magpie1892

If you had an ATM card that gave you access to £100,000,000 a year (and rising) in cash, would you chuck it away?

Indeed. It wouldn't make the slightest difference to how much we 'spend' on the team.

What's going on? A difference of opinion that has been reined in and one that the two protagonists have subsequently discussed in private. I agree with your second sentence to an extent. That is to say, I am convinced that Anita would show what in my opinion is his undoubted quality if he had not been managed by three of the poorest quality men ever to carry that mantle at SJP. Even McFaul would have better known how to use Anita than Pardew/Carver/McClaren.

Thanks for correcting me. I had no idea that I got that wrong and that I was using an appropriated colloquialism!

An increase of 15p an hour covers less than 90 seconds spent when staff get their full body cavity search at the end of their Shirebrook picking shifts. Various reports have the amount of time spent having your clothes and belongings checked at between four and 12 minutes. So this is pretty much par-for-the-course for Slugley - a pay cut masquerading as a real terms cut. Only Ashley... It's a bit like pretending to spend a combined £18.5m on Riviere and Cabella when the monies paid for the respective players' registrations was about £7m. Because of his multiple, multiple previous in this area (and that of Sh1t Direct), who would believe that we actually spent £54m in the summer? Even then, we bought mainly tripe. Again. And where's the change? Deloitte values the stadium advertising (2014) at £25m/yr. This is 'in lieu' of the £129m 'loan' that Slugley has lent himself and is supposedly 'interest free'. Debt paid down? Not one penny. You do the math. I remain convinced that Ashley's WHam interview was a bet with one of his dickhead pals.

Appreciate your input also. I think some of the finer details need to be revised, however. I have deleted my previous post.

My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous answer, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not. He was up against p*ss poor opponents when he played for Ajax. They walk through most of their games having enjoyed 70-75% possession of the ball. Doesn't make him good enough to play in the Premier league and he's been found wanting at a higher level. Aye, Feyenoord and PSV would never get near the EPL with luminaries like ourselves, villa, bournemouth and the mackems barring the way. Found wanting? No. Played out of position, played fleetingly, Pardewed - yes. If he were playing in an EPL team that wasn't the epitome of embarrassment then people would be singing a different song. Your average Eredivisie team (PSV and Ajax aside) would be League 1 standard. That's why they always go out of Europe early on. One of them even went out to a Scottish team last year (Aberdeen) and it's only ranked as Europes 9th strongest league these days. Believe me it's dross and being a good player there proves nothing, as we have found out. Feyenoord, FC Twente and Alkmaar in League One? Utter guff, as is all of your post, apart from correctly looking up the NL UEFA coefficient. How are PSV getting on in the Champions League, having lost three of their best players? They're not above the eliminated ManUre by any chance?! Now you're really starting to show yourself up. Twente are 2nd from bottom in the league and could be relegated due to the financial crises they find themselves in and AZ are just a bottom half side nowadays. Be honest you'd struggle to name a single player from either team. Just go back the last few years and see how many clubs they've still had representing them in Europe after Xmas. You're totally clueless. Clueless is an apt adjective to anyone who fails to understand that (more-or-less) outside the 'big three' in NL, the rest of the Eredivise and roughly half of the Eerste Divisie is pretty fluid. However, I can't be that clueless having done live ESPN commentary for the top two Dutch leagues for a season when my other half was working in Hoofddorp. I'll take ESPN's recommendation and the twice-weekly cheque over your ill-informed opinions if that's OK. Have you ever seen a game of football in The Netherlands?! Do tell. I had a season ticket at PSV Eindhoven from 2005-2012 if that helps. It would if I believed you. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/dutch-supporters-boost-sir-bobbys-1471152 Keep digging. It's missing the parts where you identify as 'James Kidd' and that you had a season ticket for seven years. Keep trying. My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous answer, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not. He was up against p*ss poor opponents when he played for Ajax. They walk through most of their games having enjoyed 70-75% possession of the ball. Doesn't make him good enough to play in the Premier league and he's been found wanting at a higher level. Aye, Feyenoord and PSV would never get near the EPL with luminaries like ourselves, villa, bournemouth and the mackems barring the way. Found wanting? No. Played out of position, played fleetingly, Pardewed - yes. If he were playing in an EPL team that wasn't the epitome of embarrassment then people would be singing a different song. Your average Eredivisie team (PSV and Ajax aside) would be League 1 standard. That's why they always go out of Europe early on. One of them even went out to a Scottish team last year (Aberdeen) and it's only ranked as Europes 9th strongest league these days. Believe me it's dross and being a good player there proves nothing, as we have found out. Feyenoord, FC Twente and Alkmaar in League One? Utter guff, as is all of your post, apart from correctly looking up the NL UEFA coefficient. How are PSV getting on in the Champions League, having lost three of their best players? They're not above the eliminated ManUre by any chance?! Now you're really starting to show yourself up. Twente are 2nd from bottom in the league and could be relegated due to the financial crises they find themselves in and AZ are just a bottom half side nowadays. Be honest you'd struggle to name a single player from either team. Just go back the last few years and see how many clubs they've still had representing them in Europe after Xmas. You're totally clueless. Clueless is an apt adjective to anyone who fails to understand that (more-or-less) outside the 'big three' in NL, the rest of the Eredivise and roughly half of the Eerste Divisie is pretty fluid. However, I can't be that clueless having done live ESPN commentary for the top two Dutch leagues for a season when my other half was working in Hoofddorp. I'll take ESPN's recommendation and the twice-weekly cheque over your ill-informed opinions if that's OK. Have you ever seen a game of football in The Netherlands?! Do tell. I had a season ticket at PSV Eindhoven from 2005-2012 if that helps. It would if I believed you. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/dutch-supporters-boost-sir-bobbys-1471152 Keep digging. It's missing the parts where you identify as 'James Kidd' and that you had a season ticket for seven years. Keep trying. Aye no doubt they've got loads of PSV season ticket holders living in Wallsend who are the same age as me. Also the fact I directed you to that link in a matter of seconds should be a dead giveaway. I've made a mug of you, time to let it go now. Who's 'me'? What age is 'wallsend mag'? Whose to say you don't have a friend who goes/went? I know plenty who go to de Kuip. Where is 'seven years' mentioned? You're right, it's definitely time to let it go now. Go into a pub and spin that yarn with a bunch of strangers, let alone a court, with that 'evidence', and they'd still be laughing now.

My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous answer, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not. He was up against p*ss poor opponents when he played for Ajax. They walk through most of their games having enjoyed 70-75% possession of the ball. Doesn't make him good enough to play in the Premier league and he's been found wanting at a higher level. Aye, Feyenoord and PSV would never get near the EPL with luminaries like ourselves, villa, bournemouth and the mackems barring the way. Found wanting? No. Played out of position, played fleetingly, Pardewed - yes. If he were playing in an EPL team that wasn't the epitome of embarrassment then people would be singing a different song. Your average Eredivisie team (PSV and Ajax aside) would be League 1 standard. That's why they always go out of Europe early on. One of them even went out to a Scottish team last year (Aberdeen) and it's only ranked as Europes 9th strongest league these days. Believe me it's dross and being a good player there proves nothing, as we have found out. Feyenoord, FC Twente and Alkmaar in League One? Utter guff, as is all of your post, apart from correctly looking up the NL UEFA coefficient. How are PSV getting on in the Champions League, having lost three of their best players? They're not above the eliminated ManUre by any chance?! Now you're really starting to show yourself up. Twente are 2nd from bottom in the league and could be relegated due to the financial crises they find themselves in and AZ are just a bottom half side nowadays. Be honest you'd struggle to name a single player from either team. Just go back the last few years and see how many clubs they've still had representing them in Europe after Xmas. You're totally clueless. Clueless is an apt adjective to anyone who fails to understand that (more-or-less) outside the 'big three' in NL, the rest of the Eredivise and roughly half of the Eerste Divisie is pretty fluid. However, I can't be that clueless having done live ESPN commentary for the top two Dutch leagues for a season when my other half was working in Hoofddorp. I'll take ESPN's recommendation and the twice-weekly cheque over your ill-informed opinions if that's OK. Have you ever seen a game of football in The Netherlands?! Do tell. I had a season ticket at PSV Eindhoven from 2005-2012 if that helps. It would if I believed you. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/dutch-supporters-boost-sir-bobbys-1471152 Keep digging. It's missing the parts where you identify as 'James Kidd' and that you had a season ticket at PS all, let alone seven years. Keep trying.

My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous answer, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not. He was up against p*ss poor opponents when he played for Ajax. They walk through most of their games having enjoyed 70-75% possession of the ball. Doesn't make him good enough to play in the Premier league and he's been found wanting at a higher level. Aye, Feyenoord and PSV would never get near the EPL with luminaries like ourselves, villa, bournemouth and the mackems barring the way. Found wanting? No. Played out of position, played fleetingly, Pardewed - yes. If he were playing in an EPL team that wasn't the epitome of embarrassment then people would be singing a different song. Your average Eredivisie team (PSV and Ajax aside) would be League 1 standard. That's why they always go out of Europe early on. One of them even went out to a Scottish team last year (Aberdeen) and it's only ranked as Europes 9th strongest league these days. Believe me it's dross and being a good player there proves nothing, as we have found out. Feyenoord, FC Twente and Alkmaar in League One? Utter guff, as is all of your post, apart from correctly looking up the NL UEFA coefficient. How are PSV getting on in the Champions League, having lost three of their best players? They're not above the eliminated ManUre by any chance?! Now you're really starting to show yourself up. Twente are 2nd from bottom in the league and could be relegated due to the financial crises they find themselves in and AZ are just a bottom half side nowadays. Be honest you'd struggle to name a single player from either team. Just go back the last few years and see how many clubs they've still had representing them in Europe after Xmas. You're totally clueless. Clueless is an apt adjective to anyone who fails to understand that (more-or-less) outside the 'big three' in NL, the rest of the Eredivise and roughly half of the Eerste Divisie is pretty fluid. However, I can't be that clueless having done live ESPN commentary for the top two Dutch leagues for a season when my other half was working in Hoofddorp. I'll take ESPN's recommendation and the twice-weekly cheque over your ill-informed opinions if that's OK. Have you ever seen a game of football in The Netherlands?! Do tell. I had a season ticket at PSV Eindhoven from 2005-2012 if that helps. It would if I believed you.

I was really excited when we signed him. I was living in Amsterdam at the time and working at the Arena for 90% of Ajax games and he caught the eye every game long before we picked him up and destroyed him as we have done to so many players before and since. Anita was absolutely peerless in get-and-give, fast, strong in the tackle and his range of passing was phenomenal. Another roaring success for the NUFC 'coaching' and 'management' team. Spot on. Still remember him coming on against Spurs and how excited I was that we had him. Such a shame how things turned out. Our business that summer piled so much pressure on him with him being our only signing as well, worst thing about it was Pardew clearly didn't even want him. Yes, I think Carr wanted him because he was quality, without any idea of, or consultation with, the 'management' as to where he'd fit in. He'd do well at a team where there were runners for him to pick out - one that plays football on the 'front foot' - i.e. not the abortion of Pardew/Carver/McClaren's team sides and 'tactics'.

My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous answer, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not. He was up against p*ss poor opponents when he played for Ajax. They walk through most of their games having enjoyed 70-75% possession of the ball. Doesn't make him good enough to play in the Premier league and he's been found wanting at a higher level. Aye, Feyenoord and PSV would never get near the EPL with luminaries like ourselves, villa, bournemouth and the mackems barring the way. Found wanting? No. Played out of position, played fleetingly, Pardewed - yes. If he were playing in an EPL team that wasn't the epitome of embarrassment then people would be singing a different song. Your average Eredivisie team (PSV and Ajax aside) would be League 1 standard. That's why they always go out of Europe early on. One of them even went out to a Scottish team last year (Aberdeen) and it's only ranked as Europes 9th strongest league these days. Believe me it's dross and being a good player there proves nothing, as we have found out. Feyenoord, FC Twente and Alkmaar in League One? Utter guff, as is all of your post, apart from correctly looking up the NL UEFA coefficient. How are PSV getting on in the Champions League, having lost three of their best players? They're not above the eliminated ManUre by any chance?! Now you're really starting to show yourself up. Twente are 2nd from bottom in the league and could be relegated due to the financial crises they find themselves in and AZ are just a bottom half side nowadays. Be honest you'd struggle to name a single player from either team. Just go back the last few years and see how many clubs they've still had representing them in Europe after Xmas. You're totally clueless. Clueless is an apt adjective to anyone who fails to understand that (more-or-less) outside the 'big three' in NL, the rest of the Eredivise and roughly half of the Eerste Divisie is pretty fluid. However, I can't be that clueless having done live ESPN commentary for the top two Dutch leagues for a season when my other half was working in Hoofddorp. I'll take ESPN's recommendation and the twice-weekly cheque over your ill-informed opinions if that's OK. Have you ever seen a game of football in The Netherlands?! Do tell.

My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous answer, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not. He was up against p*ss poor opponents when he played for Ajax. They walk through most of their games having enjoyed 70-75% possession of the ball. Doesn't make him good enough to play in the Premier league and he's been found wanting at a higher level. Aye, Feyenoord and PSV would never get near the EPL with luminaries like ourselves, villa, bournemouth and the mackems barring the way. Found wanting? No. Played out of position, played fleetingly, Pardewed - yes. If he were playing in an EPL team that wasn't the epitome of embarrassment then people would be singing a different song. Your average Eredivisie team (PSV and Ajax aside) would be League 1 standard. That's why they always go out of Europe early on. One of them even went out to a Scottish team last year (Aberdeen) and it's only ranked as Europes 9th strongest league these days. Believe me it's dross and being a good player there proves nothing, as we have found out. Feyenoord, FC Twente and Alkmaar in League One? Utter guff, as is all of your post, apart from correctly looking up the NL UEFA coefficient. How are PSV getting on in the Champions League, having lost three of their best players? They're not above the eliminated ManUre by any chance? Oh, and which EPL side near the top of their game were put out of the UEFA Cup by AZ a decade ago? Bloody useless, those Dutch!

I was really excited when we signed him. I was living in Amsterdam at the time and working at the Arena for 90% of Ajax games and he caught the eye every game long before we picked him up and destroyed him as we have done to so many players before and since. Anita was absolutely peerless in get-and-give, fast, strong in the tackle and his range of passing was phenomenal. Another roaring success for the NUFC 'coaching' and 'management' team.

My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous answer, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not. He was up against p*ss poor opponents when he played for Ajax. They walk through most of their games having enjoyed 70-75% possession of the ball. Doesn't make him good enough to play in the Premier league and he's been found wanting at a higher level. Aye, Feyenoord and PSV would never get near the EPL with luminaries like ourselves, villa, bournemouth and the mackems barring the way. Found wanting? No. Played out of position, played fleetingly, Pardewed - yes. If he were playing in an EPL team that wasn't the epitome of embarrassment then people would be singing a different song.

My problem with him is mainly his lack of being able to pass more than five yards not physicality As per my previous comment, that's utter bullshit. I've seen him play multiple, pinpoint 40-yarders out of midfield game after game for Ajax. Your point stretches credulity even at SJP, though I can see where you're coming from, but in Anita we've procured, and ruined, yet another player. How that reflects poorly on Anita himself I know not.

If you'd seen him play - every week - for Ajax before he signed for us you would (it's hoped) have a very different opinion of Anita and what he can do. The Ajax team of 2011-12 would, of course, have put six or seven past its NUFC counterpart.

I reckon that was done as a bet.

He's absolute class. Saw him play for Ajax for a year before we signed him. Was first name on the sheet there. Faultless in everything he did (get, give, the odd goal) and I was so excited about our buying him but he's suffered through our management, tactics and constantly being played out of position.

The place is absolutely minging outside, and then inside - well, you know the rest.

He did leave for a team that where in the bottom 3 like, I don't think he was loving it. Aye, it was definitely Mike Ashley that forced him out, not the fanbase that made it perfectly clear how loathed he was. His career was done before we hired him and he's managed to squeeze another 5-10 years out of it through sheer sycophancy, arrogance and cynical PR skills. I admire its purity. A survivor … unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. Class quote.

I think in the current climate the difficulty would be getting the class of player, manager and MD we need to actually come to Newcastle/NE. The Rob Lee/Boro thing is pretty much apocryphal but that was near 25 years ago anyway. Getting world class players onto £200,000/wk deals at Etihad City is tough enough. Even the TWOCers can't keep their best players - five-time EC Champions... We have a geographic problem that will never be solved as long as the EPL exists in its present form. But, taking the long view, football will eat itself. The current situation is untenable. That, in itself, is probably the best chance we have of getting rid of Ashley I suppose.

One way of looking at it, I suppose, but then we're getting into really murky territory where things that are already uncertain become unfathomable. I'd like to see us in the Conference without the fat cunt turd as owner. Set a new world record for 5th tier attendance.

Reluctant to use the idiom, but: 'this'.

Well, they've failed to show up for meetings over there in the past, and there have been rumours recently about asking prices being changed upwards after a sniff of interest, so it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. It's worth bearing in mind that anyone with even the loosest grasp of commercial nous would not let NUFC go. It is, quite simply, a money pot - money for nothing really, as long as we retain our premiership status or even go down again for a season or two. If I was not a supporter, I would certainly not let NUFC go for less than half a billion in cash up front, and this additionally so when we consider that other parts of MASH are performing relatively poorly - some very much so. We're stuck with him. I'd give good money he'll still be the owner in five years' time, more likely ten. p.s. I have of occasion posted that Ashley has had the thick end of half-a-billion in total out of our club in the past 8.5 years, the maths are fairly simple, but one poster in particular has always responded in the vein of: 'you're not still beating that drum, are you?'. I wonder if this poster and his like are maybe beginning to see how badly we are getting screwed and how much money is being taken out of the club annually, in cash, every year. Gold mine. Absolute gold mine - as the club is currently run. I earn more than Charnley FFS.