Isegrim

Always liked him as a player. Shame about his handwriting though.

Same here. A friend of mine who is an English Forest fan thought about going (with probably with some more lads). Glad we didn't book flights.

All you have to know about South Africa (probably already posted or to be found on snopes.com):

Why? The club staff at Newcastle has been cut from 1500 to 500. The queues outside don't clear until 15 minutes after the game has started because half of the gates remain closed to lower costs. What do Newcastle pay for that West Brom don't? Our wages are £35m compared to their £22m, so that's £13m more outgoings we've got. As I said, the gate receipts alone more than cover that difference. That's before you look at how much better we do from merchandise, advertising and other commercial interests. How much have we saved Mike on his Sports Directs advertising budget? What would they have had to pay any other club for blanket advertising around the stadium & the stadium renamed for them? That's got to be worth 7 figures. That's all a bit simplistic, isn't it. Of course Newcastle have drastically cut costs. The expenses are still likely to be much higher than West Brom's. The bigger turnover and higher gate receipts don't just equate with a bigger profit. There are a lot of other running costs that have to be considered, e.g. a bigger ground means higher maintenance costs, same applies for the training complex etc.

They are likely to only have had a fraction of the current expenses of Newcastle though...

If it was how you put it then I would have expected it to read "Mr Ashley is taking £7m of the clubs profits every month". Also on reading that, it doesnt say £7m every month or even an average of £7m but to me it says hes taking a profit/cut/dividend/whatever you want to call it each month, this amount fluctuates and in some case(s) its been as much as £7m. I don't want to split hairs and am definitely not qualified to say what is making more grammatical sense in the English language. Thing is though that it easily could get misinterpreted and if you look at the reactions elsewhere there have been enough native speakers misinterpreting and mocking the statement. So at least the wording has been unfortunate. That's all I am on about. If you make bold statements like this either the language has to be pretty clear or the content does have to be explained. Otherwise it is (and has been) only goof for causing confusion. At least the barrister on board of the committee should have been aware of this iyam.

Firstly, I wouldnt personally have issued that statement, there was no need for it as it doesnt add any weight to the aim of the email therefore personally, I dont think it shopuld have been in there. At the same time though, I dont see what the big issue is, we've made it clear in the mail that we're not accusing him and we dont know if its true or not. It is however a claim that is being made by people far more knowledgable than you, me and anyone else on the Trust. So when the relevant media outlets issue the story along with their evidence then what then? Are they just a bunch of tossers shooting themselves in the foot? Nobody has said the club is making £7m per month profit, what is being alleged is that is the amount being taken from the club, the two things are totally different, if we were making £7m per month profit and Ashley took it all then Id think "twat...but its his money, his club he can technically do what he wants with it". If however, this club isnt making that kind of profit (and we all know it isnt) and £7m per month is going to Ashley then thats a totally different matter. I cant however, comment on the wheres and whys because frankly I dont know, Ive not been involved in this particular bit because of my personal circumstances at the mo, Ive been copied into stuff and Ive put my own comments in, rubber stamped stuff etc but only minimal things. I do however back the decision to do it, we have a PR person on board and what he says goes as far as Im concerned, as long as the mail came through him then I know he must have his reasons for putting it in. However, just because I wouldnt have put that out doesnt mean Im right, theres many a thing I would have done differently, in hindsight some of them would have been beneficial others would have made the organisation look even dafter. What seems a good idea one day, isnt necessarily one once its taken place. I will however take it personally when Im accused of being a clown because Im part of this, a lot of hard work has gone into this, a lot of stuff is still going on yet as usual people are willing to rip it apart because of 2 lines in an email. As this thread shows (which some see as some kind of NUST thing just because I did it) the other side of the argument (ie the club) make statements of way worse than this each day yet dont get the kind of ridicule the Trust does. The email uses the word profit though. Regardless how correct the allegations are, the author should have been aware (or been made aware) how it would be interpreted by critical minds. The aim of the NUST to fulfil their target has to be to get more support. So those who are already committed to the course don't count. It's about the undecided and critical minds. So I don't think the NUST has done itself a favour there - rather shot itself in the food with the wrong use of its ammunition. Criticising the club for its shambolic communication and propaganda is all fair and good, but at some point you have to do it better. A lot of the good things the NUST stands for and is trying to achieve are getting lost in between those repeatedly stupid public releases. And as there seem to be enough sensible people spearheading the NUST I fail to understand how they can make those daft statements again and again. They could get away with it if it had been the first time. Unfortunately it wasn't.

I tells ya. Well at least the NUST seems to think so. Honestly, I had a lot of time for the NUST, although from my experience with German clubs I do have my reservations about clubs "owned" by fans. But a lot of the stuff the NUST has come out with is cringeworthy. I am sorry for the likes of peasepud and others, but in general they do a very good job in looking unprofessional.

He's probably still busy texting Sky Sports "transfer" news nevertheless...

Looks like this is interview time. I have a (second though) interview with the ministry of justice to get appointed as a judge this Friday. If I don't get considered then I've also got an interview for a lecturing position at Trinity College in Dublin early in February. Hopefully something will come out of it. If not I might have enough time for a trip to a match this season..

He doesn't care about the club though. All his thinking is short term and Hughton the numpty is buying into it. Ashley wants to run away from his idiotic decisions but wants to minimize the hole those idiotic decisions burnt into his pockets. That's why he only covers the running costs without considering any investment for the long term benefit of the club.

Recently discovered the art of cooking with low temperatures. It does take a lot of time but the meat gets absolutely fantastic. Yesterday I made beef tenderloin with a chili-chocolate sauce (which I actually didn't like though).

getting excited? the only people I see getting excited are attain (who has always known who rubin kazan are) and jamie "I think bartons really turned it around" gordon speaks volumes to me Doesn't matter when Leazes is posting in post-pub mode...

The article does probably make as much sense as the grammar of the headline of this thread fwiw.

Congratulations Pud. Has he got his own digital camera yet?

I can't see what was wrong with Plymouth's gameplan tbh. In the end it seems it wasn't too different to how Newcastle play for most of the time.

Probably allready renamed to somalipirates@St. James' Park.so

This. Or the question how much of Emre saw while he was playing for Newcastle. "creative"

Will Mancini commute from the house in Newcastle he bought a couple of years ago?

He was gash here.

How much would a boiler be under this new scheme?

Tbh, I think we should collect the majority of Stevie's posts and publish them under the title "Mein Kampf". Bye.

Über-Über-Woosh! Michael Rummenigge asked me to stand next to him for a photo some years ago. I was totally drunk but for my local team they think I scared him off to Japan.

I hopre Michael Rummenigge will still be bow down to my fantastic hattrick (even though Andy Möller wasn' interesteted...)!