14/baseball-mets-citigroup-biz_cz_kb_1114naming_slide.html You do know that black and white is not our original strip colour too? Albeit that we only had red for 2 years, it was still the original kit. So we moved ahead of the times having a strip which did not class - this was a move for advantageous reasons.

So it's just that lot then?

Care to expand on what it is exactly that I am missing here?

Owen has 4 goals in 6 starts and 8 substitute appearances this year.

Really can't see anything wrong with this apart from loosing tradition. But tradition shouldn't really stand in the way of securing extra finances for the club.

FUCK CHEAH xsmug

WTF

Is this match on the *ahem* radio?

I still think the best thing about him is that he leaves Butt out every game tbh. Amazing post

Lovenkrands and Harewood vindicating the reasons they don't play in the top flight any more.