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Has Stevie been hacking Chezs account?

Woooah can we just roll this back? You went to watch a horse race while your club needed your support. Get yourself a house in Jarrow lad and hang your head in shame.

Congrats guv'nah was wondering how long that champers was going to last!

Havent seen the highlights yet but Nolans goal appeared to epitomise just how shite this league is, from the Leazes it appeared like he had all the time in the world and nobody bothered to try and tackle him. Good game though, I didnt think Blackpool were as crap as some have made out, they were nowhere near us but at times gave us a game and pushed for the goal. Still cant understand Hughtons substitution though. Oh and what was all the commotion about when Barton was warming up? Seemed like half the West Stand were going mental or up and nebbing.

I think you've missed the point though, just because he wants them is in no way a guarantee of getting them. How can you ever expect to pull in a player on a free from the likes of Arsenal when you're going to pay out low wages and no bonuses, the whole plus point of leaving on a free for a player is to be able to get more out of it in wages/ bonuses and O'Hara will be on way more than he can expect here, even the likes of Hull/ Stoke would be offering better terms and prospects.

You may well have done

The names on the list are Sammy boys although I've often wondered about Smith, wasnt he the first buy under Ashley? that and the fact he walked around with Smith 17 on his back made me wonder just whether he actually had some part in that purchase. I can imagine the first meeting..... MA: So welcome, Sam, Im Mike, now who do you want to buy? SA: Well theres a few names on my list, Geremi from Chelsea, Beye, Barton, Cacapa. MA: Ok, we go out for Smith, Geremi, Beye.... SA: Sorry? Smith? I never said any Smith. MA: Thing is, Ive already had the shirt made up in my size so well.....

Thing is though when you look at the stark facts of that its still not very good, first transfer window as a new owner and you'd expect a good strong statement of intent a la Chelsea, Man City. I dont mean going out and spending £80m on one player but I do mean "here Mr Manager, get out and spend what you want to push us forward". Spending a net sum of about £10m while reducing the squad by 4 bodies and the wage bill accordingly isnt really showing that kind of determination. When you look at that list of names though its like the RVI first team. Between them theyve seen more nurses and physios than the Royal College of Nursing.

You're up at 7am on a Saturday morning and its great?

All the best fella. Hope everyones doing good.

Aye, tell them you'd put a water hazard on the 12th and plant a couple of trees here and there, lazy fuckers at that course, its got to be the most boring fuck off piece of straight flat golf Ive ever seen. Although admittedly, its the only course Ive ever played which had the remnants of a burnt out Fiesta on the 9th fairway....oh the wonders of Cowgate

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He's just Shola wearing me grannies wig

Thesports editor would be one Bill Bradshaw who is a mackem, then it explains a lot doesnt it! Bill Bradshaw's not to blame, he's a really good bloke* I know him. * For a mackem You've got a Makem mate? fuck off

So lets get this right, the bloke who gave us SBR and ran us while we were in the Champions league is 4 places ahead of the bloke who has sytematically ripped the club apart, made us a laughing stock, lied to the fans, press and managers sold some of our best players then had us relegated while making profits in the transfer windows. At the same time the chairman who presided over us during the slightly better part of Ashleys reign and brought in dealings with the fans etc is more at fault than the current greasy worm who wouldnt know how to deal with fans if he had to. Oh and a manager who was here years ago and just happened to be shite is the worst of all? Im guessing you wrote all those names down on bits of paper and threw them in the air to make that list, either that or you mis read it as a "worst tache" competition. I've added an extra line in bold above for you.... are you going to grace the thread with your order? As for the laughable attempt to say Fred should get praise for giving us SBR, it wasn't exactly rocket science hiring him was it? Now if he wasn't from the North East with a affinty for the club and a long successful carrer behind him maybe it would deserve praise. The order is largely because I don't think getting relegated was as bad as sacking SBR and bringing in Souness. You speak about the player being sold etc, but i didn't like any of them, they were either over rated, over paid, injury prone or French. Yeah I am, once Ive spent some time thinking about it properly not just using some random order, all your justifications above are valid reasons for having people on the list and tbf I hold most of those above as accountable in some shape or form but haway man get your ordering sorted. Yes Souness dismantled a good squad but he did it because he felt he could create a better one, its evey managers right to change things round, some squads can be fantastic under one manager but try and fit them into anothers style of play and they're shite. Thats not defending the bloke btw but hes not the reason we're here in the position we are now. Yes, Fred sacked SBR and hired Souness but he also did numerous other things for this club, without the whole Freddy debate raging again, you have to take into account everything and the best years we had were when Fred was involved. Your logic though that he should get no praise for hiring a great manager but all the stick for firing him is a bit rich. Fat Sam lost games, yes and it was ugly football but again hes not the reason we went down, Hughton and Shearer both lost games too, games which contributed to a relegation season, are they therefore not more to blame than Sammy boy? As for Mort ultimately allowing the wage bill to spiral, thats laughable, he did his stuff under an owner who at the time appeared not to have a problem with it, there was no debt to banks so its not like we were going to be paying out millions on interest. At the time he wasnt to know fat boy would lose some cash playing daft twats on the markets and try to claw it back from us. Mort was screwed over by Ashley nearly as much as we were. Even if he was Ashleys puppet, at least he had respect for the fans.

So lets get this right, the bloke who gave us SBR and ran us while we were in the Champions league is 4 places ahead of the bloke who has sytematically ripped the club apart, made us a laughing stock, lied to the fans, press and managers sold some of our best players then had us relegated while making profits in the transfer windows. At the same time the chairman who presided over us during the slightly better part of Ashleys reign and brought in dealings with the fans etc is more at fault than the current greasy worm who wouldnt know how to deal with fans if he had to. Oh and a manager who was here years ago and just happened to be shite is the worst of all? Im guessing you wrote all those names down on bits of paper and threw them in the air to make that list, either that or you mis read it as a "worst tache" competition.

Worrying in the sense that they are really only thinking about survival and tight budgets for team upgrading. No vision. So I'll get in before LM does. Whats the use in being there? whats the use in existing if all you're going to do is attempt to survive? thats not football, at least not for the fans, its balancing the books. Its making a profit, its all the things that football should not be about. Make no mistake, with that kind of business plan then the only people to profit (in any way shape or form) are the shareholders. I honestly think it must be more fun as a football fan to support say Blyth Spartans or Whitley Bay, teams who have a huge amount of things to aim for and are constantly striving to reach those goals than just ensuring they survive and make a profit. A good cup run for them means paying off some debts so they can buy a new player or two, those players will maybe get them promoted and hopefully get more cash in to clear more debts and buy more players...... Ive been here before though. What made this season more exciting than any in the last few years is the fact we were pushing for something, fighting to get that promotion. I dont see fighting to avoid relegation as anything like fun. As a football club owner Id no doubt think differently but as a fan I want us to compete for things not just hope we can spend as little as possible to guranteee staying in the Premiership gravy train.

speaks highly of you mind.

....and also the man Robson ultimately blamed for his sacking. FFS was in the firing line, I like FFS, he tried his best it was shite, but he done a good job till 2004, Douglas Hall was the original root of all evils in that club in my view. FFS is like your best pal trying to run a big football club, you like him but oh dear, Douglas Hall different kettle of fish, a multimillionaire many times over taking obscene wages and dividends out of the club while basically doing fuck all. Read SBR's take on him in his book, the bloke is scum. Im not disputing any of that, I think hes always been a leech and general scum but in who we hold responsible for our lowly place in football then I dont think hes in the top 5. What would have happened if he hadnt pushed for KK? We'll never know but Im guessing it wouldnt have resulted in the dream years we had. By that logic we may never have ended up with Robson at all and therefore he couldnt have treat him the way he did. His treatment of SBR was despicable but like I say his one "good action" overall raises his position (for me).

Surely it shouldnt be the amount spent on its own but the percentage of the total spend of the Premiership for that year? Or their position in the "spending league" does it mirror the position in the actual one? Did the biggest spenders finish top and the lowest spenders bottom?

Im not sure Id have Douggy up there in the top 5. As much as I think hes taken money for nothing and been an embaressment and as much as I dislike him as a person, this is still the man who is credited with the actual decision to employ Keegan. That for me bungs his standing up considerably.

I doubt she likes it now, its merely a way for her to kick men in the nads.

Loosely translates to..... Dear God! Nooooo Chris, dont sell Alan I'll not get paid!!!!!!!

I thimk our favourite makem hasnt quite worked out just who O'Neill was having a pop at, it wasnt the internet or the "hi-tech mischief makers" but the likes of herself, the football journalists too lazy to find out the real stories who just write any old bilge they find on the logic that one in 10 of the stories could be true and they end up with a scoop. boo! Can you imagine the amount of online abuse that project would get?