Wandy

Getting way ahead of yourselves changing the headline of this thread mind. Ross might be gone but it's only speculation that the takeover is off. Sounds to me like there is a lot of brinkmanship going on. If it is off though it will probably be the only joy I get out of football this season.

This would be funny if we weren't so heavily used as a measure of their shitness.

The pre-match thread on Red Cafe is laughably negative. These spoilt cunts have no idea what a club in freefall looks like. They will by 6:30pm tonight though.

Unfortunately the rumour is that they have already tried to buy us but Ashley's fuckwittery drove them away, which is why they decided to have a look 12 miles down the road.

https://twitter.com/moneymikeashley/status/1175709985751388161?s=21

"Support the regime, boo the team" should be a trending slogan to throw at these morons who are slagging off the boycotters on the rancid facebook fan pages.

Need Ross to stay there for as long as possible as they aren't going very far under him.

They seemingly are about to have, collectively, the richest owners in the game. Meanwhile NUFC are rapidly disintegrating at the seams. This couldn't be happening at a worse time for us, and if ever there was a time to be nervously looking 12 miles down the road it's now. Look at Charlton right now, riding high in the Championship. This time last year they were struggling to maintain a League One play-off place. Sunderland might not even need to spend a fortune to get through the Championship as some decent buys and positive momentum can get you a long way in that league. Then their owners could really start to spend once in the Prem. It's a doomsday scenario but not a particularly outlandish one.

Exactly. These f*ckers have the brass neck to say they are an unlucky bunch, yet they have now had three multi, multi-million pound takeovers in the last 13 years, with their last rich owner graciously writing off all of their massive debt. They are amongst the jammiest bastards in the game.

Anyone who thinks this is anything other than fantastic news for them is kidding themselves. Its a dream come true for them and if it had happened to us over the summer we would have been having parties. It is exactly the takeover scenario we were pinning our hopes on. If we are not rid of Ashley within the next couple of years....and have him replaced by owners with true ambition...then SAFC will eclipse NUFC for the following 5 years and beyond. This could be their Keegan 1982 moment. Grim.

I see that prick Reiver is back on RTG from his ban and straight back into the old routine of his NUFC obsession. What a sad cunt.

Absolutely fantastic podcast. Our local media and ex-pros who keep quiet should listen to this and hang their heads with shame.

So the word that I got last week was seemingly accurate. To be honest, 10,000 still isn't enough. 15k+ would really be a lot more significant. My contact that initially told me about the 10k figure now says that sales are 14k down on this time last year.

It's just like rubbernecking a car crash now. You shouldn't stare but the tempation is too strong,

We have got the Arabic Venkys trying to buy us haven't we?

So the word that I got last week was seemingly accurate. To be honest, 10,000 still isn't enough. 15k+ would really be a lot more significant.

Yeah, this is looking like Staveley all over again. Unlike her though, BZG need to hang Ashley out to dry and describe in detail exactly what has gone on. Looking like this fucking criminal has decided to stick rather than twist. He must surely have accepted relegation already but will just think he can get us immediately promoted again and then the cycle can continue. There's years & years more of this torment to come. Not for me though. Once the announcement of no takeover is out there that's me done with football for good. No watching games on TV, won't read forums, social media or newspaper columns. Total blackout of the game. When I started following NUFC in 1985 we were a nothing club owned by parasitic owners and Liverpool were winning everything. Here we are 34 years later and it looks like LFC will start to become a powerhouse again with NUFC still slumming it & in the hands of a parasite. No way am I hanging around to watch that all over again.

Yes, but Ashley has clung to the line that bidders are undervaluing the club and trying to get it on the cheap. He absolutely cannot say that with BZG.

Has anyone else heard the rumour that sales are currently 10K down on this time last year?

Of course it is man. They are our neighbours, the auld enemy, and in this thread every positive/negative event that happens at their club is subliminally used as a comparison to the ongoings of our own. We are just fortunate that for nearly 40 years, or to be precise since KK arrived in 82, we have lorded it over them and have been much higher profile whilst they have largely slummed it and given us numerous moments of hilarity. If this thread is not about making comparisons then why the fuck do we talk about them so much? It's not like they are an interesting or high profile top six club making waves, they are a nothing club who never achieve anything of note and yet this thread is always near the top of the board.

Where did I say that it did? How about you read a post before commenting on it? I simply said that under Ashley we are headed for being exactly the same kind of club as they currently are, if not worse. Something that has not happened in my NUFC supporting lifetime of 34 years. And in that time they could rise out of the ashes and become bigger than us. It's really not rocket science to understand the concept. Jesus Christ. Have you missed the last 10 days or something? Remember three years ago when they stayed up and "sent us down"? If you think that a similar reversal in fortunes for the two clubs cannnot happen in the same timescale then you are completely in denial. Simple fact is NUFC's future is on a total knife-edge. We get taken over and everything is rosy. Ashley stays and the next 5 to 10 years will be hell. And in that time the Mackems could very easily get their shit together. Right there. I have no idea what point you are trying to make here. This entire thread is about making comparisons between the two clubs, hence the "hahaha they are in the 3rd Division" comments. I am simply stating that both clubs are currently a shambles and the two divison gap is of little consequence and is something that can and will change if Ashley is still here next month. The superiority complex that we have justifiably held over them for decades will evaporate as we finally sink to their level as a club. Or worse.

Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’d going to happen to be fair I still there’s a fair chance Same man. Far more likely than Ashley staging an elaborate hoax, involving arabs and Companies House, that he didn't need to stage Yep, that’s full on tin foil hat territory Nobody actually believes that it's a hoax/setup etc, just that there's no way Ashley is going to sell. Exactly. Complete straw man. Over the 12 years of Ashley's ownership there have been numerous seriously interested parties, and they have all been disappointed in the end by Ashley moving the goal posts. Ashley or his PR goons don't have to create smoke and dagger scenarios of interest in the club to help alleviate the pressure on them, because the interest is genuine and has always been there. It suits them to keep the media and fans in awaited suspense while they obviously have no inclination whatsoever to go through with any sale, or at least not until somebody puts in an offer that is too good to refuse, because whilst this is the case they can get away with leeching the club for their own interests whilst simultaneously running it into the ground for everybody with a proper affinity towards it. Hopefully though this time he has dug himself into a hole he cannot get out of. If he pulls the plug then BZG need to hang him out to dry. Like he’ll give a fuck. As far as the fans are concerned there’s a decent minority who think Benítez is a mercenary. You can forget any big protest about 3-4 games in, as usual True. But if nothing else it will finallly destroy the myth that nobody has put in a proper bid. He won't be able to lie about that anymore.

Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’d going to happen to be fair I still there’s a fair chance Same man. Far more likely than Ashley staging an elaborate hoax, involving arabs and Companies House, that he didn't need to stage Yep, that’s full on tin foil hat territory Nobody actually believes that it's a hoax/setup etc, just that there's no way Ashley is going to sell. Exactly. Complete straw man. Over the 12 years of Ashley's ownership there have been numerous seriously interested parties, and they have all been disappointed in the end by Ashley moving the goal posts. Ashley or his PR goons don't have to create smoke and dagger scenarios of interest in the club to help alleviate the pressure on them, because the interest is genuine and has always been there. It suits them to keep the media and fans in awaited suspense while they obviously have no inclination whatsoever to go through with any sale, or at least not until somebody puts in an offer that is too good to refuse, because whilst this is the case they can get away with leeching the club for their own interests whilst simultaneously running it into the ground for everybody with a proper affinity towards it. Hopefully though this time he has dug himself into a hole he cannot get out of. If he pulls the plug then BZG need to hang him out to dry.

Every dog has it's day.

Where did I say that it did? How about you read a post before commenting on it? I simply said that under Ashley we are headed for being exactly the same kind of club as they currently are, if not worse. Something that has not happened in my NUFC supporting lifetime of 34 years. And in that time they could rise out of the ashes and become bigger than us. It's really not rocket science to understand the concept.