Dr Jinx

I heard earlier that the consortium has changed slightly involving someone new but won’t include Amanda Staveley going forward. The ownership percentages have also changed. I’m hearing this through a golf buddy who’s a member somewhere else where he would definitely be exposed to these sorts of people so have no reason to doubt him. - don’t know the new person but I’m guessing that’s who he’s heard this from (directly or indirectly)

Totally agree, the central defenders just didn’t have that bit more needed to win those games where teams had us under pressure. And the game at SJP against Man Utd, we battered them just as much as we did in the 5-0, just Schmeichel somehow kept the ball out of the net, then the sucker punch. Pav or Shaka never gave us that, as good as they were. Also the game against Liverpool, the 4-3, with some proper leadership at the back we might have hung on in that game. And that would have been the league..

In hindsight perhaps, the reality is that Newcastle is a totally different beast to almost every other club in terms of pressure because of the size of the job to turn around. We’re constantly either reeling from years of poor management or else our best players have been sold on. There’s very few managers in world football that have broad enough shoulders to meet that head on. Gerrard took a while to grow into that job and the experience he’s gaining now might serve him better when he decides to step up but nufc would have been way too soon for him and would have done his managerial career no favours at all if he’d taken it.

No idea what to think about this anymore. There’s a side that will say it’s good when things are quiet because it means things are getting done without the media finding out. But then also, nothing may be happening and that lawyer chap just might be a massive bread nonce. Or maybe the way has been cleared but PIF aren’t interested any more.

Such a smarmy git. Has the look of someone who knows he’s corrupt as fuck but also knows he’s gotten away with it.

Hypothetically, if a takeover ever happened. Any sort of top manager would walk in and bin that entire midfield. Hendrick is the only one there who thinks this is probably the best he’ll ever do. Shelvey, Hayden and the Longstaffs think or have thought of this club as a stepping stone in their career. Don’t tell me that talk of Longstaff to Man Utd didn’t flatter the cunt. He’s been dogshit ever since.

It’s gas watching him huffing and puffing not having a clue what to do when he comes up against a manager who knows what he’s doing. He picked the team tonight though so it falls on him, if he didn’t notice Longstaff looked totally shot in training that’s on him. Our players man for man should be better than what they are. But they never will be under him

Is Longstaff on Xanax?

Well that’s the end of the pressing idea ?

They’ll be bankrupt in a year trying to pay Rooneys wages.

As good as they’ve been (Southampton), Everton are a far better drilled team and despite their injuries they still had enough that they should have beaten us. But they didn’t. If we play to the same level we can get something from this. If we get lashed out of it, it’ll be down to bad preparation.

How bad would it be for them if they spent another season or two in this league? Financially I mean, I’d imagine their budget is on a par with the other sides in that league now. Could they exist in that state without the threat of winding up?

This is a pawn move in a game of chess. They’re trying to get the PL to give information over which would be “on the record”, thus stitching themselves up when the big case gets brought forward.. if it even gets to that stage. Either way they have to respond to it at some point.

A joy listening to Poch talking about his philosophy about coaching football. He knows what he’s talking about for sure. His English seems to have improved too..

Starting to look confident when it possession of the ball. Probably over confident when shooting on his left peg though. Really happy to see him get going here

It’ll take a few more games to get the Shelvey PTSD out of his system. Think we’ll start seeing a different player if he gets to form a partnership with Longstaff

He’s a completely broken man now

So Roy, how would you sum up this half? “Pretty boring.. yeah, boring”

So what’s the story then? Has Charlie been on “To catch a predator” yet?

Is it actually structured with worse terms than Puma? What a joke Probably about the same, the Puma deal is anywhere between 5 to 6.5 million a season. It doesn’t affect the hypothetical takeover in any way. There will be break clauses inserted I assume

Most naive post of the year right here. I agree. He’s right about social media though. I mean, look at True Geordie, remember all those passionate ranting videos about how shit we were, or singling out players for not giving a fuck. Then just over the summer in his fancy new studio he says “I wouldn’t be the biggest supporter of nufc..” They are all self serving arseholes and I include the go to journalists in that too.

He’s just spouting what he thinks Mike Ashley will be happy to hear. He knows if a takeover ever happens he’ll be out the door quicker than Charnley so he’s buttering up the current powers that be. It will make things much harder for Ashley to act on if we’re in the bottom 3 come January/February

Why can’t any of these fuckers keep their shit together when they stumble upon a good thing?! This thread and associated subject matter is an endless series of kicks to the balls where NUFC and it’s supporters are concerned.

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