LeazesMag

thankfully, we didn't carry on under the McKeags, Seymours etc, or you would have been watching us playing 3rd division in a cow shed with 10,000 supporters like Sheffield Wednesday, and certain administration, instead of playing in the Nou Camp and San Siro in the Champions League. And half the posters on here, NO and skunkers, would have been spending Saturday afternoons in IKEA, like they did under the McKeags, Seymours etc. You do with the club what happened from 1992-2007, and you can walk away with as much as you like. That's capitalism and life for you, instead of that failed Marxist stuff.

I don't actually care... just like I don't care that Sunderland are top of the form table. It's all just selective criteria. you don't care how well the team does on the pitch Mike Ashley will love cretins like you. Do you watch the match in a pub ? Do you live in Singapore or somewhere ?

Glad someone got it anyway

Up to the point of Graham Souness' appointment we were one of the best football businesses in Europe, as I mentioned and Alex recalled our wages/turnover ratio was one of the best anywhere in Europe at 45% which is why we were making HUGE PROFITS, so of course we were a sustainable business again in case you can't read or don't understand, up to the point of Souness coming in, in September 2004, which is when all of the bad commercial, business, and footballing decisions started. 2004 was the pivotal point in our history, commercially, stature and footballing wise. Incredible how shit peoples memories are, it's 8 years ago ffs, EVERYONE KNEW we were making vast profits. There is absolutely no point in continuing any form of discussion with you if you refuse to accept that there is a difference between operational profit and retained profits. there is absolutely no point in continuing any form of discussion with you until you realise that most football supporters who go to games actually want the team to win on the pitch and understand that you do that by keeping your best players and backing your manager rather than withholding money from selling top players from him instead and saying its "good business"

Weeeeeeeeee were nearly championnnnsss... my frieeeend... and we'll qualify for europe on average more than any other club barring four clubs till the enddddddd that is actually correct, when will we do it under soopa Mike ?

sorry but Shepherd never owned the club. Anyway, when are you going to reply to what I said and admit what you said about Spurs under a DOF, Newcastle under Wise and Keegan and a DOF, then tell us how your Comolli is getting on at Liverpool, or is he encouraging them also to spend money they don't have ? You have came back on here with your tail between your legs, the least you could do is admit the crap you spouted and admit this is the case. I didn't say anything about him being the owner of the football club. I said how is giving someone millions that you've admitted we didn't have a sustainable business model, which you didn't answer. what about your DOF guaranteed blueprint for success again ? What happened to Wise and Keegan ? The truth about Spurs, is EXACTLY as I've stated. How come Alan Sugars "business" model was pissed all over by the hopeless Fred and Dougie ?

Fuck off you brummie nonce, you're not needed or welcome you knob. If you're prepared to say personal things like that on a message board you should be prepared to do it to someones face but you're a cowardly arsehole. You'd have a hard job though seeing as you get to Newcastle bi-annually. First off the black country reference alex made ages ago was already explained to you last week and as for being a nonce, I wasn't the one that got obsessed with a paedophile on twitter either. I'd also like to point out that I was happily letting people on here use my season ticket for games for free if on the odd occasion I couldn't attend while you were handing over your spare cash to your trustee so again you're talking bollocks. Just some advice mate but you're not going to make it as a professional gambler or win big on a game show, in fact I can remember when you had the idea to offer a company the chance to have their logo in your signature on forums and pay you for the privilege, like being associated with you and your ramblings would be good for their business. You just have to accept you're one of life's losers Stevie that will never have anything, I know it's harsh but it's just the way it is. Baggy likes the personal stuff. Next, he loses his rag, then he goes off in a sulk for a few years, or until Spurs have a good football team again.

how do you know what I know and don't know, shitforbrains ? Most of what I say is sooooo basic, it shouldn't really need to be spelled out anyway.

Well considering we made £48m profit in 2003 and 2004, backing up my point we were financially secure, your point slating FFS handling of the club up to that point, is null and void. But we didn't make those profits. FFS. This is basic stuff. all together now...."we've got the biggest profits, in the land...we've got the biggest profits in the land" What a load of shite.

Why not talk about major trophies instead. One ownership failed and one has failed so far. I know which is most likely to win one. well, if you are saying the entire reign of Keegan in particular, and all those european qualifications, top footballers and growth of the club was a waste of time and you would rather have supported Leicester all those 15 years on account of them beating Tranmere in the final of the League Cup, it pretty much sums up your state of mind lad.

exactly. How the club made such massive progress in those 15 years, yet made annual losses of the magnitude claimed, is quite amazing tbh. Only an idiot could truly attempt to say that such a rise in the clubs fortunes was such a disaster as some of these OOT's and know-nowts make it out to be.

oh dear. Quoting from macbeths site. Can we go back to talking about league positions, and champions League qualifications, unless of course you are one of those who buy scarves with the share price on it to wave at games when we get pissed all over by the likes of Spurs ?

but it means the entire 15 year period was a waste of time and says we did everything spectacularly incorrectly mate.

But now you're saying we were giving him millions that we didn't have, I'm asking you how this is a sustainable business model? Also Spurs are ran like a business so I'm not sure what you're on about there. sorry but Shepherd never owned the club. Anyway, when are you going to reply to what I said and admit what you said about Spurs under a DOF, Newcastle under Wise and Keegan and a DOF, then tell us how your Comolli is getting on at Liverpool, or is he encouraging them also to spend money they don't have ? You have came back on here with your tail between your legs, the least you could do is admit the crap you spouted and admit this is the case.

At least you're admitting the club was spending millions that it didn't have, now perhaps you could tell us how spending millions you don't have is a sustainable way to run a football club? It's a breakthrough for you to admit that, I'm impressed. Said at the time that they shouldn't be bankrolling Souness, dear boy, unlike our expert accountant ie Gemmill. When are you going to admit that your DOF system that you insisted would bring guaranteed success purely because of the system, has failed ? And that it failed here at Newcastle under Wise and Keegan when you supported Wise, and it has failed at your precious Spurs having been discarded by Redknapp who for some reason you are also now pretending you have supported all along ? The truth about Spurs is they were run "like a business, within their means" under Alan Sugar and we pissed all over them when we were run by football men, and now the situation is reversed and they are now run by football men and we are being run by "like a business, within our means" [and not even backing our manager with the money from sales, which is even worse].

i think they'll be wound up & reformed probably in Division 1, as that kind of mealy-mouthed compromise is the sort of thing the SFA are good at; see, for example, the Airdrie United fiasco, whereby they replaced Clydebank by purchasing their registration. What should happen is what happened to Gretna, but it won't, for reasons of pragmatism. Not sure what relevance the reference to Shepherd & the Halls has in this instance I'm not really sure why people insinuated that the Halls and Shepherd would have sent NUFC into the arms of Morrisons either, but they did. And still do in fact. Whatever happens to Rangers, if they stay in the Jock League, they will be challenging Celtic again before we know it and nobody will give a fuck about this "disaster".

thats a canny few supermarkets !! Hope Ahmed's corner shop buys them considering how many bigots and racists they have amongst them. or a Catholic

This sounds very close to you suggesting bankruptcy is an acceptable part of football? I think LM is just saying that so far the evidence is they'll continue to exist in some form or another, doesn't look like he's saying it's right tbf. exactly. As I've always said. Do all the young 'uns believe they hype, scaremongering etc that they read, and NUFC had decades of glorious success and trophies prior to supporters wives and girlfriends being called dogs in 1998 ? Would be far more interesting if he simply told us what gloom and permanent doom scenario is going to befall Rangers now instead ? Or is he going to babble on for years about nothing, disagreeing with anything I say just because its me then saying in the end what I've said all along, such as people like manc mag do ?

"Hun-fans". Fuck me.

This sounds very close to you suggesting bankruptcy is an acceptable part of football? wtf are you blabbing on about

ASDA = Ashleys Sports Direct Arena

They shouldn't but they all are becasue of the football creditors rule. Clubs that should have died and gone back to the start: Charlton 1984 Middlesbrough 1986 Tranmere 1987 Newport County 1989 Walsall 1990 Northampton 1992 Kettering 1992 Aldershot 1992 Maidstone 1992 Hartlepool 1994 Barnet 1994 Exeter 1994, 2003 Gillingham 1995 Doncaster 1997 Millwall 1997 Bournemouth 1997, 2008 Darlington 1997, 2009 Chester 1998, 2009 Hereford 1998 Portsmouth 1999, 2010 Crystal Palace 1999, 2010 Oxford Utd 1999 Barrow 1999 Swindon 2000, 2002 Scarborough 2000 Hull 2001 QPR 2001 Chesterfield 2001 Leicester 2002 Barnsley 2002 Carlisle 2002 Notts County 2002 Bury 2002 Bradford 2002 Port Vale 2002 Lincoln City 2002 Swansea City 2002 York 2002 Halifax Town 2002, 2008 Derby 2003 Ipswich 2003 Huddersfield 2003 Oldham 2003 MK Dons 2003 Wimbledon 2003 Wrexham 2004 Cambridge 2005 Crawley Town 2006 Rotherham 2006, 2008 Leeds United 2007 Boston United 2007 Southampton 2008 Luton 2008 Stockport 2009 Salisbury 2009 thats a canny few supermarkets !!

only when I fancy a laugh.

far too basic for some it seems. This place is becoming more and more like Newcastle Online and skunkers all the time, the quality of posters is sinking rapidly if idiots like this is anything to go by. Even to the point of them calling for the banning of someone who "disagrees with them" [boohoo] yet are saying the actual reality rather than believing in fairies.