Darth Crooks

The trust in principle is a good thing and it should be transparent and democratic. Alex is an intelligent and articulate guy and represents sentiment of fans well in wider media more broadly. Where I depart is this the pledge as the only light and the way idea and the likes of Alex are too close to it. They are also compromised by the success of their fanzine/podcast profile . It’s the most slick and best out there for analysis but ultimately what is there to analyse? It’s the same every week and every season. There’s an irony in terms of introspection because as soon as boycott is mentioned it is a challenge or affront to those who attend and the likes of Alex profile relies on this attendance. I’ve a lot of respect for what they’ve achieved with their profile and the pledge - though if this fundamentalism continues I’ll be packing it in. There’s enough shit about this club to jack it in entirely. Fifth columnism and peoples front of judea tit for tat is almost the nail in the coffin.

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It’s a case of the perfect being the enemy of the good. My pledge money is there if it’s needed should we tumble (I don’t believe it’s beyond the realms) and if not the money I would have spent wasting my time following nufc can go to regional charities. Better than pumping my money into this shitshow.

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He swings wildly between this faux playful nice guy act and a bug eyed bile spewing rage cyst. He’s like a shit hulk.

Topic in the zeitgeist fans are passionate about formulate and pretend to espouse opinion to rile fans go on radio with opinion and watch windup audio clickbait revenue roll in simple as that.

Pardew was an obvious narcissist - any criticism is automatically anyone else’s fault and self-awareness at zero. The perfect flak jacket for him. He was thin skinned but his ego acted like a deflector shield.

(‘Ye just oot to disrail iz’) /

All fun and games this. We could easily relegated in the meantime.

I’d love to hear that from a QC ?

Ted crilly gans on a bit eh?

it’s just a really expensive social club in all honesty. Where the proprietors actively hate you.

They literally were contemptuous enough to think hiring two Geordies at once would get them off the hook in Bruce and Carroll. Wilfully wrong messages ‘learned’ every time. They active laugh at fans who pay them and invest time. Sports Neglect.con.

It’s never worked for me - especially in the Strawberry

It’s no less than this club deserve tbh, I mean that without particular venom - just in line with the usual pattern. Celebrating individual PR victories like a goal or a late draw or a win for a smug yes man to hang their hat on for 5 minutes and never seeing the bigger picture. That’s NUFC in a nutshell. That thinking will only ever lead to one outcome however attritionally and drawn out - it is inevitable. That’s what will happen and Bruce the superfan will have played his wilfully ignorant part in that. Let’s see how Saudi interest/non-interest factors at that point.

It’s a shame. I run a fairly prominent account and have zero interest or stake in any of this shite. Yet we all look bad.

‘Mike, draw me like one of your French girls’

I remember being threatened when saying it was in poor taste.

Comparing it to COVID affected periods when noones ground is full is folly. If it was only SJP after everything had opened up then it would be massive. Not going to happen mind. People have vlogs to film, apps to promote, kids to brainwash and social lives to have alongside a myriad different reasons to pay Ashley. He operates in the languages of aggressive, assertive gesture and money and we're seemingly content forsaking the former and providing him with plenty of the latter when it comes to brass tacks. plus ca change.

I think people have this perception that our PL status is a given in the short-medium term and that the likes of the Saudistyle takeover is the only instance where the pledge is relevant. I for one don’t want to be in a Sunderland style position where the club is fucked and the fans have no say. All this fiscal responsibility talk counts for shit when we get relegated again in the manner the club is run. The conversations around finances change drastically if we emulate that and I’d be unsurprised if that wasn’t a factor in the pledge’s inception. Still a staggering amount involved but becomes a lot more realistic as a safeguard at that point.

There’s the rub. It’s very much not and Ashley exploits that belief but yes it’s still ours of a fashion and try telling people otherwise.

I also don’t know why being nice or avoiding Ashley in all this means he’s going to pass up the opportunity to leave if he’s so desperate. This strange bedfellows and amnesty of criticism because the PL are cunts doesn’t give him license for free passage.

It’s whether it’s because of income or the PR. As long as the stadium is at least half full they can spin the issue as bring made up by a vocal minority. The 10k dished out lets you know it’s not a case of not being bothered. I’m inclined to think it’s a case of the latter. Every club has had empty grounds over 18 months but if you are the only one after that for non Covid reasons it’s a different picture. It’s an academic exercise at this point as there’s no sufficient will or means of effective organisation but ultimately Ashley only speaks in the currency of cash and customers. Appealing to the right thing or deference to knowledge or heritage, which is what critics have tried and failed to do, is folly and the road to continued madness.

It’s been done in a very piecemeal fashion. Problem is there’s always a new group thinking they are the first to have an idea - not learn from what hasn’t worked and not recognise what has. Protest doesn’t work is too broad a stroke. Relying on paying ST holders to engage with it and relying on others to behave how you want definitely doesn’t

It never will. No product damaging protest will get air seriously. The folly of many a protest group so far is relying on someone else’s editorial or biases. Say what you like about the likes of Wraith et al, he does his on media and exposure and it works for him.