Match Day Thread General matchday thread.

Good lad that James Maddison ... came through our academy and already has an FA Cup winners medal ....

 

Couldn't agree more. Well said.

 

Again if they were allowed they would have bought better players and would not have been relegated.

Nobody is growing success out of a tomato bag.

 

when was that successful period. Was it when you were bankrolled by John Hall in the mid to late 90’s?

Big money moves for Speed, Peacock, Sir Les, Tino, shearer…even Cole was a big money signing g at the time
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Spot on Munse - and the Big clubs can raid other clubs academies too ... coz they can offer wages beyond anything the incumbent can ...

 

Have you ever seen your team be fourth most successful over the last 15 years, have you ****.

 

they spent and had a rich backer. They built a training ground with relaxation pods etc.


they just didn’t do enough to grow commercial revenue. They were as we are told, the 4th most successful English club over the last decade and a half.

why couldn’t Newcastle grow when backed by Hall

 

We sold Sir Les just as the money went big. No real danger of relegation before the season we went down then never recovered while absolute ****e like Coventry and Southampton escaped by the skin of their teeth every year.

 

So that 7th highest wage bill was for dross that was relegated then

 

No I have consistently said, up until a few years ago when footballing money and chasing the dream was having a negative impact on clubs (going into administration etc.), the rules were the same for all. Complaining that for most of a club’s existence they haven’t been able to take advantage of it, it not someone else’s fault, it’s the club’s relative mismanagement.

 

Garnacho goes all fly half at the wrong time.

 

Really, there’s no evidence that that would have been the case. Remember, when you were being ridiculed by Fosse because there new training ground would attract superstars, how did that pan out?

 

That was a very small period of time like 3 or 4 years in which we went from almost being relegated to the old 3rd division to almost to winning the title, so money equals being better at playing football.

If you look at a small period for time it will give you less information than a larger one, so full history is the best source for interpretation.

The all time biggest spending clubs all just happen to be the most successful.

 

big clubs just splashing the wages and taking the best players sadly.

 

Look at man City then or Chelsea.

 

so Newcastle were not able to capitalise and grow.
Other clubs did.

United success stems from Martin Edwards and his commercial forward thinking. He grew the brand.

 

Newcastle have spent over half a billion recently. Hardly paupers.

 

When was this mate?

 

He had to go. I think we held onto him far longer than would be the case now. Nearly went to United I believe.

One of the few Prem era players to score back-to-back hat tricks and did so over Easter weekend at Goodison and Forest.

 

Again, as I have continued to say, you could have also done the same and so could have others like the Leicester. Just because the clubs you whine about did it better than yours, doesn’t make them the villians.