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June to July 2020 - NUFC

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The Fish said:
It's not irrelevant at all. If that's his experience, that's his experience. He didn't cherry pick a time period to be born in.

I remember little of Ardilles time and so much of my formative years supporting Newcastle were in times of nearly boundless ambition. World record fees for local top class strikers, actually competing with domestic and European giants for 90 minutes, trips to famous European grounds, trips to Wembley. After Ashley bought the club it's been a rather sharp turnaround, Club record fees for foreign ... whatever the fuck it is that Joelinton is. Failing to compete with clubs like Bournemouth, Watford, Brighton. Trips to Rotherham for a league game ffs.
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How have Newcastle failed to compete with Bornmouth, watford and Brighton?
 

The Fish said:
Of course it's coincidence, but that doesn't mean it's irrelevant.

No, I'm talking about ambition.

That season has way much more significance for you than it does for me. It was aberrant.
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Tranmere were frequent visitors to Wembley in the early 90's. Is this relevant or irrelevant to my mate's (who started watching them then) current expectations?
 
sproates33 said:
Complete bollocks, You have been relegated twice and immediatley responded with two Championship titles breaking Championship transfer records each time.

Other league finishes, 13th, 12th, 12th, 5th, 16th, 10th, 15th, 10th, 13th - Apparently though he only wants to finish 17th each season.

Teams also relegated during his tenure include Cardiff, Fulham Huddersfield, Swansea, Stoke, WBA, Hull, Boro, Sunderland, Norwich, Villa, QPR, Burnley, Norwich, Reading, Wigan, Wolves, Blackburn, Bolton, West Ham, Blackpool, Birmingham, Portsmouth, Derby.

You are hardly in the minority in suffering a relegation.
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Which championship transfer records did we break?
 
jlaws said:
Lunch break...since Man Utd were the first team to play in Europe in 1955/56 the mags have been in Europe 16 times, and not 49 times. For comparison LFC (44/21 and EFC, who you are way bigger than apparently 17/48). It is easy to cherry pick a period like you have - where you only missed two years but most clubs can find a purple patch, e.g. for the same number of 13 seasons from 1899 onwards Sunderland were in the top 3 seven times....its irrelevant to today.
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Man Utd weren’t the first team to play in Europe nor did they play in the 1955/56 European Cup.
 
The Fish said:
Papers today saying that Newcastle shouldn't expect Man City/Chelsea largess and that it'll be closer to the Leicester City model. I'd be over the moon with that. Leicester City have scouted well, they've grown from a Championship club to challenging for the European spots under their Thai owner. I'll have a bit of that, thank you very much.
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The Leicester model .... Aye sounds easy why dont all clubs do this

Prat
 
sproates33 said:
You can add to that the season under McLaren when they spent just the 97 million and ended up relegated, Ashleys lack of ambition, though.

Spending 60 million in transfer fees was a record Championship high. (it may have been beaten since, i dont know)
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Aston Villa spent more that season
 
sproates33 said:
Complete bollocks, You have been relegated twice and immediatley responded with two Championship titles breaking Championship transfer records each time.

Other league finishes, 13th, 12th, 12th, 5th, 16th, 10th, 15th, 10th, 13th - Apparently though he only wants to finish 17th each season.

Teams also relegated during his tenure include Cardiff, Fulham Huddersfield, Swansea, Stoke, WBA, Hull, Boro, Sunderland, Norwich, Villa, QPR, Burnley, Norwich, Reading, Wigan, Wolves, Blackburn, Bolton, West Ham, Blackpool, Birmingham, Portsmouth, Derby.

You are hardly in the minority in suffering a relegation.
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This underlines why any notion of Newcastle fans as being "long suffering" under Ashley is an utter crock of shite.
 
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