Kasper

You and your lists man. My goodness What am I missing? Isn't that what Rafa has said?

We aren't selling players to balance the books, we're selling to buy. And the only person who has advertised this is Rafa as it's his way of forcing MA's hand in the contract negotiations which is rightly a bigger issue than this window. We're selling to pay for the next relegation.

I think that it's completely the wrong attitude to discuss different forms of protest from the perspective of "is this going to get rid of him?" There's NOT going to be any one thing that does it. We just need to create a toxic environment for him and the SD brand. It's not going to happen over night or with any one protest. It has to be a combination of things and it needs to keep going until he'll decide that it's not worth it anymore.

They have 750+ stores in the UK. How many stores' sales for how many hours can you expect to disrupt? Even if there is a huge flashmob in 4-5 stores in the NE area, disrupting the store completely for 2 hours every single week for a whole year, that's 1.4% of their UK operations on an hourly basis. It's a far bigger beast than NUFC -which is why claims that his association has boosted SD's share price are fundamentally misplaced. You’re probably right but thats also quite one dimensional view of looking at it. It’s not about affecting their short term sales or even share price. You can bet your ass they start getting worried if there’s constant bad publicity surrounding their brand.

We should start ordering shit loads of stuff and return them. And repeat.

Yeah. There's not going to be any ONE THING that works. It's just getting it out there and feeding it. He'll absolutely hate the bad press he's getting now. I'm fucking sure of it. Everyone who's getting something negative about him out is helping a lot no matter how small or desperate it seems right now.

There's absolutely no way enough people would do that just like that. Probably not even with people campaigning for it but definitely not without. There's definitely a need for demonstrations. A massive need.

Agree with all of this tbf What does a boycott (with Rafa still here) achieve? Like you said the ticket money is gone anyway. Is it a form of protest to let Ashley know we want him out? Cause he sure as hell knows that already and doesn't give a flying fuck. Hurt his business and he'll take notice The boycott would only impact if people (and large numbers) had not renewed so absolutely no point whatsoever going down that route now. It's all about the negative attention. It's pretty clear it pisses him off when national media picks up on it.

There's never been a prolonged large scale protesting & boycotting against him. Whether that's realistic is a different matter but to say it doesn't and won't work is complete bollocks. Think that's true for any form of protest. If people are protesting Sports Direct for one or two matches it won't have any more effect. Anything that happens needs to be long term. He needs to know it won't stop until he goes.

While I agree with the idea about putting pressure on SD...not sure the average match goer will be that pumped up about protesting against Sports Direct. A simple Ashley Out is probably an easier approach.

What shite would that be? Just let him be. He's the village lunatic who's mainly talking to himself.

Oh god. I'm just imagining Rafa being told to sell before he can buy, sorting a deal himself for Mitro to go to Fulham for 20m and then being told we're loaning him to Turkey Unreal.

Classic, make a statement without any links and continue with "if this is true..." Seen that before... "Apparently ten illegal immigrants poisoned 200 cookie baking grandmas last week. If this is true we really need to wake up!!!"

Fuck off all of you. You’re disrupting my misery.

I'm not confident we'll stay up even with Rafa. Last season was a miracle. I dont think it's fair at all to ask Rafa to do that again with the same type of squad. An injury or two to key players and we're down. If we're reasonably lucky with injuries we'll still be in that mix.

Reasonable would be to get some good pr by streaming the games live. This is just petty.

On Youtube That's fucking hilarious.

Acquiring rights FUCK OFF Thanks Dave.

Give Ashley money, get fucked over. Don't act surprised.

#BoycottTheStream Kind of wanted to have a watch, but fuck giving my money to that prick.

Sadly doubt that would change a thing in the big picture. Sure it'd be easier for us as individuals to just let go but there wont be a massive shit storm that forces him out. Just not happening.

Why? Has it been said what the problem is?

I wouldnt say its a clear penalty like. Like a lot of things that's a call the ref can make or not. Neither is factually wrong.

Also ridiculous to go after VAR for that (yes you Shearer). It was the ref's call, all VAR did was give him all the facts.