ExiledGeordie

Well just think, now not are we only stingy but also have an utter cretin in JFK leading negotiations.

I hope you are right obviously. The thing that slightly, well more than slightly, worries me is the lack of clarity or planning that seems evident in our transfer startegy at the moment. I havent seen much of this Gomis lad tbh. Bent more so and Remy to an extent...but they all appear different kind of forwards. With Cisse staying, a big postive imo, then I would have thought we would have known what we want to supplimant him. its no use just randomly picking strikers out of thin air, or based on price ifwe havent a cohesive plan in place to enhance Cisse with the new signing. For instance. I wouldnt be going mental if the manager or powers signed Carlton Cole...now put the gun down and wait a bit! Lets say Pardew simply said.."I know 442. I know how to use a big un and a little un up front. I know I want wingers to supply them. I know my limitations, and so Cole and a small nippy type of strike partner it is. I also am gonna sign a Beagrie type of winger to supply em".. at least theres a plan. Maybe a very simple one!, but a kind of joined up thinking. Instead we get Sissoko being mooted as number 10, Cisse out wide, dear lord Ameobi out wide. Cabaye not deep enough (imo) and Tiote , well him on the pitch is bad enough for me. I can get the Remy idea, if he is happy with movement out wide being expected from him. I just worry we kinda just grab players without a thought of how we can utilise them. The managers apparent inability to utilise players properly and set the team up correctly is a major concern for me. He looked like a rabbit in head lights for mot of last season. A few bad results could see him press on with his panic defensive hoof ball and then the season really is thrown under a bus.

This is a good post - sums up the whole situation perfectly. The club will not improve until a) it gets an owner who is prepared to invest in it properly and b) employs a proven or very promising manager with a good record. May be some time happening.... Yeah excellent post

Exactly, I'm just surprised that some seem surprised/angry at this transfer window carry on. It's par for the course with this lot. Same old shit, I feel frustrated like the next person but it just feels like the norm these days.

Maybe a simplistic 2 + 2 comment to make but it all seems like manoevering putting more power in JFKs hands. Someone who has openly expressed a desire to return to management in a position above the current manager now with his assistant arriving. Hmmm

spot on Jesus talk about jobs for the boys, dear oh dear

Well they're certainly clearing the dead wood out, question is will they actually buy anyone

This is the first year I couldn't give two fucks about the transfer window, completely lost interest in what we do. Probably still the layover from last season and accentuated by JFKs arrival. Saw Mbiwa and Haidara in Waitrose earlier, Mbiwa isn't that big for a centre half.

As good as gone

Kinnear will be in charge by september

Spot on. It's perfectly acceptable if someone thinks "you know what this is is turning point, I don't agree with it and out of principle I'm not going anymore" It doesn't suddenly cast them as a turn coat unwilling to stick through thick and thin. People are perfectly within their rights to question the way the club is being run and the only way someone may feel they can uphold their displeasure is to stay away however much it may hurt them. What a pathetically naive line of attack to suggest that someone who decides to call it a day after this last fiasco of "Carry on up St James" is somehow simply throwing their toys out the pram and stamping their feet and the first sign of trouble. The list of car crash decisions with these cronies in charge is endless.

Darren Gough on talk sport, dear oh dear. Why don't they get someone on who is actually football related?

Ironic that I live 20 mins from the ground and have moved back to Newcastle after something like 14 yrs away and yet I have absolutely zero desire to go and watch this pathetic excuse for a football club. A new footballing low for me.

Really? Yes, assuming you get any enjoyment for watching the football obviously. So very few if any are depriving themselves of anything positive. Ian the football club is a car crash of an operation. I'm not even the hardcore, far from it but I simply can't be arsed to pay for tickets anymore given what's going on. I love the club and ill always support them but there's more to life than forcing myself to go and hand over cash when I've become so disillusioned. This last act spells out exact what Ashley thinks in terms of ambition and football know how and the only eay I can vote is with my feet and not go. It's disappointing and it's s*** but that's the decision I've come to, it's the principle of it all.

Similar feelings here, except I guess it's more outright incompetence than contempt for anyone. Why? It's contempt quite clearly IMO. Ashley has invented a role for someone when there was no talk of this before. He knows the fan feeling towards Kinnear/pardew and he knows what reaction this would get hence why he did it anyway. I highly doubt he thought this would benefit nufc in any way You honestly believe Mike Ashley is out to wind up his own customers? He doesn't care what we think, true, but these kinds of decisions are just idiotic, not vicious. He might not set out to deliberately wind fans up but then if that's not the case he's clearly so clueless with regards football and so thick skinned that he simply doesn't care. Hes playing on the fact that he knows the club is so much to the region that people will still turn out and pack the stands despite what he does. This really is the final action for me under his ownership though, it's just such total bollocks. I've got no intention to go at all now which is a crying shame given that I've moved back to Newcastle and live 20 min walk from the ground. Had enough

That's pretty much the way I feel mate, it's a total waste of time

I still can't quite believe this It's so utterly absurd I've been driven to nervous laughter

It's the worst possible jobs for the boys example and sums everything up about Ashley's intentions at the club. He's showed all his cards with this one, no doubt. Colossal fuck up

I was actually thinking about going to watch some games too having read all the latest nonsense

I don't have a season ticket but I went to plenty of the home games. I can't be arsed anymore so won't be spending my money on tickets, that's all I can do

It just says everything about the current set up that they would actually move to appoint someone like this for a position like that. It's a total waste of time the whole thing. What next Sports Direct United

If this actually happens I'm fucking it all off, total waste of time. The word farce wouldn't even come close to doing that situation justice

Well that would be a surprise wouldn't it

Betting suspended