The Gypo CEO Death Riding Thread

[MFKS]

Being we look like being stuck with a Gypo CEO soon let me just say how thrilled I am going to be the day he gets the arse

Newy is a Gypo Free Zone and it time to get Trumpy in to build a large fence to keep the ****ers out of Griffs Country


Absolutely looking forward to the lulz when this bloke gets the arse.

Bring it on

[plague]

Boycott has started.
No games for Plague while ever this poor ass gypo scumbag is in charge of our club.

[lquiquer]

And get the Gypos to pay for it... :lulzturtle:

[PraiseTheNord]

I'm all for the tribal nature of football but McKinna got burned by CCM and is a former Breaker.

Not only that - if it weren't for him, the club wouldn't be getting sold to Martin Lee.

[plague]

I'm all for the tribal nature of football but McKinna got burned by CCM and is a former Breaker.

Not only that - if it weren't for him, the club wouldn't be getting sold to Martin Lee.

You make out like those are things to be proud of.

[hawk]

Lee could be shit and because of a jypo. double jypodee

[stopper2]

"Those who cannot be Masters of their own destiny, are destined to be ruled (or owned) by others"....really, if the Hunter football fraternity can't get it's shite. together and have it's own people owning and running the club then really can't so how we have a reason to complain if an owner comes in from overseas, basically paying millions of $$$ to keep our club alive.... and feels that installing a former coach/Football Manager from a rival club as the CEO is the best choice....THEN SO BE IT!!!

[q-money]

jeez some of you blokes have got the kool aid mixed and ready to go, reckon you're deadset preloading on the stuff

[MFKS]

jeez some of you blokes have got the kool aid mixed and ready to go, reckon you're deadset preloading on the stuff
Let's just agree we are making preparations in advance

[hawk]

jeez some of you blokes have got the kool aid mixed and ready to go, reckon you're deadset preloading on the stuff

this new bogan lifestyle has gone to the head. rip Q....now wheres that koolaid...

[Grishie]

He’s got some football boots
He’s quite hirsute
You know I read it in a website ezine
Lawrie’s at the Jets

Seriously, you guys don't know how lucky you are getting LM - presuming you do. He'd have to be one of the best qualified people in Australia to run a football club. And he's actually a football man, rather than a dilettante businessman who wouldn't mind rubbing elbows with a couple of thousand ego-strokers every weekend until he gets bored.

As soon as you meet him you'll be turned around. That I guarantee.

[Frodo]

He’s got some football boots
He’s quite hirsute
You know I read it in a website ezine
Lawrie’s at the Jets

Seriously, you guys don't know how lucky you are getting LM - presuming you do. He'd have to be one of the best qualified people in Australia to run a football club. And he's actually a football man, rather than a dilettante businessman who wouldn't mind rubbing elbows with a couple of thousand ego-strokers every weekend until he gets bored.

As soon as you meet him you'll be turned around. That I guarantee.

We get to meet him?? I never met any of the other CEOs so i am already impressed that Ol Lawrie is gonna personally drop off my membership renewal forms next year.. I don't think it will work out the same way down here, on the coast he would just sit at the counter at Centrelink and give them a choice between food for the week or a mad as, fully-sic ticket to watch the marching sauce bottles Jazz all over a football team once a week..... and there will be cannons and sh!t!

[Frodo]

Also, is it pronounced Mr Lee or Mr Ree? I want to get it sorted in case i meet him. I'm a massive fan boi off that LED lighting Demigod!

Although I swear to Jeeebus, if we don't have one of those mad laser light shows every half time break now i'll be pissed.

[plague]

Seriously Mr Lee already has the lasers someone nick up to Coolum and pick up some of Clive's dinosaurs and finally the circle will be complete.

[plague]

Also, **** Gypo McKinna.

[Grishie]

We get to meet him?? I never met any of the other CEOs so i am already impressed that Ol Lawrie is gonna personally drop off my membership renewal forms next year.. I don't think it will work out the same way down here, on the coast he would just sit at the counter at Centrelink and give them a choice between food for the week or a mad as, fully-sic ticket to watch the marching sauce bottles Jazz all over a football team once a week..... and there will be cannons and sh!t!

If you want to meet him you will.

When he was Gen Manager of Football at CCM he always went over to meet the away fans and (usually) mingle.

Very approachable and knows how to get a community onside. You'll fall before him like cougars at George Clooney's birthday party.

[MFKS]

If you want to meet him you will.

When he was Gen Manager of Football at CCM he always went over to meet the away fans and (usually) mingle.

Very approachable and knows how to get a community onside. You'll fall before him like cougars at George Clooney's birthday party.

I thinking you slightly optimistic or delusional in your view that we will be fapping over this bloke.

He could bring back the Griff, put us back in E&C and the Gold, have us winning the comp with a 30-0 season winning the ACL, Winning the FIFA World Club event, providing us free beer, getting these Jet shaped hats off the ground and providing us all with hotties given us a lapdance in our Stade de Newy seat and he would still be a ****ing Gypo

Never Surrender

[turbojetfireV8]

I've come to the point where I'm ready to welcome Mr Lee to our club and I'm more than happy to welcome back Newcastle Breakers old boy Mr McKinna (seen the light, prodical son etc etc) - we need blokes who can get s'hit done and these guys are looking the goods. MFKS, for someone who has Jesus as his avatar, you should know what a prodical son is and why we should welcome Laurie back, phucking legend for seeing the truth and returning to the fold, praise Lord Griff he's laid straight a path to the Jets for Laurie to return from the sewers of the coast, Laurie for mayor of Newcastle... :pissup:

[Tommyjet]

Its a done deal, certain 'fans' are either gonna have to just accept it or jump ship and take their hysterical nonsense elsewhere.

Who am i kidding, they'll stop attending games and just play out their sad life on here as big man in town keyboard warriors.

Either way, exciting times lay ahead for us less drama queen types

[stopper2]

I remember everyone hating on the club when the inaugural Gypo captain Noel Spencer, was signed for the 3rd season. Turned out to be a very good signing as Stu missed a lot of that season due to his "stomach issues" and he played a part in getting us into the GF....and became affectionately known as "Spanner" and it was forgotten that he had even played for the Scum.
If it is true about McKinna, which it more and more seems to be the worst kept "secret" in current Oz football circles. I am really curious to here what are his plans for this club, is he committed to "buying into" the F3 Derby rivalry but now being 100% passionate about Newcastle and sticking it to a club and town that he has been involved with for a decade.
We hated him when he was Mariners coach and the reason is because lets be honest here....more often than not they stuck it to us and he was a p.rick because you could just see with his attitude and mentality that he wanted to win every bloody time and he emboldened his players with this same philosophy.
Reckon he will be glad to work for a club which represents a region that has a real football history and culture.

[Grishie]

I'm a CCM fan, but in all honesty you've got a farkin gem.

Lawrie, if he takes on the job, will do it heart and soul.

Good days ahead for Newcastle unless the owner ****s it up somehow.

[Thomas477]

Spanner never played for the scum, don't know what you're talking about.

And McKinna was the real mastermind behind 2008, wasn't GvE's influence, it was Agent McKinna doing an inside job.

[hawk]

Its a done deal, certain 'fans' are either gonna have to just accept it or jump ship and take their hysterical nonsense elsewhere.

Who am i kidding, they'll stop attending games and just play out their sad life on here as big man in town keyboard warriors.

Either way, exciting times lay ahead for us less drama queen types

They will go to the best football in town, La liga Zone leagues

[Retro Jet]

So long as we don't get Scotsman McKinna's beloved Simple Minds playing over the speakers at Hunter Stadium,
I'm OK with him. Real test will be Derby day though.

[Frodo]

I'm a CCM fan, but in all honesty you've got a farkin gem.

Lawrie, if he takes on the job, will do it heart and soul.

Good days ahead for Newcastle unless the owner ****s it up somehow.

So you went from 0% credibility to -1000% credibility in 4 words. Get off the forum and start looking for jobs like those computers at centrelink are meant for and leave your McKinna/Hutcho fapping for next year at Sauce Bottle stadium.




Oh wait, i just realised this is a PV4 multi. My apologize for the unkind words, it's all good man. My brothers a homosexual and won't come out and admit it, i love him anyway... this is just like that.



Lawrie can take his palm trees and shove them up his jazz band loving bunghole... If he wants to come to this club so be it, but he is going to have to earn our respect. Any of you guys willing to give it out straight away need to remember that we don't just bend over and cop whatever buggery gets thrown our way by new owners. We complain about it online and yell hurtful and insulting words towards anyone who'll listen no matter what the result is....

Until we win the league!

Only then will we hike our Green and Gold skirts up and prepare for an LED covered sauce bottle up the caboose.. I'll be picturing Bon and Cabbage eating hotdogs together as my happy thoughts.

[lquiquer]

If you want to meet him you will.

When he was Gen Manager of Football at CCM he always went over to meet the away fans and (usually) mingle.

Very approachable and knows how to get a community onside. You'll fall before him like cougars at George Clooney's birthday party.

Can't wait for Lawrie to mingle with RBBB at newie stadium...:grin:

[GazFish35]

He's come to us. Not gone to them.
He's seen the light.


Jeterpool how many jerks have gone south to them? And how many have come from them to us?

Some of the greatest rivalries around the world have been heightened by players and mangers switching. We should enjoy the new twist in the rivalry and help it build the derby. He's clearly someone respected by fans on the coast so let's ****ing give it to them by welcoming him with open arms and make them pay for letting him go. He's one of us know.

Let's not let hm coming turn into more insipid cutting down of the club. It'd only help them, not us.

I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do, the people I know who have dealt wth him in the past speak incredibly highly of him.

[plague]

I'm a CCM fan,.

Yeah go **** your poor Centrelink loving povo bitch ass off.


Haha ****ing poor ass gypo.

[plague]

He's clearly someone respected by fans on the coast


So why the **** we want him?

[GazFish35]

So why the **** we want him?

Because for the vast majority of the time he was there they were far superior to us in almost every way in connecting fans to the club and embedding a club in the community.

[Frodo]

Because for the vast majority of the time he was there they were far superior to us in almost every way in connecting fans to the club and embedding a club in the community.

Not good enough excuses. As i stated earlier, giving out cheap tickets in lieu of food stamps isn't going to cut it down here. We aren't impressed with Palm trees and the rest of the clown act that was and is the Gypos. If you told me he was going to run a youth academy in Newcastle to rival their centre of excellence i would agree with you. But he most definitely loves CCM more than he will ever love Newy, he is loved by everyone on the coast and hated by us.

If he wants to come here he is going to have to do a fair bit to earn our respect... If he rocks up on the foreshore burning an effigy of Hutcho, or the actual Hutcho, that's a start. Otherwise he better spend a long time saying and doing the right things. Then if he does bring us forward we can discuss forgetting about his horrendous past crimes.

If you think this is all stupid then you school yourselves on what it means to have a rival club. No wonder the F3 derby has turned softer than a pensioners turd on prune day..

Be thankful you don't live in Perth and no one wants to live anywhere near you.. Or Canberra where no one even wants to play with you. Fu#k the Gypos, they can eat a big bag of Masterfood's 'Gentlemen's Relish' flavoured sauce bottles!

[Retro Jet]

This thread has more ticker than the Derby...

[Jetmaster]

Love how some on here go overboard on things that aren't even fact (yet).

[stopper2]

Because for the vast majority of the time he was there they were far superior to us in almost every way in connecting fans to the club and embedding a club in the community.

On the park too Gaz, apart from I think a couple of seasons they consistently finished above us when McKinna was involved with the club.

But hey, let's let our blind hatred over-ride the facts....hey Frodo and co.

[sammydog]

Ive got no reason to be upset if Mckinna ends up here.

He has been pretty public about the Mariners rejecting his advances to help them out and get more involved in the club. He was vocal down there for the fans when the club wanted to take games to North Sydney. How insulting to CCM fans will it be if not only he finalises the new owner deal, but then takes up a role here.

Ive got no doubt that like Petrovski, Spencer and I am sure there have been other players he will come here, do a job and do it well. Ive got no issue with poaching the anything from the CCM that will further our club and reduce theirs. Id be more worried if the flow was the other way.

[Couscous]

My late mother, bless her soul, lived in the Central Coast in her final years. My father also lives there. I have never lived there.

Am I a gypo?

[plague]

My late mother, bless her soul, lived in the Central Coast in her final years. My father also lives there. I have never lived there.

Am I a gypo?

Yes.

[Couscous]

I thought so. It explains why I'm so excited about the Mayor.

[MFKS]

He's come to us. Not gone to them.
He's seen the light.


Jeterpool how many jerks have gone south to them? And how many have come from them to us?

Some of the greatest rivalries around the world have been heightened by players and mangers switching. We should enjoy the new twist in the rivalry and help it build the derby. He's clearly someone respected by fans on the coast so let's ****ing give it to them by welcoming him with open arms and make them pay for letting him go. He's one of us know.

Let's not let hm coming turn into more insipid cutting down of the club. It'd only help them, not us.

I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do, the people I know who have dealt wth him in the past speak incredibly highly of him.

That's rather touching.

But the fact that he is held in high esteem by the Gypo fans means **** all to me.

They are a bunch of illiterate uneducated inbreeding white tailer park trash.

Not exactly a glowing endorsement is it??


The fact that the Gypo club don't want anything to do with him says enough to me.

They are down and out and don't even want their prodigal son to assist.



Yet some of you are happy to roll out the red carpet for this bloke to welcome his Gypo loving arse into town


FMD

[MFKS]

Also it must be noted the bloke was constantly out maneuvered tactically by GVE

Yet you want someone this clueless running our club??


I would rather we bought the dream team of Stubbins Middleby and GVE back running our club than have a Gypo run this place.

[plague]

I would rather we bought the dream team of Stubbins Middleby and GVE back running our club than have a Gypo run this place.


Surely Richard Money can do some consulting work too yeah?

[plague]

McKinna is a gateway drug. Once you get a hit of him in your system the next thing you're begging for some Hutcho or Vukovic.

I'm only trying to save you from yourselves.

[MFKS]

Surely Richard Money can do some consulting work too yeah?

Money wasn't the worst.

Wasn't he Cons second choice when Venables fell through??

[turbojetfireV8]

[QUOTE=MFKS;152104They are down and out and don't even want their prodigal son to assist.[/QUOTE]

hang on, he's *our* prodigal son - he was one of us, left us only to be lured by the caravan lights of Gypposford, realised the error of his ways and came back to us - it's a love story really...

[MFKS]

hang on, he's *our* prodigal son - he was one of us, left us only to be lured by the caravan lights of Gypposford, realised the error of his ways and came back to us - it's a love story really...

He played 7 times for the Breakers.

Hardly enough to make him our prodigal son

Sam Gallagher
Cameron Watson

Have all contributed more to Newy football than this bloke has

[plague]

Sam Gallagher
Cameron Watson

Have all contributed more to Newy football than this bloke has

This is such a fantastic post.

Seriously, **** gypo McKinna and **** all those gypo sympathisers.

Why would you want to model yourselves on a club with no trophies and no money?

[Jetmaster]

Kinda hope Laurie convinces Hutcho to join our coaching staff just to watch Membah and Plague self combust.

[MFKS]

Kinda hope Laurie convinces Hutcho to join our coaching staff just to watch Membah and Plague self combust.
I doubt we will self combust

Can see moves like this happening.

Hutcho installed as Manager

Giant Sauce Bottles and Cannons and community kitchens with tinned tuna are a certainty

Am already well aware of the likely scenarios to play out

[plague]

Kinda hope Laurie convinces Hutcho to join our coaching staff just to watch Membah and Plague self combust.

Man do you even read what you're typing?

There will be no self combustion.
I hate this club and this club hates me. These things were establish many years ago.

I'm just out here trying to prevent suckers from giving this rabble of shit and minute of your time and a dollar from your pocket.

I can only do so much though. If you wanna get played, then off you go. Good luck with it all.

[GazFish35]

The bloke has helped two clubs (spirit and CCM) build strong connections to its fanbase and local business community in the death nells of the nsl and the start of the a-league.

Faux hatred is so passé.

Hate on him when he acts against us as one of us. Not for when he acted against us as one of them. He was doing his job and doing better than anyone at our club in similar roles ever has.

The constant unfounded negativity is one reason we've always struggled to be bigger than we have been, too many from within dragging things down. It's all over the club it's all over newy, don't dare stick your head out, it'll get shot off. Fans aren't excluded from this problem. This bullshit negativity has already been mentioned in the media and does nothing to help the club grow to what it truly could be. Support for st have to be based on blind faith, but death riding a lone before he's even been announced is pathetic.

[Wilso8948]

**** me surely with the shit dished out in recent years we've already "self combusted". Scared if it can get worse.. Is that even possible?

[MFKS]

The bloke has helped two clubs (spirit and CCM) build strong connections to its fanbase and local business community I. Re death nells of the nsw and the start of the a-league.

Faux hatred is the worst kind.

Hate on him when he acts against us as one of us. Not for when he acted against us as one of them.

The constant unfounded negativity is one reason we've always struggled to be bigger than we have been, too many from within dragging things down. It's all over the club. Fans aren't excluded from this problem.


One of those clubs he built strong community connections with is dead
The other is on deaths door step and will be extinct soon enough

What you want him to come in and finish the job on us do you??

With his track record of involvement with building community clubs we would be staring down the barrel of being kaput ourselves

[The Dunster]

One of those clubs he built strong community connections with is dead
The other is on deaths door step and will be extinct soon enough

What you want him to come in and finish the job on us do you??

With his track record of involvement with building community clubs we would be staring down the barrel of being kaput ourselves

Ok. What have you done with the member? This post makes way too much sense.

[GazFish35]

Lrn some history.

[plague]

Yeah I'm with the Member on this we seem to be promoting blokes from places that are run worse than us.

Why can't we get some of the Melbourne Victory or Adelaide chaps, they seem to be doing quite well.

[plague]

He was doing his job and doing better than anyone at our club in similar roles ever has.


You know who else thought he was just doing his job?

[MFKS]

Yeah I'm with the Member on this we seem to be promoting blokes from places that are run worse than us.

Why can't we get some of the Melbourne Victory or Adelaide chaps, they seem to be doing quite well.

So we go with Middleby who had only running NQF on his CV
Then we go with Sr8 Shooter Murphy who had very little on his CV other than a small stint at the FFV
Then we bring in Eland who has run NNSW and is quite unpopular for his efforts.

Now we looking at bringing in a bloke who has on his CV run a council on the Gypo Coast and helped establish a football club that is dead and helped establish a football club that is terminally ill.


How about we actually aim higher and appoint someone who has something to actually offer positive??

Instead of signing any old person to perform a highly important role that guides our clubs success on and off the pitch

[hawk]

You know who else thought he was just doing his job?



Now we looking at bringing in a bloke who has on his CV run a council on the Gypo Coast and helped establish a football club that is dead and helped establish a football club that is terminally ill.
How about we actually aim higher and appoint someone who has something to actually offer positive??
Instead of signing any old person to perform a highly important role that guides our clubs success on and off the pitch

Careful guys, Gav is taking this seriously, is desperate and neading medical attention.

[turbojetfireV8]

How about we actually aim higher and appoint someone who has something to actually offer positive??

Instead of signing any old person to perform a highly important role that guides our clubs success on and off the pitch

Tsatsimas and Murphy are the only two that came even close to offering a glimmer of hope in that direction - the first jumped when things got rough and the other was f*cked off by FFA before he could even begin to make any headway after showing some degree of promise. You are right about one thing, after McKinna left his previous posts the whole thing turned to sh*t because he was the only one who knew how to run a football club, when they lost him they crashed and burned so all the more fools they were for letting him go. Surprisingly we have gone for years crashing and burning but having our asses pulled out of the flames one way or the other, it's about time they put someone in charge who can do the job competently - so on this election day I'm voting one L McKinna for CEO of the Jets and new Lord Mayor of Newy, go Lozza...

[Grishie]

The Mariners have certainly lost their way (don't I farkin know it) but that happened after Lawrie was no longer involved with the club. The community support that he built has been totally pissed away by a succession of no-hopers with the latest idiotic sideshow being a romance with Arry Redknap, FFS.

Since then he's been mayor of Gosford for four years (a record) and has brought back development to the coast, spent millions on developing football parks (and roads etc) and turned the council's finances around from being 8 mill in the red to 36 mill in the black.

He knows what he's doing and throws himself heart and soul into anything he takes on.

Before you hate him too much, don't forget that passion is for the fans. Not so much for the professionals (like players, administrators and coaches) for whom football is a job.

I learned my lesson when I hated on Arnie when he was announced at CCM. It only took him two matches to turn me around.

[boz-monaut]

I'd just like to ask who from the footballing fraternity of Northern NSW would be a better pick that McKinna?

[GazFish35]

Murray Fletcher

[plague]

The Mariners have certainly lost their way (don't I farkin know it) but that happened after Lawrie was no longer involved with the club. The community support that he built has been totally pissed away by a succession of no-hopers with the latest idiotic sideshow being a romance with Arry Redknap, FFS.

Since then he's been mayor of Gosford for four years (a record) and has brought back development to the coast, spent millions on developing football parks (and roads etc) and turned the council's finances around from being 8 mill in the red to 36 mill in the black.

He knows what he's doing and throws himself heart and soul into anything he takes on.

Before you hate him too much, don't forget that passion is for the fans. Not so much for the professionals (like players, administrators and coaches) for whom football is a job.

I learned my lesson when I hated on Arnie when he was announced at CCM. It only took him two matches to turn me around.


seriously my man, why the **** are you here?

[plague]

I'd just like to ask who from the footballing fraternity of Northern NSW would be a better pick that McKinna?

Venables

[hawk]

like a good hoar we will do whatever pimp ffa tells us

[Jetmaster]

Man do you even read what you're typing?

There will be no self combustion.
I hate this club and this club hates me. These things were establish many years ago.

I'm just out here trying to prevent suckers from giving this rabble of shit and minute of your time and a dollar from your pocket.

I can only do so much though. If you wanna get played, then off you go. Good luck with it all.

I've been here since 1978 and seen it all so I think I know what I'm typing. Certainly not the omnipotent, maniacal ramblings you boys are going on with.....ffs.

Don't like it? There's the front door....go watch NRL.

[Jetmaster]

The bloke has helped two clubs (spirit and CCM) build strong connections to its fanbase and local business community in the death nells of the nsl and the start of the a-league.

Faux hatred is so passé.

Hate on him when he acts against us as one of us. Not for when he acted against us as one of them. He was doing his job and doing better than anyone at our club in similar roles ever has.

The constant unfounded negativity is one reason we've always struggled to be bigger than we have been, too many from within dragging things down. It's all over the club it's all over newy, don't dare stick your head out, it'll get shot off. Fans aren't excluded from this problem. This bullshit negativity has already been mentioned in the media and does nothing to help the club grow to what it truly could be. Support for st have to be based on blind faith, but death riding a lone before he's even been announced is pathetic.

*applause*

[plague]

Don't like it? There's the front door....go watch NRL.

http://www.gooses.com.au/img/productImages/Love-it-or-Leave.jpg

Jetmaster, cleaning up the foz one dissenter at a time.

[Grishie]

seriously my man, why the **** are you here?

Fair enough question.

This may be hard to believe but I'm a fan of the league before any club and just want to see it survive and even flourish. Which means I want to see every club do well (to the extent that is possible).

I'd love to see Lawrie McKinna back at the Mariners but if he can't be there I'd rather see an excellent football man like LM be used to help the league than wither on the vine.

That's why I was interested to see how the Jets forum was responding to the news he might be involved. For the same reason I lurked a while on the SFC forum when Arnie was announced as coach there. The death riding was far more bitter there, but they came around.

Less happy with him now though.

[plague]

For the same reason I lurked a while on the SFC forum when Arnie was announced as coach there. The death riding was far more bitter there, but they came around.

Less happy with him now though.


I mean SFC paid cash money for failure.
how their board thought otherwise is a whole different matter.

fans were right then and right now.

[furns]

Seriously I dont come on to the foz for a few days - and everyone loses their freakin minds haha


I'd just like to ask who from the footballing fraternity of Northern NSW would be a better pick that McKinna?

Just for srs - George Liolio

[Frodo]

I've been here since 1978 and seen it all so I think I know what I'm typing. Certainly not the omnipotent, maniacal ramblings you boys are going on with.....ffs.

I was born in 1912 in a barn outside of cornwall to eskimo parents who were also founding members of the Beatles... Therefore everything i type from here on out is blown straight from own arse, just like everything else posted on this forum.


Don't like it? There's the front door....go watch NRL.

Don't like people disagreeing with you... get off the forum!

[Frodo]

I had a big rant typed up but decided to make it a bit more succinct.

McKinna has Zero experience rebuilding a club! His CV is as impressive as the last few guys, which has gone about as well as we all know. Essentially all those saying that he is the man for the job have as much credibility as those saying he isn't. It's a gamble, plain and simple.

We are currently uncompetitive and unprofitable, we need big changes not a little but of community engagement. Our new CEO doesn't have to be a football guy, they just need to be able to fix our club.


But he is definitely a Gypo and thus a scumbag, so stuff him. :deadhorse:

[plague]

But he is definitely a Gypo and thus a scumbag, so stuff him. :deadhorse:

5 star post.

[GazFish35]

It's a gamble, plain and simple.


Agreed.

Perpetual negativity isn't likely to help the gamble pay off though.

[plague]

Agreed.

Perpetual negativity isn't likely to help the gamble pay off though.

But you're acting like the club even cares what the fans think.

Our opinions or demeanour doesn't move the needle one bit.

May as well have a larf about it along the way.

[boz-monaut]

and you angry types are acting like this having-an-owner thing will actually happen

[Frodo]

Agreed.

Perpetual negativity isn't likely to help the gamble pay off though.

I am not taking you to a casino anytime soon Gaz. Being negative may not help but being positive won't help either, that's why it's called a gamble instead of an educated guess. I'd much rather expect the lovely lady to take my money and then trudge away when the inevitable happens than be crushed when i don't leave with 1 pocket full of money and the other overflowing with pussy... It's called being a realist.

Also, calling out the person that has been nominated as not being good enough isn't perpetual negativity. It's called not accepting everything thrown in our faces. If he comes in and does well than i will be happily proven wrong, but nothing so far has been put forward that makes me think he will excel in this position. That's my opinion, that's also the point of this thread.

If you want to fap over Mckinna start an appreciation thread. I'll keep my 'negative' comments over here waiting for plague to come back over to the swingset so we can hang out and throw stones at the coasties streaming new episodes of GOT over the Maccas free Wi-Fi...

[Frodo]

and you angry types are acting like this having-an-owner thing will actually happen

Truth bomb right here!

[plague]

and you angry types are acting like this having-an-owner thing will actually happen

Oh we are def getting a new owner.
I'm sure of that.





Eventually.



Double-eff-aye just need to weed out any good ones before unleashing the next shitstorm.

[MFKS]

I'd just like to ask who from the footballing fraternity of Northern NSW would be a better pick that McKinna?

Exactly why should we limit ourselves to the Football fraternity of NNSW??

We need a competent and experienced CEO whether that be sport related or other fields.

It not matter where they come from as long as it isn't the Gypo Coast


We could give the gig to blokes like Andy Roberts The Griff etc blokes who run small businesses and no the local football community etc

Problem is that didn't work with Baartz and running a small business and a football club are chalk and cheese


Reality is we have no one of note in NNSW Football community to step up anyway. The incumbent CEO is the head of NNSW anyway and that hadn't exactly been a roaring success to make anyone think he needs the Jets CEO gig 24-7 has it


Experienced and competent CEO

Poach from rival successful clubs, rival sporting codes where they have had success or someone who had shown a proven ability to turn a struggling business around and to achieve succees

[plague]

You blokes realise the bloke who ran the Pissants is a 'failed' ex-NRL club exec?

Seemed to handle the change just fine.

But anyway I get it we need the gypo or we're doomed etc etc etc

[Wilso8948]

We could give the gig to blokes like Andy Roberts The Griff etc blokes who run small businesses and no the local football community etc

Problem is that didn't work with Baartz and running a small business and a football club are chalk and cheese

Plague I distinctly remember you having a massive shot at me when I suggested that running a suit shop wouldn't cut it at a CEO level. Where's the hate mail being directed at the member after this comment? surely this would have you trembling with rage.

[GazFish35]

I am not taking you to a casino anytime soon Gaz. Being negative may not help but being positive won't help either, that's why it's called a gamble instead of an educated guess. I'd much rather expect the lovely lady to take my money and then trudge away when the inevitable happens than be crushed when i don't leave with 1 pocket full of money and the other overflowing with pussy... It's called being a realist.

Also, calling out the person that has been nominated as not being good enough isn't perpetual negativity. It's called not accepting everything thrown in our faces. If he comes in and does well than i will be happily proven wrong, but nothing so far has been put forward that makes me think he will excel in this position. That's my opinion, that's also the point of this thread.

If you want to fap over Mckinna start an appreciation thread. I'll keep my 'negative' comments over here waiting for plague to come back over to the swingset so we can hang out and throw stones at the coasties streaming new episodes of GOT over the Maccas free Wi-Fi...


Its perpetual negativity when adding all this shit to all the other shit spouted whenever the club make any move.
This blokes not even announced and he's being death

Dead set David Dein could be announced as the new CEO and people would argue he's done nothing in Australia.


And it does move the needle.
Negativity around this potential move has already been reported in the media... Hardly the type of reception potential sponsors want to get involved with. It all adds up, otherwise why turn up on match day and make noise? If anything we do makes no difference.

[MFKS]

Its perpetual negativity when adding all this shit to all the other shit spouted whenever the club make any move.
This blokes not even announced and he's being death

Dead set David Dein could be announced as the new CEO and people would argue he's done nothing in Australia.


And it does move the needle.
Negativity around this potential move has already been reported in the media... Hardly the type of reception potential sponsors want to get involved with. It all adds up, otherwise why turn up on match day and make noise? If anything we do makes no difference.
So put the link up where our negativity on the foz has been reported in the media.

I am intrigued to see how much of an effect me Frodo and Plague are having by drinking the No to Gypos Kool Aid

[Jetmaster]

I was born in 1912 in a barn outside of cornwall to eskimo parents who were also founding members of the Beatles... Therefore everything i type from here on out is blown straight from own arse, just like everything else posted on this forum.

Obviously went over your head didn't it - I have been a fan, member, businessman and more with KB United, Rosebud, Breakers and Jets since inception. I have seen how everything works in Australian football and Newy in particular. That said I don't have the answers but leave it to the ones that know better. Like most we want what's best for our club and as Ken Arthurson once said when Manly and Norths were forced to merge "if you are gonna be raped you may as well try and enjoy it".

Just sick of "the guy is a Gypo so he must be s***" routine - the negativity achieves nothing. Let the new owner decide, make his appointments and then we criticize based on performance. The Gypo thing is great fun on derby day etc but let's be honest - the Central Coast Mariners have been more successful on the field than the Newcastle Jets, end of (so ban me)....if their model was based in Newcastle things would be alot rosier now as off the field, we are pound for pound the strongest in the country. If we can tap into some of that off field know how so be it.

Anything now is a gamble - community model, local business consortium (tried before), Griffo takeover combination of all - any of these could succeed or plunge the club into extinction. Let's go with the flow and see what transpires over the next 12 months.

[Frodo]

If anything we do makes no difference. I am 100% certain that anything i do, other than lighting flares, has absolutely no effect on this club...

[stopper2]

Its perpetual negativity when adding all this shit to all the other shit spouted whenever the club make any move.
This blokes not even announced and he's being death

Dead set David Dein could be announced as the new CEO and people would argue he's done nothing in Australia.


And it does move the needle.
Negativity around this potential move has already been reported in the media... Hardly the type of reception potential sponsors want to get involved with. It all adds up, otherwise why turn up on match day and make noise? If anything we do makes no difference.

I agree Gaz, seems to be a lot of wasted energy being directed towards a possible impending announcement on the new CEO but what do you expect when you look at the threads on this Forum and you see the amount of pages for example debated on who is the better GK between Birraz and BK FFS!....58 fckn pages!!!

The whole....McKinna is a Gypo... is starting to wear a bit thin.
He is a born and bred Scotsman now naturalised Aussie who has spent a part of his life "football journey" journey on the Central Coast....it doesn't define everything who is as a person and a man.

If he is announced as the CEO as widely tipped, because as rumoured new owner Martin Lee wants him to be the man, all the bitching, complaining and moaning is not going to make one iota of difference.
Whatever happened to the good old ideal of "giving someone a fair go"?

[Frodo]

Obviously went over your head didn't it - I have been a fan, member, businessman and more with KB United, Rosebud, Breakers and Jets since inception. I have seen how everything works in Australian football and Newy in particular. That said I don't have the answers but leave it to the ones that know better. Like most we want what's best for our club and as Ken Arthurson once said when Manly and Norths were forced to merge "if you are gonna be raped you may as well try and enjoy it".

Just sick of "the guy is a Gypo so he must be s***" routine - the negativity achieves nothing. Let the new owner decide, make his appointments and then we criticize based on performance. The Gypo thing is great fun on derby day etc but let's be honest - the Central Coast Mariners have been more successful on the field than the Newcastle Jets, end of (so ban me)....if their model was based in Newcastle things would be alot rosier now as off the field, we are pound for pound the strongest in the country. If we can tap into some of that off field know how so be it.

Anything now is a gamble - community model, local business consortium (tried before), Griffo takeover combination of all - any of these could succeed or plunge the club into extinction. Let's go with the flow and see what transpires over the next 12 months.

It didn't go over my head, i just thought i'd take you down from your pedestal a little bit. Essentially we are saying the same thing from different sides of the coin, albeit i'm adding a bit of Gypo banter.

People can't get cranky about me bagging out McKinna so early when they are blowing his trumpet just as quickly. He hasn't been appointed yet, so no-one has any moral high ground about the club or history or anything other than Lawrie himself. If people can say how good a job he's done in the past i am allowed to call bullshit and say that all this talk of how well they were run in non-consequential now. Times were different back then and football moves forward pretty quickly. The club that he was involved with had next to no employees and managed to be competitive on the field in a league that has a salary cap, that's great. The salary cap really doesn't matter nowadays and the size of the league has grown so much that teams like us and the Gypos are being left behind because of poor management. Asking for more than that isn't being negative or being petty about rivalries. It's called actually giving a crap about where our club is going.
I don't want 'he's good enough' i want 'he's the best man for the job'!

[plague]

dead set david dein could be announced as the new ceo


dein out!!!!

[plague]

Plague I distinctly remember you having a massive shot at me when I suggested that running a suit shop wouldn't cut it at a CEO level. Where's the hate mail being directed at the member after this comment? surely this would have you trembling with rage.

Because responding to the shit the good Member posts would make me just as big a sucker as the people who respond to the shit I post.


ya feel me?

[Wilso8948]

Because responding to the shit the good Member posts would make me just as big a sucker as the people who respond to the shit I post.


ya feel me?

Am I supposed to respond?

[plague]

Am I supposed to respond?

We'll see here is the conumdrum.
Once you work me out, I can be quite the pleasant and entertaining chap.

But if you keep going down the same old path, then all you'll get is frustrated.

[MFKS]

Am I supposed to respond?

You can if you wish but I thought it was a rhetorical question

[plague]

but what do you expect when you look at the threads on this Forum and you see the amount of pages for example debated on who is the better GK between Birraz and BK FFS!....58 fckn pages!!!


Nawwww man seriously stopper this is the saddest post in the history of the Foz.

The bk/Biraz thread is the very essence of what the Foz should be, and it delivers time and time again.

If you don't get that man you gotta step away and get some fresh air.
Come back with a clear head and it will all reveal itself.

Trust me.

[hawk]

Thread is being over taken by popularity feelgood merchants. pick me for the gold logie, im fighting for whats socially popular right now

http://images.smh.com.au/2011/06/02/2403669/ipad-art-wide-tony-jones-420x0.jpg
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/76a62e7bd56b20c89a5149876afc19be?width=316&api_key=zw4msefggf9wdvqswdfuqnr5
http://www.standup.com.au/sites/default/files/CharliePickering2013.jpg

[stopper2]

It didn't go over my head, i just thought i'd take you down from your pedestal a little bit. Essentially we are saying the same thing from different sides of the coin, albeit i'm adding a bit of Gypo banter.

People can't get cranky about me bagging out McKinna so early when they are blowing his trumpet just as quickly. He hasn't been appointed yet, so no-one has any moral high ground about the club or history or anything other than Lawrie himself. If people can say how good a job he's done in the past i am allowed to call bullshit and say that all this talk of how well they were run in non-consequential now. Times were different back then and football moves forward pretty quickly. The club that he was involved with had next to no employees and managed to be competitive on the field in a league that has a salary cap, that's great. The salary cap really doesn't matter nowadays and the size of the league has grown so much that teams like us and the Gypos are being left behind because of poor management. Asking for more than that isn't being negative or being petty about rivalries. It's called actually giving a crap about where our club is going.
I don't want 'he's good enough' i want 'he's the best man for the job'!

Fair comment mate, don't always agree with you but can't see I disagree too much of what you are saying here.

[stopper2]

Thread is being over taken by popularity feelgood merchants. pick me for the gold logie, im fighting for whats socially popular right now

http://images.smh.com.au/2011/06/02/2403669/ipad-art-wide-tony-jones-420x0.jpg
http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/76a62e7bd56b20c89a5149876afc19be?width=316&api_key=zw4msefggf9wdvqswdfuqnr5
http://www.standup.com.au/sites/default/files/CharliePickering2013.jpg

Suppose the Alan Jones', Miranda Devine's, Andrew Bolt's etc. are more your "style"?

[Wilso8948]

We'll see here is the conumdrum.
Once you work me out, I can be quite the pleasant and entertaining chap.

But if you keep going down the same old path, then all you'll get is frustrated.

Had you worked out a while ago. Just enjoy watching people walk the path you mention.

[plague]

Had you worked out a while ago. Just enjoy watching people walk the path you mention.

Ta.

[GazFish35]

So put the link up where our negativity on the foz has been reported in the media.

I am intrigued to see how much of an effect me Frodo and Plague are having by drinking the No to Gypos Kool Aid

DFS pod interview with Gardiner from Herald last week.

[plague]

DFS pod interview with Gardiner from Herald last week.

Some dudes podcast is 'the media' now?

Jeez Louise that would make Infowars the new CNN then.

Actually that's pretty cool.

[halo se7en]

seriously my man, why the **** are you here?

In one post, he's already provided something more relevant than you've contributed in god knows how ****ing long.

[plague]

In one post, he's already provided something more relevant than you've contributed in god knows how ****ing long.

You understand gypoese?

Good for you.

[stopper2]

Some dudes podcast is 'the media' now?

Jeez Louise that would make Infowars the new CNN then.

Actually that's pretty cool.

You asked Gaz for evidence and he has provided it for you but because it isn't the answer you wanted plague, it's not good enough hey.

Sometimes mate, just accept that you aren't ALWAYS fcken RIGHT!

[hawk]

Suppose the Alan Jones', Miranda Devine's, Andrew Bolt's etc. are more your "style"?

suppose you are like the lefty a**holes. congrats

[q-money]

as if anyone cares about shit people say on the internet anyway

[Jeterpool]

as if anyone cares about shit people say on the internet anyway

Without this site, how would the Herald fill out the column space?

[hawk]

Without this site, how would the Herald fill out the column space?

herald is a bogan rag. they need a feed

[plague]

You asked Gaz for evidence and he has provided it for you but because it isn't the answer you wanted plague, it's not good enough hey.

Sometimes mate, just accept that you aren't ALWAYS fcken RIGHT!

Except that, yanno, I didn't ask the question.

Anywell, my observation was based on what the definition of 'the media' was these days.

In the same way that there's plenty of media who support Trump and who think that jet fuel can melt steel beams.

So I apologise for making such an innocuous observation.

But sometimes mate, just accept that you don't ALWAYS read the fcken posts RIGHT.

Cheers,
Plague.

[hawk]

Except that, yanno, I didn't ask the question.

Anywell, my observation was based on what the definition of 'the media' was these days.

In the same way that there's plenty of media who support Trump and who think that jet fuel can melt steel beams.

So I apologise for making such an innocuous observation.

But sometimes mate, just accept that you don't ALWAYS read the fcken posts RIGHT.

Cheers,
Plague.

he aint here, gone to self righteous classes ;)

[stopper2]

he aint here, gone to self righteous classes ;)

You out of plague's arse yet hawk?

[Frodo]

1279

[plague]

1279

You da real MVP.

[hawk]

You out of plague's arse yet?

get off ya mums dik. it send you loco

[Frodo]

You out of plague's arse yet hawk?

Plague may very well be full of himself but a simple search back 1 whole page would of showed you who asked the question..


So put the link up where our negativity on the foz has been reported in the media.

I am intrigued to see how much of an effect me Frodo and Plague are having by drinking the No to Gypos Kool Aid

So, I'll help you out here.. Member you were shown evidence that what we are saying on here is somehow making waves in the media, however tedious we may be using the term in this instance. Are you happy to concede the point to Gaz or do you have something else to retort so that Stopper2 can be cranky with you..

[GazFish35]

Black

[plague]

Plague may very well be full of himself

'May'?

Jesus how much more do I need to do round here?

[stopper2]

Except that, yanno, I didn't ask the question.

Anywell, my observation was based on what the definition of 'the media' was these days.

In the same way that there's plenty of media who support Trump and who think that jet fuel can melt steel beams.

So I apologise for making such an innocuous observation.

But sometimes mate, just accept that you don't ALWAYS read the fcken posts RIGHT.

Cheers,
Plague.
You should have got into politics mate, read into that whatever you wish.

[hawk]

'May'?

Jesus how much more do I need to do round here?

:rof:

[MFKS]

Plague may very well be full of himself but a simple search back 1 whole page would of showed you who asked the question..



So, I'll help you out here.. Member you were shown evidence that what we are saying on here is somehow making waves in the media, however tedious we may be using the term in this instance. Are you happy to concede the point to Gaz or do you have something else to retort so that Stopper2 can be cranky with you..

Hey hey hey

I never disputed Gaz Fish was right. I was just asking for a link as I hadn't seen it.

I go listen to it now for some education etc

[MFKS]

DFS pod interview with Gardiner from Herald last week.

Yeah so I listened to it.

There was nothing about anyone blowing up about Gypo CEO

Just a small remark that some fans were unhappy about the Coffs Harbour game idea.

Hardly breathtaking insight and I touched if my ranting on the foz made the media in this way

[plague]

You should have got into politics mate, read into that whatever you wish.

Hey look my brother we are cool cool just remember if you're gonna come, come correct.

That's all I ask.
I dish out the dap when warranted but if you're gonna short sheet your own bed then that's on you.

Now, have we sacked this bloke yet?

[plague]

Hardly breathtaking insight and I touched if my ranting on the foz made the media in this way

Wait, so we're still irrelevant?

Goddamnit. Much work to do.........

[GazFish35]

Appolgies. I clearly got the topic of your perpetual negativity wrong.

My point still stands, all this negative shit adds up.

Like aggregated marginal gains.
We seem full of aggregated marginal losses.


http://lifehacker.com/the-value-of-marginal-gains-1514453003

[plague]

Appolgies. I clearly got the topic of your perpetual negativity wrong.

My point still stands, all this negative shit adds up.



Ok let's switch this up a bit.
Mr Fish, why are you so set on this bloke being the right guy?
Because between giggling like school girls some blokes on here have made some valid points as to why he 'shouldn't' be in the job (and they have nowt to do with his gyponess).

Yet others inc your good self don't 'seem' to want to hear any contrary opinion.

So in short. Do you want this bloke?
(If so) Why do you want him?

[MFKS]

Appolgies. I clearly got the topic of your perpetual negativity wrong.

My point still stands, all this negative shit adds up.

Like aggregated marginal gains.
We seem full of aggregated marginal losses.


http://lifehacker.com/the-value-of-marginal-gains-1514453003

So as a man of religion rather than science I will try taking on board this 1% improvement stuff

So if Millertime improves everything by 1% then we make the Top 4 next season??

Just as Lester improved everything by 1% and won the EPL??

Just as if me Plague and Frodo drink 1% more kool aid the Gypo CEO never eventuates ???


Bottoms Up

[GazFish35]

Ok let's switch this up a bit.
Mr Fish, why are you so set on this bloke being the right guy?
Because between giggling like school girls some blokes on here have made some valid points as to why he 'shouldn't' be in the job (and they have nowt to do with his gyponess).

Yet others inc your good self don't 'seem' to want to hear any contrary opinion.

So in short. Do you want this bloke?
(If so) Why do you want him?


I'm not set on this bloke being the right guy.
I'm set on constant negativity doing nothing to help the club.

He's done nothing to suggest he can't help the club grow.
The two clubs he's been actively involved in recently, and in challenging times (the final years of the nsl and the start up years of the current hooha) were successful while his involvement existed. He's no doubt learned from those experiences and can probably bring some worthwhile actions to the club.

I'm happy to hear contrary arguments but all I've heard is "he's a gypo" and the "two clubs he was once involved with are now shit"... Despite the reasons for those two clubs demise being far more complicated than his involvement (rangers deal falling through) and with the mariners recent fall being well after his involvement ceased.

Using that logic Brian Clough must have been rubbish given notts.forest's current status.


Granted he might not be the best bloke going but I've never said he's the answer to all our problems, I'd love to see murphy back, I'd love to see george Liolio back, or a new owner throw massive coin at Tsatamis, or chase a bloke named Tim Thorne currently at cronulla sharks and entice him back to football, mr lee could use his electrical lighting industry connections and get someone from the victory board to head north.

If you guys got out of your own way for a second and stopped arguing for the sake of arguing you'd realise all I've ever done is put forward the idea that death riding the bloke won't help anyone achieve anything, not that he's the second coming.

If his position is already decided, then supporting the bloke is the only option if we want to help create an environment where good things can happen for the club. That's the 1% we can control. Positive talk around town helps create something that more people want to get involved in, be it fans, or sponsors, or ultimately better players. I've been told by so many I talk to at games, on matchday, at the recent active support forum and elsewhere online that the perpetual negative crap keeps people away from the forums, away from feeling part of something bigger than all us and in my opinion ultimately contributes to the club being held back from achieving it's potential.


As soon as he comes out and suggests a merger with CCM, I'll bring the paraffin and the pitchfork sharpener.

[Tommyjet]

I'm not set on this bloke being the right guy.
I'm set on constant negativity doing nothing to help the club.

He's done nothing to suggest he can't help the club grow.
The two clubs he's been actively involved in recently, and in challenging times (the final years of the nsl and the start up years of the current hooha) were successful while his involvement existed. He's no doubt learned from those experiences and can probably bring some worthwhile actions to the club.

I'm happy to hear contrary arguments but all I've heard is "he's a gypo" and the "two clubs he was once involved with are now shit"... Despite the reasons for those two clubs demise being far more complicated than his involvement (rangers deal falling through) and with the mariners recent fall being well after his involvement ceased.

Using that logic Brian Clough must have been rubbish given notts.forest's current status.


Granted he might not be the best bloke going but I've never said he's the answer to all our problems, I'd love to see murphy back, I'd love to see george Liolio back, or a new owner throw massive coin at Tsatamis, or chase a bloke named Tim Thorne currently at cronulla sharks and entice him back to football, mr lee could use his electrical lighting industry connections and get someone from the victory board to head north.

If you guys got out of your own way for a second and stopped arguing for the sake of arguing you'd realise all I've ever done is put forward the idea that death riding the bloke won't help anyone achieve anything, not that he's the second coming.

If his position is already decided, then supporting the bloke is the only option if we want to help create an environment where good things can happen for the club. That's the 1% we can control. Positive talk around town helps create something that more people want to get involved in, be it fans, or sponsors, or ultimately better players. I've been told by so many I talk to at games, on matchday, at the recent active support forum and elsewhere online that the perpetual negative crap keeps people away from the forums, away from feeling part of something bigger than all us and in my opinion ultimately contributes to the club being held back from achieving it's potential.


As soon as he comes out and suggests a merger with CCM, I'll bring the paraffin and the pitchfork sharpener.

5 star post. This whole argument has been the epitomy of arguing for the sake of arguing.

[Frodo]

I'm not set on this bloke being the right guy.
I'm set on constant negativity doing nothing to help the club.

He's done nothing to suggest he can't help the club grow.
The two clubs he's been actively involved in recently, and in challenging times (the final years of the nsl and the start up years of the current hooha) were successful while his involvement existed. He's no doubt learned from those experiences and can probably bring some worthwhile actions to the club.

I'm happy to hear contrary arguments but all I've heard is "he's a gypo" and the "two clubs he was once involved with are now shit"... Despite the reasons for those two clubs demise being far more complicated than his involvement (rangers deal falling through) and with the mariners recent fall being well after his involvement ceased.

Using that logic Brian Clough must have been rubbish given notts.forest's current status.


Granted he might not be the best bloke going but I've never said he's the answer to all our problems, I'd love to see murphy back, I'd love to see george Liolio back, or a new owner throw massive coin at Tsatamis, or chase a bloke named Tim Thorne currently at cronulla sharks and entice him back to football, mr lee could use his electrical lighting industry connections and get someone from the victory board to head north.

If you guys got out of your own way for a second and stopped arguing for the sake of arguing you'd realise all I've ever done is put forward the idea that death riding the bloke won't help anyone achieve anything, not that he's the second coming.

If his position is already decided, then supporting the bloke is the only option if we want to help create an environment where good things can happen for the club. That's the 1% we can control. Positive talk around town helps create something that more people want to get involved in, be it fans, or sponsors, or ultimately better players. I've been told by so many I talk to at games, on matchday, at the recent active support forum and elsewhere online that the perpetual negative crap keeps people away from the forums, away from feeling part of something bigger than all us and in my opinion ultimately contributes to the club being held back from achieving it's potential.


As soon as he comes out and suggests a merger with CCM, I'll bring the paraffin and the pitchfork sharpener.

This is the first time during this argument that you've actually put forward some ideas, and low and behold you make some good points. Well done.

Firstly, it hasn't been announced by anyone that he is working for the Jets. So until such time as that happens no one can use the 'we need to support our guy' argument just yet, i'm sorry but whispers from friends of friends don't count as truths just yet. Especially in the football world which is more fickle than most.

So, if we take that out of consideration essentially some of us think he doesn't have the experience necessary to succeed in a position this size. Not because he lives in a caravan but because his CV isn't strong enough to prove itself.

Some of you also think that he has done enough in the past to earn the right to have the gig, fair enough we don't have to agree.

However.. you don't get to hold the high ground because you see this as a glass half full scenario. Get off your high horse and put forward some facts that back up your opinions and then read ours and move on.

Plague is a serial pest, he's also a cereal pest, as we all know so just don't take his bait and you'll get some good conversation from him. The Member knows hows to argue better than most. But just because we get a bit passionate don't let that stop you from put in your 2 cents. Just back it up with fact and then no one can say anything against you.

[plague]

I'm not set on this bloke being the right guy.
I'm set on constant negativity doing nothing to help the club.

He's done nothing to suggest he can't help the club grow.
The two clubs he's been actively involved in recently, and in challenging times (the final years of the nsl and the start up years of the current hooha) were successful while his involvement existed. He's no doubt learned from those experiences and can probably bring some worthwhile actions to the club.

I'm happy to hear contrary arguments but all I've heard is "he's a gypo" and the "two clubs he was once involved with are now shit"... Despite the reasons for those two clubs demise being far more complicated than his involvement (rangers deal falling through) and with the mariners recent fall being well after his involvement ceased.

Using that logic Brian Clough must have been rubbish given notts.forest's current status.


Granted he might not be the best bloke going but I've never said he's the answer to all our problems, I'd love to see murphy back, I'd love to see george Liolio back, or a new owner throw massive coin at Tsatamis, or chase a bloke named Tim Thorne currently at cronulla sharks and entice him back to football, mr lee could use his electrical lighting industry connections and get someone from the victory board to head north.

If you guys got out of your own way for a second and stopped arguing for the sake of arguing you'd realise all I've ever done is put forward the idea that death riding the bloke won't help anyone achieve anything, not that he's the second coming.

If his position is already decided, then supporting the bloke is the only option if we want to help create an environment where good things can happen for the club. That's the 1% we can control. Positive talk around town helps create something that more people want to get involved in, be it fans, or sponsors, or ultimately better players. I've been told by so many I talk to at games, on matchday, at the recent active support forum and elsewhere online that the perpetual negative crap keeps people away from the forums, away from feeling part of something bigger than all us and in my opinion ultimately contributes to the club being held back from achieving it's potential.


As soon as he comes out and suggests a merger with CCM, I'll bring the paraffin and the pitchfork sharpener.

ok see now this is a good post and something i enjoyed reading.

the only thing i might add is that (to me) there is a very clear and distinct line between blokes questioning his appointment on ability (warranted) vs the the whole 'he's a gypo' thing.

if people can't see the humour and outright silliness of that line of outrage then I'm sorry but they're either not doing a good enough job or people are taking it far too seriously.

now i can understand that people want to sing the songs, wear the kit and get the tattoos and stuff and they love the club and they love the game. but theres also a bunch of people out there (myself included) that just see it as a game and a bunch of dudes in matching shirts kicking a ball. neither of us is incorrect in our approach to the game, but we should also be able to have a bit of a laugh at each others expense every now and then. i mean come on, you guys have seen the Lester City thread right? the fact people fell for that means they deserve a good ribbing.

i don't see any negativity at all on this page. i see people trying to be funny. whether that hits the mark or not is subjective. i personally don't care about McKinna, nor do i care about how the sausage is made. i will turn up on game day if the thought of going to the game at that time appeals to me. its that simple. I'm all for the involvement you guys put in, and i honestly hope the club becomes what you want it to be. but just along the way see the funny side of things, life is too short.

now, do you have any spare paraffin?????

[MFKS]

I'm not set on this bloke being the right guy.
I'm set on constant negativity doing nothing to help the club.

He's done nothing to suggest he can't help the club grow.
The two clubs he's been actively involved in recently, and in challenging times (the final years of the nsl and the start up years of the current hooha) were successful while his involvement existed. He's no doubt learned from those experiences and can probably bring some worthwhile actions to the club.

I'm happy to hear contrary arguments but all I've heard is "he's a gypo" and the "two clubs he was once involved with are now shit"... Despite the reasons for those two clubs demise being far more complicated than his involvement (rangers deal falling through) and with the mariners recent fall being well after his involvement ceased.

Using that logic Brian Clough must have been rubbish given notts.forest's current status.


Granted he might not be the best bloke going but I've never said he's the answer to all our problems, I'd love to see murphy back, I'd love to see george Liolio back, or a new owner throw massive coin at Tsatamis, or chase a bloke named Tim Thorne currently at cronulla sharks and entice him back to football, mr lee could use his electrical lighting industry connections and get someone from the victory board to head north.

If you guys got out of your own way for a second and stopped arguing for the sake of arguing you'd realise all I've ever done is put forward the idea that death riding the bloke won't help anyone achieve anything, not that he's the second coming.

If his position is already decided, then supporting the bloke is the only option if we want to help create an environment where good things can happen for the club. That's the 1% we can control. Positive talk around town helps create something that more people want to get involved in, be it fans, or sponsors, or ultimately better players. I've been told by so many I talk to at games, on matchday, at the recent active support forum and elsewhere online that the perpetual negative crap keeps people away from the forums, away from feeling part of something bigger than all us and in my opinion ultimately contributes to the club being held back from achieving it's potential.


As soon as he comes out and suggests a merger with CCM, I'll bring the paraffin and the pitchfork sharpener.

So you are talking about negativity being a big thorn in the side of all things Newy

Well I will throw up something else that is the thorn of Newy

Our desire to bend over and take second best

Supporting this bloke I see is a sign someone is accepting second best.
I want success for this club. I not think we need to sign any old Tom Dick or Harry for the job as CEO

With a new owner coming in we have a chance to achieve some success with the new beginning

To do this I believe we need a highly competent experienced CEO. Not anyone. We need the best that money or Me Lee's money can buy

I am yet to be convinced this bloke is even close to the best available and no where near the best we can get.

To readily welcome him with open arms to me is bending over and accepting second best.

His ties to the Gypos are the least of the issue and just part of the sub plot so stop focusing on that

Also if you think I am constantly negative go read the bit where I expect us to finish top 4 next season
That not negative that is positive.
It is me not accepting second best and putting a level of expectation on the club that they are capable of achieving

If the club not want people being negative how about they get their house in order and give us something by actually achieving rather than constantly offering up excuses for failing??

[Jeterpool]

He's come to us. Not gone to them.
He's seen the light.


Jeterpool how many jerks have gone south to them? And how many have come from them to us?

Some of the greatest rivalries around the world have been heightened by players and mangers switching. We should enjoy the new twist in the rivalry and help it build the derby. He's clearly someone respected by fans on the coast so let's ****ing give it to them by welcoming him with open arms and make them pay for letting him go. He's one of us know.

Let's not let hm coming turn into more insipid cutting down of the club. It'd only help them, not us.

I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do, the people I know who have dealt wth him in the past speak incredibly highly of him.

I know I'm a bit late to this point but still...

Moved from Gypos to us - Sasho Petrovski, Noel Spencer, Nigel Boogaard (via Adelaide), Marcos Flores,

Played for us before playing for the Gypos - Liam Reddy, Troy Hearfield, Matthew Nash,

[plague]

Plague is a serial pest, he's also a cereal pest, as we all know so just don't take his bait and you'll get some good conversation from him.

oh man i just went and typed out a bunch of words then you hit everyone with that.

Damn you Frodo, DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!!!

[plague]

Also if you think I am constantly negative go read the bit where I expect us to finish top 4 next season
That not negative that is positive.
It is me not accepting second best


well technically you are accepting anywhere up to 4th best but i see your point carry on etc etc.

[stopper2]

Well well just in the last few hours the news is that Lawrie McKinna has stepped down from the Lord Mayor position of Gosford!

[MFKS]

Well well just in the last few hours the news is that Lawrie McKinna has stepped down from the Lord Mayor position of Gosford!
Rightio

Plague and Frodo time to start skulling the kool aid boys

5 5 5

[belchardo]

Well well just in the last few hours the news is that Lawrie McKinna has stepped down from the Lord Mayor position of Gosford!

Not quite. Wyong and gosford councils have been amalgamated with both elected councils dissolved and an administrator appointed to manage the merger.

He didn't step down (although I do seem to recall gosford was supportive of the amalgamation process).

[hawk]

5 star post. This whole argument has been the epitomy of arguing for the sake of arguing.

of course. Classic offseason talk, peeps be going spare. how sh1te is old bagpipes mckinna ay

btw Plagues truth bombs are killer, who is this bloke

[stopper2]

Not quite. Wyong and gosford councils have been amalgamated with both elected councils dissolved and an administrator appointed to manage the merger.

He didn't step down (although I do seem to recall gosford was supportive of the amalgamation process).

Lawrie McKinna announcing on his Instagram/Twitter account today:
"Saying goodbye to my chains, it's been a great 4 years as Mayor of Gosford City and I would like to thank everyone who helped me in an amazing journey with Gosford City Council. We achieved so much in a short time and I am proud of what we have achieved".



.....sounds like stepping down to me!

[hawk]

Hey hey hey



sup albert

[belchardo]

Lawrie McKinna announcing on his Instagram/Twitter account today:
"Saying goodbye to my chains, it's been a great 4 years as Mayor of Gosford City and I would like to thank everyone who helped me in an amazing journey with Gosford City Council. We achieved so much in a short time and I am proud of what we have achieved".



.....sounds like stepping down to me!

Posted at 3:05pm. Announcements re amalgamations were made about 12:30. At 3pm he didn't have a position to step down from.

[MFKS]

Posted at 3:05pm. Announcements re amalgamations were made about 12:30. At 3pm he didn't have a position to step down from.
Stepping down Retrenched Sacked whatever you want to call it

The bloke is now like every other Gypo


Unemployed.

[belchardo]

Stepping down Retrenched Sacked whatever you want to call it

The bloke is now like every other Gypo


Unemployed.

I'll pay that one.

[Grishie]

Everyone in Newcastle is fully employed with houses on the beach?

[plague]

Everyone in Newcastle is fully employed with houses on the beach?

yes. we do.

[Wilso8948]

Everyone in Newcastle is fully employed with houses on the beach?

Yeh and they're the ones without wheels too!

[Grishie]

Lawrie McKinna was offered a position on the administration panel for the council, but declined to concentrate on other opportunities.

[MFKS]

Welcome aboard the bandwagon boys and girls.

Gypo out

[furns]

Has been endorsed by Griffo himself

watchagonnadonow?

[plague]

Has been endorsed by Griffo himself

watchagonnadonow?

Castor Troy.
#staywokefurns

[q-money]

this truly reinforces how much this club hates it's fans

no tinnies
griff giving the gypo overlord the seal of approval
no griffstemonial
no pool
no jet shaped hat

[hawk]

Has been endorsed by Griffo himself

watchagonnadonow?

treason. step down champ.

[sammydog]

McKinna has said he will look into he beer situation, thats good enough for me.

[la bazzle]

has he apologised for being a gypo yet? If not continue eating dicks lozza

[Jetmaster]

Said yesterday he had forgotten the past - time to move on.

Will that do?

[la bazzle]

Said yesterday he had forgotten the past - time to move on.

Will that do?

No not really

[Jeterpool]

I've got to say, we've overlooked how much this would sting the Mariners fans.

McKinna, their hailed former coach, ambassador, CEO and club legend, has directed a billion dollar Chinese company to our club, their arch rivals, instead of towards the Mariners and Charlesworth who has previously looked at getting out of the ownership.

This who sale has got to leave a real bitter taste in their mouth.

[StannyCFCJET]

I've got to say, we've overlooked how much this would sting the Mariners fans.

McKinna, their hailed former coach, ambassador, CEO and club legend, has directed a billion dollar Chinese company to our club, their arch rivals, instead of towards the Mariners and Charlesworth who has previously looked at getting out of the ownership.

This who sale has got to leave a real bitter taste in their mouth.

good point didnt think of this angle

[MFKS]

I've got to say, we've overlooked how much this would sting the Mariners fans.

McKinna, their hailed former coach, ambassador, CEO and club legend, has directed a billion dollar Chinese company to our club, their arch rivals, instead of towards the Mariners and Charlesworth who has previously looked at getting out of the ownership.

This who sale has got to leave a real bitter taste in their mouth.
They don't have fans

So how exactly would it hurt???

[Jeterpool]

They don't have fans

So how exactly would it hurt???

Ah touche

[stopper2]

I've got to say, we've overlooked how much this would sting the Mariners fans.

McKinna, their hailed former coach, ambassador, CEO and club legend, has directed a billion dollar Chinese company to our club, their arch rivals, instead of towards the Mariners and Charlesworth who has previously looked at getting out of the ownership.

This who sale has got to leave a real bitter taste in their mouth.

Fair point, only time will tell but I did notice in the comments section the other day, obviously a Mariner supporter, seemed quite bitter with McKinna and carrying on with absolute dribble.

Has been mentioned that McKinna first approached the Mariners about Lee but Charlesworth basically said he was not interested.
Put yourself in McKinna's shoes now, you have tried to help your club that you helped setting up in it's formative years from nothing, being involved for many years and they basically say "No thanks".
Now you are involved with a club that is it's No. 1 rival, any person with a bit of pride would be hellbent on not only giving their 100% full commitment to their new club but sticking it to their former club in every way possible....just my thoughts

[MFKS]

Fair point, only time will tell but I did notice in the comments section the other day, obviously a Mariner supporter, seemed quite bitter with McKinna and carrying on with absolute dribble.

Has been mentioned that McKinna first approached the Mariners about Lee but Charlesworth basically said he was not interested.
Put yourself in McKinna's shoes now, you have tried to help your club that you helped setting up in it's formative years from nothing, being involved for many years and they basically say "No thanks".
Now you are involved with a club that is it's No. 1 rival, any person with a bit of pride would be hellbent on not only giving their 100% full commitment to their new club but sticking it to their former club in every way possible....just my thoughts
Either that or he could be a traitor on the inside bringing us to extinction.

If we fail under Lee and the club folds the decision to appoint this Gypo will never be forgotten

[sammydog]

Either that or he could be a traitor on the inside bringing us to extinction.

If we fail under Lee and the club folds the decision to appoint this Gypo will never be forgotten

It would also be career suicide for Mckinna if he was here to rot us from the inside. Outside of the Jets/CCM fans, no one really gives a shit about the rivalry so any future employers would just see that you killed a Football club that was looking set to be on the rise.

[Jeterpool]

It would also be career suicide for Mckinna if he was here to rot us from the inside. Outside of the Jets/CCM fans, no one really gives a shit about the rivalry so any future employers would just see that you killed a Football club that was looking set to be on the rise.

Thanks for typing what I was thinking.

[hawk]

McKinna tried to get Lee to buy Gypos but Lee soon found out there is no football history, culture, knowledge or passion there. Never has. Its bogan, west sydney dkhead country. Mckinna a quick thinking weasel skulked to the next big team and hit pay dirt. Everyone seems pretty happy.

This is now official history. Q peer reviewed it.

[turbojetfireV8]

He's gonna be our next mayor, even said so on instagram:
I am up at Hunter Stadium this morning for the mayor announcement ...

Move over Nuatali, Lawrie has a 5 year plan here, forza Newy council overthrow, home of Newy's premier club the Jets... :pissup:

[plague]

Either that or he could be a traitor on the inside bringing us to extinction.

If we fail under Lee and the club folds the decision to appoint this Gypo will never be forgotten

Exactly Member.
Agent McBreens career skyrocketed once he outed himself as the ringleader of the Miravle of Brisbane (along with Griff). McKinna is clearly after revenge.
As long as some of us stay woke we can hopefully prevent the Gypos plan from succeeding.

[MFKS]

It would also be career suicide for Mckinna if he was here to rot us from the inside. Outside of the Jets/CCM fans, no one really gives a shit about the rivalry so any future employers would just see that you killed a Football club that was looking set to be on the rise.
If I got put in charge of the Gypos i wouldn't give a flying **** about my future career.

White anting them from the inside would be well worth the career sacrifice.

[MFKS]

Exactly Member.
Agent McBreens career skyrocketed once he outed himself as the ringleader of the Miravle of Brisbane (along with Griff). McKinna is clearly after revenge.
As long as some of us stay woke we can hopefully prevent the Gypos plan from succeeding.

Blood is thicker than water and all that shit.

So I will never trust him


It really is distressing the amount of people who claim to support Newy who are willing to happily accept a Gypo running our club without any qualms.

Never Surrender

[Grimario]

If I got put in charge of the Gypos i wouldn't give a flying **** about my future career.

White anting them from the inside would be well worth the career sacrifice.

Yeah, but you are an A grade idiot.

[RAM]

Yeah, but you are an A grade idiot.

lol

[stopper2]

^^^^
Well lads, apparently Lawrie will be at the Jets v Shandong Youth game tomorrow night. This is your first chance to speak to our new CEO to see if he is the real deal or the "Gypo CEO Death riding"....have the balls to speak to him or forever hold your peace!

[belchardo]

^^^^
Well lads, apparently Lawrie will be at the Jets v Shandong Youth game tomorrow night. This is your first chance to speak to our new CEO to see if he is the real deal or the "Gypo CEO Death riding"....have the balls to speak to him or forever hold your peace!

Ahahahaha. You do understand internet forums right? :rof:

[plague]

^^^^
Well lads, apparently Lawrie will be at the Jets v Shandong Youth game tomorrow night. This is your first chance to speak to our new CEO to see if he is the real deal or the "Gypo CEO Death riding"....have the balls to speak to him or forever hold your peace!

Yeah I'm sure the gypo would love a whole bunch of concerned citizens going up and asking about the new marquee, shirt colours and what formation we'll be using.

Actually whilst you're asking him about his stance on Israel can you try and sort this beer issue out? It'll mean less beer posts for you to sort through.

That's called a win/win right there.
Who says we all can't get along?

Cheers in advance,
Plague.

[stopper2]

Yeah I'm sure the gypo would love a whole bunch of concerned citizens going up and asking about the new marquee, shirt colours and what formation we'll be using.

Actually whilst you're asking him about his stance on Israel can you try and sort this beer issue out? It'll mean less beer posts for you to sort through.

That's called a win/win right there.
Who says we all can't get along?

Cheers in advance,
Plague.

To quote your own words from a little while back plague:

i don't see any negativity at all on this page. i see people trying to be funny. whether that hits the mark or not is subjective. i personally don't care about McKinna, nor do i care about how the sausage is made. i will turn up on game day if the thought of going to the game at that time appeals to me. its that simple. I'm all for the involvement you guys put in, and i honestly hope the club becomes what you want it to be. but just along the way see the funny side of things, life is too short.

I don't really need to add anything, you have summed up yourself here

Cheers, go find some other Forum to troll!

[plague]

so thats a yes or no on the beer question for me?

[hawk]

Yeah I'm sure the gypo would love a whole bunch of concerned citizens going up and asking about the new marquee, shirt colours and what formation we'll be using.

Actually whilst you're asking him about his stance on Israel can you try and sort this beer issue out? It'll mean less beer posts for you to sort through.
That's called a win/win right there.
Who says we all can't get along?.

he'd better fkn know, season is almost here.

I remember a yoof day at Adamstown when a few choice words went his way. He loved it, said it was all good and true.

[plague]

I remember a yoof day at Adamstown when a few choice words went his way. He loved it, said it was all good and true.

What? You gave the Gypo the business?
That's brilliant.
Bit concerned though that the good Member let him get into the city limits.

[plague]

To quote your own words from a little while back plague:

i don't see any negativity at all on this page. i see people trying to be funny. whether that hits the mark or not is subjective. i personally don't care about McKinna, nor do i care about how the sausage is made. i will turn up on game day if the thought of going to the game at that time appeals to me. its that simple. I'm all for the involvement you guys put in, and i honestly hope the club becomes what you want it to be. but just along the way see the funny side of things, life is too short.

I don't really need to add anything, you have summed up yourself here

Cheers, go find some other Forum to troll!

Whilst I admire your detective work in being able to search posts that I already wrote I feel you are missing kind of a big point here.
You see, I freely admit I find this shit amusing and in no way important.
So imagine my joy when I find a thread titled 'the Gypo CEO death riding thread'.
Seems right up my alley right?
So sorry boss I've found a spiritual home amongst my piss taking brethren, I will go no where, despite your best efforts.



Now, back on topic.
Anyone know which caravan park the Gypo is living in?

[GazFish35]

I reckon plague and stopper are the same bloke.

[q-money]

bah gawd

[plague]

I reckon plague and stopper are the same bloke.

What gave it away, that we were both acting like the same kind of petulant asshole?

[plague]

bah gawd

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ay7EM4EV--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/qgmwqgjdhyh9uulpxx1p.gif

[stopper2]

I reckon plague and stopper are the same bloke.
Obviously you don't take much notice of my comments if you've come to that conclusion as I'm neither a fair weather fan or a comedian.
Probably more of a cross between Old Member and Jeterpool...passionate but not as hard-nosed with a bit of balance.

[plague]

I'm neither a fair weather fan or a comedian.
Probably more of a cross between Old Member and Jeterpool...passionate but not as hard-nosed with a bit of balance.

Wow, that's EXACTLY how I'd describe you as well.
Did we just become best friends?

[GazFish35]

Obviously you don't take much notice of my comments if you've come to that conclusion as I'm neither a fair weather fan or a comedian.
Probably more of a cross between Old Member and Jeterpool...passionate but not as hard-nosed with a bit of balance.

all part of the plan you (singular) have to keep everybody thinking you're two separate people.

[Jeterpool]

all part of the plan you (singular) have to keep everybody thinking you're two separate people.

:rof:

[Jeterpool]

Wow, that's EXACTLY how I'd describe you as well.
Did we just become best friends?

:rof: :rof:

[stopper2]

^^^^

Can we still be friends?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI_oBXzLNmw

[MFKS]

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/news/no-marquee-jets-scour-firepower

Love the bit about how this year the goal is to be knocking on the door of the 6

FMD

Let's just wait another year to make the ****ing semis

[stopper2]

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/news/no-marquee-jets-scour-firepower

Love the bit about how this year the goal is to be knocking on the door of the 6

FMD

Let's just wait another year to make the ****ing semis

Last year we finished with 30 ponts, this year I think we should be aiming for a minimum 40 points.
15 points away last season was a reasonable return, equal to SFC's, City's and Victory's and better then Roars (only 13) but with only 15 points gained at home this is what we really need to improve on....4 wins from 14 is very poor, we should be aimimg to win at least 7-8 every season.
All the top 6 teams last season won 7+ games at home last season (and lost no more then 3)....if we can achieve this, we will be well and truly in the mix for the top 6, knocking on the door lol

[hawk]

we need to get 30 first

[Jetmaster]

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/news/no-marquee-jets-scour-firepower

Love the bit about how this year the goal is to be knocking on the door of the 6

FMD

Let's just wait another year to make the ****ing semis

Last season you said success was finishing in front of the Gypos.

[borat]

I don't see us making the 6 this year. Squad has arguably gone backwards imo

[MFKS]

Last season you said success was finishing in front of the Gypos.

That was last year.

This year success is top 4

But according to our CEO whom is quite happy to publically state more or less 7th place is the aim

FMD

[MFKS]

One thing the Gypo CEO said at the forum the other night that hasn't been mentioned is that he has been talking to Lake Macquarie council in regards to getting some land to move the training base out of Ray Watt to our own COE where the club hope to train EJ HAL W League all on site as well as housing Club offices and pitches to play games

I wonder how long ot will be before we get a community kitchen and some giant sauce bottles

[Jeterpool]

One thing the Gypo CEO said at the forum the other night that hasn't been mentioned is that he has been talking to Lake Macquarie council in regards to getting some land to move the training base out of Ray Watt to our own COE where the club hope to train EJ HAL W League all on site as well as housing Club offices and pitches to play games

I wonder how long ot will be before we get a community kitchen and some giant sauce bottles

You don't see having our own facility as a good thing?

[evolution]

You don't see having our own facility as a good thing?

Should be the goal of every A-League club IMO

[MFKS]

You don't see having our own facility as a good thing?
I would rather clubs were spending money on this rather than guest players Marquees etc

Taking ownership of player development by clubs in this country should be a mandate not an optional choice

Hopefully Gypo wasn't bullshitting and this will see the light of day and not be idle chit chat

[ForeverRed]

One thing the Gypo CEO said at the forum the other night that hasn't been mentioned is that he has been talking to Lake Macquarie council in regards to getting some land to move the training base out of Ray Watt to our own COE where the club hope to train EJ HAL W League all on site as well as housing Club offices and pitches to play games

I wonder how long ot will be before we get a community kitchen and some giant sauce bottles
Maybe some caravans to

[MFKS]

Bloke needs to be put on notice.

Hutcho got the arse from the Gypos.

If he ends up here on Gypo CEOs watch

FMD

It will be on

[Grimario]

Hutcho for youth coach.
Mrdja for strength and conditioning coach.
McBreen had two seasons at Shanghai SIPG F.C. so that qualifies him as Chinese. Expect it to be announced after the NPL GF.


Gypo takeover complete.

[mervan]

Maybe some caravans to

That's gold

[Thomas477]

Right then, I'm on board. McKinna out.

[steve136]

McKinna doing everything he can to ensure we're a bigger joke than the Gypos this season.

[plague]

Haha, oh NOW you blokes decide to turn up.

Been in front of your eyes for months but here you all were defending the gypo.

Reap what shoe you put on the other goose etc etc.

[Grimario]

McKinna was on ABC, apparently.


@NewcastleJetsFC CEO Lawrie McKinna: there was some senior management decisions...I have not made this decision
Lawrie McKinna: I think some of the [issues] have been an ongoing thing but they came to a head in China
Lawrie McKinna: this is something that I, the playing group and the supporters never wanted to happen
Lawrie McKinna re finding a new coach: I will make a recommendation to senior management but I don't see why they would take it

[q-money]

gutless worm

[Thomas477]

If he didn't want it, he should've gone along with Miller.

[steve136]

F*cking Gypo. Can't wash the blood off his hands any quicker can he.

[q-money]

sold him up the river, mckinna must go

[Tommyjet]

McKinna was on ABC, apparently.

surely must have something to do with the chinese player.

also didn't we have a new chinese assistant coach? is it definitely train he had a run in with or is that speculation? may have been the chinese assistant that miller had problems with.

[steve136]

1321

[q-money]

look closer to home boyyyyz

[Thomas477]

Anyone else catch McKinna's interview with Paul Bevan yesterday saying it was a senior management decision to sack Miller and not him, while today he said it was his decision.

****ing coastie.

[RAM]

McKinna was on ABC, apparently.

Pathetic.

He must go.

[lquiquer]

Ask Lord Gypo yesterday on twitter if Kokko was still injured? ........still waiting for an answer. Just got that felling there is something cooking???

[Roundball Enthusiast]

Ask Lord Gypo yesterday on twitter if Kokko was still injured? ........still waiting for an answer. Just got that felling there is something cooking???

Patience mate, he's running a club you know..

Here is your answer...

https://twitter.com/LawrieMcKinna/status/775209485363052544

[lquiquer]

So who got a personal call from Lord Gypo this week?......

[furns]

So who got a personal call from Lord Gypo this week?......
:sup:

[Roundball Enthusiast]

https://twitter.com/LawrieMcKinna/status/777725420443754496

You can take the boy out of the scum, but you can't take the scum out of the boy.

[Rocknerd]

I got a call from him. He didn't want to blame anyone or make excuses but it was all Scott's fault.
Apparently Miller refused to discuss his reasons for wanting Trani gone and caused the whole logger heads.
Then a bunch of moving forward, change through continuity wash.

[turbojetfireV8]

anyone else who thinks this year's membership card is the cheapest shittiest looking we've ever had?? the el cheapo card isn't inspiring confidence in our new direction - but on a lighter note, no pics of players on it this time, so unless the membership card kiss of death is for the team itself, at least it isn't an omen of who won't be with us next season this time... :)

[GazFish35]

Designed simpler to be easier for match day staff to check people are in the rights seats and have the right card.


Kiss of death photo no longer in use might mean we wI'll have exactly the same squad now as in the 12 months time. Good news for pav, coop and Brennan.

[Frodo]

So how do we go about kicking this guy out before the end of the season? Need to get this positions sorted before we start looking for a new coach.

McKinna might be a lovely bloke but doesn't have the skills to rebuild a club from the ground up it seems. Martin Lee seems to think that the club is more organised than it actually is and doesn't need money thrown at it. McKinna probably told him so to make sure he got the gig so easily.

#LawriebacktoSauceVille

[stopper2]

So how do we go about kicking this guy out before the end of the season? Need to get this positions sorted before we start looking for a new coach.

McKinna might be a lovely bloke but doesn't have the skills to rebuild a club from the ground up it seems. Martin Lee seems to think that the club is more organised than it actually is and doesn't need money thrown at it. McKinna probably told him so to make sure he got the gig so easily.

#LawriebacktoSauceVille

That's all fine but who have you got in mind to take over?

[Frodo]

That's all fine but who have you got in mind to take over?

1. Find business that is succeeding
2. Convince the CEO to come and earn similar money but also get a personal image boost if we do well
3. ???
4. Mariners are relegated to New Zealand Premier League.


But seriously, we don't need a CEO who is well known. We just need one who can make money and fix the running of the club. McKinna just doesn't strike me as the guy who can fix the upper management problems we have. He is putting out fires but probably not fixing the deeper problems.

I think we need a Director of Football and, although i'd prefer someone who isn't a filthy Hutcho-loving Trumpet lover, if needed McKinna could do that job. Someone who can fix up what is happening throughout the season that keeps causing us to run-out of players all the time. Have to buy in Youth from other teams and make rash judgement calls at contract time.

This will help us become more marketable to sponsors to help the CEO bring in more moneys to then help out the Director fix more problems and so on and so forth until we are a mid-table team who gets knocked out of the finals first week. Which would be a massive improvement on the club at the moment.

[Frodo]

1. Find business that is succeeding
2. Convince the CEO to come and earn similar money but also get a personal image boost if we do well
3. ???
4. Mariners are relegated to New Zealand Premier League.


But seriously, we don't need a CEO who is well known. We just need one who can make money and fix the running of the club. McKinna just doesn't strike me as the guy who can fix the upper management problems we have. He is putting out fires but probably not fixing the deeper problems.

I think we need a Director of Football and, although i'd prefer someone who isn't a filthy Hutcho-loving Trumpet lover, if needed McKinna could do that job. Someone who can fix up what is happening throughout the season that keeps causing us to run-out of players all the time. Have to buy in Youth from other teams and make rash judgement calls at contract time.

This will help us become more marketable to sponsors to help the CEO bring in more moneys to then help out the Director fix more problems and so on and so forth until we are a mid-table team who gets knocked out of the finals first week. Which would be a massive improvement on the club at the moment.

That said Directors of Football aren't too popular in the UK so maybe that is an even worse idea than keeping the idiot we already have.

[6ft11]

We have a DOF, Griffo should step up and sort this shit out!
Weve got a mediocre ex-defender leading the team with no idea how to go forward.
But its a boys club ay, "jobs for the boys" hey Mr McKinna???

[Roundball Enthusiast]

But seriously, we don't need a CEO who is well known. We just need one who can make money and fix the running of the club.

You do realise no A-League clubs make money? Vic-tree made a profit two years ago, only because they won the league, FFA Cup & had 26k members. (Or something like that)

The A-League isn't designed around clubs making money. We don't produce enough talent, or have the balls to stand up to clubs to warrant transfer/buy out fees. (Matty Ryan, Tommy R aside). We just let players leave, for free, as to not stop their career progression.

Not being able to buy/sell players between clubs stops anyone making money as well.

The running costs of a club aren't covered by anyone, only the player salaries, up to the cap, are. Of which, we're lucky to even spend the cap each year.

You'll make a loss regardless, until you hit 20k members & win something & have good sponsors.
We have non of that & won't for a long time to come.

[RAM]

You do realise no A-League clubs make money? Vic-tree made a profit two years ago, only because they won the league, FFA Cup & had 26k members. (Or something like that)

The A-League isn't designed around clubs making money. We don't produce enough talent, or have the balls to stand up to clubs to warrant transfer/buy out fees. (Matty Ryan, Tommy R aside). We just let players leave, for free, as to not stop their career progression.

Not being able to buy/sell players between clubs stops anyone making money as well.

The running costs of a club aren't covered by anyone, only the player salaries, up to the cap, are. Of which, we're lucky to even spend the cap each year.

You'll make a loss regardless, until you hit 20k members & win something & have good sponsors.
We have non of that & won't for a long time to come.

You should work for the FFA finding potential owners.

[RAM]

Clubs ****ed. CEO is ****ed. Owner is ****ed. Squad is ****ed. Coach is ****ed. We're all ****ed.

Get ****ed.

[Hunter403]

Clubs ****ed. CEO is ****ed. Owner is ****ed. Squad is ****ed. Coach is ****ed. We're all ****ed.


Get ****ed.

Excited?

[RAM]

Excited?

****ed

[stopper2]

You do realise no A-League clubs make money? Vic-tree made a profit two years ago, only because they won the league, FFA Cup & had 26k members. (Or something like that)

The A-League isn't designed around clubs making money. We don't produce enough talent, or have the balls to stand up to clubs to warrant transfer/buy out fees. (Matty Ryan, Tommy R aside). We just let players leave, for free, as to not stop their career progression.

Not being able to buy/sell players between clubs stops anyone making money as well.

The running costs of a club aren't covered by anyone, only the player salaries, up to the cap, are. Of which, we're lucky to even spend the cap each year.

You'll make a loss regardless, until you hit 20k members & win something & have good sponsors.
We have non of that & won't for a long time to come.
Didn't the Gypos announce they were in the black for last year too?
Read on the weekend too that NRL clubs lost reportedly a total of $50 million last season, so it's not just A-League clubs leaking money.
The big AFL clubs with 40,000 plus members are the most financially viable sporting teams in the country.

[Thomas477]

Clubs ****ed. CEO is ****ed. Owner is ****ed. Squad is ****ed. Coach is ****ed. We're all ****ed.

Get ****ed.

10/10 post that. Would read again.

[stopper2]

Still don't know what is the vision, the direction, the football philosphy of this club.
That's what I lked about the direction Adelaide took when it brought in Gombau/Amor. It was a clear and distinct philosphy and style that they brought to the club which has largely been successful with 3 trophies in 3 seasons.
McKinna had his chance to do something similar when Miller was sacked but it seems the main criteria was getting in someone who "knew and understood Newcastle". At the very least I would expect a team, though lacking in quality to have a go, play for the full 90 and at least make the opposition work hard to get even a point...it's obvious we can't even manage that style of either FFS.

[WolfMan]

Still don't know what is the vision, the direction, the football philosphy of this club.
That's what I lked about the direction Adelaide took when it brought in Gombau/Amor. It was a clear and distinct philosphy and style that they brought to the club which has largely been successful with 3 trophies in 3 seasons.
McKinna had his chance to do something similar when Miller was sacked but it seems the main criteria was getting in someone who "knew and understood Newcastle". At the very least I would expect a team, though lacking in quality to have a go, play for the full 90 and at least make the opposition work hard to get even a point...it's obvious we can't even manage that style of either FFS.

I put it to you that it was a matter of who the club could get in at such short notice.

And that is it. No other criteria required as we simply didn't have the time.

We didn't even have an assistant to take over on an interim basis while we scoured the globe (who am I kidding?) for a real, long term, sustainable option

[Grishie]

I understand Lawrie will be on Shootout this Thursday night.

[hawk]

I understand Lawrie will be on Shootout this Thursday night.

Nothing will be his fault. Slowly building into a 2035 championship. Keeps himself in a job

[plague]

they should put the '08 GF on and make him real time narrate it.

gypo.

[borat]

Nothing will be his fault. Slowly building into a 2035 championship. Keeps himself in a job

He won't be able to say a lot......before going on to say a lot and blame others

[Hunter403]

Check out McKinna singing the new chant from NCL on Facebook. Good stuff.

[Jetmaster]

Check out McKinna singing the new chant from NCL on Facebook. Good stuff.

Needs to be filmed singing "we hate coast scum" to get any leverage.

[plague]

Check out McKinna singing the new chant from NCL on Facebook. Good stuff.

What?
These ****ing people man.

[MFKS]

High time the GYPO actually got around to telling us how many years he has locked home grown Jones as our coach for


Sign the bloke up


We finally moving forward take note Phil Stubbins


Get cracking Gypo

[Roundball Enthusiast]

High time the GYPO actually got around to telling us how many years he has locked home grown Jones as our coach for


Sign the bloke up


We finally moving forward take note Phil Stubbins


Get cracking Gypo

Jones will be out before pre season finishes next season. Just like those before him.

[plague]

High time the GYPO actually got around to telling us how many years he has locked home grown Jones as our coach for


Sign the bloke up


We finally moving forward take note Phil Stubbins


Get cracking Gypo


we want him on that wall.
we need him on that wall.

[plague]

well played gypo, well played.

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