Chris_R

Just sick of this cunt, I mean I've hated him and what he stands for for ages, but he has to go. Go or be forced out, I don't care which. He's a fucking leech.

Amateur e-scout = Plays Football Manager

Just made me think - If Pardew met Katie Hopkins, it's about the only time she'd not be the most detestable person in the room.

There'd be waves of apathy.

Don't forget the other rule that whilst incoming players wages eat up available transfer fees, players leaving do NOT do the reverse.

Wish people would stop expecting money received to be added to the available funds. Has history taught us nothing? - Money in needs to be divided over the number of seasons the other club is paying for the player over, ie £20m in over 5 years only adds £4m to the transfer budget - The subsequent years of payments are to be immediately forgotten about and never mentioned again once the current window closes

Given 3 years ago he managed 9 in that shitheap gutless Mclaren team as a 20 year old with no experience of the league, i'd be stunned if he didn't hit 10+ This. If he starts the majority of games I'd expect him to get double figures.

Seems like Mike Ashley's intention is just to stay quiet and hope this all blows over. Their Twitter feed, which looks like it normally posted about 5 times a day, hasn't posted in 6 whole days now. I hope everyone is just sitting, ready and waiting, for when they pop their heads back up again and that this doesn't go away. Could the #IfRafaGoesWeGo tag be put in the comments on every Chronicle article about Newcastle? Maybe along with a few salient words so it's not just deemed spam. I realise that means opening their website but with about 6 adblockers and a bit of patience it might be possible to see what you're looking at. Other papers which allow comments too, but the Chronicle are the obvious ones.

They wouldn't even eat sugar puffs because Keegan did an advert for them ffs. They're beyond special.

"thou" "u" That's their chairman. And he's asking other people to articulate things, oh the irony.

Nah SD have reduced it to £55, DW selling at £58 Start Fitness are selling it at £55. Local company, no money to Ashley. I’m getting my away top from there, might pop in for some running trainers as well. No money to Ashley who owns the football club? Don't buy the shirt at all you fucking lemon. They claim to have bought their stock direct from Puma, FWIW. There'll doubtless be an agreement with Puma that he gets a percentage of each shirt sold, irrespective of avenue. He'll just get more if you buy it from SD because he can tack his own profit margin in there too.

When Rafa is happy to sign a new contract, we talk. Not before. Anything less is unacceptable IMO.

Since they'll have loads of stock of things, best thing to do would be to book up ALL the stock of a certain item? Ideally something popular. Guess I'm going to have to break my self-imposed ban on using their website....

Shameless.

Why has the title changed? Isn't this sending a mixed message? The campaign is IfRafaGoesWeGo, shouldn't we stick to that?

That's an absolutely spectacular result considering it was hardly a coordinated reaction. Let's hammer absolutely anything he has anything to do with. This. They need to feel like WW1 troopers in the trenches, and if they stick their heads out by posting, this will happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6AtG4pmX_Y

Nah, gan local. Start Fitness/Start Football or whatever it is. Whilst I admire that sentiment, it only works in the North East. Hit him nationally. DW is his main rival, not some NE-only brand. That'll hurt him the most, which is what matters. Strikes me as another one of those do what feels right for you. E.g. I'm a southerner so my instinct is to say DW with no knowledge of NE sports shops. But if you want to push people toward a local business then do it. The sort of action right now doesn't need to be concerted to that extent. Just keep hitting him wherever you think it hurts best imo. I can get behind that sentiment entirely.

Nah, gan local. Start Fitness/Start Football or whatever it is. Whilst I admire that sentiment, it only works in the North East. Hit him nationally. DW is his main rival, not some NE-only brand. That'll hurt him the most, which is what matters.

If the greater mass of people could be trusted to just waste their time and therefore impede their ability to be productive and consequently hit SD however indirectly, I'd say go for them. But I just know too many would throw personal abuse at them and be generally unpleasant, so I tend to agree with you.

We'll bid £14.9 and refuse to go higher. #WeTried

Whilst Sports Direct are not posting, is it worth using that time to create a few throw-away twitter accounts? Just a thought, might be worth using the time wisely and having a bit of a stockpile ready!

Actually hitting stores like Debenhams is a great idea. Ashley can't dictate they block us because he's only a major shareholder, not a majority shareholder. And it'll likely affect the thoughts of the remaining shareholders quite a bit, and there's not a thing he can do about it.

I love that they're resorting to blocking people. Someone with access still, send them a link explaining what the "Streisand effect" is - they've obviously never heard of it.

He should be hammered from every conceivable angle. Nothing is too small. Nothing is "not worth bothering with". Anything (legal) that hurts Mike Ashley or his business interests by any amount, no matter how large or how small, should be done and done repeatedly. There's hundreds of thousands of us. We really can make a difference. Aside from that, those saying he doesn't care or is too thick skinned are, in my considered opinion, completely wrong. He's a man-child of Trumpian proportions and about as thin-skinned as people come. Don't confuse him not giving public statements with him not being able to be got at. Look what's happened in the past, the slightest whiff of protest and he bites in some way. Let's bring this cunt down. Enough is enough.

How do other clubs manage, don't they have wages to pay as well? Not a serious question, obviously, because we all know the answer already.