Match highlights of the 2-0 over Blackburn Rovers for you now, followed by what the respective managers had to say after the game.
Alan Pardew was left praising his sides spirit after a win which by all accounts probably shouldn’t have been a win. James Perch as also the beneficiary of some praise after a cracking performance as the anchor man last night.
Meanwhile Steve Kean was left frustrated after watching his side waste a whole host of chances although he admits that he won’t have too much trouble picking his side up after the defeat given the way that his team played.
Howay the lads!
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anybody else think gabby was going to fluff it?
get in gabby!!!!!
Nobby…never a moments doubt in my mind
Neither of the Managers interviews will play for me
none of them will play for me as i’m at work, but i have an amazing memory so it doesn’t really matter
Nobby…can you type out what they said then?
Battling stuff, and you do wonder how many we could have scored with our two main strikers in place.
Then again, if they’d had THEIR main striker, I think it would have been very different too.
The bit that boils my piss is the cheating. The FA are such an amoral bunch of bastards, they’ll come down like a ton of wet bricks for some name calling (Suarez), do Cabaye for something that at worst could break someone’s fingernail, but… trying to cheat in a way that could effect the outcome of a game and therefore lead to the wrong team being relegated and losing tens of millions? Fine. They’re fine with that. Just fine.
This is why football carries no respect in sport. It doesn’t deserve any. Cos it’s run by crooks.
Ranty ranty.
I only caught about 30 odd scattered minutes of it on a shitty stream, but from what I saw Blackburn looked all over us and we were toothless upfront, I caught Obertan’s goal though.
The main thing is we kept a clean sheet anyway.
Did we just get lucky?
…can’t wait until Sunday anyway, and the prospect of seeing Ba and Cisse upfront. Then Cabaye and Tiote to return shortly after that, also bearing in mind we’ve still got Saylor and Marveaux to come back. We’ve got a pretty fkn awesome side really, when everyone’s aboot!
Richie –
Pardew – “We were canny crap, Perch was canny when he came on but we deserved the win because I’m a silver fox. Did you see that lush lass I was getting into in Tenerife? She let me have a go in her tradesman’s entrance! Ha Ha!”
Steve Keane – “We were mint, how we’re not top of the league I’ll never know! I don’t understand how home fans hate me and think I’m delusional in every single post match commentry i give out. If Chris Samba and Yakubu was playing we would of scored 20 goals…. we lost? Fuck… I thought we won.”
Rod I used the link Toonsy gave out – worked a charm and didn’t freeze once! I realise this information is no use to you now.
Just been scanning upcoming fixtures over the next 5 weeks or so -
Toon – villa (h), spurs (a), wolves (h), mackems (h), arse (a)
L’pool – spurs (h), manu (a), CUP, arse (h), mackems (a)
Arse – bburn(h), mackems (a), spurs (h), l’pool (a), toon (h)
Couple of interesting things to note here….
1. on paper, we’ve got the easier fixtures
2. lliverpool will have to deal with fixture congestion due to cup runs and we’ll have the chance to get points on the board and open a gap
3. All 3 clubs have the chance to take points off each other
4. the mackems play all 3 of us…. and will have a good chance at closing the gap and getting in the mix for the euro spots themselves (scary)
Nobby, I could fire up the old time-machine I’ve got in the cellar. I think my marmoset wheel may have produced enough special coal by now, they’ve been running on it since March 2013.
Richie im on my phone so dont know if the interviews will work, but they havn’t played before for me so try bbc they normally have them.
Rod I think we were real lucky except for the Oba goal, but if we were playing a good team we would have been getting hammered before Oba got his goal.
That’s what I deduced Dave, cheers.
Mind you, just as if they’d been playing Yakubu we’d have most likely conceded, if we’d been playing Tiote, Cabaye, Ba and Cisse we’d have creamed them I’m sure!
to be fair to ourselves, we fielded a pretty weak side from midfield up.
I was watching Phil Thompson on SSN, who wouldn’t stop ranting about how useless we were, he seemed gutted we won. Haha, stupid fkin scouser.
“if we were playing a good team we would have been getting hammered”
Not necessarily, Big Dave
I watched the Mackems (*spits*) get battered by the best team in the country for 93 mins before scoring a 94th minute winner just a few weeks ago!
That’s football mate.
Now that the transfer window has closed…. what do we talk about?
I just thoguht i’d say –
Hiba a videó letöltésekor!
TC that was my opinion mate you don’t have to agree.
maybe I should have said ‘could have been getting hammered’ rather than would have
Better luck downloading your next video Nobby.
Rod I think if Modeste wasn’t as bad as what he was he COULD have scored a brace himsef.
Wooooo – someone got out the wrong side of bed this morning!!
Have a look at the league table Dave – that might cheer you up a bit!
Not necessarily Dave, you could’ve also said “could have been not winning”.
Dave@18, I get your point mate. Football’s a game of rammed full of coulds and woulds though, but I guess the most important thing is we got 3 points.
YAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Wasn’t Phil Thompson embarrassing last night. For someone who is supposed to show a neutral perspective in front of the cameras at least his emotional reaction to seeing his beloved reds being overtaken by …. Newcastle! (spit) …. was amusing to some but pretty unpleasant to the majority of Toon fans. Even my wife who is a Scot with no affinity to football or the Magpies (despite being force fed for the last 30 years) said it was good to see his ridiculous face when chance after chance went begging.
Tony Toon, it was a bit off wasn’t it. He was getting a trifle over-excited
I almost hoyed mi shoe at the telly on a number of occasions. Mind you, they’ve not got much of a choice on their panel. Paul Merson makes my piss boil.
Rob I knew you would get the drift of what I was saying
TC yeah mate I did get out the wrong side our we lad was up all night with growing pains in his legs
No worries Dale
Where the hell is richie gone? he demands me to act like a performing monkey and write out my memory of the pardew/keane interviews and then p*sses off.
Can whoever runs this blog (weblog) please delete my previous comment@7.
Rod even
Rodz…. I know what you mean about Merson – I just can’t take him seriously, he is so thick. The worst of a pretty awful bunch.
Sorry to hear that Dave. Tho I’m sure it’ll be worth it when he’s 6’5″ and banging headers in left, right and centre for the Toon!!
….. and Dave, by the same token we should have won our previous two games out of sight (Fulham 1st half). As Toon Chicken said – thats football, the best performance on the day doesn’t always get the result it deserves.
For all we were toothless up front for most of the game, we were strong at the back .
What we have to remember is, Blackburn battled like demons and went for the jugular after we scored the deflected goal.
As much as we looked like struggling, you have to credit Blackburn for making us struggle because with our line up, we weren’t gonna trouble them offensively for any sustained period of time without suffering the consequences of it.
The fact that we put Blackburn to bed can be attributed to a steadfast back line and also Blackburns 100% effort to get back into the game which wore them out at the final hurdle and they simply couldn’t handle the two substitutions in Lovenkrands and Obertan.
To sum it up.
We rode our luck, battled well, got the breaks and secured 3 valuable points against 11 men plus a ref.
All in all, it has to be said, it was an excellent nights work considering the midfield of ours was alien to each other.
I sadly didn’t watch Phil Thompson during the game as wor lass was watching ‘private practice’ and i’m not allowed to commendere two seperate appliances at once
NOBBY, assert your authority; stand up and raise your voice to her and tell her that YOU WILL get your way and for her to accept that you wear the trousers.
If she stands up and shouts and bawls ” who the hell do you think you are talking to”, then just say, ” calm down dear, I was just joking”, then sheepishly walk out of the room.
Wolfie – very well summed up mate!
That was canny concise for you too!!
NO WAY WOLFIE @33!!!!!!!
She’s from west denton y’know – not to be messed with!
Aye TC, I do tend to type in length a lot don;t I so I suppose it was in a nutshell that one.
NOBBY, it’s best to toe the line then.
@Wolfie, I’m as happy with the result as anyone, but to call us strong at the back is laughable.
Williamson only managed to stop Hoilett being clear through on goal by wrestling him to the ground. We gave away a penalty and a VERY dangerous free kick location. Modeste should have scored a couple where he was clean through. They had a couple of point blank headers they should have scored – headers they got through shoddy defending.
I think Blackburn are currently playing better than their league position suggests, but we were not strong at the back. Fact is we were very lucky. But then, we’ve been unlucky at times this season too, so it all balances out…
Can i just say if Blackburn get relegated i won’t shed a tear.
They fall into the ‘I hate them but i’m not sure why’ category
Just to comment on the game. I was watching a poor stream on internet last night which doesn’t help. However, during the second half it occurred to me that I was watching a TEAM (praise to AP) of Journeyman Pros grinding out a win. No stars, No out of place Championship players, but Premiership pros. None would get in the starting 11 of any top team on last nights performance, although we know a few can play better and probably would be starters for us. But to me it showed that we have a stronger squad that we give ourselves credit for.
If that was our starting 11 for the rest of the season we will still pick up points and still be looking at being the best of the rest. However, by the time th international break comes up, we will have 4 Stars back, and hopefully settled on a system that gets the best out of players we have.
Looking forward to part 3 of our season, despite the lack of a new CB.
I see droopy face has admitted to lying – it’d be mint if he went ‘daaaan’
Nobby…cheers for the transcript
Dave…It’s the beeb ones I often have probs with as I’m “out of area”…..must be one of the prices I have to pay for turning my back on my hometown
link to go with 41
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-16849968
We were lucky end of and I hope we get loads more luck , blackburn were the better team.
@wolfie , you haven’t answered me in the last couple of days are you standing by what we said , I know what direction the club is headed and you were wrong ?
BLIP, in any football game, especially away from home, the home team are going to get chances.
The fact that Blackburn had about 15 corners in the match without scoring, tells me that we were strong at the back.
Many many times they attacked us like demons and we were caught out in about half a dozen of those demonic attacks but we stood up to the rest.
Believe me mate, our defence stood up strong.
If we were spot on and never struggled in any game, we would win the league at a canter.
Naturally pacey players will get breaks, even against the best back line in the world but you have to look at the game overall.
Luck plays a massive part in many games, which icludes, defensive mistakes that aren’t punished, goal keepers making the right choice in penalty situations, shots getting a deflection leading to a goal and refereeing favours, plus a simple slippy surface can cost a well drilled defence the points for one slip.
It’s all if’s and buts I know but equally, if the ref had sent of Luiz , in my opinion we would have won the game against Chelsea and probably wouldn’t have lost Taylor and COULD have had us sitting alongside Tottenham in the points stakes.
Football’s a strange game and things never pan out how you want but equally you get your breaks as well, so over a season it usually evens itself out and normally leaves you in a league position that you deserve to be in, good or bad.
@prem
I disagree , that if that was our first 11 that played last night, that we would be up there looking to be the best of the rest.
No where near. Great result but couldn’t string more than 3 passes together all night.
Hucking fell, I’ve just read about all that shit in Egypt!!
Fazy Cruckers!!!
KEITH, I know where the club is heading and it is in the right direction, do you concur?
nobby i agree with you mate, i hate blackburn but for no reason, another team i can’t stand is stoke, hate those wankers with a passion.
Troy – sadly i disagree… you can’t tell me that we would of been the same team with cabaye, tiote, ba and cisse – that’s over a 3rd of the team.
@wolfie
You sound like Vicky Pollard with all your ifs and buts. . .
Wolfie@45….”Football’s a strange game and things never pan out how you want”
…got to disagree, they panned out EXACTLY how I wanted last night. No injuries or suspensions, 3pts and a clean sheet
Aye ROD, you’re right.
TROY.
ALEX>>>> YES!!!!!!!!! Stoke i hate almost as much as the mackems. I know why I hate them though – it’s their fans, they go on like its 1980 smashing up stuff and being offensive. Also i think they should be in the championship – sht club, sht manager, sht ground and sht fans.
sht colours as well
Alex… BTW when I say ‘Sht’ i mean ‘Shit’.
Nobby, what does ‘BTW’ mean?
Ok Troy maybe a bit optimistic there, but without all the Top signings (that were all going to be sold at a profit) that is the team of Pros that we have, and they did OK, and I think they would end up with the sort of points we got last season. high 40s
Off the subject for a minute.
How is this for totally disregarging Nufc as contenders for a Champions League place.
We are currently 5th above Liverpool AND Arsenal yet these are the odds to finish 4th
Chelsea 1-3
Liverpool 3-1
Arsenal 9-2
Nufc 25-1
Any gamblers amongst U bloggers?
Im not but a daft 2 quid is goin on.it.
Just thought id let the lads know.
Can’t see what the fuss is about, Wrexham battered Brighton in the cup yet lost, Watford battered Spurs yet lost, Blackburn battered us and lost – happens to every top team, difference between top 6 is that they (we) have goalscorers and can grind out a win when playing badly – no luck involved
@nobby
Cross wires me thinks.
I was just disagreeing with Prems point, that if that team we put out last night was our normal starting 11, we would still be up there looking to be the best of the rest.
I accept that with our actual strongest 11 we are justifiably the best of the rest so far.
Still a long way to go but theyve pleasantly exceeded everyone’s expectations this season.
WayneL, cheers, I love a flutter. That does look good value.
I thought 30/1 on us winning the FA Cup was good value too though and that one fell on its arse.
I suppose your league bet is a good one, as it allows us to slip up once or twice, whereas the FA Cup doesn’t. It may also get 2 of my English pounds.
(my 10/1 treble fell on its arse on Tuesday with fargin Swansea scoring a 90th minute own goal!) – the bastidges.
WAYNEL – I would agree with Arsenal and Chelsea having better odds, but not Liverpool. They have been lacklustre all season and barely look like top 6 never mind top 4. I think we will beat them with a full strength team when they come to St Jame’s Park.
Wolfie@48, you ask people to believe you wolfie but how can they you said to me the person who was right about what happened during the window was the person who was correct to the directoin the club was headed and that was me !
So I can’t believe anything you say now I’m afraid and I would ask others to think twice , maybe you have more in common with MA than you think wolfie
Apologies Troy… please don’t hurt me.
Rod
BTW means ‘By The Way’, i use it when I’m blogging (weblogging) to shorten down my response time so i can get my all-important point across quickly and efficiently.
When you’re a proffessional blogger (weblogger) like me you have to come up with punchy answers to blogging (weblogging) problems all the time just to keep up with the world of the blog (weblog).
It’s how I’ve lasted so long in this cutting edge and dynamic environment.
“The FA are such an amoral bunch of bastards, they’ll come down like a ton of wet bricks for some name calling (Suarez),”
for some name calling? whumpie are you taking the piss????
Oh Keith stop spoiling the love on the blog 2day, we’re riding high and possibly heading for Europe, and thats without Tiote, Cabaye, Cisse & Ba.
Wolfies optimism is needed on this blog and is a refreshing change.
Isnt 5th and heading for Europe not the right direction?
KEITH, I couldn’t care less whether you believe me or not, you have your ideas about the regime and I have mine.
If you want to hang onto the fact I said we would spend 25 million then fill your boots mate.
You are a pessimist and I’m a full on optimist as far as what I think the club will spend and who we will bring in but I’m not always gonna be right in what I say am I.
If I was correct in everything I say and all my optimism came to fruition, then we would win every trophy known to football and have the best team on the planet and everything else that’s great to go with it.
There’s a difference between what I think we might spend or how many player we might bring in, using an optimism point of view than me actually seeing with my own eyes and reading between the lines and also standing back and looking at the bigger picture to see that this club is progressing fantastically.
Do you concur that this club is progressing fantastically KEITH, yes or no?
I’d be happy if the season ended right now
@Nobby.. here so more for you m8
•2BH
To Be Honest
•H2G
Had to Go
Honest To God
•IHDK
I Honestly Don’t Know
•IIH
If I’m Honest
•IMAHO
In My Absolutely Honest Opinion
•JBH
Just Being Honest
•LBH
Let’s Be Honest
Loser Back Home
•TBBH
To Be Brutally Honest
•TBCH
To Be Completely Honest
•TBH
To Be Honest
•TBQH
To Be Quite Honest
Other terms relating to ‘opinion’:
•ATMO
According To My Opinion
•GASSED
Have a high opinion of yourself
•IANAL
I Am Not A Lawyer (this is an uninformed opinion)
•IMAHO
In My Absolutely Honest Opinion
•IMAO
In My Arrogant Opinion
•IMBO
In My Biased Opinion
•IMCO
In My Considered Opinion
•IMEO
In My Educated Opinion
•IMHO
In My Humble Opinion
•IMMAO
In My Most Arrogant Opinion
•IMNSHO
In My Not So Humble Opinion
•IMO
In My Opinion
•IMOO
In My Own Opinion
•IMPO
In My Personal Opinion
•IYO
In Your Opinion
•JMHO
Just My Humble Opinion
•JMO
Just My Opinion
•MOO
Matter of Opinion
My Own Opinion
•NMO
Not My Opinion
•TINALO
This Is Not A Legal Opinion
Another few to remember.
BFC= big fat cock
HA= hairy arse
BSSB= big stinking sweaty balls.
FCB = Fat Cockney Bastard
*some more
Wolfie, I still love you, even if we can’t talk filthy to each other anymore.. your msn pillow talk was nice last night, ta honey
MARK.
Wolfie – This club HAS gone backwards in my opinion…. only in september we were in 3rd and now we are in a lowly 5th position.
I’m burning my season ticket when i get home.
If wor lass’ll let me
@71
there could some young, blind, homeless children reading this Wolfie.. shame on u
NOBBY, hahahaha
MARK, I agree mate, when I wrote that, my blind deaf and dumb wife slapped the back of my head ans said…………
Well actually she didn’t say anthing, she just walked away and I’m wondering what she actually did slap the back of my head for.
Fuck it, I’m gonna down that bitch.
Mark.. a lot of them include being honest and having an opinion.
you sir fit into neither of these catagories.
GET
(Good effort though!)
@Nobby
I praise you for keeping your W Denton lass happy, 99% of west Denton girls live alone with 30kids
Well done for bucking the trend m8
IN DEFENCE OF KEITH
i dont post much but do read a lot.
the problem with guys like wolfie and Tinpops (no personal attack here) isnt that they are optimistic. hell, I predicted us to beat fulham 3 – 1..its just that they appear to be like those dumb republicans in the deep south of the US that support anything the govt do; and if you disagree or express an opinion that is anti government then you are un american and you should be ashamed of yourself.
its that attitude that grinds me.
I get the impression that MA could sell eryone in the summer and replace them with the kids and wolfie would write an essay as to how that is good for the club and is the way forward bla bla
And then if we anyone moaned about it TC would then tell us all to stop being ‘neggers’ and support the team bal bla!!
Geordies are passionate, even fickle..but we aint stupid. Unfortunately we will not be happy about everything the board does. At those times we will moan. This has no bearing WHATSOEVER on whether we support team or not.
There, that’ll teach her. A good dragging down by her hair and a few kicks to her face with me hobnail boots on and she’s not saying boo now.
You have to be firm.
thanks mark!
Cheers Nobby, you’re obviously ITK. I’m a big 404 when it comes down to all this crazy acronym stuff.
AFAICT you’re CAAC.
KUTGW!
…anyway, GGP, T2UL
@nobby
wot you talking about sucker!
I have an opinion m8, but I don’t hold grudges. I once hated MA now I can see the good he’s doing. Although I’m still unsure about his true intensions..
I once hated Joey Barton for signing for us, hated him some more for being a twat, then loved him when he was doing good for us, I couldnt believe we sold him, now I’m glad he’s gone
lifes like a box of chocolates m8
Mark, this is a corker!
http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php
TMA
@wolfie , you want a straight answer from me but you won’t stand by what you said or admit you were wrong wow !
A better man admits his mistakes doesent he !
I was wrong about pardew !
Troy was wrong about tiote leaving !
And you were wrong wolfie about almost every thing you said !
Ill leave it now mark but howay man its not positive its just made up and misleading to the youngins .
Rod@84
Emmm… yeah.
@Rod
99… 420 mmmm
Woo hoo hoo hoo
The bouncing butterfly says;
I have an opinion m8, but I don’t hold grudges. I once hated MA now I can see the good he’s doing. Although I’m still unsure about his true intensions..
You’re all over the roses, fluttering, not knowing where to settle.
Woo hoo hoo hoo
Doitforsirbobby@84 ,cheers and spot on its funny sometimes but its just not true .
@Keith
well if thats misleading Troyore had everyone believing we’d sell sell sell after talking to the 3legends, and some went along with him and his done deals.
You obviously love the toon m8 and can think for yourself but even I didnt believe we’d spent 25mill
It’s very american all that short hand bollocks isn’t it… or
IVAATSHBII
DOITFORSIRBOBBY
You couldn’t be more wrong about me mate.
Yes I’m an optimist and positive and both are not the same.
My optimism is like a lot of Toon fans in that I believe we can beat any team we play.
I believe we can win a cup or get into a champions league place at the start of every season until it becomes mathematically impossible to do so.
This is when I believe we have a team capable of doing so.
When we came up from the championship, I believed we would not be relegated and we would instead finish top 10…we almost did it but for W.B.A staging a miracle comeback.
My optimism doesn’t always turn into guarantees but I keep the faith until proven otherwise.
My positive attitude is simply taking any negatives out and throwing them aside and I will take a positive out of any negative thrown at me or debated.
Because I love my team, I have to defend them with any snippet I can whether we have played like shit or not as I will take a positive out of it but that’s just me.
What I don’t do, is slag people down for their opinions, I just counter argue it like they and you just have with me.
That’s what blogs and forums are for.
I’m also realistic as well to know that everything isn’t as rosy as is always made out and I know there are hiccups around every corner in football but I expect that.
The point is, I see progress at this club and I also saw what Ashley was trying to achieve, even in the early days and I’ve stated it many times over the years since he took over the club.
If Ashley came out and said ” well I’m off and I’m selling all the players and leaving the club in a shit load of debt to struggle”…I’d be the first to say he’s a cock and I’d been fooled.
It just isn’t gonna happen though and if he did leave, we would be in a stable, solid financial position to roll forward as long as the new owner carries on the vision.
Right now I couldn’t be happier with our owner and chairman and manager and players.
So what’s wrong with what I say then?
Many have a go at me and many take the piss but you don’t see me moaning as it’s part and parcel of views.
I boil your piss because I won’t stand down on my views basically.
Mark BITFOB NNWW
@Troy
Thats my opinion m8, How can anyone knock where we are now under MA, but I’ve always said he’ll walk away once he gets his dough back…look back at my pervious months comments.. thats why I say..I dont know his true intentions, nobody does..but I will enjoy it while I can..
@mark , bad good unsure wow what one is he
wolfie you dont boil my piss at all. i go to most games and rarely hear guys think like you. maybe its refreshing. I was adamant at first you were joking/(or a macam) but now i know your not..and i respect your opinion.
it just seems to me like nothing MA does is wrong in your eyes..and if we believe them to be wrong then we are the bad people
fact is 90% of geordies will never ever see eye to eye with MA or DL for what they did (or didnt do in your opinion) to our club
but those same 90% will turn up week in week out singing our hearts out for the lads
MARK, that’s correct, no one knows what anyone’s true intentions are but reading between the lines and looking at what’s in front of us, it’s clear that everything is in shape rather than falling apart.
Some fans won’t accept that because they sit back waiting for the big crash.
Some are waiting for him to fail so they can say “I told you, I told you.”
I’m a fan of Newcastle because I love the club “FOR ME”
PS wolfie you do love an essay!
ROD and Mark
Sorry for language but… Fucking stop it!
Wolfie
you ashley lover!!!! die die die!!!!
I love ashley me… especially now he’s lost weight.
‘Get out of our club you skinny cockney bastard’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Wolfie, to give you credit, you do speak a lot of sense, but sometimes your judgement appears overly optimistic, and can make your posts seem too dream-like, or fuzzy-wuzzy as Troy would call it. I think you often get a bit carried away and your optimism turns into positivity exaggeration.
I think that grates on some fans. It doesn’t bother me, as a lot of what you say is level-headed.
…and I like your stupid stuff too.
@Rod
I remember someone used the ‘wife cheating on you’ analogy last year re: MA
sometimes you can forgive and try to move on
but you will never ever forget!
DOITFORSIRBOBBY@98
Mate, seriously I don’t care who hates Ashley, that’s their prerogative but when they give their reasons for hating him, I then counter debate it, giving my reasons why I think he’s the best owner we could have got.
Obviously mate , that is not going to sit well with the Ashley haters and I know that and I’ve been banned from forums for stating my opinions on it but I will not back down my stance on him because what I say, I say because I believe in what he’s doing.
positivity exaggeration.
RODZ I LOVE THAT SHII!
DIFSB – STFU STT UMFW!!!
DIFSB @104
Forget what though?.. i don’t want to feel like i’m ganging up on anyone here but… the way I see it, everytime Ashley did something ‘wrong’ I’d be pissed off about it for a couple of days but then i’d have a cup of tea, see the reason for it and realise how much it actually benfits us.
@Keith
bad good unsure wow what one is he?
I don’t like MA for all the shit he’s caused in the past, but I love the stuff he’s doing at the minute with the financial side of things and buying players that have propelled us to 5th but I’m unsure what his true intentions are for the future..to make millions out of by selling players, to fuck off once he’s received all of his lolly back?, to use the toon for a massive SD drive and dominate the world Does anyone know his true intentions? Do you??
so, a bit of all really
TC, shut the fu*k up short term training United Mixtex Farm Workers
@nobby @108
isnt that another butterflies opinion tho, u changed your mind..
or was it a lesson learned
Wolfie dont back down
DONT YOU EVER BACKDOWN
But please understand geordies do not like MA
therefore when you come in with all your lovey duffy MA stuff you gonna get abused!!
reet, G2GLYS
……….
Anyone reckon we can go the rest of the season unbeaten, score a shed load of goals and end up with 70+ points. ?
nobby please dont make me go into how MA has hurt my fellings in the last 4 years
pleeeaaasseeee
ROD@102, I agree, I’m very optimistic, in-fact yep, I’m ULTRA optimistic and I can see how it can come across to some people as dream world.
The fact is though, it is dreamworld stuff because that’s what being a football fan is…dreaming about winning the FA cup…the league…the champions league..and we all (if we are honest) dream about it being our season, every season of winning something, even if it’s praying to the Gods or stroking your lucky penis….I mean your lucky charm…it’s all what we dream.
When someone says to me “oh, you play Man Utd at Old Trafford, what do you think the score will be” I will say ” well, think it’ll be our day and I think we will beat them 3 or 4 nil and they will get Rooney sent off”…..something along those lines…
Now do I believe that? NO
Do I hope that it will happen? YES
Possibility….YES
Probability….Doubtful
Certainty………nope..
As for Ashley, it isn’t fuzzy wuzzy dream world, it’s looking at the wider picture and standing back to get a proper view of it all and without dreaming and instead looking at it realistically, I can only see the club moving forward.
That’s just the way it is.
The fact is, I don’t want to slag down the team, the owners or anything about the club if I can see positive things coming from it, even through errors and dark areas.
DIFSB – Hurt your feelings? You sound like a reet wet blanket!!
Man up FFS!!!
erm – I was joking chicken tonight
@Troyore
are you not happy with us being 5th?
are you not happy we’ve replaced mercenaries with young, hungry, skillful players?
are you not happy with our two new strikers?
are you not happy we did do as the 3legends told u and sold Krul and Tiote?
all under MA’s ownership, correct? so are you not happy what MA has done for us and his club?
PREMANDUP@114
It’s possible and if we win a few games and draw a few, then it becomes PROBABLE and it we mange to get to the last game, then it’s more than likely.
It’s nice to hold out hope though and I don;t see a defeat no matter who we play, until it happens and then I go on from there.
*didnt do
Prem – I think 60 points would be an incredible achievement.
That would mean roughly 6 wins, 3 draws and 4 defeats from our remaining 15 games.
Definitely possible.
sorry… 6 defeats not 4
Having just gone through our remaining fixtures I came up with W6, D4, L5 leaving us on 61 points.
And that includes just 2 wins in our last 9 games!
Last season that was good enough for 6th but not Europe (as far as I can tell).
Ok – Here’s my stance on Ashley.
A lot of the time ‘we can forgive but not forget’ and similar phrases gets banded around here.
Forget what though?… Really… What? I’m sure people against this comment will have lots of answers to the ‘forget what’ question and so i’ll guess a few and if you think of more i’m sure i’ll be able to retort.
- Keegans Sacking
For me the hiring of keegan was the mistake, but every owner is going to come up with them kind of mistakes at some point expecially if they don’t know anything about football (which they don’t… but they’re learning) but you can’t blame them for not knowing anything about football.
The same reasoning behind this explains dennis wise and Joe kinnear.
- Relegation
That’s a by-product of item 1 and to be honest it got rid of most of the dead weight from our books and in all honesty I believe going down has made us a better club.
-Chris Hughton Sacking
The opinion that he got sacked in a terrible way imo is ludicrous. I’ve been sacked before and i can tell you there is no ‘nice’ way. Alan Pardew coming in imo was a stroke of genius although i didn’t see it at the time.
-Selling our almost local hero – Andy carroll
Do i really need to explain this one – 35 mill? If we got offered that again I’d piggy back carroll to liverpool myself.
- The controvertial one – Renaming St James’ Park.
Ok… I’ll admit. Everytime I turn onto a news page or go on the official website it makes my stomach turn. BUT. It hasn’t stopped me and all the every day people in the UK calling it SJP. I’ve got mates from all around the country and that’s what they call it also… so…. who cares?
Go easy fellas… i normally don’t say anything too controvertial
Nah 11 wins 4 draws 76 points. TBH at the start of the season, I wanted 55pts because I reckon we threw a dozen points away last season and I wanted more consistency. Later when we were on 25 pts without having a real test
I had upped to 60. Now with our new strike force and Tiote & Cabaye coming back I want more. More I tell you. 
Sorry about that calmed down now, I’ll settle for top 7. Nonsense top 4
Mark@111.. what is a butterfly? and i don’t mean the moth-like insect thing.
DIFSB@115
Howay man. ‘hurt your feelings’- that whiffs of a bit ‘big-girls-blousy- to me.
The problem with Ashley is he has built up a reputation of being untrustworthy.
He’s certainly turned the club around for the better in terms of the team and financials.
I don’t believe anyone can truly say its by fluke or design.
However, at this moment in time, I believe we find ourselves at a crossroads. Due to the tarnished reputation, a long list of misdemeanours,too many to mention, I continue to distrust him.
Until I see him take the next step, which is to strengthen the squad sufficiently, not sell our assets and demonstrate real ambition, I will never change my view of him.
I base my views on events that have occurred and not hopes and blind faith.
There’s a long way to go this season and things can come crashing down around you in a short space of time. Ashley needs to go a lot further to win my trust.
No matter though, I go to every home game and support the team.
Awwww poor Bobby Wobby has had his feelings hurt!! Dee-dums!!
@Nobby @127
agree with all of that apart from I don’t think CH handled the senior players well, but as you say AP has steadied the ship..
Still don’t know what your personal dig was about tho at 79
after admitting you also change your opinion 
Prem@128
You crack me up sometimes
@Nobby
someone that changes his opinion.. flutters on the fence..
So wolfie if someone asks you if you think we are going to beat manure, to be positive you’ll say yeah 3 or 4 -0 blah blah blah, but you don’t really believe that ? So that tells me your not always honest, and find it easier to lie to look positive, rather than be truthful ? Maybe your values are different than mine but I value honesty over positivity anyday.
I’m sure you will tell me that I have got it wrong etc but from reading your post above, and from your answer the other night about the £25 mill and 4 players coming in thats the conclusion I have came to.
But I might be wrong.
Mark@132
SHIT!! that’s just my idea of humour – I wasn’t being serious (i thought noone on here took me seriously)… kind of a sarcasm thing.
I apologise profusely
TROY, I don’t get the don’t trust him bit to be honest.
I know what you’re saying as in, he told lies about this and that and said he wouldn’t rename the stadium and such but I don’t see where you think things will go wrong or what you believe his final motives are.
Can you tell me what you think his ultimate goal is in terms of this distrust?
@Troy
agree with all of that m8, but while we’re doing great, why moan, enjoy it while you can you miserable old twat
It’s great how no one takes any notice of TC.
He posts all the time and he gets ignored.
I will speak to you Chicken.
Also where does this delusio of Ashley buys players cheap to sell them on for ££££££’s come from? where is the example of that?
‘delusion that ashley buys’
BIGDAVE@135, I think you are getting mixed up between honesty and belief and hope.
You are going on as though you have never ever told a fib or told someone that Newcastle will win 6 nil and such.
Have you ever told your kids to wait and see what Santa brings when they ask for a certain present.
Did you tell your kids to put their tooth under the pillow for the tooth fairy?
Have you ever told your wife/girlfriend , to tell him I’m not in if there’s a phone call you don’t want to take?
Can you honestly tell me that you have never lied in your life ?
Dave – you say you value honesty and yet you’re bezzie blog mates with the biggest bullshitter on here – someone who has been proven to tell lies on multiple occasions!
Doesn’t make sense fella!
@nobby and wolfie , that in my opinion is thankfully not the thoughts of the majority and never will be .
To say MA has done nowt wrong is as daft as saying he has done nowt right !
@wolfie , you have let me down and others I’m sure I thought you would be good to your word .
wolfie – burn in hell for your lies.
KEITH, good to my word?
What was my word?
NOBBY, I’m already burning mate
sorry keith, i don’t base my opinion on what the majority wants. I base it on what i believe in.
Actually when i think about it… all my mates who support the toon have a similar belief to me so if i was as petty as to go with the majority…. then i already have
Keith – You’re going to have to give me some examples though mate of what bad things Ashley has done to our club just so i can understand better
@the bouncing butterfly
Because I don’t believe in being a Tigger, bouncing round over a new striker and then looking a right chump when you realise that he’s spent the CB money.
Despite the fact that I called the Tiote deal wrong, history dictates that he will sell his assets. Even Pardew said it was a possibility.
History tells you hes never going to spend big cash, so when Cisse was bought, you should have took your springs off your shoes and jumped on board the reality train.
Boing boing boing
troy im sure chicken tonight is just a kid, so i barely pay attention.
im sure he really is a big lad
in his head
The only thing Ashley has done to this club is to make it secure, infact I’d say it’s the most secure club in the premier league because what we owe, we owe in house.
What other club can say that?
TROY, do you consider 9 million to be chicken feed?
Troy@150
Can I have an example of that ‘history’ which dictates though?
DIFSB
Trot@130 , 100% correct I agree .
If we want to go by history then look at the money Ashley spend when he first took over the club up until Keegan left.
Someone reckon up how much Ashley spend upong taking over the club and up until Keegan’s departure and you will get a shock.
Wolfie – ask me the question later and I will answer, but I’ve got to go and pick young Chip Stavers up from school.
Still getting ignored Chicken. Not very interesting are you. Try and expand your vocabulary beyond the word “neggar’”.
You say it that often I was beginning to think you were racist.
Wolfie… i’m not in this for an arguement with everyone who doesn’t trust ashley/hates etc. But loads of people say they hate him without having the education behind it
(under no circumstances am i accusing people of being un-educated
)
TC I take it your refering to Troy ?apart from obvious wind ups , what actual lies has he told ???
Wolfie telling your kids about santa etc is completly different to when your talking to mates etc and asked an honest opinion, but rather than be honest you would lie just to appear to be positive, I just don’t get it.
Can You uatendanrsd waht im sniyag?
Deos eyrnovee konw waht im on auobt?
Dave – I wasn’t actually but am sure he’ll be thrilled to know you think he’s the biggest bullshitter on here!
Nboby – Hvaen’t a fcuking cule mtae!
Big dave… sorry for jumping in here and correct me if i’m wrong wolfie
But what i think he’s trying to say is… if i said to wolfie, what’ll the score be against Villa on the weekend he’ll prob say – close, maybe 2-1 to us but there’s no reason why we can’t beat them 6-0 like we did last season.
Correct?
I’ll mind my own business now
NOBBY,@166, correct.
BIGDAVE, you have never asked me for my honest opinion.
If you ask me for my honest opinion on something, I will give you a honest answer as I see it.
@wolfie . You said quote “let’s lay our cards on the table and on 01 feb we will see who is right about the direction the club is headed” all but one I got spot on all but one you got wrong so my views on the clubs direction are correct and yours incorrect , don’t worry I don’t expect a sraight answer .
@nobby FACT ma got us relagated has managed 12th as his best finish position lost a tribuneral for lying changed the stadium name , doesent spend money from player sales and tells lies but you knew all that so why did I have to type it for the 100 time .
TC
I will check later when im finished, if you can tell what lies your on about. 
Keith – since Feb 1st we have moved from 7th to 5th.
Is that not the right direction where you come from?
Are you trying to tell us you’re a bit backwards!?
KEITH, ok I was wrong by saying we would spend 25 million and get 4 players in…
It could have happened but it didn’t happen.
We did however spend 9 million on Cisse, with no key players leaving.
I can’t remember your predictions but I accept you were more accurate than I was due to my optimism.
Now then, my idea of what direction this club is going, is exactly the same as it was before.
So, what is your idea about the direction the club is going?
Are we moving forward or is Ashley going to destroy us?
I’ll just make a few points so people know what to expect from me.
First of all, at times, you will see me type that I think we will beat such and such a team 6..0 or 5…1 e.t.c and sometimes I’ll even say we will put 7 past a team, depending on how I feel at the time.
I don’t believe 100% that we will actually do that but I always think I hope we do and I’m correct”…the truth is, my score predictions with Newcastle are usually a quarter right and three quarters way out for those very reasons.
I also say we will spend this and that in the transfer market and make up a price to spend.
I know it’s unlikely but it’s possible, so I go with it and I’m usually wrong.
What I don’t do is, sit back and start saying we will lose our key players because we are a selling club.
I also don’t slag off Ashley if we do happen to sell a key player because I’d rather sit back and evaluate why it’s happened, which can be for a few reasons.
1. The player wants to leave.
2.The money offered was way too good to turn down.
3. The player is causing unrest.
4. The player doesn’t fit into our plans for whatever reason. i’e, work rate, luxury, temperamental e.t.c.
Only after looking at that will I even contemplate thinking on the dark side which I have seen no evidence of.
@wolfie , thankyou for admitting you were wrong and I was right , I think MA will continue to sell our better players for profit when they are young and rely on scouts to find cheap Replacments and that is a risk imo and when MA sells we will still have the debt and he is a liar ,MA have improved youth development and scouting and that is good but only if we keep the players and not use them to make money .
@toon chicken , its great we are in 5th and I hope we stay there ! I just deal in fact and find it silly when people make things up
You wouldent though .
@Nobby
sorry for getting the wrong end of the shit stick m8
@troy, Yes I jumped up and down coz we secured a great striker, can’t I get excited about that
, isnt this why we support a club to feel happy and excited 
or do I need to invent lies and rumours about players sold to prove how miserable supporting the toon can be?
got to agree with 143, Bigdave just said the other day that Troy did well to believe his trustworthy, reliable source, nowt wrong with that..lol it was the 3 legends at the metrocentre
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Wolfie you admitted you were wrong
well done lad 
TC I take it you can’t find the lies that you were bullshitting about
@big dave , it took me a long time but eventually I got there
. You will have a long wait for a reply from tc I think .
Didn’t realise I was supposed to be looking for anything Dave. It’s plain for all to see. Not my fault if you can’t see it
Anyway Thursday is footy night for me so I’ll catch ya’s after!
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