Unbelievable

Saylor

Embarrassing from Saylor

Absolutely this, said it all along. That makes no sense either. His primary aim is premier league exposure - he'd just keep us if successful, he just can't be arsed to do the necessary legwork. I agree he wouldn't sell it quickly as he's a stubborn arsehole but if we're down there long term is that attitude going to persist? I don't know how you can be so sure either way. So much of the motivation relies on being in the big time. Put it this way, if he wants £400m* then Mike Ashley is the kind of person that will still want £400m after a couple of years in the Championship (in fact, he will probably want more as we will get less income down there). He won't flog us on the cheap, he just won't - otherwise he would have done that by now. *for the sake of argument, not saying that he does. Im sorry but I totally disagree.The reason Mike Ashley hasn't "flogged" us is because we are extremely beneifical to Sports Direct as we are still in the Premier League, pretty much the most watched weekly sporting event in the world. The only reason Mike Ashley is here is to benefit Sports Direct, remember. As long as Sports Direct profit from their relationship with Newcastle, he will stay. Now take Premier League football away from Newcastle and you take away Sports Direct's biggest benefit of the relationship. Will he take a hit for a year or two to try and get us back, of course he will, especially with the parachute payments we will receive. However when it gets to the point we no longer benefit Sports Direct he will be gone. As far as would he sell the club for less than £250m or whatever? He certainly will. Do you think Ashley would give a s*** about 100m (this is not even considering how much he as already made from the club, so he has probably still made a profit)? He's lost nearly 1 billion pounds off the Sports Direct shares in the last year and he couldnt give a s***. £100-200m is nothing to Ashley if he deems it not worth the hassle. Also, as magpie1892 has pointed out, Ashley's long game now may well be to regain total control over SD with the share price being low and dropping (deliberately?). For that, he would need loads of cash, and from that perspective selling an asset that is losing value (presuming we go down and stay down) and is causing him massive headaches may well be an interesting prospect. The big question is, will there be interested parties this time around?

Goodbye and good night. Well done Ashley.

F1 qualification it is. See you in the Championship. Love this making our own luck bed

Our fans have started crying already

There you go

Goal upcoming

Bit of an improvement in recent minutes

Some good news at last

Rubbish ref

Sissoko

God damn, what a save, but how shite are we?

We're lucky to even be in this

Aye. I'll be watching F1 qualy during the second half at this rate. We're hopeless.

This. Wasn't Townsend bought as a left winger in any case?

PHEW

These are all over us. We can't keep the ball.

Phew, save Darlow

6 years!

Sadly fitting today:

Rest in peace you absolute legend

If he has the money, yes it is. I know a way he could get his hands on some much needed cash in that case

Considering how bad we were for much of this a point is probably a decent result

Phew