RobS Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Ready the gifs! Why? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Ready the gifs! ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Edgar Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Ready the gifs! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh74 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Ready the gifs! Ahhhh the memories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 where he can trouser ridiculous amounts of money Why do people keep saying this? Just because we haven't spent hundreds of millions on players, the conclusion is that MA is somehow fiddling the numbers? As if he's not proven himself to be a dreadful custodian of the club without the need to invent some squirrelling away of incoming cashflows. And FWIW, SD's recent misadventures have not cost MA a bean in terms of cash. Didn't he take out another £33m last year, yet the club debt never drops? This is despite the club turning in a profit. No it went down to £111 from £144 Staggering how he's managed to increase the debt whilst spending nothing on players, full houses every week and Sky throwing money at him.like it's going out of fashion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
morla84 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 The shekh must be contemplated the purchase and asking himself 'Dubai or not Dubai?' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_F Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 I like this DJ I have open contact with BZG and, speaking to them, I feel a deal to buy Newcastle United is not far away. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Ready the gifs! Ahhhh the memories. The amount of tapes I would have to return to the newsagent because they wouldn't load Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFEE Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Ready the gifs! Ahhhh the memories. The amount of tapes I would have to return to the newsagent because they wouldn't load Probably just needed to adjust your tape heads. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Wish we could just fast forward these next two weeks like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wandy Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 "he has a manager of NUFC who cannot be replaced without the whole club imploding in a manner not seen before in its entire history." I'm not sure that many people believe the above. In an ideal world for sure Ashley should suffer for his dreadful ownership, but even after mismanaging the club for 12 years and been relegated twice, he's still the owner of a profitable advertising vehicle for Sports Direct. If Rafa doesnt sign the contract he's alledgedly been offered, he'll be replaced by someone else and SJP will remain pretty much sold out. If the new manager turns out to be an idiot we'll probably get relegated again, something that seems to be no more than a minor inconvenience to the fat man. Anyone who thinks that a Benitez-less NUFC with Ashley still at the helm will be able to move on from this takeover saga as if nothing has happened is utterly deluded and kidding themselves. The club will cease to be a cash cow for Ashley and will become an iron-clad albatross around his neck as it plummets into the Championship. It doesn't matter if SJP is still packed next season and played to a zombie atmosphere for games. The slightest bad turn will expose the anger and bitterness, the media will feast on it and everything will quickly snowball into an unstoppable negative force. And with no Benitez to turn water into wine and no time to buy players for the new yes-man manager the first bad turn will happen very early in the season. I'm guessing a lot of people aren't old enough to know what NUFC is like when there is real doom, gloom and hostility towards the powers-that-be. In short, it's not pleasant, and next season will make the 88/89 season look like a picnic in comaprison. When NUFC are relegated next season under Ashley he will be spending all of his time, money and energy in keeping the club away from the Championship trapdoor. There will be no coming back this time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Toon Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Probably just needed to adjust your tape heads. If I'd known that when I was about 11... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Unlikely to mean anything but weird thing to say IF he'll leave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
morla84 Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Ashley must know hes at the point of no return now. Fuck this up and the club will be worth £150m less this time next year in the championship Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Away Toon Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 This is what should happen but it won't. Clubs no longer have supporters they have customers, and the customers have put up with 12 years of Ashley, JFK, Pardew and lots of other fuckwits, and the crowds have stayed solid, with a little bit of booing and posturing from time to time. Let's face it we aren't Liverpool or Rangers or even West Ham for fucks sake, they would never have put up with this shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 He’ll do enough to scrape 16th. Don’t think it’ll take much to finish above Norwich, Sheff Utd plus another. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallsendmag Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 "he has a manager of NUFC who cannot be replaced without the whole club imploding in a manner not seen before in its entire history." I'm not sure that many people believe the above. In an ideal world for sure Ashley should suffer for his dreadful ownership, but even after mismanaging the club for 12 years and been relegated twice, he's still the owner of a profitable advertising vehicle for Sports Direct. If Rafa doesnt sign the contract he's alledgedly been offered, he'll be replaced by someone else and SJP will remain pretty much sold out. If the new manager turns out to be an idiot we'll probably get relegated again, something that seems to be no more than a minor inconvenience to the fat man. Anyone who thinks that a Benitez-less NUFC with Ashley still at the helm will be able to move on from this takeover saga as if nothing has happened is utterly deluded and kidding themselves. The club will cease to be a cash cow for Ashley and will become an iron-clad albatross around his neck as it plummets into the Championship. It doesn't matter if SJP is still packed next season and played to a zombie atmosphere for games. The slightest bad turn will expose the anger and bitterness, the media will feast on it and everything will quickly snowball into an unstoppable negative force. And with no Benitez to turn water into wine and no time to buy players for the new yes-man manager the first bad turn will happen very early in the season. I'm guessing a lot of people aren't old enough to know what NUFC is like when there is real doom, gloom and hostility towards the powers-that-be. In short, it's not pleasant, and next season will make the 88/89 season look like a picnic in comaprison. When NUFC are relegated next season under Ashley he will be spending all of his time, money and energy in keeping the club away from the Championship trapdoor. There will be no coming back this time. The fanbase is a completely different one to what it was in 1988. Most of the people who turn up now aren't capable of showing the hostility the crowd of 30 years ago could. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 I got told off a few years ago for leaving early by two full kit wanker women with a picnic basket on their laps Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 I've got no doubt the ground will be full regardless of what happens over the summer. The usual few half-hearted nasty songs aimed at fatty every now and again maybe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Unlikely to mean anything but weird thing to say IF he'll leave. Don't think it means owt, but worth having the screenshot as material to mock the club with if/when it all goes tits up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiedean Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 He’ll do enough to scrape 16th. Don’t think it’ll take much to finish above Norwich, Sheff Utd plus another. with some fuckwit at the helm and first 10 games being horrific there's no way that will happen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wandy Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 The fanbase is a completely different one to what it was in 1988. Most of the people who turn up now aren't capable of showing the hostility the crowd of 30 years ago could. This is a nonsense cliche that has grown over recent years. The modern-day SJP crowd is not all that different to that from the 1980s. People in the stadium are simply quietly depressed but they are still capable of getting every bit as angry at a game than any of the 80s lot. NUFC are not Chelsea FFS, it's a club comprised of people largely from an ordinary/lower working class background and most of those people are in it for the long haul, no matter what. I was there in the late 80s and remember it all vividly. The main parts of the ground where all of the vitriol came from were the Gallowgate Corner & Scoreboard. Even the West Gallowgate was considered to be full of what would now be called "customers" but it was enough for the Corner and Scoreboard to create the anarchy that started off the snowball of negativity around the club. Most of those in the 20,000 crowds that we were getting back then used to simply shrug their shoulders at it all too but the small pocket of militancy was enough to turn it all to shit and send us into the 2nd Division. SJP may have 50000 crowds next season but will only take 1000 of the remaining vociferous ones to start off a new spiral of doom. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest godzilla Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 where he can trouser ridiculous amounts of money Why do people keep saying this? Just because we haven't spent hundreds of millions on players, the conclusion is that MA is somehow fiddling the numbers? As if he's not proven himself to be a dreadful custodian of the club without the need to invent some squirrelling away of incoming cashflows. And FWIW, SD's recent misadventures have not cost MA a bean in terms of cash. Didn't he take out another £33m last year, yet the club debt never drops? This is despite the club turning in a profit. No it went down to £111 from £144 Staggering how he's managed to increase the debt whilst spending nothing on players, full houses every week and Sky throwing money at him.like it's going out of fashion. No it went down, nobody can argue he has not invested in the club the way he should have. The same time it's still a debt and currently his initial investment is still in accounting purposes showing as a substantial loss to him. This is the reason I was disagreeing with you in what you said earlier about him not selling the club due to profits coming in. I honestly believe he will be more than happy to sell the club whilst making a pretty big profit at the same time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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