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Why do many continue to post about that we will sign duds for peanuts? I am no Ashley fanboy but why are you so sure he will invest nowt and that it will be shite players? Colo, Guti, Bassong and Guthrie (for the money paid for him) have all been good signings so far. Admittedly Xisco and Speedy were panic buys (though I would still give Xisco a chance as he came with a semi-decent reputation). If Ashley etc bring in players that are of the same standard as Bassong, Colo and Guti I couldnt care if it cost them 2 million or 20 million tbh.. Because that is the Mike Ashley business model, he buys a business, sells off all its good assets then replaces them with average, cheap goods which he then sells on at a profit later on. I dont necessarily think they will buy duds but what I do believe they will not do is buy proven world class players at the top of their game. Everything has a price tag in the Ashley world, everything and that price is not necessarily set at the "fuck me you'd be an idiot not to sell at such a profit level". A profit is a profit to MA. He will try and squeeze as much out of each player as possible. Buy them in cheap, offer low wages (meaning we attract less quality), build up their profile and sell on for 2 or 3 million profit, repeat until fade.....

Firstly I echo NJS's comments about the big games, we as fans, definitely step up our game when we play the likes of the top 4. That is wrong, we should be giving 110% at every game then maybe fortress St James' would really exist as it used to. Secondly, I think we've lost our ability as a fanbase to control situations. Where are the chants? when was the last time a new song was aired? you look at the likes of Liverpool and they bring out actual songs for players/ situations. We've sang the same old crap for years now, theres no moving stirring anthem like Liverpools YNWA. No proper piss ripping anti-away fans stuff like "Poor Little Hammer" or "Liverpool Slums". Personally, I think "Toon Toon" is one of the most cringeworthy chants ever. Bring back some of the old stuff, we need people leading the songs as we used to have in the Gallowgate/ Leazes. "Give me an N.. N N, give me and E.. E E ......etc". Then theres the players stuff, I do believe that Owen doesnt appear to get the praise he deserves simply because we dont have a song for him! Oba lays a ball in, Owen scores we sing "Oba Oba Fe.." because we havent got an Owen one! Finally, we need to properly co-ordinate the singing, even the Robson Wonderland yesterday didnt work, Level 7 started it but by the time the Gallowgate and East Stand joined in L7 had stopped, a single ringing chorus stadium wide would put the shits up most teams and give our lot a proper boost. I do think we have one of the best sets of fans in the country but I think we've lost our spark, our ingenuity and most importantly the Geordie wit that used to be a major factor.

Well lets see what the future brings, Im not happy about the thought of him staying but at the moment this club needs stability. He now has no excuse not to invest in the transfer market. As for the timing well hes a cunt. Only two things can come of this, either any protests are muted or the day is ruined and he can claim we're all bastards because we didnt even observe the SBR day. I do hate the bloke with a passion.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/...r.html?ITO=1490 Ahem, Joe....what about this fella?

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/sport/1120...-OWEN-RAID.html

your hair?

we're not going down. It's only over-the-top over-reaction types that "know" that we're doomed. Currently we're a mid-table club, so that's where we'll end up in the league. If you honestly, HONESTLY, think that a moderate and considered view like that is stupid I'm fucking aghast. But of course, come the end of the season, I'm sure you'll be first in line to say that I was right... So because we're currently mid-table means thats where we'll end, what about two weeks ago? we were a relegation placed team. Surely under your logic that meant we'd finish there? Not what I meant mate. I meant in the scheme of things we're a mid-table club. Not because of our leagueposition at the minute, but that's just our status as we speak. Man U are a title chasing team, so that's where they'll end up, chasing (or acquiring the title) I can't see clubs like ours being the source of great drama or shock. It's not that we're "too good to go down" or any of that nonsense, it's just that, despite the outcry, we're not playing as bad as people make out, nor are we playing as well as others are. We're playing average, and our league position reflects that, as will it come the end of the season. Ahh right, and what makes us a mid-table club is the quality of players we have then. Well come February I believe we will officially be a relegation candidate then.

When he was here he was fairly stable.

Ive got one of them Griffin iTrips which is fairly good, think it was about £30 from ASDA, it transmits to the radio and has a built in charger as well. What's the sound quality like btw? Just with it using radio frequencies. Its a funny one, when Im around here then 88.9 is near perfect CD quality. Trouble is if you go on a long journey then you find local stations intefere and you have to hunt out new ones. It can be a pain but general day to day use its fine. I've never looked at it properly but Im fairly sure its straight forward to wire the iPod into the Aux jack of the car stereo. The only pain being the running of the wire and getting a good place to dock it.

Ive got one of them Griffin iTrips which is fairly good, think it was about £30 from ASDA, it transmits to the radio and has a built in charger as well.

Agreed, for cataloguing catalouging keeping track of your images then Lightroom pisses on the rest. To be honest I hadnt realised you could do those things in Photoshop though.

what a wanker you are

nobody should be a waste of time helping, never mind your own flesh and blood.

we're not going down. It's only over-the-top over-reaction types that "know" that we're doomed. Currently we're a mid-table club, so that's where we'll end up in the league. If you honestly, HONESTLY, think that a moderate and considered view like that is stupid I'm fucking aghast. But of course, come the end of the season, I'm sure you'll be first in line to say that I was right... So because we're currently mid-table means thats where we'll end, what about two weeks ago? we were a relegation placed team. Surely under your logic that meant we'd finish there?

The club are involved and in agreement with everything. Not sure what, if anything they are doing as well (although to be fair it was fairly short notice and the idea is to be spontaneous).

The Bodega is open at 10, Tilleys I believe may be 9.

WHAT HAPPENED TO FREE SPEECH YHBR KHITC NWAF YNWA? Your House Getting Robbed probably if it's anything to do with scousers Nah, not scousers Man U. His names Martyn (StretfordEnders on stretfordendflags.com), hes a Man U wanker and has spent a chunk of his time writing to youtube to get them to remove any videos of people singing about Man U.

Tell you man, I should be rename NostrfookinDamus, two weeks ago it was "Im buying this one, we've already agreed that one, we have 15million to spend" then it became "IF I get the money" and now its turning round to be "I obviously have the money but dont want to waste it on overpriced players" yeah Joe thats fine, Id hate to see you pay over the odds for a Newcastle player and would much prefer you let the money sit in the bank. By Tuesday we will start seeing the "talk of Viduka/Given/Owen/Taylor/Harper/Butt/etc/etc leaving are rubbish, they are all happy here" kind of statements then as each leaves we will have the "it was mutual, I have my eyes on a much better striker as we speak"

great, that'll do me then. Im off to the bookies now. Lets see what happens in the January window, how different will you feel if we dont buy anyone that will convinvingly strengthen the squad and at the same time sell a number of our "better" players? This season is halfway through, we are two points above relegation, the January window is the place where those that are facing the prospect of relegation will highlight their weakspots and do something to strengthen them, if we do that then I share your optimism. If we don't though (and I fear we wont) then we will have a weaker team than now but more importantly any team spirit we had will have died. It wont take much for clubs to pick us off after that.

well its just taken 9 months to sort out our annual payrise which has been agreed at a wonderful 2%. Still theres less people to collect tax off these days so I suppose I should be grateful, maybe its time for a transfer to JobCentre+, probably going to be tons of overtime on there the way the country's going.

What the fuck? where does racism, either casual or not come into it? I think it's just crossed wires here. Stiva thought the original bother causing the lad to get hoyed was due to the blokes racist comments because of Stevie Manning's interjections. You asking for peoples experiences of it implied to him that the NUSC intend to put up a defence of the racist. If the bloke was repressing a minority then he deserved to go, in as heavy handed a manner as necessary. Totally agree, which is why we asked for peoples views and comments rather than just diving in with 2 feet flying. From everything Im hearing so far though it appears to be heavy handed stewarding rather than fans causing bother.

What the fuck? where does racism, either casual or not come into it?

Ohooo someones throwing their big fat size 9s into the ring.... http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/de...le-michael-owen

I'll tell you what that Alex is a fucking animal though, took three out at the 5 a side last time we played

What about John Anderson?