Dr Jinx

The fat dentist annoys me more than the rest actually, his qualification to talk about the takeover on these stupid podcasts is that he lives in a place that’s similar in distance as it is from Berlin to Rome.

It’s a dismal start. The thing that Mike Ashley will possibly pick up on is that we should have won that, a capable coach/manager would have known around 65/70 mins that we weren’t going to score again and made the changes to just see the game out. Was there for the taking. It’s one thing just being shit but losing points from the position we were in will be seen as failure. Total surrender mentality and anything less than a win in our next match and he’s gone I reckon.

Entertaining game in fairness

Darlow been told to hold for 1-1 obviously

I reckon we have about 4 minutes of play being open. Watford will start running down the clock then and we won’t get a touch.

Lewis on for Ritchie please.

We’re actually playing well. Joelinton and ASM linking up well at times.

Martinez won’t go near Barca, it’s total poison that club at the minute. They’ll be lucky to finish in the top 4 the way they’re playing, you’d be mad to take that job if you have other opportunities which he will have plenty of.

If we get a takeover Fun88 wound be binned anyway so don’t see what the fuss is about. I’d expect big car manufacturers to start advertising more prominently now that electric seems to be on the verge of being mainstream?

Well if it proceeds than obviously we do have a case worthy of being heard at that level. What you’re not acknowledging is that at least some or perhaps all of the evidence will be heard in the public domain, or at the very least will be published in findings, which is something the PL will want to avoid at all cost.

Yes. They are trying to get it thrown out on a technicality that CAT don’t have the jurisdiction to rule against them because the other arbitration case covers essentially the same thing. However what Mike Ashley is also claiming in the CAT case is £££, the arbitration doesn’t cover damages so i can’t see how the PL win this. If it does get thrown out I’ll see it that our case is frivolous at best and wouldn’t have had a chance of winning (hence why court wouldn’t waste their time with it) which would also indicate the arbitration will go that way too. If we do win this round it will be significant. It means the court think we have a case and the reality of the PL having to pass the takeover AND pay out damages is quite possible. That’s when they shit the bed and settle imho.

In terms of the takeover, would it make any difference if Ashley listed the club again on the stock exchange? Is the rules for owning a majority share any different?

Slagging off other supporters for what you think they may or may not want achieves nothing, we need to be better than that. There doesn’t seem to be a thirst for protest at all within the majority of our supporters. For the rest of us who think we know better, well there’s fuck all of us really, so are we real supporters? If there’s that few of us left and 95% of the clubs support are just there for a day out and to bring the kids out, what exactly are we fighting for? A notion of the club that doesn’t exist? Do we even deserve a takeover?

Dunno if anyone remembers last season when ASM was back after injury/covid, there was a video of training, and ASM being interviewed, Gayle jogs past and sarcastically mutters “The saviour of Newcastle”, thought he was an absolute bellend from that point. I’ve no time for him, or sympathy. He’s seemed happy to pick up wages and not play the last 2 seasons, what should essentially be the peak of his career.

He got off light tonight. A few mutters at the end, pathetic really.

I don’t know how they aren’t at least 3 goals up. Shocking performance apart from 3/4 players trying to do anything.

Something I never thought I’d consider, but Llambias was a better “managing director” than Charnley. Like we’re talking pond level increments here but not wrong

Being inept and losing regularly doesn’t seem to be a problem for Mike Ashley but having a mutiny going on between playing staff and management is something he’ll take notice of.

Yeah once he dismantled a great team and replaced them with his Liverpool pals for one last pay day. He’s up there for me and maybe the fact that if he really was motivated to succeed he could have done better. He didn’t give a monkeys though. McClaren, Bruce, Pardew, Allardyce, Souness.. they have two things in common, they are all shit and they all have massive egos.

What we know is that Rafa could turn that side into a well organised unit that performs better than the sum of its parts. Eddie Howe isn’t that kind of manager and I think he would struggle massively coming into this absolute mess, knowing that he probably wouldn’t be backed in January. His final season with Bournemouth they were a shambles. Don't underestimate the absolute rot that Steve Bruce has allowed set in, it would take a remarkable manager/coach to turn that around.

I don’t think he’s nearly as wealthy as you’d think he is. Not skint but not able to afford his lifestyle either. I’d say he lost loads through gambling.

Perfect way to ruin someone’s special occasion

I’d pay 135 quid to absolutely berate him. https://memmo.me/gb/en/profile/michael-owen

He’s such a deluded prick I really believe he thought his time here would be different than the others, that Ashley wouldn’t hang him out to dry. He’s adrift now, I’d say he’s getting minimal contact from boardroom level and he basically never had the skills to manage a club of this size anyway, communication is suffering at every level, even the physios. He’ll hang the players out to dry, we’ve seen that already. He’ll look out for no.1 and maybe the other two Steve’s will get shielded a bit, Jones will be put in the firing line sooner or later, but of course if that works out, he’ll take the kudos for that. The absolute fucking prick.

At this point I’m working from a presumption that we won’t get a takeover and that Steve Bruce is going to be allowed relegate us.