Wullie

Have they never spoken to a season ticket holder before like? Why not go to the ground on match day and say the things that's been said to me to the 45k+ that are attending? Plenty of us are former season ticket holders, I walked in 2014.

I disagree with Seymour as much as anyone but please keep it civil. He has argued his case politely and there's really no need not to do likewise.

Wish we were Blackpool, they're rid of their poison. By boycotting funnily enough. The fans made the club a complete money sink and the debts are what eventually forced out Oyston.

Takes umbrage at fans who don't want the team to win every game but when that's the owner's official position, he throws cash at it.

Isn't the point that that will not happen? The club is on record as saying they don't want to try and win cups, and they equip the squad with that in mind, hence we've not been to a single semi final since he arrived.

Didn't Brighton get to the FA Cup semi final last season?

So you actively want your football club to lose games? ? It's an attitude I share with the guy whose pockets you just love filling.

Doesn't want boycotts in case it affects the performance of the football team (good, I hope it does) but is content to "give Steve Bruce a chance" as manager. I reckon that fat prick might have more of a negative effect on the team than whether or not you turn up to watch mate.

Look at the insults I've taken for having the absolute temerity to go to football games, football games played by my football club Nobody is insulting you for going to the game, that's 100% your choice. You're getting insults because you're unable to grasp the importance of not going. Because I have a different opinion to you regarding what will not going do? I've listened to what's been said regarding the importance of not going, but just because you've said it, it doesn't mean it's true? We have completely different views on the best way to help the club, that's fine. It's all about opinions, there's a hell of a lot off people out there who disagree with you. Out of curiosity, what are you doing to help the club? Keep up, he's supporting the team, not the regime. Other than funding it of course.

Not giving Mike Ashley money is making things worse? Please take my money Mike, please!

Oh no, not a negative impact against Arsenal! :( For the record I want Steve Bruce's Black and White Army to get smashed to bits.

Is that Daryl Murphy?

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The club is literally on the record as saying they don't want to win trophies or play in Europe. Pretending that other Premier League clubs are all the same as NUFC is either disingenuous or deluded.

Since he's been here he's been able to massively upgrade the size and location of his shop in town because the people of Newcastle upon Tyne just cannot resist giving him money, whether that's going to the match or buying cheap socks. It's shameful and embarrassing.

He put the prices up because he knows he can, yes. Because he knows fans will pay it. Having said that the ticket revenue is a drop in the ocean though when it comes to our revenue, do people think that if we just boycott every game he's going to sell the club? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years? Not sure how people can go that long without going to a game but there you go What are you going for though? What are you supporting? Please don’t say ‘the team’. We are not a competitive sporting institution under Ashley. We aim for no more than survival and are actively prevented by Ashley from having any ambition beyond that. I know what this club can be. I was there during Keegan and Sir Bobby and we are not that club any more. Due to Ashley. Stop enabling him ffs So because we aren't a 'competitve sporting intuition' that means stop going to games? Basically you're saying because we're s*** and haven't got a good team unlike when Keegan and Robson was here you're not going to games anymore? Our aim is survival yes, so is half the league. You're sounding completely duluded and entitled to be honest. You'll only turn up if we've got a good team, that's not what's supporting a club is about Howay Seymour man. Until that last quote i've admired your bravery in defending the minority view (on here anyway) but that last sentence? As i said before there's more to it than just being s***. If we try but fail then fair enough, but there is no trying. I haven't said it to anyone else, but read his post man. It sounds like the reason he went to games was because we had a good team under KK and Robson, and now because we're s**** and fighting relegation who won't go anymore. I understand what you mean, we have the capabilities to be so much more under Ashley. Under Westwood, Mckeag etc we never really had the major, major money that Ashley has You absolute muppet. I’d go and watch us under any regime and in any league we were in as long as we were trying to compete. Don’t ever put words into my mouth again you utter clown. if you say so So in order to watch the club you support, we have to 'compete'? Why can't you just support your football club? Surely you support your football club because that's your football club not because it's 'competing' or not It ain't my club mate, hasn't been for years. It's his, lock, stock and barrel. It plays in black and white and calls itself Newcastle United but it's not representative of me or my city. It's a glorified advertising board. I consider it as much my club as a Wimbledon fan would consider MK Dons theirs. It has taken mine over and acted as a parasite.

If the club was in the Championship for a couple of seasons (likelier with no home crowd) and the ground was empty the club would be losing money hand over fist. He's a hell of a lot more likely to sell in that case than the alternative scenario (free unconditional money). Had to put his own money on both seasons we were down, no? How long would he want to keep that up? Club doesn't serve his purpose in the Championship. Exactly. "My money doesn't matter" is objectively bullshit.

If the club was in the Championship for a couple of seasons (likelier with no home crowd) and the ground was empty the club would be losing money hand over fist. He's a hell of a lot more likely to sell in that case than the alternative scenario (free unconditional money).

You're feeding the cancer that's killing the club. You can't complain if people who don't want it to wither away and die aren't happy about it. I can't stand people who aren't prepared to own what they're responsible for. If you want to go to the match, go to the match, I don't give a fuck. But don't do it and pretend you're not keeping Ashley here because he can depend on your money indefinitely, it's embarrassing.

Painting the ground as we speak actually ? Still s**** , You'll never know man, nee f***er goes to games on here A lot of us used to but most have seen the light. Took me longer than most but no more money for Mike Ashley's companies work team. It's the only way. Aye. Carry on going though Seymour. Get yourself an SD flag while your at it, that way his tatty business can get an extra layer of exposure along with a full stadium. Sorry for going to watch the football club I support I'll be supporting the 11 players on the pitch and the manager in the dugout, like I've always done. Good ownership or bad ownership won't change that. I'll not be supporting SD or Mike Ashley and I refuse to believe that just because you're supporting the team that means you're supporting the ownership. Believe what you like, doesn't change the facts. You're his only guaranteed revenue stream and the reason he's still here.

Aye, because I'm just giving directly giving it to Ashley aren't I Err... yes? Of course you are. Do you understand how ownership works? Every penny is his.

The main revenue is only TV money because we're in the Premier League. We weren't three years ago but you still couldn't wait to get down to St James' and give Mike more and more money to make sure he stays here long term.

"Mike Ashley doesn't care about £25m a year" Imagine actually claiming that with a straight face, about the greediest tightest man in Britain.

"You think if his source of guaranteed revenue ends he's just going to sell up?!?" Err.. Yes? Do you not know how ridiculous you sound to claim otherwise? The TV revenue isn't guaranteed because the club can, and probably will, be relegated. But the knackers turning up to stuff money into his pockets is a safe bet for him. Free money.

Seymour I think you're a total mug and I'm not the one you're giving £600+ a year to. Imagine what Mike Ashley, who you are funding, thinks of you. I've never had a suitable answer to the question "If Mike Ashley doesn't care about your season ticket money (because the TV fund is so high), why has he whacked the ticket prices up and introduced the most expensive shirt in the league?" The only plausible answer is that he knows how utterly stupid and gullible our supporters are. Absolutely desperate to hoy money at someone they claim to loathe. "My wife's shagging her boss and I'm paying for their hotel. I just can't work out why she doesn't stop."