McFaul

...and for the record I've spent at least £5000 on tickets and season tickets since THAT FAT BASTARD came to the club, so I'm entitled to have a say. I wish we were ran like Barcelona to be honest, so what we think is crucial to how we do business.

Well for starters don't patronise me, I don't patronise you. Secondly I get bits of ITK here and there half of it is shite. When it's right no one says anything, when it's wrong you get 20 mugs laughing like it's some trophy. The word Baines is synonymous with me over 5 years after he joined Everton. I didn't offer any opinion on Tiote going to Chelsea, never mentioned Ashley once in a derogatory manner, if he had I'd have expected a proper replacement with another 2 or 3 recognised first team players. I think you have four types of people in the Ashley spectrum. 1) Wind ups who deliberately in life love having alternative views to make themselves appear different from the rest, in this case a full on Ashley fanatic. 2) People like me who it doesn't matter what he does will always hate him regardless what we achieve and long for the day he sells up (there are plenty of us) 3) People who don't want to hate him, they see many positives in Mike Ashley but can see he's continuing to make mistake 4) People that don't want to talk about the political side of the football club. Which category would you say you fit best in to?

Shame that.

Couldn't agree more with everything you have said. I think the amount of support you have in the media can distort the actual size of the club you are, and the media is crawling with ex Liverpool players. I think they're where they should be as a club at present.

Well technically it is Carlos Tevez.

Buy a ticket fae Montrose to Dundee, Dundee to Edinburgh, then Edinburgh the toon works out much cheaper.

You've said yourself he is a top class player, which you will know better than any of us seeing more of the french league, so I have no idea why you're asking the question after you've conceded he is class. £7m is absolutely fuck all for a moderately talented player, he looks better than moderately talented. £7m looks even worse, when you've conceded you believe he's worth £6m but won't go the extra mile. No one laughed at the suggestion that Real Madrid wanted him because he is top notch, I don't think it's even a question.

Yes but I made a comment about the fact I will never forgive Ashley for the treatment of Keegan, I didn't delve in to the mechanics of why Ashley's policy changed or if it did change at all, regarding other clubs policies or anything else. My comment is based on a lot more simplistic ideas than delving in to why things happened the way they did. Kevin Keegan to anyone my age is and always will be a legend. He's almost untouchable in my eyes, SJH said in 1992, "we are the only two people who could save this club", and he was right. He gave NUFC some self-esteem for the first time in my life, and when he came back, he wouldn't have agreed to come back with remit preventing him from buying his own players. Dennis Wise showing him videos of Ignacio Gonzalez, "right here's your new player", if that's not undermining a manager from top to bottom, undermining the greatest icon in the clubs history (to me he is), then what is?!? That only scratches the surface too, I have no idea there was backstabbing behind the scenes too looking at the reports Keegan had agreed to pay Henry £150k a week and sign him for £20m "Mike almost fell off his chair", loads of bollocks. Horrible snidey twats the lot of them. Keegan was undermined, lied to, and I always curl my lip up when I think of that incident and any time I think of that horrible fat bastard, nothing will EVER change my view on him.

I do believe your hearts in the right place and you care for the club, but I wouldn't say judging a players ability is your strong point. It's not really a question of whether or not he's good, of course he's fucking good, he's superb going forward and would've been a major asset for the whole football club, you're not first choice for a better country than England if you're not good. Danny Simpson can't get a sniff of the England squad and our right backs aren't even that good.

Too high? £7m for a top class right back who is worth more. Which buffoon at NUFC puts valuations on players anyway? I doubt it's Carr or Pardew, and if it is "yeah I fink he's wurf £12m", "right we'll bid £5m", the amount of times we've put ludicrous bids in for players is laughable. Even the Barton contract offer, he's sat there on 60k a week played his best season of his career and we offer him 20k. We're ran by nothing more than cockney market traders who have got lucky in their careers and continue to operate the same policies at what should be one of Europe's biggest clubs.

Once again absolutely spot on, and people can write as many flowery sentences as they like, nothing will change that absolute truth and reality.

Because our owners are fucking arseholes that's why. Most normal people don't even question his ability. He was absolutely tremendous against England probably their best player, and in the second game too, outstanding even.

It did, and how so called intelligent people can defend it beggars belief. If they can defend it and keep a straight face, they could do the same if the topic was Fred West. The most annoying thing was he almost begged us to sign him, and he's class, even if the differentiation was two million quid we should've done it. In Euro 2012 he was one of their best players, if Clichy is worth £15m on one side he's worth at least 10, and we wouldn't have had to pay anywhere near it. The fact Real Madrid registered an interest demonstrates the lads calibre.

Carlos Tevez, or any other day for that matter.

Aye but then you lose two days pay on the Sunday and Monday? Much prefer Saturday games myself, ideal kick off time for me for every game would be 530 on a Saturday.

To be fair the principles they've placed are not bad, but you can not rest on your laurels in this position as 80% of normal NUFC fans have realised. Even Ewerk wrote a very good piece on why the other day. We're going to have the odd season where it's reasonably good like last season, over achieving on our shoe string budget, but in the main NUFC are in purgatory as long as these two "you downt know 'aaa narsty we can be" cunts own the club.

Aye I'd take an Arab no problem at all. Just someone who's prime objective is to make Newcastle a top four club. This is not their prime objective, I don't think they believe we can be a long term top 4 club under their ownership because they're not prepared to push the boat out. Their prime objective is to make money.

Outsiders and new fans are obviously going to be more influenced by media and propaganda.

Anyone but these two cockney wanks, I'd feel the same about them if we won the Champions League. I think anyone from Newcastle who's been going to the match longer than ten years who can forgive them for Keegan's treatment, as well as other shit since, have few morals.

Freddy fronting a large investment group would be ideal, or someone who genuinely cares.

Come back Freddy.

No. Because I bet you thought people would dive head first in there, I won't be for one, that post was designed to wind up, ignoring him and his ilk is the best policy. You might be a wrongun but all of that is fucking true. Good post.

When we sign someone we get random charva's coming on embarrassing us outside of the ground, when they sign anyone its like filming for the Hills Have Eyes 2, and that's no exaggeration. There should be experiments done on the population of Stoke to find out why they look like they do.

Stoke are the Gwatt Shops, the Lidls, the TK Maxx, the Hi Tec, the Morrisons of football clubs.

Steve Rose comes across as a right wank, so much so I hear a brummie accent in his replies. Fish use Grand Old Team for the blue dipper one, best to get them done a week in advance.