UncleBingo

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.

Where would he get the money?

Just thought I'd put this in here, for those not on Twitter, there has also been correspondence from some of their major shareholders too. Don't let anyone tell you the protests are not working! https://twitter.com/read_avidly/status/1053276605689290752?s=19

The Easdale Brothers, Llambias & Carr according to this. https://stv.tv/sport/football/1431943-mike-ashley-associates-very-interested-in-morton-takeover/ The Rangers fella told me an interesting story about Llambias at the Irish Club the other night. Put it this way, I'm surprised he's yet to g involved north of the border again.

Nail on head. Been to one England game at SJP, and the percentage of complete and utter bellends there compared to a normal game was off the map. They're not all like that of course, but until they lose the chair throwing no surrender wankers who make me ashamed to be English every time we play abroad, I wouldn't go to another game. A real shame really.

Eddie and the guys doing a great job in difficult circumstances.

Anyone remember Paul Warhurst?

As major shareholders of the company, @odeyview @phoenixassets @Schroders @SchrodersPR @NorgesBank @Fidelity_UK may be interested to hear your views on @SportsDirectUK . Just saying. #AshleyOut #NotBlowingOver #NUFC Do your work people.

This needs to be shared for ridicule please Bingo Abso-fucking-lutely......it's going all over Twatter.

Was talking to a family friend who works at HoF this morning.....apparently when you go in the staff entrance, there's already a couple of huge pictures of him with some corporate team building nonsense on the walls. I've asked for some pictures as I need to see this.

Definitely.

Anybody at the Irish Club tonight?

Like Charnley, he's just another lackey who has been promoted well above his station, and like the thumb, he's clearly way out of his depth.

Aye, but do they have difficult fans?

Ashley's jeans!

I don't think it's anything other than a Bishop PR excercise to try and get a bit of good publicity for Ashley....the meal, the sudden reapperance at games......he can't be accused of being the absent owner anymore. It proves beyond any doubt that the protests and the negative publicity against him is definitely working, time to take it up to the next level

That prick Lee Marshall is blocking people on twitter for politely asking questions about the minutes.