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    Ukraine

    in General Chat

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    I reckon when you take out the slobs, the mentally weak and the unpatriotic/apathetic it'd be below 5%. I would though, so you're welcome to look upon me as a kind of hero figure.

    Ukraine

    in General Chat

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    You haven't even addressed the silly question in your post though. I was asking, hypothetically, how many blokes would be fit enough and prepared to fight if something kicked off world war style and not necessarily vs Russia. Hypothetically like I said.

    NUFC vs Villa

    in Newcastle Forum

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    If we can't beat these we are truly shit. Carver has been trying to drum up the siege mentality after their behaviour in 2009 but I don't really need him to. Deplorable cunts. But even my dislike of Villa can't get me excited for this. The state of our team is going to be frightful. What's the likely line-up?

    Ukraine

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    Purely hypothetical question, how many blokes in the UK would be up to it physically and mentally if the shit really hit the proverbial fan and they were asked to go and fight in a war? And would you be?

    Mike Ashley -- Irrelevant Cunt

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    Newcastle United are set to announce record profits for the past financial year, despite continuing to languish among the Premier League also-rans.

    The club are expected to confirm they made more money than most clubs playing in the Champions League when they release their latest set of results, with sources indicating they could have made as much as £50 million.

    However, there are conflicting figures being banded around at the club, with one prominent figure insisting the profit was nearer to £30 million. The Daily Telegraph’s attempts to clarify the exact figure have been frustrated, although it has been confirmed a “significant profit” will be announced next week.

    To put things into perspective, Arsenal, who won the FA Cup, reached the knockout stage of the Champions League and finished fourth in the Premier League last season, six places higher than Newcastle, made a profit of roughly £11 million.

    It will be the fourth year in a row that Newcastle have announced an operating profit and it seems certain that the figures will be an improvement on those announced in 2012 when they made a profit of £13.3 million, numbers boosted by the £35 million sale of Andy Carroll to Liverpool.

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    The impressive financial figures will be used to justify owner Mike Ashley’s continued presence at St James’ Park. Ashley inherited a club crippled by debt and covered losses of £140 million during his first three years at St James’ Park, although the majority of those were interest-free loans needed during their solitary season in the Championship.

    The disastrous relegation at the end of the 2008/9 season began with Kevin Keegan’s resignation following a falling out over the club’s transfer policy and was made worse by Ashley’s subsequent appointment of Joe Kinnear as manager and the owner’s repeated attempts to sell the club.

    Ashley, though, has transformed the business and while he has not presided over any success on the pitch, he deserves credit for the impact he has made on the club’s accounts.

    Supporters, though, are unlikely to be impressed and there will be increased pressure to reinvest the profits in the first-team squad when the transfer window opens in the summer.

    It remains to be seen whether Ashley is willing to do that, or whether he has used the profits to repay some of the money owed to him in the form of interest free loans.

    Although Ashley has had great success in streamlining the business, cutting costs, as well as buying players cheaply and selling them on for a large profit, Newcastle have only finished in the top eight once since he took control of the club in 2007.

    Newcastle have been short of competition for places in both defence and attack all season after failing to sign a top class centre-back and centre-forward last summer.

    Indeed, most supporters are unhappy that the club seems more interested in performing well in the accounts department than delivering a team that is capable of challenging for silverware and European qualification.

    Meanwhile, Newcastle’s head coach John Carver, who has been placed in charge of the team until the end of the season, without control of recruitment or contract negotiations, has predicted the players will make up for their abject performance in the 5-0 defeat at Manchester City last weekend when they host Aston Villa on Saturday.

    “There was a lot of anger post City,” said Carver, who has won just one game out of eight since predecessor Alan Pardew quit to become manager of Crystal Palace. “Certainly before the [team] meeting on Monday. I was angry with myself, I was angry with the team, the team were angry with me, they were angry with themselves.

    “That’s the right way to be. But once we sat down and discussed it there was a genuine conversation and I was very glad that we’d talked about it in that room and put it to bed.

    “Players have got pride. It hurts. I don’t think it’s easy to lie down. If I was seeing that on the training ground that would be a bit of concern. But that’s not something I’ve seen, that’s not one of the traits of the team.”


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