As the 2011/12 Premier League Season approaches kick off the neverending story of Newcastle United has yet again taken another twist and turn.
With the somewhat surprising news that Joey Barton has been transfer listed but as a free has set Toon fans into a frenzy of What? Why? Who?
The fluctuation of debate is diverse, from people asking themselves and others why has Joey come out and said this only now so close to the season beginning, to why should footballers be treated any differently from any other normal person in the workplace slagging off their employer.
Grumblings will have now been heard nationwide, whether that is from the TV, Radio, and Internet message boards and word of mouth – Newcastle United is yet again the talking point of football in the media. As fans start to prepare for another bashing from opposing teams the club yet again can only muster up a two-line statement on the situation, which as usual will outrage the majority as we have seen in the past that transparency in communication is a very major weak point for Mr Ashley and supposed Chief Executive Derek Llambias.
It’s not the first time that the transfer window has brought Newcastle to the forefront of unrest between players and owners. We all know what happened in January so lets leave that as is. The summer transfer has led us to the departure of Kevin Nolan with both player and club coming out with conflicting opinions on who is to blame. Then we have the situation with money. Is it there to spend on players? Or are we being conned into a false sense of hope?
It seems to me that players within the squad are more than happy to keep their mouths shut but then you will always have the stronger characters that are willing to stand up for what they believe. Joey Barton and Jose Enrique have vented their frustrations at a time when as a club you would think we should be rallying together for what is likely to be a difficult and hard slog of a second season in the Premier League.
You also have players such as Wayne Routledge who has kept quiet whilst away on loan duty then come back to training with a frown of how he is being treated and again sort of speaking his mind on twitter by agreeing with Enrique. You begin to ask yourself what is really happening behind the scenes and are we ever likely to find out?
I ask, are people going to forget this little Joey Barton debacle if quality signings are made within the next few weeks to support our seemingly thin squad after the increasing number of unhappy players leaving? Well, if recent weeks are to go by, then we will have fewer players than what we started with even with the four signings.
However, you have to hand it to Newcastle United fans, as a group we are always going stick together with our team now matter how divided opinion is. But people will argue and argue until their blood pressure reaches the sky about our owner and his running of our beloved club but being on the brink of another disaster is always around the corner for Newcastle no matter how hard we try to forget past misdemeanours and get on with what we are to believe as a happy ‘well spirited bunch of lads’.
Thanks to Ethi-toon for sending this in.
That display picture is fcking trippy 😯
Newkie(Quote)
I can deal with the likes of Barton, Enrique and Routledge going, its when Graham Carr leaves thats when i’ll start to believe we’ll be truly fook’ed
Halftimebovril(Quote)
Some of these middle order players should be brought down a peg or two. David Pleat has said on TalkSport today that this current situation cannot continue and I think he’s right. Only the top 5 clubs can afford to be held over a barrel by top players, the rest will find it impossible, the British lads will be replaced by foreign imports and the Brits will have nowhere to go because championship clubs cannot pay the wages. I think this could be the start of a major re-balancing in football…..clubs have had enough of paying hollywood wages to TV soap quality players
JoeSoap(Quote)
Look, there are ton more crocked players available and after the window closes the squad can be filled out with frees. You can bet your last penny that MA will give AP enough to assure NUFC survive by a point or on goal difference – MA cannot afford the high cost of relegation. The clean out will be complete by next summer, and then the Lyon model will be in full swing unless the agents and healthy players blackball Newcastle.
BeeGuy(Quote)
In amongst all this b0ll0cks some fans point the finger at the club, some at the management, some the board, and some at the player. Who knows whose bl00dy fault it is, and to be honest, who gives a fook. The fact remains that there is unrest at the club, otherwise nobody would be talking.
It doesn’t happen at any other club as frequently as ours, does it?
Sort it out Ashley, you fat useless cnt!
Rodzilla(Quote)
HTB@2 I was thinking exactly the same myself about Graham Carr.Now Joeys saying he thinks he might hang around and see out his contract.What good is that for the fans and club he supposedly loves. He shouldn’t have a choice If it was up to me I would give him a written warning about his childish mutterings on twitter and if he continued I would sack him.Don’t get me wrong I can’t stand the current ownership,I think they are slimier than a bucket of snot and don’t trust them at all ,but the longer Barton hangs around taking the pi$$ will do nothing but harm for the club. As far as Pardew is concerned to say it’s a shame for him as some people have said and it as nothing to do with him is a joke.He as been in cahoots with them leading up to the sacking of Houghton and as been ever since.
Mick G(Quote)
@rodzilla
You eaten your 1977 cortina without asking for a road sweepers brush bristles? I take it your cortina is 6 bags below sea level and travelling at a speed of fried cockerel with toe cappers.?
Oh the joys of fifty cent and seven cart horses under the roof of a fried chicken table cloth. 😯 😛 😆
Bobby Shinton number 9(Quote)
@whumpie
You really haven’t thought this through have?
I’ve said for months we won’t attract a decent striker because we don’t pay good enough wages. Strikers quite rightly demand bigger wages as goal scorers are a premium.
Unless we break our wage structure we will not get one and if anyone can’t see it then they are
in fantasy land.
That is why I scoffed when the dreamers believed we would get Gervinho, gameiro and zoggy.
You clearly believe we will get a decent striker but I’m afraid you’re wrong. The players out of contract, injury prone players and disgruntled players appear to have been snapped up already, by us.
So why don’t you get realistic and face the obvious we won’t pay enough to attract a decent striker.
Bobby Shinton number 9(Quote)
Today Joey Barton’s free transfer, tomorrows chip paper. Toon !Toon!
Lyle(Quote)
why do none of the journalists have a clue as to what is going on?!
has pardew left yet 😆
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
If I were a footballer being paid £60,000 per week (over £3 million per year) for playing a game that I loved, there is no way in God’s earth that I would jeopardise my position by slagging off the club who pay me these astronomical amounts of cash.
But unfortunately some people don’t know how lucky they are or are just plain thick … 😕
see ya Joey … see ya Jose … break a leg. 👿
shrews mag(Quote)
@shrewsmag
But he can go somewhere else and get more. 😯
Maybe you would be considered thick for not slagging the board off and getting the move you want. 😕
Bobby Shinton number 9(Quote)
just bought me 7 week old son his first toon strip!! he looks bluddy lovely in it 😆
Army69(Quote)
BS – it depends whether you take pride and self worth over money … clearly he doesn’t
But is that really the world you want to live in … we all rip the sh*te out of each other for money … you can keep your train and all who sail in it … 🙄
shrews mag(Quote)
@shrewsmag
It’s simplistic to criticise Barton not really knowing the full facts. I honestly can’t see if he’s justified or not and really I don’t think any of us on the this site are in a position to do so.
Do you really know what’s gone on behind the scenes?
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Bobby Shinton number 9(Quote)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2021686/Newcastle-United-fans-shortchanged-player-sales.html
Excellant article this is.
Stuart79(Quote)
Army- one day you wont need to buy it him cause he will be putting it on to play in front of 50,000 Geordie’s 😉
SpencerTheToon(Quote)
nice one army – good lad
bobby arent you on holiday?
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
Bobby- Some pro-Ashley people jumped on the train and staring causing trouble so I kicked them off for you.
SpencerTheToon(Quote)
Bobby – easy to take that ‘moral highground’ of ‘we cannot comment as we do not know the facts’ line.
How interseting would this blog be without anyone expressing opinions about stuff we do not know about 100%
Do you know (on your train) every move that Ashley has made, and why ??
I am entitled to my opinion on the basis of what I see … so are you 😉
I cannot stand Barton and never wanted here in the 1st place 🙁
shrews mag(Quote)
Bobby @ 8 – So what are we supposed to do once we’ve all ‘faced up’ to the reality?
Stop supporting? Stop whinging? Stop what?
I fail to see what you’re achieveing from that post bar giving your ego a boost by basking in your ‘told you so’ moment.
David(Quote)
Bobby Shinton number 9@7, I couldn’t have put it better myself. Keep up the good work.
Rodzilla(Quote)
bobby does the mrs know about your love affair with rodzilla?? 😆
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
@Liam
Found a wifi site. Couldn’t resist tuning in to see what **** the dreamers are spouting.
Spencer- thanks fella. The train has just been done out with marble table tops and silk seat covers. I don’t want them ruined.
I told you all the ticket sales would be reinvested in the train. I promised everyone and I’ve produced.
Take note Big Mick. 😕
Bobby Shinton number 9(Quote)
has non of u ever thought about what Joey is playing at. First overall, with now beeing a free agent he can get any club and demand a nice sign on fee as no transfer fee is envolved. If no suitable offer comes in for him then of course he will stay. The only other option for us to get rid of him and stop distracting the squad would be we pay off his contract aprox 2.5 mill if we want him out now. This then still leaves him a free agent collected 2.5 mil as indemnity payment and on top for any club he sings on for he gets a hefty sign on fee and a decent wage. Joey is not daft he knows how to play his cards.
flash(Quote)
shrews mag says:
August 3, 2011 at 15:19
If I were a footballer being paid £60,000 per week (over £3 million per year) for playing a game that I loved, there is no way in God’s earth that I would jeopardise my position by slagging off the club who pay me these astronomical amounts of cash.
But unfortunately some people don’t know how lucky they are or are just plain thick …
shrews mag that was possibly one of the most stupid comments i have ever read.
1) forget astronomical amounts bla bla bs u & others go on about. im a semi pro player – think im ok at football. I get couple hundred a week.You may now not shrew but it is not easy to be a pro footballer 😯 and to get a cap for your country. Whatever he is on its the going rate.. stop comparing a footballers salary to ours – filmstars and other sportsmen would laugh at JB’s salary.
2) are you a proffesional in any way shape or form shrews mag? well if your boss is a liar and one that you find to be abhorent to you as an employee then you have rights to express that disgust (especially if you are good at the job you do and can get employment elsewhere 😆 ) .
And lets be fair, what has he really said that constitutes gross misconduct? Nothing. Hence he will win his appeal over his fine and MA has no ground to sack him.
doitforsirbobby(Quote)
Pardew resigned…..
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
LST-**** off mate…
SpencerTheToon(Quote)
@David
You say;
Bobby @ 8 – So what are we supposed to do once we’ve all ‘faced up’ to the reality?
Stop supporting? Stop whinging? Stop what?
I say;
What did you do when you found out there was no Santa Claus?
Or one day you will die?
Did you just bury your head in the sand and hope it goes away?
Do whatever you do but I will face up to it and tell you how I see it and continue until things change for the better.
Bobby Shinton number 9(Quote)
I love how people take credit for “predicting” Barton would sold as if that wasn’t clear at the beginning of the window when he didn’t get a new contract.
I think most expected Barton and Enrique to go, I think we also expected a few youhng, inexpensive talen to come in (which has happened).
I think the only real surprises of the window are selling Nolan and not spending big on a top-notch striker. They have another month to do it, though I’m losing patience.
MDS(Quote)
if i told you last august we would have in a years time sacked hughton, sold carroll, nolan, barton and enrique would you have believed me?
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
For me this isnt even about JB. This was before JB, before Carroll, before Hughton, before Relegation, before Alan Shearer, before Kinnear, before the court case, before keegan, before wise, before jiminez,- when Chris Mort left we lost as a club a sane voice to the owner. DL on the other hand – well, you know what im gonna say on him.. 😥
MA as a person I actually deep down dont think is a complete tool (my heart says he is) my head doesnt. I think he needs a Mort like figure there again to help him – to connect to the fans. Deep down I think he wants us to like him – but as long as DL is there…ne fookin chance.
ps – Bobby and the train fairplay to you all. Ive decided that there is no such thing as a ‘pro ashley; newcastle fan. It makes no sense. Stardust and the rest must be either jokers, or 10 year old ‘newcastle fans’ that live in somerset or somit like that.
When I was at St.James last year we as toon fans sang “get out of our club”.
I never heard, “if it wasnt for Ash, we wouldnt exist” 😀
doitforsirbobby(Quote)
We all know the financial climate – Everton (kenwright) has been trying to sell for ever – and cant.
We may be stuck with Ash for longer than we all want – we need to think of a way as fans to get him to listen to us. Boycott? Protests? Set up a serious group? Kidnapp DL?
I dunno, however MA is not going anywhere in long term – and as long as he is acting the way he is now its going to pain me supporting them.
I wish Sir Bobby was here – dunno what he could do – but we need a character like him to unite the toon, we really do. 🙁
doitforsirbobby(Quote)
spence twatter rubbish but wouldnt be suprised
Liam Southern Toon(Quote)
I cant even find it on twatter?
I wouldn’t hold it against him if he did.
SpencerTheToon(Quote)
doitforsirbobby – congratulations on the semi pro thing … but forgive me for asking … what’s that got to do with anything ?? Do you feel it raises the quality of your comment ??
I am fully aware that a player gets paid the going rate … nothing remarkable about that … so what??
As Bobby said earlier how do you know that Ashely is in the wrong here ?? As his employer he has never as far as I am aware slagged him off … or retained his weekly pay cheque … unless you know different .
I was simply saying that we are all different. I would be happy to play the game I love for a fair and honest wage … maybe as a semi pro you wouldn’t 😕
shrews mag(Quote)
@29 – So there was no point to your post is what you’re saying?
David(Quote)
semi pro thing is more to say money has absoulutely nothing to do with it so dont use it an argument. its silly. of course we would all pay to play for the toon but thats not the point is it? these are proffesionals who get PROFFESIONAL wages. Anyway – we get it, you dont like JB. Happy for you sunshine. Though you really need to look at the bigger picture..
doitforsirbobby(Quote)
Shrews – hows Ashely in th wrong here? Are you teking the fookin pi$$?!!
I cant comments like that seriously. Are you from or ever lived in Newcastle????????
Or if not – have you been up here in last few years? If not id suggest you do, go around a few pubs, maybe go to a game, mix with the locals. After all this you may be able to answer your own question.
Fooks sake 🙄
doitforsirbobby(Quote)
Shrews – hows Ashely in the wrong here? Are you teking the fookin pi$$?!!
I cant comments like that seriously. Are you from or ever lived in Newcastle????????
Or if not – have you been up here in last few years? If not id suggest you do, go around a few pubs, maybe go to a game, mix with the locals. After all this you may be able to answer your own question.
Fooks sake 🙄
doitforsirbobby(Quote)
doit
I can see the big picture … and I can see all sides of it …
But surely you can understand why I do not like Barton as a person … have a chat with any of the people he has assaulted … they may be able to shed some light on his general character 🙂
shrews mag(Quote)
I said “… how do you know that Ashely is in the wrong here ..” in reference to the barton situation, not generally … everyone knows he’s a fool.
I am quite familiar with newcastle thanks … and go to plenty of games … thanks for the interest though 😕
shrews mag(Quote)
shrews fair enough. barton to some extent is a complete tool. get it. but on the pitch last year didnt you cheer your head of when he whipped that ball in at west ham and carroll scored?
or what about when he smashed that goal in against villa?
or the corners to set up goals against the macams?
or the ball to AC at arsenal?
or the rousing performance at home to arsena? includibg the two penos?
he was our player of the season for a reason shrew. the TOON FANS loved him. Now – if ashley wants rid for his own thickarse reasons good for him.
nightmare for us fans..
doitforsirbobby(Quote)
doit
I understand why you like him as a player … I cannot argue that he played well last year … and yes I did cheer whenever the ball went in the net … but it doesn’t stop me disliking him as a person … 😆
shrews mag(Quote)
I think we need to take a step back and look at just one year ago. Back then most of the same people were doom-mongering about how we were going straight back down, etc.
90 minutes into the new year, we’d thrashed Villa 6-0 and everything was rosy.
My gut feel is that we’re stronger both in terms of playing ability and political stability now, as (hopefully) the last few hissy-fit merchants are given their marching orders and talent like Gosling comes through to show how it’s done.
I still worry about the striker and LB posts, but I do believe the club are still on that and if they fail it won’t be for a lack of trying… or even willingness to spend money.
I also worry about having lost the core of the team and whether the new boys will run around like headless chickens when more stable and organised teams come at them… like Arsenal.
But are we stronger than last year?
Out: Nolan, who wouldn’t have got a start anyway. Barton, who’s not as good as his hype and can be replaced, and probably Jose, who I think can be excused for his wish to leave, if not his daft twattering.
Additions: Benny, Gosling, Cabaye, Marveaux, Albeid, Ba.
So – yes, we are very weak at LB and could do with another striker, but we’re hardly thin there so much as lacking quality.
Overall, I think we are stronger, but it’s impossible to tell. It all comes down to whether AP can get them playing as a team.
Whumpie(Quote)
MDS, its a little disingenuous to say ‘most’ predicted Barton would go.
Many of the self proclaimed ‘positive’, ‘real fans’ were telling us that they had a sneaking suspicion that Barton would see out his contact and then accept an extension later. They also said they felt Enrique would change his mind once he saw the new players in action and once we got a new, classy striker in.
It’s like the way ‘most’ fans knew Gervinho and Gameiro were never really coming – after the event! They were actually all telling us to ‘just be patient’ and they were including them in their ‘fantasy’ ups along with Barnetta MBengue and several others.
They are the ones who initially said we would definitely buy some players with the £35m, then as it became less and less likely, said we had already spent it on agents fees and wages. Then suggested anyone who said that we clearly had spent next to nothing was mad and just wanted to waste £35m on has-beens like Owen.
Talk about the Emperors New Clothes!
I’m all for people changing their mind. I’m all for people facing up to what must be quite a disappointing reality, and i appreciate how uncomfortable that must be. I think perhaps a little humility might fare better than pretending that deep down everyone knew what was going on at the time.
Pootle(Quote)
Happy at centre back too, Whumpie?
Stuart79(Quote)
Only God knows until it starts.
We bloody needed a stronger team WITH jb, Nolan, Carroll and Jose. Theyve all gone so mathematically we need at LEAST another 5 players to add to SM, YC, and DB (albeid i think will play reserves this year. decent performance against darlo doesnt mean he can cut it against likes of de jong and wilshere) but again – only God knows.
We need a couple LB;s (if Jose has now gone), RB, RW, STRIKER.
Anyone disagree?
doitforsirbobby(Quote)
I’m guessing that erdinc is not coming then. More worried if we are going to get any more forwards in as our list must be pretty much exhusted now 😐
Halftimebovril(Quote)
@46- I’m glad you have such insight into my thinking but in reality there is a big difference from saying Barton will definately be here to “I hope both sides can work it out” just as there is a difference in saying “we are going to sign gervinho” and “I really hope we sign Gervinho, he looks class” etc. Same goes for Enrique, I certainly held out hope in my gut, but never would have wagered coin on it.
Again, not sure who said we would “definitley” spend the 35M. I think a lot, including myself expected that we would spend a good chunk of it. Toonsy ran a poll on how much we thought would get spent and I beleive I voted for the 15-20M line. I think the debate over the 35M was properly framed by those who perhaps worried about amounts spent rathe than squad improvement.
MDS(Quote)
doitforsirbobby
I agree with two lb a striker and a right winger , happy enough with simpson at right back. Think he desevres a run in the team with protection from a proper right winger
Johno Toon(Quote)
You might be right about improved political stability.
After all, the new players are less likely to appreciate what a bunch of coniving liars we have running the club.
Give them a year or so to become acquainted and I’m sure we’ll be back here again.
Maybe when Cabaye realises we won’t get into Europe in his lifetime while Ashley is in charge.
Pootle(Quote)
looks like fatty is suceeding in deflecting the highlights off what he isnt doing for us this summer and joey , jose and nobby just wanted to give him the kick the fat git needs ! hey ho more bull 2 come !
jam(Quote)
divenaa simpson just infuriated me at times last year with his defensive brain. i dont think ha has a very good one! he was at fault for so many of our goals last season. think we could have bid for hutton or kyle walker or naughton from tottenham. they bloody have 4 of them!!! (corluka also) all of the IMO are better than simpson.
then again who am i kidding – they would cost money
so fcukin depressing 🙁
doitforsirbobby(Quote)
I agree with that too, although you could argue we need two RBs and another CB we have to be realistic and think about whether we’d be better with one really good (therefore expensive in fees and salary) striker and sticking with one specialist RB. That’s the kind of decision they have to work out.
I will be pretty nervous if we get no more players in the next month, but I’d be surprised if that’s the case. Activity always goes a bit mental in August you can’t say the recruitment team didn’t get off to a great start and do good business before all the holidays and pre-season tours killed the market.
I just hope people are realistic and don’t get on the club’s back again if they don’t sign Eto’o. We’re just not there yet, and there’s a reason Liverpool paid through the nose for Judas – good number nines are like hens’ teeth.
Talking of Avatar, anyone else ever wonder if he’s no good without Nolan and vice versa? He only scored in 2 out of 7 games since the move, and Nolan went off the boil too.
Whumpie(Quote)
im at work and cant stop 😛
what would happen if we dont sign any one of note come sept 1st? aka we sign a ryan taylor type player, sub standard squaddie?
OR
what would happen if we spend 20million (or woteva before ashleys accountants start) on 3 – 5 first team/good squad players??
hmmm – which one is more likely
what if we sign no one!!!! im scared
if we signed even 3 good players it would cheer me up no end (that and us beating le **** 😆 )
doitforsirbobby(Quote)
If the club had a decent and honest approach with both the supporters and its own players I would not be too concerned with the loss of both Barton and Nolan. Every time I read something coming from players however it indicates quite the opposite. Clearly one of the biggest problems at the club is Derek Llambias. He takes his cues from Ashley only. Until we see Llambias leave and an experienced football man put in his place I don’t see any possible improvement. The only way Llambias would be removed from his position would be if we were relegated again. God forbid that happens but with our current leadership (or lack thereof) the risk will always be there.
GeordieTwo(Quote)
VAN DER SAR TESTIMONIAL MATCHES
anybody watching? now Ajax ’95 v Holland ’98.
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
http://veetle.com/index.php/channel/view#4e33009556160
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
spot on geordie two
hitman(Quote)
Stuart – yep, I’m ok..ish.. with CBs. It could be improved upon, but with Kadar available I think we’re ok. Other bits look like better use of limited resources. Besides – they did ok last year. People say we shipped too many goals, but I think we were about mid-table in that respect, and there’s an inevitable compromise between goals scored and conceded. We scored loads, which means we have to accept we’re more open at the back.
Whumpie(Quote)
Jam – seriously – what is it you think he’s not doing?
Whumpie(Quote)
Geordie 2 – totally agree. I wish people would focus on that problem rather than expenditure, which is a red herring. So is kicking out the poison that is Barton – it’s what any business has to do.
I hate what Joey did, as it’s damaged our recruitment chances and made us a laughing stock again, but there is some truth in what he, Jose and Nolan have said – the high court said as much over the KK fiasco. That is what people can get annoyed about if they like, but why now? And why do they think other owners are any better? Chelski was built on blood money, for chrissakes!
If we get more decent players by Sept 1st I’ll be happy; if not I’ll be concerned but not panicking. But I do believe one thing: if the right players are available and want to come here without us being ripped off in the process, they’ll be brought in. I’m just not sure they’re out there.
Whumpie(Quote)
MDS I’m not saying all the views were specifically held by you. I certainly couldn’t be bothered to go back over posts and check what you said and when anyway.
I know the level of the accusations of us not being real fans etc etc.
Yet so far we have been largely correct.
Apart from Spencer and a few others, who have said ‘enough is enough. Being positive is one thing but ignoring the evidence of your own eyes is another’ most of those who decried and ridiculed our opinions have just shifted the goalposts again.
Like I said I can respect someone who can admit to changing their mind or admit they were wrong.
Mostly what we get are a bunch of ‘good Germans’.
Don’t worry you ‘good Geordies’. We know you’ve hated the Ashley regime the whole time. Its just you never actually spoke out and voiced it, and you’ve frequently defended them. 🙄
Pootle(Quote)
Pootle – Is it only others opinons that concern you? Because that is all I really see from you…. Sly digs at others who hold a different opinion to yourself. Just curious as you seem to bring it up all the time.
MDS – It took some digging but here ya go https://www.nufcblog.co.uk/2011/03/01/vote-how-much-money-do-you-think-newcastle-will-spend-in-the-summer/
toonsy(Quote)
Toonsy I was looking at that the other day…
I think I might have been wrong 😛 😆
SpencerTheToon(Quote)
Well for me, I would love to see the back of Ashley, but I think he has done some good for the club I can’t really argue about the players they have sold or brought in since promotion. I would just like to see a bit more spending and a lot less drama (the latter being caused mostly by the former).
MDS(Quote)
Slightly off topic but anyone hear any rumors of players who we might be trying to sign? Any good rumors on twitter? A signing or two could do the world of good
Johno Toon(Quote)
Another example of the club’s unwillingness to communicate is the BBC survey of the cost of going to a football match in England. Every single club gave their ticket prices to be published except one, yes you guessed it Newcastle United. The club is now mired in a poisonous secrecy instigated by Ashley and carried out by Llambias. Only thieves and scoundrels conduct business this way. They have made several attempts to clear the air over the last few years but these have always been abject failures. They clearly will always resort to what they know best, when in doubt say nothing and let the supporters desperately look to the press for rumours, misinformation, and even outright lies instead of giving us an honest source of real information about the club. This clearly will never change given the current ownership. I will continue to support the team and ignore its management.
GeordieTwo(Quote)
Johno @ 68 I wouldn’t hold my breath 😀
so for a different question than Army’s daily one 😆 Have we sold or gave away anyone today ❓
Big Dave(Quote)
Cheers toonsy. was definately a bit “optimistc” there 😆
MDS(Quote)
What did you go for MDS?
I went 15-20mill
Since these free’s now cost “millions” maybe I wasn’t to far off 😉
SpencerTheToon(Quote)
Geordie 2 the only time they speak to us is when their leaking lies to the Chron to dirty peoples names, because they know some Fans will believe it 😆
Big Dave(Quote)
Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Somedays being told you are a doom-monger or a whinger or not a real fan is extremely irritating when all your are doing is giving an opinion on the state this club is being dragged down to by this shambolic cabal of liars.
I’m human and have human failings. Somedays I do get the urge to say ‘I told you so’, and mock, particularly when people who criticised our motives and have defended Ashley n the indefensible change the goalposts again. Most days I just feel sorry about what is happening to NUFC and wish there were ways we could get Ashley to either change his behaviours or sell up.
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Whumpie says:
March 1, 2011 at 13:58
The problem he has (and yes, I know I keep posting this, but nobody’s challenged it yet) is that I don’t think his recruitment policy is compatible with his need to stop Joey, Jonas, Collo and Jose from leaving. Ashley’s strategy gets young, obscure, talent late in the window. Our top players, spooked by the AC debarcle, need to see known, quality signings in the first few weeks or they’re gone.
Anyone else see that??
Whumpie i feel like giving you a hug pal 😛
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