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I would suggest that when you consider the fact we're 2 points of third (in an indifferent league) and what that £50 mill brought in we are definitely better off I really didn't want to do this....but I was looking for the post TP made a while back about "enjoy today and don't worry about tomorrow" and it seems he backed the expenditure by "Fred" at the time. So ? At the time I used to ridicule Major Major on RTG who was a prophet of doom about NUFC finances. Sadly the facts that emerged since showed how silly I was at the time. Hey ho

Evidently the other magpies are chaffinch at the bit for revenge

Or Platini's rules being worth a shite !!

It's always about the money. its about ambition, you're daft if you can't see that. The money only proves the ambition. and the money comes from...............................??????? so you are happy for us to compete at the levels of Blackburn and Bolton ? Maybe the Halls and Shepherd can give soopa Mike some tips on how to raise revenues, rather than selling your best players to do it ? Been done to death and irrelevant. We are competing at the level we can afford, due to current and past bad management.

The time and whether it was a waste is immaterial, but it's a fact that the years in europe and the expansion of the stadium, and what that brought, was "wasted" or squandered if you prefer. We were about to drop into the old third division, let alone the stadium. Everything about the club, yes the liabilities but also the merchandising and corporate sales side was vastly improved. I would take us at the point Mike bought the club to when John Hall did easily. I totally accept that the good things were hugely bigger, but sadly so were the bad things. As for the third division, it was only a solitary David Kelly goal that arrested that fall, from there the rise was meteoric, absolutely, but our decay started relatively soon after, basically post KK. Yes we did alright league-wise for a short time but we were never the REAL threat again. And why did KK leave first time ?? Financially the mess was proportionate to the size, it was the increase in "size" that supported the headlong rush into debt. (and no I'm not talking about the stadium debt - that was good debt). The pouring of good money after bad, and the attendant milking is what was the problem. Shaky financial position-wise, there's a fag paper's difference between the two. Maybe I should have put the word financially in my first post.

It's always about the money. its about ambition, you're daft if you can't see that. The money only proves the ambition. and the money comes from...............................???????

The time and whether it was a waste is immaterial, but it's a fact that the years in europe and the expansion of the stadium, and what that brought, was "wasted" or squandered if you prefer.

Fact is they left it much as they found it. omg Even I have to back LM on that one like. We were left waaaaaaaaay ahead of where we were when they left. Just look at the Stadium? The players we had, where we had been. Blah blah, cant be arsed but the differences were vast. It's all relative, yes bigger ground etc etc but correspondingly bigger liabilities.

Fact is they left it much as they found it.

So let's not sign him then and let him walk for nothing next summer Putting the club in a position of power if other clubs come sniffing is a good thing surely ??? It would be, if the point was to keep the player at the club. Which it is in this case, otherwise he walks next summer. Keep player at club and maximise "income" if he's sniffed out.

True, but what else was/is the club supposed to do. Players in last year of contracts hold ALL the cards. All this "wait until we're safe" stuff is bollocks. It's purely a stalling tactic, if the player is truly concerned about being relegated, all they have to say is "put a release clause/price in my deal". It's all about the cash and leverage towards optimising the cash.

Alternatively borrowing an exclamation mark: Fantastic! new contract on the table for Jose Enrique. Good news, the club have made Enrique a new offer, it's only for thruppence ha'penny a month like.

True A magpie had the baby blackbirds from the nest in my garden, live by the sword (or beak) etc etc

So let's not sign him then and let him walk for nothing next summer Putting the club in a position of power if other clubs come sniffing is a good thing surely ???

It's always about the money.

a mackem from Skunkers Am not on skunkers, I got banned for some unknown reason. Full of racist wanks like yee. No-one has ever been banned from Skunkers man. Btw, I could believe the Nolan story btw I'll take a screen shot if you like. Gan on then

a mackem from Skunkers Am not on skunkers, I got banned for some unknown reason. Full of racist wanks like yee. No-one has ever been banned from Skunkers man. Btw, I could believe the Nolan story

a mackem from Skunkers

Office, Senior Project Manager (IT) now typecast as "Oil and Gas", currently ships'n'pipelines etc. previously supply chain systems. Having previously been typecast "utilities". Nee work in the North East though sadly all that's Government or NHS and they keep to their typecast an all (cunts!!) Edit - I do like my work though

There are murmurings elsewhere that there's a Polis dimension to the shuffle. Standing is illegal and can effect safety certification blah blah. Easier to control dispersed persistent standers than a big group. Although based on comments on various forums it appears that the "group" is pretty much all being located in another group, or proximity at least.

If you're the Jan I'm thinking of, you lie on the sofa watching TV, eating chocolates and drinking wine all day.

Download and scan with Super Anti-spyware and Hitman Pro. I run MSE, Avast and those two plus do occassional scan with Malwarebytes (I've only ever had one problem and that was a webpage hijacker, Malware/Avast etc didn't find it, the two I mention above sorted the bassa though). Considering going all in and pay for "Kaspersky" though I think. ref MSE and Avast, isn't it bad to have two anti-virus elements ? I used to use Avast and Spyware doctor, but was told to bin spyware doctor because the AV could clash with Avast, so now I'm using Avast, Windows Firewall, running malwarebytes once a week, and using a program called Win Patrol which scans for things attempting to change or access types of files. Sort of interested in MSE is why I ask ? I run them both on a XP machine, no conflict at all that I've come across, both will scan when I want them to etc. (my Win7 netbook waasn't so happy) Edit - I would add, I didn't set out to run this config of AV, just happened when I was adding/working through new weapons to throw at the hijacker. Regarding MSE, I got my one and only "incident" shortly after moving one of my machines (running XP) to MSE from Zone Alarm, (which was very good, but awfully CPU intensive). Only considering Kaspersky because the Infrastructrue "egghead" (and he really is an egghead) recommended it. The techy lads who work with MS software all the time wouldn't touch a microsoft AV with a bargepole :-)

Download and scan with Super Anti-spyware and Hitman Pro. I run MSE, Avast and those two plus do occassional scan with Malwarebytes (I've only ever had one problem and that was a webpage hijacker, Malware/Avast etc didn't find it, the two I mention above sorted the bassa though). Considering going all in and pay for "Kaspersky" though I think.

I must have missed his first 3 years at £60K a week, whilst he was proving himself. He's been good for ONE season.

Brinkmanship rules. Willie and Dekka, what a combination.