Darth Crooks

Blamed the xmas fixtures yet?

Ben Arfa may be greedy/lacking intelligence etc but we've all seen what he is capable of. People praise Pardew's handling of him but each time he comes on; attacking role seems to be pinned entirely on him with the likes of shola just to be static and nod things down. It's poor management of the player and those around him. He is our best player regardless of whether you think he's overrated/Eusebio.

I am firmly of the belief that if he we're in charge of transfers that we'd be in some sort of Martin O'Neill situation. Flatters to decieve.

100%

Is this really worth the effort like?

Can people pack it in with the shit Ben Arfa crack?

How you can start with Ameobi over Hatem Ben Arfa. Go a man down and still leave him before realising 'Ah he doesn't actually move, I'll bring him off' is beyond me. I do struggle with his inconsistent nonsense.

Thing is Gouff will come off not Shola (I know he's tired but that's down to having to run for a stump of a colleague) and Ben Arfa will come on all too late for the wrong player.

Some over-aggression here but put Benny on ye geet belmer.

http://i.imgur.com/xL1F5NO.gif

http://www.themag.co.uk/assets/MA002_Mike-Ashley_Newcastle_United_NUFC.jpg (I agree btw. Just not the scope of the man's ambition.)

The buzzkill is probably down to what may happen in january and the myth making surrounding the hellish Europa League last season. God forbid we manage it again.

Another big january to assess how big a twat this man is.

What's happen to Gouffran ? Grass allergy playing up innit?

Not much difference IMO. http://images.forbes.com/media/lists/10/2010/vincent-tan.jpg LUK WHO WIN AGAIN

We've never won a single game against cuntflap city when Ben Arfa has had a run in the side. Fact.

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I do find it niggling after a win with aggressive attack mode how he talks as its some adopted masterstroke. Hes changing things for the better of late so i hope he builds on it. Cue mike to drop a gigaton hbomb of turboshit soon though.

Done in tiotes predator vision too.....kikkikikkkk'

fuck off man

2 defenders brought on when 2-0 down typifies the reasons I am so critical of him and why I think I'll never be fully convinced. Just don't understand that at all.

The bit in bold is absolute bollocks by the way. Is it? They've said they don't want to be in the Europa League. They've said they don't prioritise the domestic cups. Pardew has played down Champions League aspirations so that whilst it's an alleged 'goal', it's not exactly a priority. The bolded part is 100% correct. It's all Ashley's bothered about. In the cold light of day, it's all any club (outside the top 4/5) have as their first priority, anything else is icing on the cake, secure that first, as absolutely paramount, then see what happens. Our lot happened to put it into words, but doesn't make it any less true for them all though. Don't agree at all, tbh. I highly doubt Ashley's mindset is one that is reflected in every single Premier League boardroom. The top 4/5 remark is even more irrelevant now, given how open the league is this season. So, at the start of the season do you think anyone but the top 4/5 were expecting it to be so open and didn't have getting to 40 points asap as their numero uno priority thus being safe ?? I suppose everyone prioritises Premier League survival in the same way that when humans are born, we intend to live until the next day and so on. I suppose it's numero uno priority in that sense. The absolute bare minimum. But Ashley has no substantial interest in anything beyond that, and that's what disappoints me. And I don't think there are many others in the league that have that thoroughly 'anti-sport' attitude, regardless of what backgrounds they come from. You have no proof of that. Equally neither do I have any proof of the contrary. But based upon his business track record he'll want one hell of a lot more than average, but he'll do it his way. People like him don't do second best (I've worked closely with/for a few in my time and they weren't anything like the scale of Ashley, they were "only" worth tens of millions, they were frighteningly driven/ruthless enough for me though, but I bet they were like kittens compared to this fucker) they'll do it their way and everyone be damned and they play a VERY long game. Absolutely I accept I could be totally wrong, but as ever, only time will tell but he'd be going against every instinct in his make up to be happy with so-so or bare minimum in my opinion. Who's interests does this ultimately benefit though his own interests or NUFC's success. His own brand has gained free advertising through the guise of 'showcasing'. Are their interests one and the same?

Depends if you think every chairman of every teams priority is safety above progression in a cup of league place. That assertion made about safety as paramount requires a greater level of conjecture than the details made by our own clubs official correspondence with the fans. Which is well documented on here.

No-one is saying Ashley isn't a monstrous twat, but he's a successful one, if that success rubs off/is transmitted onto the field no-one will (or shouldn't) give a shit about all that though. He's a monstrous piece of shit, get used to it, he's NOT going to change, the angst is a waste of effort/emotion. It's for exactly the last point you've made I won't accept that this run of results is down to him running the club as it should be. I'll give Pardew credit despite being one his staunchest critics but to accept what Ashley is on the basis on a 4 result upturn is defeatist and frankly daft. I do not trust the bloke to make the right decisions and he's given us frequent lisence to expect he'll do the same in future. Pardew's only here because he was daft enough to agree to provide an 8 year meal ticket imo.

Name changing the stadium, lack of investment until we're on the brink of relegation and openingly admitting we have no other priority than exist in the premier league qualifies as not doing things the right way imo. Many decisions have been made with total disregard for the support. I accept unpopular decisions have to made in the game and we can debate the semantics of 'shafting' (You damn right...) til the cows come home but I can't understand the non-chalance at the conduct of Ashley regardless of how the bloke in the thread title is doing.