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Meenzer my dear this may have been the perfect reply.... Thanks chap.

This from the resident closet ManU fan.....

Going to England in a couple of weeks and driving up through Switzerland/Germany....anyone here got any good info about what to see and do?

Good lad hyooton, keep everyone bored shitless.

Yes, but what are the local fans doing?

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Much as I hate it when people act like soothsayers, I've been saying that this is the main reason I've been encouraged over the last 12-15 months. It's (team spirit) not been this good since Keegan IMO. Robson built a great side but I always felt there was the Shearer clique, the bling gang, then everyone else. Hughton has assembled a side that will go the extra mile. The amount of times we've gone behind then come back to either draw or win is fantastic. I said when we came back up we were in the best position to succeed for a very long time. No more big names for the sake of it. A manager who has his head screwed on and a team that had grown together out of the spotlight. If Ashley plays his cards right there could be some very exciting times ahead.

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Chris Hughton is God. He even played a second string side.

I wasn't too fussed about this game earlier. Wanted us to concentrate entirely on the league. Pretty sure I'm fussed about it now though. Yep!

what the fuck No new score just what the fuck

you have to wonder how the guy ever made his billions if we was so stupid not to do due dilligence before a takeover. i reckon he's just a barrow boy gambler type that came good and actually fluked his whole fortune. why does he never do interviews? probably because he's as thick as two short planks. the guy is a joke among City analysts I think in terms of his core business it has to lead you to conclude that luck may well have played a big part in it. That said (taking a wholly objective view) if Sports Direct sustains itself as a market leader for the entire time he's associated with it then a sensible person would have to hold their hands up and say fair enough, he must have got the basic rudiments very right indeed and fair play to him. Football clubs are a different matter altogether of course. Part of me wants to have the idealised indignation others have re: Ashley but I struggle because it almost requires some sort of false memory syndrome about where things were headed under Shepherd. That had to stop for once and for all whatever happened next. Ashley has done nowt for me unless and until he establishes a better proposition of a football club for players wanting to come to play for Newcastle United. He's done that so far with a bargain basement model (you could argue, the only model he knows). The true test will probably be down the line in attracting the higher calibre of players for the right reasons (other than simply throwing $ at them). If he wants to do that and he can manage that then all well and good. If not then that's when I'll be getting indignant, demanding a change. IMO it's far better to have players one club away from their ultimate "pay day" club and for that "pay day" club not to be us. Big wages don't guarantee trophies as we know better than anyone. However we did it, we seem to have got a couple of gems for fuck all. I don't expect them to stay for long. Bassong was another example. Now, if you only unearth your gems at the rate of a couple every few years then you'll never get anywhere. But if you make it your business to find those players at all costs then it can work and you'll be known as a club that can act as a springboard. While the players are here, they'll bust their balls to attract their destination club. And before you say the top tier of clubs want to unearth the same talent, not every youngster is going to get a game at a club like Chelsea/Barcelona/ManU.

The Sports Direct advertising is a shrewd business move though. He'll make far more from SD than NUFC but he can use our profile to expand his business. I would think that it's therefore in his interest to have NUFC doing as well as possible without wasting money on dead wood players and to be fair, he's starting to show it may be possible. To get to the next level though, he'll need to invest but I believe he will.

I think we can take a wild guess.... I don't know in his case. I'm not saying he'd drop down to a fraction of what he's on, but i think he may be one of the few players out there who'd rather be playing on less money than sitting about doing nowt. I hope he is, because he shouldn't be getting any more games for us unless we're really stretched. I think the line traditionally used is "going to stay and battle for my place...." We'll see. £6m and £60k a week for a "striker" who hasn't scored a single goal has to be our worst ever signing pound for pound.....

I think we can take a wild guess....

That man just managed to reserve himself a nice hearty slap at some point in the future.

To be fair I think the average fan is only going to be alienated by this sort of guff. Most people just want to see the team win and aren't about to take to the streets with their pitchforks....most don't even want to give up their pie and pint at half time. This transfer window has been the best one I can think of for a fucking long time. We're playing well and we've lost a lot of the big time Charlies (Owen/Martins/Viduka etc). Ashley should just keep quiet, I think if we finish mid table and have another shrewd transfer window next summer more than half the fans would start thinking he wasn't so bad after all.

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It's the perfect opportunity for him, let's hope he takes it....he certainly seems to be quite able to step in at short notice and do an excellent job.

Yup, expect him to be dropped on 24 games Cheer up matey.....24 games from Ben Arfa > 24 games from Albert Luque.

I think we may well have signed a gem there.

Yes. Have it, you twats!