Interpolic

Bloody hell. OK I have a question, what does NUFC stand for? Thanks in advance, next question coming soon.

Match was on Sunday, John.

He was sound as fuck all along! And NOTHING will ever be the same again!

The second bit.

Weeks later, this is what you say? Not reckon it might have been covered?

Won't know til next Jan IMO #wait

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Fuck's sake, Disco.

According to that article he goes in every game. On an unrelated topic since the turn of the year: 'Peter Beardsley's side meanwhile remain desperately out of form, without a competitive victory in ten outings and having seen their hopes of promotion steadily recede.' And people say we don't adopt a coherent culture across all levels of the club.

It's an improvement on "I think Steve Stone saw a bit of it on telly" I suppose.

The worry with Rangers fans is they'd probably try to make it all about them, if past testimonials against the Old Firm are anything to go by. I like the idea in principle though.

AliGupter.

I don't either but I still think that's worth a couple of quid.

Yep. I hope we go down too. I actually just put a bit of money on us getting relegated. Oh happy days Jesus, it's upto 150/1 in some places.

It was relevant to the whole 'you can't criticise the people who are taking action' meme, which of course has its limits, as I was trying to highlight. I suppose placing it in the campaign thread wasn't the best idea, but that wasn't intentional, it's a by-product of jumping across multiple threads. AO should be right up your street then, since any protests will be peaceful and non-violent if it's the same as SP. It's other stuff you need to be wary of.

What was the point of this comment then? It's not relevant to the discussion or the thread or anything at all.

SackPardew didn't do that, this has already been explained to you. And I've already explained I never said it did. Read what I write and reply to it, don't rely to what you think/hope I said. Already too much of that going on in here. I'm referring to all the times it's been mentioned on here. There's tons of that sort of vile stuff in the Ashley thread, the first place any journo would look. But it's got nowt to do with the AO campaign and how it's being approached by those organising it, which is what you're discrediting. People in here can say what they like and it does not affect that campaign.

SackPardew didn't do that, this has already been explained to you.

Hear hear. Sense at last.

They better not have re-defined the word "bellend" because I'll be needing it very soon.

Ah reet. Cheers Gary! Didn't even realise. What a fucking ledge. Bullshit. How many Everton fans were at St Mary's and why are they particularly interested? Matters not, the alternative is not making your point known, your voice heard and your influence made. Anyway this doesn't really happen now Gary Neville's stepped in. They held up a banner, they did nowt wrong. Carver acted like a twat, simple as.

Waiting while not protesting is definitely better than waiting while protesting.

Assumed this is the point of this campaign? I doubt those behind it think it'll suddenly cause Ashley to swiftly depart on a whim, but what's wrong with at least trying to change things, or at least bring further attention to the cause? At worst, it will likely provide more public debate about it and help to highlight Ashley's total unwillingness to support any kind of on-pitch ambition. "It's unlikely to change things therefore accept the status quo" seems a pretty terrible mentality to me. Criticse the campaign if you like, but it's a form of activism in a club drowning in apathy. Yeah I don't get the issue really. Unwillingness for themselves or others to be shaken from apathy for fear of being labelled a deluded Geordie by the southern press for wanting more? Fuck knows. I actively enjoy taking people to task on the 'deluded Geordie' bollocks, not that yous need defending as such but just the quantity of media rhetoric bollocks that people actually believe about your club is pretty remarkable. Probably because they want to believe it as it fits their lazy, pre-set perception of Newcastle fans. Because level-headed fans who simply want their side to compete and show some ambition isn't a particularly amusing stereotype therefore it just isn't true. I think it's down to a number of things, but mainly people from the North East being an easy target for mockery and us daring to challenge the status quo in the 90s.

Hooray - the voice of reason. Honestly, the utter negativity on this board worries me. Posters wanting us to get relegated? Like the WTF. No deal at all. How is it possible to be this f***ing thick? You want to stay in the PL achieving nothing whatsoever for the next 30 years? We'll lets get relegated then - it will fix all of our problems in a heartbeat. No one's said that and continuing to frame the issue in such a way is ridiculous. If you accept that Ashley's primary, almost sole motivation as NUFC owner is profit maximization (because that should be clear to everyone by this point), it logically follows that he would have less interest in holding on to a club that's failing to earn him money. Relegation would undoubtedly put a major dent in his pocketbook: the disparity in wealth between the PL and Championship is ridiculous. Of course it could backfire and we could "do a Leeds" (which is really not a legitimate reason to be worried about relegation considering the completely different circumstances surrounding Leeds and today's Newcastle). But holding fast where we are, ambition-less and content to simply exist as a PL team and nothing more, is clearly not ever going to force Ashley to reconsider his ownership of the club. Can't speak for others, but I have trouble accepting that tbh. The only thing I feel I know about Ashley is that he will categorically not be putting any more of his own money into the club and has been running it solely on that aim since his first year (not even sure he gives a toss about the piddling profits we now make). Getting relegated won't hurt him much personally or in the pocket, it'll just knock the club back into more cost cutting. :lol: nah he;s not in it for the profits man BottledDog's always been banging the same drum, he's just understandably piped down with it a bit as things have progressed. What's progressed? I've piped down for the same reason as most. Even more dogshit football post Pardew, and sod all to get excited about since January. Ah, and sod all to get excited about in the future unless Charnley suddenly becomes competent and starts running the club with some passion and ambition for success on the pitch (an alien concept to him so far as I can see). Just not a fan of people being called fucking thick for being against relegation is all. IIRC you were one of the biggest Ashley fans going, followed by one of the biggest Pardew fans going, for longer than the vast majority. Fizzled out eventually, but you still see the odd similar comment from you in the interest of "balance". FWIW I agree someone shouldn't be called fucking thick for that alone, the relegation idea is down to personal taste. It's the stuff that always comes with the counter-arguments, "Support the team or fuck off and support someone else if you want us to get relegated" and that type of thing, which is annoying and short-sighted.