Strikes me he is a to$$er
From an outside point of view on Mike Ashley
1. Newcastle got relegated because he sacked Big Sam. Now I can't stand Big Sam but he would have kept them up without question. I know he went the season before, but had he not then there would not have been the whole Keegan and Kinnear debacle.
2. Getting rid of Hughton and replacing him with 'his mate' Pardew. This man by all accounts commands no respect from most of the players/fans at most of the clubs he has been at. Anyone remember pants being thrown at him whilst at Reading?
3. Saying that the proceeds from the Carroll transfer would be re invested. I think everyone knows that it is just a bare faced lie and that it has gone towards helping bail out Sports Direct.
4. Bringing in Dennis Wise.
Your point number 3 is absolute rubbish.
Have you seen Sports Direct's profits?
Other 3 points are spot on though.
As a NUFC supporter for over 40 years I have to agree with Ashley. The very same people who had a go at the Newcastle board for standing by this thug are the ones now lining up to sign him.
According to his agent "he paid them back last leason by playing well". Isn't that his job and what he is supposed to do???
At the end of the day Joey Barton is going because Joey Barton didn't get what he wanted. He spouts rubbish about loving the club and the fans and the mindless fall for it. He loves himself and money thats it. Same as Carroll and Nolan. They all turned down offers and didn't have to go but threw their dummies out when told no like spoilt children.
People moan all the time about how money and prima donna footballers are ruining the game yet when a club makes a stand they get it in the neck.
No fan of Ashley but support them 100% on this. Get rid!!
comment by CR20 - Derby Dan (U6769)
posted 18 minutes ago
Your point number 3 is absolute rubbish.
Have you seen Sports Direct's profits?
Other 3 points are spot on though.
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yet the share price has plummeted and stores have been closing down all over the country? It does not sound too great to me.
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3. Saying that the proceeds from the Carroll transfer would be re invested. I think everyone knows that it is just a bare faced lie and that it has gone towards helping bail out Sports Direct.
4. Bringing in Dennis Wise.
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comment by CR20 - Derby Dan (U6769)
posted 1 hour, 57 minutes ago
Your point number 3 is absolute rubbish.
Have you seen Sports Direct's profits?
Other 3 points are spot on though.
comment by The God Fowler (U2538)
posted 1 hour, 36 minutes ago
comment by CR20 - Derby Dan (U6769)
posted 18 minutes ago
Your point number 3 is absolute rubbish.
Have you seen Sports Direct's profits?
Other 3 points are spot on though.
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comment by The God Fowler (U2538)
yet the share price has plummeted and stores have been closing down all over the country? It does not sound too great to me.
UNQUOTE
It is actually illegal to use funds from one company to prop up another.
Far from Sports Direct's shares tumbling, they are on the up, and have profited massively, the exact opposite of most other companies at the moment.
He just handed out massive shares of profits to all Sports Direct employees.l
Please don't lump all Geordies in the NUFC basket: there are thousands of Geordies who support Sunderland, just as there are thousands of Newcastle fans who are not Geordies.
Now back to your question...Barton really is a very troubled individual who by publically criticising his pay masters has left them with little option other than the actions they have taken.
geordies are not sunderland fans they are mackems. Do you understand the hitory of the word geordies? I honestly don't think there is thousands of geordies who support sunderland
If you are a Sunderland supporter, you are a mackem, plain and simple.
hitory meant to be history
Pardew came out last season and said the money from Carroll sale would be for new players. Well not so, we now we have underground eating at training ground which must have cost a fortune.
Joey was wrong to air dirty laundry on twitter but like a lot of fans he is fed up being lied to the management.
Best outcome would be for Ashley to sell the club before he kill's it.
Some people think he is getting the club ready to sell. I.E. no big earning players on the books. But surely if you are selling a club you need it to be in the best possible state, which would mean having the best players in your club? Maybe not. Although who is to say that Ba, Marveaux, Cabaye, Abeid, Ben Arfa, etc. aren't better than those we have sold?
I understand the terms Geordie and Mackem very well thanks, unlike you it seems.
The definition of a Geordie is someone who is born on Tyneside..As this includes Jarrow, Hebburn South Shields and Gateshead which are towns with an awful lot of Sunderland fans in them, I would say that I was right to say that there are thousands of Sunderland fans who are also Geordies.
Mackem, was originally a derogatory term created by Newcastle fans towards people from Sunderland regarding the accent difference: eg For the words make and take, Sunderland people will generally pronounce Mack and Tack, whilst North Tynesiders will pronounce those words in a way that doesn't readily equate to the English language. However, Sunderland fans in general didn't really mind being dis-associated with people from Newcastle in particular and adopted the term Mackem themselves...
I hope this lesson has been of some help..
Mike Ashley publicly stated he wants to run his club in Arsenal's model - i.e. self sustainable business model.
If Alan Pardew keep getting good results and keeping you in the PL, then Ashley would be a hero.
comment by STRUTH! (U2530)
posted 1 hour, 48 minutes ago
I understand the terms Geordie and Mackem very well thanks, unlike you it seems.
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What you don't seem to understand though is this:
A person who supports Sunderland is a mackem. Ergo, he cannot be a Geordie. A Geordie would never support Sunderland.
Hope I have enlightened you.
comment by the-boss (U6967)
posted 5 hours, 12 minutes ago
Pardew came out last season and said the money from Carroll sale would be for new players. Well not so, we now we have underground eating at training ground which must have cost a fortune.
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This is a new one on me, why is he making the players eat underground?
comment by Gluteus Maximus 1892 (U7825)What you don't seem to understand though is this:
A person who supports Sunderland is a mackem. Ergo, he cannot be a Geordie. A Geordie would never support Sunderland.
Hope I have enlightened you.
....................................................
I'm sorry, i didn't realise that I was conversing with someone who is mentally challenged...
I must be more careful in future eh!
a geordie historically is someone who fought on the side of newcastle in the civil war against the people of sunderland who fought against him. You have the mackem thing right though. It was ma'kem and ta'kem they used to say wasn't it?
The battle you mention was not fought between Newcastle and Sunderland, but was part of the English Civil War where the forces of Charles the 1st, backed largely and based in Newcastle were soundly beaten by Cromwell's Parliamentarians (backed largely and based in Sunderland, at The Battle of Boldon Hill.
This however had nothing to do with the terms Mackem or Geordie which came much later, especially Mackem whic is a recent term.
The term Geordie is widely thought to have come from Tynesyde's close association with King George the 3rd, who granted them rights of coal passage at the expense of other North East rivers.
Bloody laptop heating the training ground.
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posted on 3/8/11
Strikes me he is a to$$er
posted on 3/8/11
From an outside point of view on Mike Ashley
1. Newcastle got relegated because he sacked Big Sam. Now I can't stand Big Sam but he would have kept them up without question. I know he went the season before, but had he not then there would not have been the whole Keegan and Kinnear debacle.
2. Getting rid of Hughton and replacing him with 'his mate' Pardew. This man by all accounts commands no respect from most of the players/fans at most of the clubs he has been at. Anyone remember pants being thrown at him whilst at Reading?
3. Saying that the proceeds from the Carroll transfer would be re invested. I think everyone knows that it is just a bare faced lie and that it has gone towards helping bail out Sports Direct.
4. Bringing in Dennis Wise.
posted on 3/8/11
Your point number 3 is absolute rubbish.
Have you seen Sports Direct's profits?
Other 3 points are spot on though.
posted on 3/8/11
As a NUFC supporter for over 40 years I have to agree with Ashley. The very same people who had a go at the Newcastle board for standing by this thug are the ones now lining up to sign him.
According to his agent "he paid them back last leason by playing well". Isn't that his job and what he is supposed to do???
At the end of the day Joey Barton is going because Joey Barton didn't get what he wanted. He spouts rubbish about loving the club and the fans and the mindless fall for it. He loves himself and money thats it. Same as Carroll and Nolan. They all turned down offers and didn't have to go but threw their dummies out when told no like spoilt children.
People moan all the time about how money and prima donna footballers are ruining the game yet when a club makes a stand they get it in the neck.
No fan of Ashley but support them 100% on this. Get rid!!
posted on 3/8/11
comment by CR20 - Derby Dan (U6769)
posted 18 minutes ago
Your point number 3 is absolute rubbish.
Have you seen Sports Direct's profits?
Other 3 points are spot on though.
-------------------------
yet the share price has plummeted and stores have been closing down all over the country? It does not sound too great to me.
posted on 3/8/11
QUOTE:
3. Saying that the proceeds from the Carroll transfer would be re invested. I think everyone knows that it is just a bare faced lie and that it has gone towards helping bail out Sports Direct.
4. Bringing in Dennis Wise.
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comment by CR20 - Derby Dan (U6769)
posted 1 hour, 57 minutes ago
Your point number 3 is absolute rubbish.
Have you seen Sports Direct's profits?
Other 3 points are spot on though.
comment by The God Fowler (U2538)
posted 1 hour, 36 minutes ago
comment by CR20 - Derby Dan (U6769)
posted 18 minutes ago
Your point number 3 is absolute rubbish.
Have you seen Sports Direct's profits?
Other 3 points are spot on though.
-------------------------
comment by The God Fowler (U2538)
yet the share price has plummeted and stores have been closing down all over the country? It does not sound too great to me.
UNQUOTE
It is actually illegal to use funds from one company to prop up another.
Far from Sports Direct's shares tumbling, they are on the up, and have profited massively, the exact opposite of most other companies at the moment.
He just handed out massive shares of profits to all Sports Direct employees.l
posted on 3/8/11
Please don't lump all Geordies in the NUFC basket: there are thousands of Geordies who support Sunderland, just as there are thousands of Newcastle fans who are not Geordies.
Now back to your question...Barton really is a very troubled individual who by publically criticising his pay masters has left them with little option other than the actions they have taken.
posted on 3/8/11
geordies are not sunderland fans they are mackems. Do you understand the hitory of the word geordies? I honestly don't think there is thousands of geordies who support sunderland
posted on 3/8/11
If you are a Sunderland supporter, you are a mackem, plain and simple.
posted on 3/8/11
hitory meant to be history
posted on 3/8/11
Pardew came out last season and said the money from Carroll sale would be for new players. Well not so, we now we have underground eating at training ground which must have cost a fortune.
Joey was wrong to air dirty laundry on twitter but like a lot of fans he is fed up being lied to the management.
Best outcome would be for Ashley to sell the club before he kill's it.
posted on 3/8/11
Some people think he is getting the club ready to sell. I.E. no big earning players on the books. But surely if you are selling a club you need it to be in the best possible state, which would mean having the best players in your club? Maybe not. Although who is to say that Ba, Marveaux, Cabaye, Abeid, Ben Arfa, etc. aren't better than those we have sold?
posted on 3/8/11
I understand the terms Geordie and Mackem very well thanks, unlike you it seems.
The definition of a Geordie is someone who is born on Tyneside..As this includes Jarrow, Hebburn South Shields and Gateshead which are towns with an awful lot of Sunderland fans in them, I would say that I was right to say that there are thousands of Sunderland fans who are also Geordies.
Mackem, was originally a derogatory term created by Newcastle fans towards people from Sunderland regarding the accent difference: eg For the words make and take, Sunderland people will generally pronounce Mack and Tack, whilst North Tynesiders will pronounce those words in a way that doesn't readily equate to the English language. However, Sunderland fans in general didn't really mind being dis-associated with people from Newcastle in particular and adopted the term Mackem themselves...
I hope this lesson has been of some help..
posted on 3/8/11
Mike Ashley publicly stated he wants to run his club in Arsenal's model - i.e. self sustainable business model.
If Alan Pardew keep getting good results and keeping you in the PL, then Ashley would be a hero.
posted on 3/8/11
comment by STRUTH! (U2530)
posted 1 hour, 48 minutes ago
I understand the terms Geordie and Mackem very well thanks, unlike you it seems.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
What you don't seem to understand though is this:
A person who supports Sunderland is a mackem. Ergo, he cannot be a Geordie. A Geordie would never support Sunderland.
Hope I have enlightened you.
posted on 3/8/11
comment by the-boss (U6967)
posted 5 hours, 12 minutes ago
Pardew came out last season and said the money from Carroll sale would be for new players. Well not so, we now we have underground eating at training ground which must have cost a fortune.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
This is a new one on me, why is he making the players eat underground?
posted on 4/8/11
comment by Gluteus Maximus 1892 (U7825)What you don't seem to understand though is this:
A person who supports Sunderland is a mackem. Ergo, he cannot be a Geordie. A Geordie would never support Sunderland.
Hope I have enlightened you.
....................................................
I'm sorry, i didn't realise that I was conversing with someone who is mentally challenged...
I must be more careful in future eh!
posted on 4/8/11
a geordie historically is someone who fought on the side of newcastle in the civil war against the people of sunderland who fought against him. You have the mackem thing right though. It was ma'kem and ta'kem they used to say wasn't it?
posted on 4/8/11
The battle you mention was not fought between Newcastle and Sunderland, but was part of the English Civil War where the forces of Charles the 1st, backed largely and based in Newcastle were soundly beaten by Cromwell's Parliamentarians (backed largely and based in Sunderland, at The Battle of Boldon Hill.
This however had nothing to do with the terms Mackem or Geordie which came much later, especially Mackem whic is a recent term.
The term Geordie is widely thought to have come from Tynesyde's close association with King George the 3rd, who granted them rights of coal passage at the expense of other North East rivers.
posted on 5/8/11
Bloody laptop heating the training ground.
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