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Aye, Baby Lego Head can get to fuck.

Just had a look to see where NUFC sit in the ten year coefficient ranking. Not entirely sure what I was expecting as I don't confess to understand it, but seeing us sat below Hull, Swansea and Wigan is a bit of a kick in the nuts.

This. The whole thing is just pitiful and he's been flat as fuck for weeks, almost as if he's waiting to be peddled. It's bad crack to want him to dead of convid, I just wish the fat fucka would buy a cottage in Alderley Edge and retire there, then he could live in an area where the people will probably like him. If he buys one with a big garden he could sow some tatties and maybe even get some hens - a bit like Richard Briars in The Good Life, but with a touch of gout and a cholesterol problem. The fresh air and the healthy diet would do him the world of good.

Has he tweeted that? He posted a photo of a slice of toast and that had been engraved into it with a toast stamper. It was a big slice of toast.

Should be made to eat Bruce's first shite of tomorrow morning, the stupid, useless cunt.

It's a knocking bet that he's on lifelong medication for gout.

Can't wait til he has a bottle of wine later, that'll be fun.

Desperate, even by his standards. Self-parody territory.

Documentary on Wallsend Boys Club from 1994 which I hadn't seen before. Even an appearance from our current manager fails to ruin it.

What's worse than having one shit manager? Looks like Ashley has the answer. I remember Boro doing something similar by bringing in Venables to assist Robson when they went on a bad run. Can anyone remember whether that was a success or not?

If it had been any other club than Newcastle United, the conversation about an impending takeover would have been enough to write a story predicting the Mike Ashley era could be soon be over. There were phrases like “the money is there.” Followed by “due diligence is complete.” The buyers are ready to go and it is potentially just “days away” from going to the Premier League for approval. The new owners will hopefully be in place sometime in February. Ashley will be gone and the club can change… Sounds exciting doesn’t it? But why should anyone believe it will happen when so many others have failed? If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again expecting a different outcome, Newcastle takeover claims will drive you insane. I have not kept a precise record of how many times I have been told things like this about interested buyers since Ashley first put the club up for sale in the summer of 2008. But it is a lot and the regularity with which it comes round has increased. Newcastle has been a club “for sale” on and off, for most of the 13 and a half years Ashley has been owner. According to those who work for him, it should be the easiest deal to do in the history of easiest deals. All you do is show Ashley the money and he will be gone. However, given the easiest deal in the history of easiest deals has never been done, it suggests it really is not easy at all. Maybe it is the asking price – back up to £340 million – or perhaps it really is down to the fact every potential buyer has been a time waster, could not get the money together, were blocked from taking over by the Premier League or simply changed their mind. But this is not really about takeovers, it is about how boring Newcastle have become. A club where the one thing you could always rely on was entertainment, good or bad, has become dull, insipid, listless. If Newcastle were once a soap opera, they are now the advert for a sport shop in the commercial break. They are predictable, monotonous and repetitive. It is a club trapped in a death spiral, a club operating in an echo chamber, with the same conversations, controversies and complaints replayed year after year. Managers are sacked or quit and are replaced. None have been able to bring any meaningful improvement in results or league position with the budget they are given. None could change Ashley or persuade him to be more ambitious, but if they look like they will fail to do the one thing he needs them to do – stay in the Premier League – they are removed. The average league finish under Ashley is 13th, but one top six finish artificially lifts that. The reality is Newcastle have been a bottom half or the Premier League side for more than a decade. Or they have been in the Championship. Newcastle United manager Steve Bruce on the touchline during the Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium, Londo Steve Bruce has guided Newcastle to more lower-table mediocrity CREDIT: PA/Adam Davy Every season, other than the first in 2007/8 and a freak year under Alan Pardew in 2011/12, Newcastle have been, to varying degrees of threat, in a relegation battle. Two of them were lost, with promotion from the Championship the following year providing a brief respite from the toil and misery. At least supporters remembered what it was like to win more games than you lose. That is where we are again. Newcastle are in danger of going down and another manager is under pressure. We are all wondering when Ashley will decide it is too much of a risk to rely on Bruce to keep Newcastle up. Alan Shearer came in with eight games of the season left and could not save them. Rafael Benitez had nine games, but also failed to keep them up. Both had superior squads to the one Bruce has now. So, will the change come? Will Ashley sack Bruce and find another manager, not because he wants to give the supporters what they want, but so he can continue to ask for £340 million to sell and protect the £100 million plus profit he intends to make on the deal. For nearly 14 years, Ashley has done nothing for Newcastle other than control it. He has not improved one aspect of its performance, on or off the pitch. There has not been any investment in infrastructure, no transformation of the academy, no modernisation of the training ground. It has been stripped back, hollowed out, living off the television money, filling out the stadium with cut price season ticket offers and 10,000 free ones last season – existing, surviving and that is about it. The supporters know all this. They know what, or rather who, the real problem is, but they cannot force Ashley to sell. They have tried and failed. But they can call for a manager to be sacked; a change that can be made in the hope it reverses their current downward trajectory. It may make watching their team a little more enjoyable at least, the whole sorry mess vaguely more tolerable. Newcastle United are a futile football club but the fans still want Steve Bruce sacked Whatever progress Bruce imagined he could bring in the summer has not materialised. If anything, things have deteriorated. Newcastle have rarely been fun to watch since they returned to the top-flight in 2017 but had a resilience and spirit that got them out of trouble. They were grim on the eye, but strangely commendable despite it. That has gone and if Bruce does not find it again, somehow, he is doomed. Newcastle have gone nine games without a win in all competitions and have scored only one goal in the last seven. Whatever way you look at it, this is clearly not good enough. If Bruce does not win one of the next three games, against Leeds United, Aston Villa and Everton, even Ashley will panic. When he does that, a change in manager is inevitable. If there were fans inside the stadiums, there would be an angry, seething chorus of calls for Bruce to go. There would be no hiding place. But there are not, and Newcastle remain seven points clear of the bottom three and their points tally at this stage of the season compares favourably with previous years. They are in trouble, for sure, but Ashley may well only see league position as important. And why would he want to sack a manager who has diverted criticism away from him, pay out millions of pounds in compensation and then find a new man to take over, who knows they will be joining a club that is up for sale and could have new owners in a matter of weeks not months? It always comes back to this. There always seems to be a takeover in the background, normally when the transfer window is open, but nothing happens, so nothing changes. Bruce may well lose his job, but you suspect it is only a matter of time until we are back here again, with a different manager in charge and with all the same arguments being made. For once, let’s hope the new takeover talk is real or the Saudi Arabian led consortium that has been stuck in a legal wrangle with the Premier League since April can find a breakthrough and that deal – the one Ashley seems to want – can be revived. Somehow, you doubt it.

The main message I took from reading this is that of all the managers who have been employed by Ashley, Bruce has been dealt the shittiest hand so can't really be blamed if we go the journey.

He might be bang average at football, but at least he excels at being a fat cunt.

I wasn't sure either, but when you read the full thread in Twitter it seems to be in response to his " I can Google and I can read" comment.

Steve Wraith knows everyone. He was on the radio yesterday morning sharing stories about the times he'd spent with Barbara Windsor.

Yeah, it's a massive amount of activity. If it means nowt then it'll bite them on the arse.

So Nick liked a tweet from NCSL calling Nick a 'top man'......Sorry Im not following the dots........... That's not what I was on about.

For those who use Twitter, I'd recommend that you go and take a look at @NCSL1892 Likes.

NCSL have liked this tweet. Time to get carried away over nowt

Fantastic, thank you!

Full quotes here: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rafa-benitez-refuses-rule-out-19312817

The Saudi-led consortium that attempted to buy Newcastle United intends to re-submit its £305million bid if the club succeeds in winning an arbitration case against the Premier League. Newcastle finally issued a statement to confirm that “arbitration proceedings” are under way after the collapse of the bid from the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, the Reuben Brothers and Amanda Staveley’s PCP Capital Partners. The offer was withdrawn in July when PIF grew frustrated at an impasse with the Premier League, amid concerns over the ownership structure, still not approving the proposed takeover despite it having been submitted in April. Newcastle and the club’s owner Mike Ashley are contesting the use of the Premier League’s Owners and Directors Test and the buyers are also confident that they should have passed a test that, they argue, became impossible to deal with because of the demands placed upon them. If Newcastle are successful and with Ashley remaining committed to selling to the consortium it is likely a new bid will be made in the hope of finally concluding a deal. Independent arbitration was offered to the buyers in the summer by the Premier League but it was declined because of concerns over the process and because they were adamant the takeover should have been approved. In its statement Newcastle confirmed that it “has issued arbitration proceedings against the EPL” but added that it would not comment on its “substance” meaning it is unclear whether it has gone down the route offered by the Premier League for arbitration under its rule-book or taken another direction. The unprecedented dispute highlights the rift between Newcastle and the Premier League of which it is a shareholder. The statement followed the Premier League responding to a Letter Before Action from Newcastle Consortium Supporters Ltd – a group of fans who have launched their own legal action – in which it appeared to confirm that legal proceedings involving the club were underway and will take priority. In its statement Newcastle claims that “it appears” the Premier League “has leaked the contents of their letter to some of those commenting in the public domain” despite “the confidentiality clause in the Premier League’s rules”. The club said it had not previously announced its action because of this although Blackstone Chambers, the law firm, confirmed that QCs Nick de Marco and Shaheed Fatima had been instructed to examine Newcastle’s legal options in September. That social media post by Blackstone Chambers was later deleted. “The club makes no comment on the substance of the arbitration, but it can confirm that it has issued arbitration proceedings against the EPL,” Newcastle said. It remains unclear as to what form the proceedings will take but Section X of the Premier League Handbook deals with arbitration. It states that a Form 28 has to be submitted by the “party requesting an arbitration” with the Premier League board sending “to each party particulars of those individuals who are members of the panel”. If a case goes to arbitration it is usually heard by a three-strong panel, with each party appointing one member and a legally-qualified chairman selected. That is usually someone who the other two members agree on and, if that cannot happen, the choice is normally made by the Football Association given the Premier League is one of the parties. Alternatively both parties can decide on a single, legally qualified arbitrator. The tribunals have the power to “determine any question of law or fact arising in the course of arbitration”, “order the rectification of a deed” and can also order compensation is paid. With Newcastle it appears the commitment remains to agree the sale of the club although there will be continued frustration for fans given there remains no timescale to resolve the dispute.

What did the tweet from Ben Jacobs say? I missed it.

Twitter has brought everyone back to their childhood days. It really is just a bunch of kids, calling each other names and then crying to teacher when they don't like it. Here, on this thread, its a battle of the believers and the non believers but the lack of information basically means any scrap of info is fought over. We basically have a jigsaw but without the full number of pieces and no picture to build the jigsaw from. NUFC Twitter is a really dark place. Amongst other things, it's disturbing just how many sex pests we have in our support.