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While I don't want Shay to go I don't think he's as pivitol to our survival as the likes of Owen and Martins. In Harper we've got a more than able deputy so losing Given wouldn't be an unmitigated disaster. It would be a very, very sad day for the club though if he were to go. He's the one player i'd love to see stay here and win something but that's just not going to happen.

In layman's terms do those figures somewhat explain Ashley's frugalness? Or is he still the anti-christ? Does it go anyway to explaining what state the club was in when he bought it out as well?

He likes to chase success on the cheap. Have you been to one of his shops? Fucking tat. Soon as he bought the club there were plain fruit of the loom T-shirts going for a fiver with shitty screen printed graphics on them in club shop. Proper harry ramp. It's more logical than thinking he bought us to detroy us like some kind of Dr Evil Spurs fan unphased by the personal cost of having us relegated. We're not even making an attempt to do things on the cheap, we're trying to do things without spending anything.

It baffles me as to why Ashley is such a misery bastard when it comes to this club. Let us remember he is a self described 'betting man' who spunked hundreds of millions of pounds up the wall on HBOS shares, flying to New York for a piss up and throwing money away in Llambias' casino. He's clearly not a skin flint so i've no idea what he's playing at I'm actually beginning to believe he wants this club to go down. There is no logical explanation for the lack of activity on his part. JFK can fuck off too. I don't think his quotes are in any way a subtle dig at those upstairs, he's not bright enough for that. He's clearly passing the blame onto those before him to try and keep MA & co. sweet. New contract here he comes!

Talk is cheap. He needs to put his hand in his pocket and improve the squad. Unless he does that nothing he can say post-transfer window will appease me. This really grinds my gears, K. There are still two weeks left of the window; let's wait and see what happens before we condemn the transfer policy I think we can pretty much guess what's going to happen, especially as it looks like JFK has had to go cap in hand to Llambias and MA to get the paltry sum of £10 million released.

Talk is cheap. He needs to put his hand in his pocket and improve the squad. Unless he does that nothing he can say post-transfer window will appease me.

tbf that kid is clearly wearing shoes He's a spectator

I think the vast majority of people aren't fucked off about Keegan anymore, they're just fucked off at the way the club is being ran in general.

What about the money he takes out of the club in the way of transfers? I doubt we'll see the money for Mandela again when he fucks off

But he was planning to spend £20m a season in transfers, though somewhere along the line he forgot about that. Wasn't it just £20 million a season into the club full stop? No mention of transfers?

Shearer does seem the type to dribble around half a dozen shoeless African kids, slide the ball under the onrushing 12 year old and then celebrate like he's scored the winner in the cup final

Slightly off topic, but i'm still absolutely amazed at how badly wrong Ashley has got things. All he had to do was come in, spend a decent amount each summer and show a little bit of forward thinking and the fans would've taken to him like a duck to water. Christ, he already had a head start by not being Freddy Shepherd. He's an idiot. I boggles the mind that this bloke is/was a billionaire.

Kinnear has no idea how to play the fucking game like Not naming names but giving every other personal detail out about a player, that's from Glenn Roeder's school of "Glenn Roeder doesn't like to talk about any other teams players but if you see Glenn Roeder at their matches you know who i'm watching"

They're only talking to AC Milan at the minute. I fully expect them to agree a ridiculous fee and Kaka to turn them down.

http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?showtopic=22535 Believe it or not I hate being right

Trial and Retribution. Rosheen would get it, like.

Wouldn't dee it that side of the toon.

Doesn't Wise have a major issue living "up norf!"? Team talks conducted via video link tbh.

I'm hypothosizing, but Kinnear strikes me as a bloke constantly on the edge of conflict with anyone and everyone around him. It's only a matter of time before his relationship with Ashley breaks down, especially the way that fat fucker has conducted himself.

What the fuck would happen to this club? Now i'm not saying he's a good manager. Far from it, but if someone like Joe FUCKING Kinnear had enough and walked due to the stuff going on behind the scenes i'm baffled as to what direction the club would go in. Would Ashley continue with his ridiculous policy of letting that odious cunt Wise undermine the manager and bring in shit players on a free or would he realise that maybe, just maybe he's been going about things in the wrong way? There is no doubt JFK's stock has, rightly or wrongly, risen since he arrived here due to the fact he picked up a few results and got the team playing inspite of some of his dodgy decisions. He could quite easily walk into a job in the Championship now on the back of his few months here. It's became clear that despite what Ashley has said he's not in charge of transfers and despite the fact he comes across as a bit of a patsy I think he'll reach the end of his tether sooner rather than later. He doesn't like to be made a fool out of and he can only blame the press for everything that goes wrong for so long. It's sad to say but if he goes I really think we're fucked. No manager will touch the job with a barge pole. Survival this season really does depend on how long Kinnear is willing to make an arse out of himself.

Bugger. I was hoping it was Stevie.

Fucking spacker.

Old skool bitches

I'm still waiting for the flight he's on with Sir Bob from Southampton to land a Newcastle Airport. Must have one hell of a fuel tank if that plane has stayed up in the air for the best part of 7 years