Sean

He can go all the way to the top with his ability and more importantly his attitude. Only 21 as well ffs.

I'd be happy if we'd been honest with the manager about the budget/type of players he could sign instead of lying to him and making him waste a huge amount of time on deals we had no intention of doing tbh. So the answer would be no.

So worried having to rely on him all season. This club.

He's a quality young player who's only going to get better with experience and age. Was clear to see from the moment he set foot on the pitch for us.

He'll do the same to anyone else who shows interest in buying us IMO. We're literally stuck with him so we might as well make it as uncomfortable and unprofitable as we can. Anything anyone does makes a small difference, from not buying the new kit, not paying for Sky Sports, not buying food/drink in the ground, not using the bars in the ground, not going full stop, covering Sports Direct adverts in the ground over (or rip them up even), bringing your own banners to highlight things, boycotting Sports Direct and any of his other companies, telling friends/family to do the same, and any other measure that in itself is tiny in the grand scheme of things. As someone else has said organise groups to disrupt trade in his stores, send junkmail in massive amounts to his home / company address. Hell block his fucking driveway with a lorry or something? I know some of these are stupid ideas but between us as a fanbase we should be able to come up with something. What did Rangers fans plan/do? AshleyOut could do a lot worse than try to get support from North East journalists / ex-players etc. Might help get the message out there to a wider audience. Probably not making much sense but we need to go at ashley in absolutely every way we possibly can. Make it fucking hell for him. I think the ways and means have to be different while Rafas still here but that doesn't mean nothing should be done now at all. He's had it and still got it far too easy here.

Thanks for the heads up! Easiest money ever made just had to wait till this morning for the payout.

Rafa is a world class manager whom we all want to keep, apart from you. For someone who goes to alot of games, you seem to know fuck all about football. World class? Makes you wonder why he's letting that cunt walk all over him. I admit I'm not a rabbit in the headlights when I think of Rafa managing NUFC. I think a chimp could have got that team promoted last season. Funnily enough, I don't think many managers would have got us promoted last year but there you go. So if Rafa walks you call him a bottler or whatever, he stays and he's a coward. IMO, he's doing exactly the right thing. Not being afraid to call out the owner on his bullshit but also not abandoning the club and its fans. Thankfully, there aren't too many Newcastle fans with your views and I don't see them increasing. His views are ridiculous.

WUM.

The fight to get our club back. Yep, got a felling it'll be a very long and hard fight unfortunately, but we will get our club back someday.

Well whatever his reason initially was, we can pretty much all agree that he doesn't currently have any sporting ambitions beyond staying up. So as fans there really is no point, except Rafa. Once he goes, whats left?

Despite Sir John Hall explicitly stating so? God knows why he turned up in a toon top, probably to get gullible fans onside. As soon as that went sour though he's been on a mission to destroy any enjoyment or hope for us as a fanbase, the mans vindictive as fuck and has it in for us big time. Also it is a success as far as Ashleys concerned, how can you not see that? It is all about advertising Sports Direct, he doesn't give a fuck about sporting success (apart from ensuring we don't get to enjoy any of it, hence this Barnes bloke being brought in to actively work against our manager).

Exactly. As if he didn't actually know about the debt when he bought us. It's all smoke and mirrors. I bet this £30 million doesn't come off the debt owed to him, not even a penny of it.

You can comfort yourself a bit by taking this as a desperation for selling the club and take back his investment. It would be foolish to assume he intentions to sell the club given his repeated PR exercises pretending he wants to sell. Even if he states its for sale we shouldn't trust a word that come out of his mouth.

And that was his fault again. If he built a team that was focused on pushing for 7th and 8th every season, he would be set for guaranteed income of TV money every year without the threat of relegation and losing massive revenue streams. Its such a stupid thought process. I'm starting to come round to the idea that this is deliberate vandalism of the club. Its clearly deliberate. He fucking hates us.

He should be putting £33 million in for advertising not taking it out.

Hadn't heard that. Wheres this from?

Somehow we need the level of opposition he faced at Rangers here. It's doubtful that we can ever achieve that though.

We've been relegated twice and seen our brand diminished to small club level. He's been doing it for the past decade, we just didn't click on until it was too late, Rangers managed to get the blocks in before he got his claws sunk in. Yep. It can and will still get a lot worse though unfortunately I feel.

Yep, but we know what he's about now unfortunately. Something about this Barnes cunt here: Mr Barnes, has been acting on a wide number of legal matters on behalf of Sports Direct for a number of years. He was one of the key people responsible for fashion shop group USC when it was put into pre-pack administration and subsequently bought back by Sports Direct debt-free. HeraldScotland: Philip Duffy of Duff and Phelps claimed at the Scottish Affairs Select Committee last year that Mr Barnes, who he said looked after all the brands in the Sports Direct group, was one of two members of a senior management team that ignored advice from the administrators Duff and Phelps to inform staff at a Scottish warehouse that they could lose their jobs. MPs on the Scottish Affairs Select Committee were told by Philip Duffy of Duff and Phelps last year that he had held meeting with Mr Barnes and another executive Benjamin Gardener, at which he recommended that staff should be informed sooner rather than later. USC's lack of consultation led to Dave Forsey, the Sports Direct chief executive facing criminal charges over the termination procedures, and he was accused of failing to inform the Business Secretary in advance. HeraldScotland: Mr Duffy (above) told the select committee: “We arranged a meeting with the company on the morning of the 9th [of January 2015]. On the morning of the 9th, we offered to give them [Mr Gardener and Mr Barnes] draft letters of consultation, saying, ‘You should be giving these to your employees.’ “We said, ‘We can prepare draft letters.’ We weren’t advising them. We said, ‘We think that you should do a consultation. Here are some standard letters that we would use in insolvency situations.’” Four days later 79 permanent staff and 166 agency or zero-hour contract workers their posts at Dundonald, South Ayrshire were given only 15 minutes’ notice, despite USC executives allegedly receiving draft letters in advance. In April, a bid to dismiss a criminal charge against Sports Direct's chief executive following the collapse of fashion retailer USC was rejected. He is accused of breaching section 194 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 along with Robert Palmer, an administrator of USC. Both pleaded not guilty. Sounds like he should be in prison tbh. There must be some dirt on these charlatans that'll catch up with them.

I think looking into what went on at Rangers might give us a better idea of what is likely going on in regards to our club. Something relevant from a Telegraph Article in 2014: On the day before the Somers email, it was revealed that Nash and Wallace had been targeted because they had opposed a deal which would have given Ashley the rights to Rangers’ club crest and trademark in return for emergency funding, a proposition which the pair did not believe represented sound commercial value for the club. Ashley, meanwhile, had helped bring about another financial crisis at Ibrox, first by refusing to take part in Rangers’ equity issue in August and then by increasing his holding through a private share purchase which meant that his money would not go into the club. As The Daily Telegraph revealed on Monday, Ashley also gave up the naming rights to Ibrox stadium – notoriously acquired for £1 from the Charles Green consortium which brought Rangers out of liquidation in 2012 – but in exchange for significant commercial and advertising rights within the ground. Another deal with Green channelled Rangers’ merchandising through Sports Direct outlets and gave Ashley even more influence over the club’s financial health. I dread to think of what he'd done or going to do to us in the future. Fucking parasite.

Ashley is. Rafa wanted players ffs. For other position yes. I ain't that sure for LB. Rafa seems to rate Dummett highly. Yes he's happy for Dummett to play. Doesn't mean he didn't want competition for his place (you know, like he's been saying all summer). Or are you trying to imply that Rafa's thinking is in line with the clubs?

Ashley is. Rafa wanted players ffs.

He's mates with Rafa I believe. He's been saying how frustrated Rafa is for a while (and getting shot down by some of our fans accusing him of making shit up).

Very well said.