Quote Originally Posted by waalsendmick View Post
Progressive?

11 yrs 2 relegations and at least half a division below where we were when he bought the club...

That's progress...

At least the players have a paddling pool full of ice to ease their aching muscles in..
It depends how you want to look at it and where your mindset is looking at it from.

I see it from a different way. I'm of the mind that we could very easily be a lower league regular outfit if things had gone pear shaped up until we were taken over.
Equally we could have been higher up with some miracle of a Sheikh or oil baron kind of thing.

The reality is we have what we have and we are still in the premier league, albeit after a few relegations and sitting midway or lower most of the time.
The reality is, we are progressing but not in the way many fans see it, because progression to many fans is seeing superstars on offer and prolific wearers of iconic numbers parading their skills...not to mention that Newcastle fans (in some) have this belief that this club has a divine right to be up there among the elites and that our owner should ensure its the case by giving a new messiah the supposed big money to do the actual job.
That may not be the progression that it appears to portray and could easily be a death knell for premier league.

I'm sure this will go down like a lead balloon but that's my take on it.