Dr Jinx

34 minutes ago, huss9 said:

thats what Levy said.

I’d imagine his shirt collar feels rather tight. They must owe close to a billion on their stadium, now no super league and the prospect of playing Champions League again is looking remote.

Plus covid probably affected them more than any other club, they needed bums in seats the last 18 months before this season started.

I’ll tell you why, last Wednesday they were backed into a corner during that Jurisdiction hearing. The 3 chairs took in the evidence along with everything else that’s been disclosed up to now.

They will have given the PL notice that they would have indeed lost not only the hearing but the case overall so just go and settle.

By the weekend both legal teams worked out a way so that every party came out of it saving face.

This whole thing about legally binding assurances? They had that to begin with. The PL backed down in spectacular fashion. It’s a huge loss for them.

AS was in Newcastle on Monday or Tuesday, by that time the funds had been transferred to Ashley.

Few last minute checks and singing of contracts and here we are now.

The PL never wanted to allow the takeover but they simply didn’t have a choice in the end and I think Staveley was incredibly diplomatic in thanking them for their hard work in reaching a resolution, there’s no way it was amicable.

All this virtue signalling from other clubs and other supporters. As if they really care about human rights, they care about their clubs ability to win things and it’s about to be seriously threatened.

I was expecting to see plenty of virtue signalling by supporters of other clubs and boy did the bindippers deliver. RAWK is a hoot.

Like watching a president address the nation. She’s great.

Finally!! It’s over, this must feel like when a country overthrows a dictator ? I can breathe once again. ⚫️⚪️

I hadn’t realised Conte was a free agent. Get it done.

He left Inter over transfer strategy, or lack of one.

I’d say all of the firings will just be a footnote of the club statement whenever it happens.

Something about the board putting their own structures in place and thank you very much etc.

Someone short term who will keep us up and then the real project can start in the summer.

I don’t think any top manager will come in while we’re in such a mess, and we are. We’re better than the results have been (I mean squad) but it’s still a very tough job to get that right. One or two decent signings in January would help massively

Get fucked you absolute silage heap 

This sort of reminds me of that South Park episode about World of Warcraft, when they finally defeat the weirdo and it’s all like “what do we do now?”

“Well now we can start playing the game” 

Just now, Ben said:

Have the Saudis paid $1 billion to make this go through ?

No, they did that because it was part of a separate arbitration based on the WTO’s findings.

They've been sorting their gripes out for months now so this was always bound to happen.

Yeah it seems to be real this time. I’d say it could have been a case of the Bein thing and maybe both the PL and Newcastle got word of a ruling our way in the CAT case, so they just backed off if Ashley agreed not to seek damages?

Everything seems to be moving very quickly.

About 4 hours late to the party, it all feels just a bit too positive, been burned so many times, I’m going to wait a bit and see what happens for my own mental health.

Think the price of the club is going to be an issue, at least, negotiations won’t be straight forward, Ashley is hardly going to be happy about losing out on several million. Which in a sense is not his fault but then at same time it’s very much his fault. He could be negotiating for a far higher price if he’d actually done anything with this club for the last few years.

Someone had a 90k bet yesterday that Bruce would be next to go.. 

It would be better to run a campaign to get every Newcastle supporter that follows him on Twitter to 1) unfollow him and 2) block him so that his analytics for Twitter go down the toilet.

I already reckon there’s a reluctance to click on the Telegraph when his name is attached, that could be why some other chap was reporting on us for them during the week.

I don’t wish career/financial ruin on anyone but he’s basically knowingly gaslighting us for £££, so fuck him.

See here’s the conundrum, if I knew the takeover was totally dead and unlikely to ever happen again, I’d be wanting Bruce to stay on, take every bit of what’s coming his way and like mentioned before watch him be absolutely broken by the time Rafa comes here. The stadium singing his name in unison for basically 90 mins would be enough to break him forever.

Thats how much I dislike him. We’ve had shit managers before but none have ever told the supporters that our expectations are too high. Like basically saying, “I know I’m shit but so are you so get used to it”

Now the flip side of that is if we somehow get a win in January with arbitration, the takeover won’t happen if it’s already highly unlikely we stay up.

This is why I think he’ll get sacked, how much is Mike Ashley spending on all this legal stuff? Why would he bother doing that if the thing he’s trying to sell will be worth less than half if we get relegated?

Not a high bar but I thought he was our most effective player today.

Of all the likely relegation teams we’ve had, this one is unusual, the effort is there for the most part. You can tell the players care.. it’s all on the coaching, the tactics or lack of them.

Absolutely no plan b once things go against us.

It’s a strange one with Caulkin, I don’t actively dislike him at all but he’s either not got his finger on the pulse anymore or more likely, he knows exactly how shit Steve Bruce is but is afraid to damage their little friendship by writing the truth. That’s something there’s no going back from.

4 minutes ago, Fantail Breeze said:

is that a director with a small d?

In years previously he never really made much impression on me at all. I suspect that was the case for most people and his articles were not clicked on all that much. Then the penny dropped that he could make a career out of pissing off the local fan base and it’s been working for him ever since.

I doubt he’s even pals with Bruce, it just works for him to have us think that. He’s basically just a mediocre journo that’s not on the naughty step as far as the club are concerned. Which is not a badge of honour.

I suspect there’s a certain amount of self loathing going on with him because of this which is why he gets baited on Twitter so often.

And am I correct in thinking that Mike Ashley signed the agreement on behalf of himself and not SJHL, or that they were supposed to sign up to the rules but they didn’t.

Its pretty straight forward, what Jowell is saying, if they didn’t sign up to the rules, they can’t be bound by them.

This might be a thick question but how can the same company (Blackstone Chambers) be representing both us and the PL?

Adam Lewis is there and so is Nick DeMarco. It’s just really weird.

You’d have to think they’ve done enough there to let this continue, whether or not it’s going to be delayed we don’t know. The bigger the delay the more the damages will be.

Jowell said, that we fear the arbitration may not even start in January which was what got Lewis animated, I think it was a subtle dig which he quickly apologised for, all designed to put pressure on the PL to stick to their word. It’s obviously an issue that’s rumbling away in the background.

The CAT won’t start in earnest until after the 3rd January anyway but that’s not the point, if the court rule that this goes ahead, the PL won’t allow all that evidence to even be summarised in public.

I think they instruct the arbitration to make a deal, then the CAT case goes away.

Either way, it will be mid January at the very earliest before a takeover can happen if they stick to arbitration as the vessel to settle.

Was interesting watching De Marco’s eyes tighten up and his brain go into overdrive when the chair questioned the damages, it knocked Jowell off stride for a few minutes but he’s recovered well and seems to have a solid argument on his counter claims to the PL case, if they weren’t the chair would have interrupted him more.