Toonpack

Nothing has changed IMO, his policy is his policy. He's not going to make a huge return on his investment unless we turn into Man Utd. With FFP what would a new owner bring to the table??, the days of splashing hundreds of millions you don't have (as a club) are gone (or should be). I would guess he's loving it just now, doing it his way and being succesful (relatively). Long may it continue. On the SD thing even if he was using the club as a vehicle, the vehicle has to be better than also rans for it to be really beneficial. SD want to expand into/conquer Europe and then longer term the States (it's in their financial report). He wants it all tbh. For NUFC to help in that NUFC has to be succesful. As I've said ad naseaum billionaires don't do "run of the mill".

Just like the "great" Arsenal back fours, Adams was "the rock" the rest were mainly avaerage (but played above themselves) but Adams was the standout/glue/class.

Speak for yourself Admittedly never thought top four mind, but was more than happy with the "direction"

Well work out the real % then if it's "facts", it will be in the region of 25% at the time he was putting big lumps in. If it's actually 22.74563% I'll give Pardew a little peotic licence. It's still a huge wedge. Stupid/petty thing to try and pick up on tbh Maybe you should do a league table of % of personal wealth risked by all football club owners, past and present, represented as a graph obviously (you'll need negative numbers for some notable owners).

For all the quality going forward I LOVE the way the back four (or six if you prefer, with 2 interchangeable DM covering) are playing. Always maintained a back four is greater than the sum of it's parts, we've got one bit class and three parts so-so ( although on yesterdays performance Santon gets elavated towards class), the system he's got them playing is excellent.

He's worth that now, since his latest SD bonanza. He was "only" worth around £1.2 Billion-ish a year or so ago. He's in for about £280 Mill all told. Anyway it's just silly semantics really, bottom line, he's in for a considerable wedge of his own cash. IF you want to work out the real %, fill yer boots. Whatever % it is it's still a huge lump.

Arry says it's because of their paper thin squad

Including purchase price it's probably a little over 25% (or was before his latest SD share option thingumyjig)

One other thing struck me about yesterdays performance, over and above it's completeness was that the team at times played with a real swagger, I haven't seen that in a Newcastle team in ages.

Don't underestimate the Dicky Branson Midas touch He buys a bank, sponsors it's "local" football team for a very resonable rate, what's the chances he's got a bargain and got his bank Europe wide exposure within 6 months.

I fucking hate Real (fascist cunts), but of the four games today, this is the one I'll happily be dissapointed in the result.

I didn't think it was possible to challenge where we are without an Arab and around £200-£300 Mill outlay, which obviously was out of the question, it's surreal tbh. I read a post somewhere this evening which said, what Pardew's getting out of our "ordinary" players is Clough-esque, it's not far wrong. Not anointing him as such mind, but this season has been just terrific and wouldn't have been sniffed at by Mr C..

He was excellent when he came on, he looks like a completely different player, amazing transformation.

Of course it is, it's a humble pie

MoM for me, was outstanding, the whole back four were tbh, that said so were all the other fuckers

One of the most complete performances I've seen in years. Absolutely brilliant.

Don't use torrents, just loaded the books to my PC and drag and drop what I fancy onto the iPad (i have lost my Kindle to the Mrs for her Game of Thrones fix) Like having my own personal library. Got two DVD's all in mobi format with the proper covers etc etc, spot on Just search for kindle books

Have rented a cottage in the highlands (waaaay out in the sticks) for last week of May, intent to sit outside drinking till stupid o'clock every night just watching the proper night sky. Cannit wait, that said it'll likely be cloudy and piss down all week !!!

The Beatles? I agree

Stephen Erikson's Malazan Books of the Fallen, into the third one of ten each 1000 pages long. Not Sci Fi or fantasy fan by any strecth but these are immense stories. As taken from my 10,000 books DVD for £2.49 off ebay, best purchase I've made in yonks

Hey lets just buy footballers, they can play anywhere

He's a fucking fullback !!!

There's always got to be someone who's shit, Simpson is the current "it". He's not great and he's not abysmal, he's somewhere in between. In reality most teams have several players in that "in the middle" category, not flavour of the month = shit. Could he be upgraded?, probably, is it an absolute need to upgrade him?, no.

Is the correct answer

We have a winner