HaydnNUFC

I know a few lads my age who understand what the craic is and have stopped going/putting any cash into the club while Ashley owns it, but also a few who don't really seem to care what's happening at the club and at this point I just let them get on with it. Personally find no point in getting into arguments because it descends into puerile nonsense which is all too common across social media platforms atm. I also don't think I can ever get myself to the point of wanting us to lose games. I totally understand why people would but I could never do so personally. I don’t really judge fans either way TBH, we’re all in the shit and it’s all contrary to what being a supporter is supposed to mean. I gave it up out of self preservation more than anything else, it’s just too depressing and futile to be involved in. Aye, agreed.

I know a few lads my age who understand what the craic is and have stopped going/putting any cash into the club while Ashley owns it, but also a few who don't really seem to care what's happening at the club and at this point I just let them get on with it. Personally find no point in getting into arguments because it descends into puerile nonsense which is all too common across social media platforms atm. I also don't think I can ever get myself to the point of wanting us to lose games. I totally understand why people would but I could never do so personally.

Personally stopped posting in this section a couple of months ago and barely been logged in since Rafa left for a variety of reasons, partly due to trying to find ways to disconnect with the club (which is nigh on impossible with being involved so closely over the majority of my existence) and for other reasons only a couple posters know about. Matchdays still have me checking for updates on Twitter, watching it live whenever I can but away from that I’ve barely checked anything related to the club, completely apathetic about it all which is depressing; Rafa’s quote about what 18 year old supporters think about the club now is striking. Especially to me for the obvious reason that I am 18. I’ve had fuck all to be really excited about bar the last 3 and a half years which even still weren’t without their Ashleyisms, imposing misery. But we felt like something resembling a football club with Rafa Benitez in charge and that's been taken away and shat on. I can barely be arsed to get involved with protests against this fat cunt. I admire the people involved and will support them all the way as much as I can but can’t help but feel they’re fighting a losing fight, I think gates this season will mirror those of the first half of 2010/11: 41,000-47,000, which isn’t enough of a statement. Boycotts en masse have seemingly never had the appetite from NUFC supporters, stretching as far back as the period between 1988-1992, the United Supporters for Change group backed a boycott against Leeds in August ‘89 but the majority still went. Attendances dropped when results were bad and we were stuck in Div. 2 and floating in midtable and eventually flirting with relegation: 10,004 against Oxford et al. (anyone around during that period correct me if I’m wrong, may well be talking shite) Ashley could’ve easily avoided all of this: keep Rafa by giving him the pay rise, backing and investment he deserved which wasn’t much in the grand scheme of the PL and would’ve been able to reap the rewards: skim the cream off the top, and advertise his cuntbag company for free, all with minimal input due to the money the club makes from a PL presence. Instead, he’s cut off his nose to spite his face and tried so hard to earn a dishonest penny this transfer window it’ll cost the club a pound. The decisions he’s made have put us on the route to relegation. Deservedly. And I feel like I couldn’t care less.

Think it's fucking shit, mate.

Didn't happen.

Group photo

Just seen it. Jesus Christ. He used to post here?

That one on the left, holy fuck. That's lush.

Not as bad as the leaked photos, but I still think it's crap. Needs more stripes, sponsor looks horrendous and I hate the crest being in the centre. The back is canny though.

Might be a wind up but someone on Twitter has apparently found Keith Bishop's WhatsApp

That'll have come from either Rafa to put pressure on the cunts or top lad Bishy Bish to try and make out Rafa as a big greedy foreigner who left because of money. Can't see it being a true story, it would completely go against what the man is after.

I actually despise him, the Tory nonce. Got as much knowledge about the takeover as he does hairs on his head.

The silence. if local journalists weren't doing their utmost to say it's not happening just to be able to get some clicks we'd all be feeling a lot better about things atm Spot on. I'm still not confident at all, mainly because our club has been found guilty in court of intentionally and repeatedly misleading the press, public and fans of Newcastle United. Do any of you not think keeping silent might suit the club in helping to mislead fans?

Expand as much as possible and modernise SJP.

Stopped reading after the first couple of paragraphs. Absolutely shite writing, catering for the thickos. The Mag is fucking awful, the comments section on articles on that site is one of the worst things on the internet.

Our average (1 year standard) season ticket price is the 6th highest in the league. Only Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, Man Utd and Liverpool are more expensive. Another Ashley myth is that he's made football more affordable as well. If we were looking to break into the top 6 and use that money to attract those players you’d accept it. Maybe, but even then £600+ for a season ticket is not representative of working class people in the North East of England. I thought last season's increase was a bit much tbh, but I was paying for a junior's then.

£811! fucking hell. Takeover or no takeover I wouldn’t be getting a ticket at those prices. Comes with being an adult now. Even if I renewed as a student with student ID it's still £667.

Any sane person would wait until this mess has been sorted out until renewing or not. I'm not renewing but if I wanted to my ticket would be £811. Absolutely extortionate. Fuck off.

Increasing them again? The prices of 1 year seasons tickets aren't reflective of the majority of the support which are working class people in the North East. They can get to fuck with that. Wasn't renewing anyway because of uni, like. But still.

This bloody conspiracy, man. Ashley could do just the bold without any story of a takeover.

Broadnonce.

'Rafa could leave.' Aye, we know. That's just putting pro-Ashley spin onto it and should be treated as such.

Would people take a takeover but with Sports Direct still involved with the club, ie advertising in the stadium and merchandise still tied up in shit?

Swear I defended that building on Sinai Desert in Battlefield 1.