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Just remember to thank me when he keels over and blood starts pouring from every orifice in his body.

Bottom line, forcing Ashley out is more important for the long-term future of the club than three points. Or even maintaining our Premiership status this season. how are you going to force him out from Korea? good question Psychic powers.

Bottom line, forcing Ashley out is more important for the long-term future of the club than three points. Or even maintaining our Premiership status this season.

I imagine I'd feel similarly if someone ran around screaming that the Apocalypse would be tomorrow. You would have to believe him once the earth starts shaking and the angels are blowing their trumpets, but it still wouldn't actually sink in until Christ the Lord starts beating you over the head with his hammer of judgement.

Honestly, I don't have anything against Pardew personally. I remember being somewhat impressed with his record at West Ham and I don't think the media gives an accurate enough impression for us to assess what his actual personality is like. A vote for Pardew right now is a vote for Ashley though. So he can f*** off.

Eight Sunderland fans and Crumpy.

Absolutely. You can build a team around him. There really aren't that many players you can say that about, and certainly not many "homegrown" players. The general opinion at the time we sold Berbatov was that Levy had done really well in getting 30M. Likewise Keane for 20M (which really was nuts). The problem was, that crippled our forward line and although we got Modric in, the rest of the money went on people like Pav. Of course, Berbs wanted to go, but if (for argument's sake) he'd stayed and the Keane money had got Modric, what a team we'd be. You're not doing too badly right now

I've been assuming the title of this thread was sarcastic all along until I accidentally clicked on page one just now and saw who the OP was!

Nah, it just means he's finally found a manager that won't complain when he doesn't back him with funds.

tbh our fans are just too good. I went to Fulham away during the relegation season and the support our away fans gave Kinnear was just amazing considering our situation and the fact that he was a f***ing idiot who doesn't deserve to be within ten miles of a managerial job. The biggest obstacle to the success of any protest movement is the fact that we have too many faithful fans who are willing to stick with the club no matter how much abuse Ashley heaps on us. Ridiculous how the media places the blame for our instability on the fans sometime. If anything, we are too good to be involved with a c*** like Mike Ashley.

Supporting Gateshead seems like a fine idea. No need to make a new non-league club when there's a perfectly good one readily available.

That man really does ruin everything he comes into contact with

I'd rather be relegated than pretend to support any of Ashley's actions right now. Unfortunately, that's what pretending nothing happened and supporting the team ultimately is: implicit support of Mike Ashley.

I can't help but feel that this isn't our club anymore.

How'd that 'ol "sack the board" song go again?

All of that makes a decent degree of sense until you realize that the replacement is Alan Pardew.

Those three year season ticket things expire this year, right?

I'd prefer naming him player-manager over pardew I'm actually serious

Can we change the thread title to "What Mike Ashley is looking for..." by the way? I know it's reality but it makes me vomit to think that he and the club are one and the same entity.

It's ironic because Hughton was probably hired initially because Ashley believed that he was a yes man. The soft spoken former No.2 seemed like a perfect alternative to big, combative personalities like Keegan or Shearer. All of this basically happened because Ashley realized that Chris Hughton has a spine.

Here's the thing: a critical component of support is hope. You've got to have the belief that if you keep backing your team with all your heart, one day they will do something to make you feel good about sticking with them through all the hard times. There has to be something to strive for. There is no hope with this club for the forseeable future. I'd love to say I can support my club with no prospects for recompense indefinitely, but I have to admit it's hard.

Mike Ashley is the worst kind of idiot. The kind of idiot that makes up complex justifications to convince himself that he's actually right.

See, it's ridiculous. I don't even care about this match. It's just like how I felt when Kinnear came in for the relegation season. I hate that feeling. Two days ago I was able to concentrate on the football, regardless of how good or bad we may have been. Now I can't do that anymore.

Strachan?Coleman? The list of stiffy-inducing managers goes on. I suppose we could safely include any manager who's experienced failure at the championship or league 1 level recently.