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Glad it's not just me.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo not Smith.

Does anyone think that someone like Warnock or Holloway would have just diffused the comments by Barton on Twitter with a glib comment?

Who do we have to replace him on the right hand side of midfield? Because Cabaye can't play there. Raylor is now in left defence, Obertan hasn't looked that comfortable in RM and f*** knows where Marveaux is. Gosling? Actualy f*** it, we might aswell give Coloccini to Sevilla, Tiote to Chelsea, and Jonas to some Spanish twats (for free ofcourse, we wouldn't want to gain anything from losing our best players afterall). We have Williamson, Guthrie and Ferguson to fit right in, so we don't need them anyway. Would you feel better if i bought you an ice cream, you sound like you need a cuddle. If it sounds like I need a cuddle then why are you offering Ice Cream? I'd take a cuddle like, if you're offering. It works every time with my kids, an ice cream and a cuddle Can we rename the thread - Joey Barton - Ice Cream & Cuddles.

How come? Rest are c***s. I work on the opposite philosophy, love watching Wenger loose but will support anyone else.

This. It's hard to weep for the uncertain financial future of poor racehorse-owning Joey Barton. I'm extremely good at what I do and get a reasonable wedge for doing it, but it would take me decades to earn what Joey has trousered from just one season at NUFC. Yes but the going rate for a footballer is a lot more than people get for what society would deen more important jobs whether it is a bricklayer, a nurse, or your avarage office worker or factory line worker at Nissan. Footballers at the top level get ridiculous wages but only in comparison to most of the population. Rightly or wrongly the pay is onlty realistically compared with what other premiership clubs' players are earning. Missing the point by some distance. He doesn't have to think about security, he's sucure for life, so his kids and their kids and generations for a long time. Security has been mentioned more than a couple of times in here, which I find ridiculous. Mentioning security is comparing his situation to the average Joe, us who are struggling with bills, looking for work, losing their homes, their businesses, Barton will never understand that, so people mentioning security can lay off the dramatics IMO. I disagree. It's all relative. If Barton lived in a 3 bed semi, and drove a 52 plate astra then yes, what he has in the bank would mean security for the rest of his life. But he doesn't. Again missing the point, security has no relevance when you are dealing in millions in the bank. Tell that to anyone with a few mill in the bank looking at the possible end of their income in a year. He'd get offers after here. Probably a better club than QPR as well. Again your assuming that De Jong doesn't break his leg this season. Any time a club let a footballer enter the last year of their contract a gamble is made on all parts. Will he be decent and we can resign him. Will he break his leg and we can get rid. Will he be shit and we can get rid. Will he be too good and we can't afford to keep him. Will a cuntish London club get taken over by Cuntish owners and throw money at him. We gambled and lost.

This. It's hard to weep for the uncertain financial future of poor racehorse-owning Joey Barton. I'm extremely good at what I do and get a reasonable wedge for doing it, but it would take me decades to earn what Joey has trousered from just one season at NUFC. Yes but the going rate for a footballer is a lot more than people get for what society would deen more important jobs whether it is a bricklayer, a nurse, or your avarage office worker or factory line worker at Nissan. Footballers at the top level get ridiculous wages but only in comparison to most of the population. Rightly or wrongly the pay is onlty realistically compared with what other premiership clubs' players are earning. Missing the point by some distance. He doesn't have to think about security, he's sucure for life, so his kids and their kids and generations for a long time. Security has been mentioned more than a couple of times in here, which I find ridiculous. Mentioning security is comparing his situation to the average Joe, us who are struggling with bills, looking for work, losing their homes, their businesses, Barton will never understand that, so people mentioning security can lay off the dramatics IMO. I disagree. It's all relative. If Barton lived in a 3 bed semi, and drove a 52 plate astra then yes, what he has in the bank would mean security for the rest of his life. But he doesn't. Again missing the point, security has no relevance when you are dealing in millions in the bank. Tell that to anyone with a few mill in the bank looking at the possible end of their income in a year.

How can you say that when we have barely had enough time to judge Cabaye? It's a major ask for these new signings to hit the ground running when they come from a different country/league. Taking to it like to a duck to water (as Robert did) is very rare. And if they fail because they have been thrown in the deep end then it's unforgivable on our part. Look at the way Man Utd bring in players through their team gradually keeping old heads but blooding youngsters where as with teams like us it's be a superstar or fuck off.

Yet mike Ashley paid out a record amount in bonuses to his staff at sports direct, an average £44k for a full time worker in one of the worst periods retail has ever gone through in this country. That £44k bonus figure is misleading. The details I'd found are: The bonus is in two stages. The first bonus is 25% of base pay in shares of £1 per share. The first bonus target was underlying EBITDA of £155m in 2009-10 and was achieved in that Year. The first bonus will vest in 2012. The second bonus is 75% of base pay in shares of £1.25 per share. The second stage of the bonus was conditional upon the first bonus target being met in 2009-10, attaining underlying EBITDA of £195 million in 2010-2011, and underlying EBITDA /Net Debt ratio of two or less at the end of 2010-11. All these targets were achieved in the Year. The average salary at Sports Direct is £20,000. So I might be wrong here but by my calculations the average bonus will be about £24,000 in shares over a period of 2 years. Which is a very tidy sum but nowhere near what was quoted in the press. The post office did something like this afew years back and now the shares have matured, they are worth nothing And when you say average that's the bloke that's getting two mill and the bloke that's getting 50p combined.

Losing the biggest trouble maker in NUFC history at the same time. Howay man we've had plenty worse. Bellamy was one of the biggest wind up merchants going in his time with us, just didn't have twitter to slag Shearer off when he was with us.

Only way he's gonna show his face is if Scunny do us 5 -1.

Woah there sausage, hate Ashley not the club, the club was here before and will be here long after Fatty implodes. I love this club more than the wife and kids, more than breathing and more than chocolate hob nobs. Wife I can understand, but kids?! He lost me after Chocolate Hob Nobs. A dastardly chocolate delight, lovely crumbly biscuit with chocolate on top, i'd bum that inventor.

Woah there sausage, hate Ashley not the club, the club was here before and will be here long after Fatty implodes. I love this club more than the wife and kids, more than breathing and more than chocolate hob nobs. Wife I can understand, but kids?! He lost me after Chocolate Hob Nobs.

If you tell me i'm gonna get kicked in the balls in a couple of weeks i'll still be f***ing angry about it when it happens. Then you'd be daft, especially if you had been running your mouth about me before hand. Only difference is I gave you a fair warning you'd be getting what you deserved. So no surprises. He said something he shouldn't have said in public, everyone on the forum had the debate, it settled down. Club didn't retract their 'he's on a free transfer' status, and now he's left on a free transfer. He had a good season for us, but before that I don't think there were many that wanted him here. Chances are Obertan is his replacement, or maybe there's one coming in, who knows. I'll give you me be being daft, but will still argue that just because we know it's coming doesn't mean we don't have the right to be angry about it.

If you tell me i'm gonna get kicked in the balls in a couple of weeks i'll still be fucking angry about it when it happens.

That is the fear now, there is only Colo and Jonas left to get rid of. Tiote. Then in another season Barfa & Cabaye.

We won't be able to get a replacement for Joey as the other clubs now know we need to replace Joey and that will make it difficult to get a new signing across the line at such short notice - that or some other bollox excuse Pardew will give us next week.

After his start to the season and the fact that QPR asked us first if they could talk to him we should have just sat him down and offered a deal there and then.

Aye and some excellent PR from his agent to seal the deal.

Spot on.

Because as a footballer if he has a horror injury like a leg break a month or two before his contract ends that could be it for him. At the end of the day this is a job for him and he needs to protect his long term future. Can't blame the lad for that.

Fucking insanity, if there was any remaining doubt about the ambitions of the current owners this is the final death knoll. It's going to take one hell of a transfer coup to make up for this. He's the sort of player you need to rouse the rest of the team when things are going badly. Madness.

Today's word of the day is: schadenfreude.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=620799 :mackems: :mackems: :mackems: :mackems: Outstanding, bravo.