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Liverpool and Spurs up next........

JUDGE HIM AFTER 10 GAMES!!!

This could get interesting come 5pm. I think McClaren could have a bit of explaining to do.

Can't remember Keegan ever saying anything I didn't agree with. There's not a person on the planet who understands Newcastle United like he does.

Biggest budget in the league, highest gates, it's hardly any great acheivement to get them to the top of the league. Any idiot should be able to get then promoted. Staggering that we appointed a clown who couldn't even get them into the playoffs (after he'd already turned us down twice as well). I had no idea about the resources he'd had like but it's just another example of a coach we could all have potentially got behind. I mean if you go for potential and there's a rocky start I'm sure we'd all be up for giving him time, but with McClaren we know his history and without decent investment it's not getting much better is it? Even with decent investment I can't see it getting much better. The club is rotten from top to bottom, a losers mentality runs right through it. We can spend as much money as we like but if you have the wrong people in charge of buying the wrong players who are coached by the wrong manager it's going to be relegation battles year in, year out until we finally drop. I think this will be the season that happens. The whole ethos of the club needs changed but sadly that isn't going to happen until Ashley sells up.

Biggest budget in the league, highest gates, it's hardly any great acheivement to get them to the top of the league. Any idiot should be able to get then promoted. Staggering that we appointed a clown who couldn't even get them into the playoffs (after he'd already turned us down twice as well).

There isn't a single player there worthy of the captaincy. Squad full of cowards with the exception of Perez.

Tbf there has been nothing to suggest that this group of players is anything other than relegation fodder. Other than Perez there is a worrying lack of quality running throughout the squad and when you couple that with the lack of commitment on show with a manager (head coach) unable to motivate them I can only see relegation as the outcome.

“Sadly, they won’t stop coming to games. I think if ever they did boycott a game completely, I think it would get the stronger message across". Just wish more people would get their heads around this. As long as 47,000+ are turning up every week Ashley doesn't need to change a thing. If his team is playing to an empty stadium every week he needs to change everything. Hopefully the happy clappers will take heed of Keegans wise words.

Certain it happened at this one as well mind; www.nufc.com/html/2008-09html/2008-09-20west-ham-a.html

We tried him there once before, West Ham away I think, and it was an absolute disaster think we lost 4-0 or something daft like that. No point trying to find a new position for him that doesn't expose him chronic lack of pace and instead look at taking the captaincy off him short term and bringing in a replacement in January (just offer Schalke whatever they want for Matip). I also think a commanding centre half will improve Mbemba no end so it's a double bonus. Sadly the modern day NUFC isn't forward enough thinking to do any of that.

They're a smashing team. Really enjoy watching them.

Keegan, Beardsley, Waddle.

S*** attempt at humour there mind.

He will spend in January and he will spend next summer. It'll be money that the club has generated though and not out of his own pocket so nobody needs to be in any debt of gratitude to him for doing so. Like has already been said though it'll simply be papering over the cracks. The money will be spent by people unqualified to spend it and more French duds will be drafted in and to compound that the person required to get the most out of the players signed isn't up to the job either. And round we go again.......

All joking aside though it's so clear I'm amazed at how many people can't see it for what it is. His main revenue stream from owning NUFC is from the TV rights. Now if everyone cancelled their Sky Sports subscriptions he doesn't get the obscene amounts of TV money for the simple fact that it is no longer there. I'm not daft enough to expect the football world to unite and force Ashley out of NUFC by cancelling their TV subscriptions and I cancelled mine knowing that it won't make much difference in the grand scheme of things but it sure as hell makes me feel better as well as being better off because of it. This brings me to my second point. Although NUFC fans can't influence his TV money directly we can completely wipe out his 2nd biggest revenue stream, his gate receipts, currently sitting at around the £30m per annum mark. You suddenly deny Ashley, or any businessman for that matter £30m worth of revenue, money that he assumed was guaranteed and watch them panic and be forced into action. Charnley, Carr, Moncur & McClaren would be out on there ears in no time, because put simply they aren't qualified to do the jobs they are doing. They are there because they are the cheap options but if their presence was costing him money as opposed to saving him money they wouldn't be here and would be replaced by competent personnel. Ashley's not daft. He knows a successful NUFC would be capable of generating in excess of £50m in matchday revenue alone. The fans have that in their power but sadly only a tiny proportion were prepared to do something about it. You could say those who still turn up are deserving of what they are watching right now. They still turn up and pay their money, they sit quietly and don't protest so that makes them a part of the problem. Until they wake up and realise they could be the solution we are stuck with what we have got. A football club (I use football club in the loosest sense of the word) that will continue to walk into the abyss, without any real purpose, no competitive edge, simply existing to promote the Sports Direct brand around the world and to make the owner richer and richer. So glad I'm out.

No I wasn't aware of that. I am aware that the majority of the revenue NUFC makes is from Sky and after that from gate receipts and as someone who has cancelled both my season ticket and Sky Sports this year my conscience is totally clear when mocking those who continue to contribute to this farce.

I've also cancelled Sky Sports as have many of my friends and family and now watch sports through an android box so yes I've cancelled my season ticket and my Sky Sports subscription.

He does have a point, I lived 2 miles from the ground and went to every game, I now live 9 miles away and have stopped going. Similar. I live 4 miles from the ground and had a ST for 24 years dating back to the Ardiles era. Actually went from 1991-2002 without missing a single home game, Anglo Italian Cups, league cups, daft pre season games, I never missed one. Cancelled my ticket in the summer and I've never been to a single game this season. As has been rightly said on here though the ground is no longer filled with supporters. It's now full of families who go for a day out because it's trendy to watch the Premier League, tourists, and hen pecked blokes who see it as a way to get away from the wife for a few hours, hence the atmosphere now being non existent and all the anger that should be aimed at Ashley and his merry men not materialising because those that still don't go either a) don't have it in them or b) aren't really bothered - they are just happy to be out the house doing something.

Compare this to how we do down there next week when we'll roll over and let Pardew give us a good going over.

If everyone just stopped going I guarantee it would force instant change. An empty stadium would do far more good in the grand scheme of things than you shouting (on your own) "Get out of our club" at Ashley who is more often than not, not even there anyway. They got a fright when best part of 20k didn't turn up for Spurs last season but then everyone ran back for the next game.

Mackems to nick it 1-0

I'm just pig sick of seeing arrogant t***s pat each other on the back and label vast swathes of our support 'thicko c***s', as admirable a stance as your non-attendance from 'Murica is. Have personally packed it in this season, but a large percentage of people who continue to go were there watching Keegan's and Robson's teams, and will be there long after you've given up. As for facilitating the demise of the club, get a grip man. They are literally handing over their money to the man responsible for ruining our club. How can it be anything else? ASHLEY OUT Please take my £500 50,000 plebs. My gripe with the 'facilitating' comment is that we're all facilitating it by subscribing to sky, buying into the Premier League brand etc. Don't see the point in apportioning any unique level of blame to those watching the football on a Saturday as they've always done. The blame ultimately lies with Ashley and those running the game. Your general point is a fair one but you, and many others, show yourself up with s**** like '50,000 plebs'. No the ones showing themselves up are the fools who are handing over their £500+ year after year, sit in silence like a load of dummies, whilst Ashley and his chums sit there laughing at them. They might as well all drop their trousers, bend over and let the fat man finish the job.

Excellent post from Minhosa but what is this "minor prosperity" you speak of?

They've probably given up on it all and I wouldn't blame them. The last thing they organised was the sit in protest after the final home game of last season and out of a 52,000 crowd around 700 of us participated whilst the rest just slipped away quietly. Despite everything Ashley has done and the garbage football I had sat through, the fact that little more than 1% of the crowd could be bothered to at least get behind it and show those in charge at the club that we were totally pig sick of it all convinced me that my time in the stands at SJP was done and I've never been to a match since, and have no intention of going back any time soon.