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Not all. Not sure if Ive read anything at all from any main stream media talking us down. Since relegation I think our overall press and the goodwill towards us has increased a hell of a lot. While nobody has a clue what Ashley will do next, the deadwood has virtually gone, stability is setting in, finances have been sorted and we seem to be putting in lots of preparation for the summer window. I'm not going to get high and mighty here, but I repeat the fans on the ground, in Newcastle, 99% are against Ashley, that's my issue with what you said. Not taking the piss, but even you have to be honest here, where you live is at beat a 30/70 area in their favour so the people you speak to are going to have slightly differing views than somewhere, where everyone is black and white.

I asked him about this the other day, I said if Celtic played the toon in the CL final he said who would you want to win. He said something like Celtic 4-0. He was born in Glasgow, but moved here when he was 4 his mother/fatha being Irish/jocks. He turned round and said the NE fans are up there with Merseyside and Glasgow for passion, what a patronising fat cunt.

The only talking down these days seems mainly on the forums by those caught in the past. Just saw this, you're taking the piss. I refuse to believe you're not. I won't bite.

We're worthless man, like I say it's even down to the fucking strips. If you had half a clue you would realise our infrastructure is a fucking disgrace. You know the first thing Hall did, he built a team of successful businessmen around him, when he became chairman of the club. He had FFS, Douglas Hall, plenty others, and most importantly he appointed Freddie Fletcher who was probably second behind Keegan in being the reason the clubs turnover increased from £4m in 1991 to £59m in 1998. He marketed the club. It's a lot more complicated than, "ah Mike's doing his best, he's gradually growing the club", off the pitch we're like a fucking corner shop. Even the tacky Sports Direct sign on the roof, makes us look like poor chumps, because that's what we are. We need people like FFS and Fletcher to market the club and develop it properly off the pitch. It's a disaster off the pitch. Fletcher made Rangers the richest club in Europe at one point, he came to the toon and made us 5th richest in Europe within seven years. We have fuck all marketing or fuck all PR, we should be exploiting markets abroad, because the fanbase is there. We have a fanclub in places you've never even dreamed of like Singapore with 2,000 members. We have nothing off the pitch we're devalued, and talking about FFS and brothels is more or less like saying "I don't have a clue", because it's irrelevant. We need a team of Fletcher's and proper people who are going to promote the club. It's dying in that regard, pisses me off when tools can't see it. Nearly everyone I know committed friends, people at the match, agree with and uphold everything I say, other than one or two. The only ones I see a degree of support for this disgusting regime are on the internet. Say nee more.

Sorry Stevie but that's shite - the only way to increase turnover that much would have been by success on the pitch and ground expansion - how likely was that in 2007? We still had a degree of self esteem in 2007. Our turnover with the additional masses of Sky money since then, it would be £120m+ that is a fact, we're ran like a corner shop, and it'll still be £90m for this season. 07/08 season ticket sell out and we didn't need 6500 cheap family tickets to do it, because the fans still believed we were going somewhere, and at least had a strategy and a target of a minimum of European football every year. Well done for missing my whole point entirely anyway. Lets put it like this, if the Queen and Prince Phillip turned out in Camden Market on Sunday wearing a hoody and a pair of hi tec trainers, and they were photographed in all the papers. The whole world would think what are these bamps playing at, and we thought they were regal. Well that's what Ashley has systematically done to this club, we have nothing no core, we have no self esteem, no one talking us up with any degree of sincerity we're a fuckin disaster, it's a miracle we have more than 30,000 wanting to go.

So where'd the money come from to make this assault on the top 4 (or top 2 according to you). I'd love to know. I can't abide Ashley personally, but I do appreciate his moolah. I'm sick of these threads. Yous talk about the same pish, day after day, regurgitating the same shite. A lot of what people say is right, but if this was a prison, I reckon 5 would be murdered with 6 month because people would just got sick of the monotony of the same arguments and the same people saying the same thing. This thread is supposed to be about Andy Carroll for fuck sake. Anyway the bit I've highlighted. Leazes has explained his position 100 times, and I agree with him, and Brummiemag raises the same quite correct points. You see Shepherd, regardless what you think of him our turnover was £97m in 2003, the 8th best in world football. If we'd continued on that level our turnover would be £150m EASILY now, the club would've continued to grow and could've QUITE FUCKIN EASILY become part of the Champions League closed shop which with Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal and Liverpool existed for 5 years largely speaking. Liverpool took our place, or the place that should've been ours. So it's no good saying, how do you find the money, where do you get the money. The club has been so fucked up since 2004, and even worse from 2007, that we fucked it up. Shepherd had the foresight, self esteem, ambition and belief, to talk Newcastle up as being one of the best clubs in Europe. In many ways we were. A classic example is our sponsorship with NTL was worth more to the club 10 years ago, than our deal with Northern Rock is now, that's not even adding the inflation factor and expanse of global marketing. Shepherd was negotiating a deal with Mansion House in his last season that would've saw us pocket £6m a year, he NEVER devalued Newcastle United, he made sure we were a blue chip club in most respects, and he knew our worth. These wanks in charge now, are running us like a cheap and grotty out of town cheap clothes shop. We're worth little because we don't have anyone promoting the values of the club. We're leaderless and directionless. The actual turnover isn't the problem, at a club with a fanbase of maybe 100,000 people who would be willing and able to watch a successful Newcastle United, the turnover is never the problem. If it is run right, promoted right, and fuckin valued by the most important people of all (whether we like it or not) the owners and leaders of the club, the turnover follows. It's ludicrous that we can go from a position of having a turnover £30m more than Tottenham to £25m less than them in 8 years, but that is how fucked up the club is and like I say it stems from the mission statement, and the message these fuckin flids put out which is "yeah we're a grotty pishy corner shop operation, but as long as we get our money back we don't give a fuck". It's laughable, even down to the pathetic shirts we wear, do you think FFS would've let the club turn out looking like a bunch of fuckin absolute bamps. We look like Notts County man. I remember when FFS gave us all a free scarf, he had 40000 made, he took one look at them and said fuck that they're not getting that trash, and he did things properly in that regard. The esteem of the club is the key thing, the owners treat us like we're not much more than commodity which doesn't need nurturing because they have 45000 daft cunts like me who will go regardless what happens. Pathetic cunts like you get told face to face, you're a WUM with no comprehension of the value of what the club in effect should be worth.

Cole, Baggio, Bergkamp, Ferdinand, Shearer, Ronaldo, Kluivert, Owen - these were all strikers we either signed or seriously looked at the possibility of signing them in our life times. Now we're going to have to be grateful for Carlton Cole. It's one of these buys you just KNOW FOR A FACT, that it's not going to work out but we're still going to do it. The last time I was more certain of someone flopping was when Souness took over from Sir Bobby. 9 COLE shame he's not fit to wipe the arse of the last one to have that on his shirt. I just don't know who we can sign to be honest, but please not him. I don't know who would want to come here who's really class. I'd love Llorente, but he's going to want to play for a CL team, and this Gervinho who I personally think is pish has turned his nose up at us, let him. I honest to god think we should go for someone who's about 32 or 33 like Drogba, who is rumoured to be leaving Chelsea, cos that's the best we can do, there's no really top 22-28 year old going to want to come and play up front for us. Edit I'd rather fuckin Kuqi signed a 5 year deal than us get this N'Gog, an embarrassment of a player.

Is it bad that I haven't got a clue who any of them are? Worse , that I haven't a clue who the sponsor is? Is it not the fish 'n' chip people ?? Oh no, after a quick google, it's even better than that… Clicky I did the same when I saw the pic. I was thinking small time Boro, it's like the toon being sponsored by Gormans.

I tell you who was shite but I used to like Lua Lua. He was shit for the toon in terms of product, but when he came on you didn't know what he was going to do, and neither did he, anything could happen. Leverkusen away in the CL was his best game, him and Shola were like Lineker and Beardsley that neet.

I saw him against Celtic and told all me pals he was the best signing since Bellamy That game against Celtic he looked quick energetic, he was spraying first time balls 50 yards to feet, I thought at last we have a top centre midfielder. Dear me, by the time he left I felt as bad about him as I did about Babayaro. I read an interview with FFS saying Babayaro was the most disgraceful employee he'd seen in 40 years of his working life. I thought this thread was about players who were shite who you had a soft spot for anyway.

See that Lee Ryder's blocked me. I think I criticised one report he did, and that was it. Journalists shouldn't be in that game if they can't face constructive criticism. I've got a shit reputation on Twitter like, half like me, and half hate me. The younguns hate me, the older ones think I'm ok. It's my own fault if I see someone talking pish I comment, I can't help myself. Simpsongate, who speaks to me reasonably all the time now, didn't help.

John Candy's deed though, there's nee actor remotely fat enough to play him. Even Coltrane would need to put some serious pounds on.

Five years I've been a member and I think he was by far the one who you'd ask the most questions about. Even Catherine who is dead placid, got fuckin sick of his "good morning, how is everyone on this blustery March morning". Ye just felt like saying here fuck off man, fuckin workin it's a Monday mornin and I wish it was Friday. I'd lay my life on the fact it's not the last we've heard of the bloke.

I think the story has ended, because the source won't tell me the worst thing he's done. There's another source who says he went to Kenton School, and was hated by all 900 kids there 25 years ago. Maybe that is what drove him to be the man he is today, but it looks like the story has ended. VERDICT:

That goal won me nearly 500 quid. Was me birthday too iirc.

Regardless if I view on me phone, desktop or laptop, it's ABSOLUTELY pish. So slow 10 seconds to load a page sometimes.

The North Korea and Iran of mammals?

Bernard wasn't really a flop here though (ignoring that daft 2nd spell) but I know what you're saying. Domi is a better shout for me. Bags of ability, heart the size of a pea. Mind his reason for leaving . Newcastle was an evil town full of "pagans". Bernard was class, best left back show I've seen off a toon player in the San Siro. Was his agent fucking his head up that ruined him. West Ham oh dear.

[pissssss]Cath[/pisssssss] Indeedy. You lot taking the piss out of women who have cats are fucking dead when she reads this mind... Aye but she doesn't look like a goth, and her cats look nice the sort that would purr at you for no reason, even though am no feline lover.

Bramble. TBH. Could look world class on occasion. No not taking the piss, best long passer we've ever had.

29, so 14, they turn out on there from about 12 upwrds, when I was at school the wronguns in the first year used to turn out there. Green was good craic when I used to go down, there was also a cracking record shop there. Was about 20-22 years ago mind when I did You use the phrase "wronguns" too often though Stevie. See I class Wyn as one, now I hope you dont think there was 20-30 of him down there then The arguement with that lass though was about fuck all. You both started making a reasonable point and you both took each other's tweets wrong and started flaming each other. I reckon you'd make a good couple What?!?!? pmsl She's more manly than me man. A fuckin vegan with tattoo's and purple attention seeking hair bragging about a PHD. About as well matched as Nick Griffin and Abu Hamza on a boys night oot on the piss. Has to be lesbian to be honest. Im sure you were calling her a bloke till you realised it was a lass as well. I was creased reading it like. Im more open minded about the appearance side, couldnt give a fuck about qualifications though. Mean fuck all to me. Also something Sima made a good point about a while ago, when he said "all women who call people pal and mate are generally fat munters and doilums". I think that his hypothesis has been proven correct. Bet she's got about 6 cats.

29, so 14, they turn out on there from about 12 upwrds, when I was at school the wronguns in the first year used to turn out there. Green was good craic when I used to go down, there was also a cracking record shop there. Was about 20-22 years ago mind when I did You use the phrase "wronguns" too often though Stevie. See I class Wyn as one, now I hope you dont think there was 20-30 of him down there then The arguement with that lass though was about fuck all. You both started making a reasonable point and you both took each other's tweets wrong and started flaming each other. I reckon you'd make a good couple What?!?!? pmsl She's more manly than me man. A fuckin vegan with tattoo's and purple attention seeking hair bragging about a PHD. About as well matched as Nick Griffin and Abu Hamza on a boys night oot on the piss. Has to be lesbian to be honest.

29, so 14, they turn out on there from about 12 upwrds, when I was at school the wronguns in the first year used to turn out there.

All 50 of them piped down. Her though my assertion was right, she'd have been on some hippy green 15 years ago, going on about Kurt Cobain with a nose ring. You can just tell. Turns out she's doing a PHD, so fuck DEADMAN could do a PHD if he put his mind to it. Wanks, it's good though because it cleans your list, you get rid of boring cunts and end up with people who have something to say. "LOL Corrie was good" you don't want that on your twitter. The bloke who did the cross pennine treck piped down, I didn't even know he did, I just speculated by looking at him he was that type of bloke, and HE WAS! That wasn't even being psychic it was just seeing his face and patter.

There's some right mugs on twitter.