UncleBingo

Just seen this on another forum.....”I used to love the Newcastle Adidas shirts, but I’ve always thought since we switched to Puma the quality has been shite. Learnt an interesting fact today. Newcastle are actually licensed to a company called genesis group. Puma do not supply or make the shirts, Genesis simply pays Puma to use the Puma trademark on a genesis product. I’ll give you one guess who owns part of genesis...... Just another example of how Ashley is asset stripping our club. So when it comes to transfers this is why we can’t compete with the likes of Bournemouth and have donks like Joselu up front” I FUCKING HATE THAT FAT PARASITE BASTARD. . Like I say, possibly utter bollocks but you never know.

I read an interesting thing on Facebook about the Puma shirt deal......possibly bollocks, anybody else read it?

Fair play to whoever did it, astonished it hasn't happened earlier to be honest. Would like to see some footage of his face pushed into a bowl of tikka masala, or a pint of Carling over his head next time please.

Ashley's got his number, His wallet's looking plumper, Jamaal Lascelles, Jamaal Lascelles

Hideous comments from someone I've always admired.......oh well, fuck him.

Best Halloween picture ever.....

Awful news, seemed like a really genuine bloke as well. RIP to all concerned.

Big time to be honest after winning 1 of his last 16 and his team not scoring in an awful lot of them games most managers would have been sacked by now. As much as hes working with massive restraints I cant help but think fat sam would get more from this squad than he is at the moment I feel dirty for thinking that though Mmmmm, not so sure about that mind......Big Sam's modus operandi is usually coming in and shoring up a leaky defence then pull a few rabbits out of the hat in the transfer window. His expensively assembled Everton side were notoriously shot shy as well, so I'm not sure where the goals would come from with him in charge either. Unless Rondon can get match fit and start to contribute in the next half a dozen games, we're going to be a lost cause by the time the January window opens, and I think Ashley will keep the money for our 19-20 Champo push. All so avoidable. All so Ashley.

Jesus, it's only been going a couple of months man......as the lads from Liverpool and Rangers said, you have to be in this for the long haul, don't expect to convince everybody, and most of all you have to be resilient....and they started with less numbers than we did. Ultimately, this is heading towards relegation and Rafa leaving.....speaking to all the people I know who attend games, I haven't heard one who is going back after that. We must keep the pressure on in the meantime, sacking it off after a couple of months is completely gutless in my opinion.

It clearly says 'our predicament on the pitch', ie they feel they went to help the team get 3 points. I don't agree personally but can see their point of view. It wasn't that difficult a concept to grasp really.

Fair enough. What is it if you’ll indulge me. Genuinely interested. It was for a full boycott of a game, and offer those who won't stay away altogether to go in 15 mins late. Hardly groundbreaking stuff i know but there you go Yeah. The 15 min thing is my personal preference as it’ll test the waters. Was listening to the chronicle podcast earlier and I get the impression people that PL status is somehow at risk by doing full boycott. I’d argue that’s moot as this point and hedging your bets but it’s out there. Was talking to some ST holders I know when I played football earlier. Most were of the opinion that they didn't want to boycott because of our current predicament on the pitch, but all said they'd be happy to go in late to the game. Think it's definitely the way forward for a first go at something in the ground. It's also what I voted for a the public meeting.

A modest transfer budget and a few assurances on the training ground/academy and he would have signed a new deal, no doubt about it. This whole thing is Ashley's play to get Benitez out of NUFC, he's way too popular, outspoken & ambitious for the fat cunts liking.

The average price of a PL player this summer was £14.2M. We have never spent that once for a single player under Ashley, not once. Rafa's PL signings work out at about £5.5M per player.

You say it's 50/50, but you've got 13 good and 7 poor, with the jury still out on 4. Looks like he's done much better than 50/50 to me.

Indeed. Quite staggering some of the 'thoughts' that go through some people's minds.

I'm afraid I do. While the Premier League TV money is coming into the club, Ashley is 100% guaranteed to stay. I do believe that he will only consider selling if it's no longer awash with money. I don't expect it to happen immediately. It will take a number of years in the championship for it to happen but it's more likely to happen there, than in than in the premier league. Disagree don't think we will ever be sold in the Championship as the premiership gravy train is what investors want and also a club that is not a yo-yo one either - they will go for other clubs before coming here especially as Ashley won't lower his price by much if we do go down. Think the big opportunity was lost in the Summer and I still maintain he should have walked. Everyone has different opinions though and that is part of the problem also just no unity amongst the fans which was not the case 30 year ago. Different breed of supporter now. Don't think it was any different 30 years ago mind. The 89-90 season, there was talk of boycotting all summer, about 2000 of us stayed away for the Leeds game (I watched a replay of the Burnley semi in the New Cannon, Low Fell), even less so for the Oldham game......a few wins and it really had all blown over. Same problem existed then, it was hard to stop people going. The crowds dropped over a period of time by a long way between the 70s and the 80s. I remember the Wrexham home game in 79 when there was a few thousand outside the ground and many more stayed away also. There was mass chants of sack the board at games during the 80s also. The crowds before keegan came back as manager were very poor. One thing the fans certainly made their point known unlike todays crowd. It wouldn't even be an issue if the fans going to the game were all giving Ashley stick but they don't - West Ham fans showed last season what happens when fans are united and trying to change things. Crowds were down in general in football, due to poor stadia and violence at matches, most people stopped going when we were dying on our arses in the 2nd division. There were plenty of sack the board chants admittedly, but it was still only relatively small numbers who protested round the back of the West Stand after matches.....and although it got lively back then, you're not going to see people carrying on like that due to CCTV etc. sadly. As for West Ham fans being united, all I saw was a few radgies running on the pitch who ended up with life time bans, I certainly don't think it was an organised thing.

I'm afraid I do. While the Premier League TV money is coming into the club, Ashley is 100% guaranteed to stay. I do believe that he will only consider selling if it's no longer awash with money. I don't expect it to happen immediately. It will take a number of years in the championship for it to happen but it's more likely to happen there, than in than in the premier league. Disagree don't think we will ever be sold in the Championship as the premiership gravy train is what investors want and also a club that is not a yo-yo one either - they will go for other clubs before coming here especially as Ashley won't lower his price by much if we do go down. Think the big opportunity was lost in the Summer and I still maintain he should have walked. Everyone has different opinions though and that is part of the problem also just no unity amongst the fans which was not the case 30 year ago. Different breed of supporter now. Don't think it was any different 30 years ago mind. The 89-90 season, there was talk of boycotting all summer, about 2000 of us stayed away for the Leeds game (I watched a replay of the Burnley semi in the New Cannon, Low Fell), even less so for the Oldham game......a few wins and it really had all blown over. Same problem existed then, it was hard to stop people going.

Yeah, it's not like one of those managers had a squad full of internationals who were good enough to use us as a stepping stone to Champions League football at the bottom of the league and the other has a squad that was assembled to win the Championship, or anything. The way some people have suddenly decided that, actually, yes Lewis Hamilton is driving against Formula One cars in a Renault Clio, but he's not blameless because he should be doing better and the tactics and pit stops are all wrong, is frankly embarrassing. I'm embarrassed that we have people like that in our fanbase. This is where we are at sadly. Utterly dumb cunts who turn up every other week, can't be arsed to raise their voice or protest in any shape or form against the owner, and have now started to turn on the manager without even taking into account the environment that he is working in.....repeatedly lied to & undermined by the owner, no money spent, cheap players & loans, appalling training facilities, etc. etc.

Not mine unfortunately. Thought it a good read though. The ramblings of a madman with an axe to grind. He's absolutely full of shit, and bitter that he's a compete irrelevance among the NUFC fanbase nowadays.

A question the old windbag has repeatedly failed to answer for the past 2 years.

Nailed it. Exactly the feelings I had when I cancelled my season ticket in August.

Love it how some of the biggest critics of 'our fans' are generally people who've done the square root of f*** all themselves. Twitter is awash with them as well.

I'm happy that he's turning up to see how shit we are, and he's watching his 'asset' depreciate in value right in front of his eyes. Again, another relegation might finally get some of our fanbase to wake the fuck up.

For everything he has tried to do for this club, he deserves so so much better. My hope now is that Ashley sacks him, he gets his pay out and gets as far away from this clusterfuck as possible. Then, and maybe then, some of the pisspot zombies in the crowd might finally wake up and do something about their club. I'm not holding my breath mind.