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Out of curiosity, can those people who have already renewed their ST or may end up renewing over the next week or so still cancel and get refunded? I’ve seen a few people make comments that this is possible. It may be worth having whatever procedure it is made into a couple of lines/instructions that can be posted around online etc. If it is possible it’s worth pointing out as some people may not realise.

I watched a couple of minutes and turned it off. There’s something sickening about watching someone clearly arse licking like that. Fuck me what a total spineless cunt that man has become.

It was a joke, like.

what a knob

tuned in, turned it off after 5 minutes. Fuck that brass band shite.

Buoyant: not sunk yet but could still be eaten by sharks.

When this China link surfaced a week or so ago I laughed it off. I thought that was the last place he would go. Some people are driven by things other than money I said. Oh well, he’s gone and it’s not my concern now.

As my old gran used to say, a fool and their money are easily parted.

My feelings too. It’s total self-sabotage by the king of cunts.

This kind of post is everything that's wrong with this place at the moment. I will not renew my season ticket as a result of Ashley and the way the Rafa situation was handled but I will still have a huge interest in how Newcastle do. I'm still interested in who the manager will be and what signings (don't laugh) we will make and if I'm being totally honest I will still want us to do well, I cannot help it. I will stay away but to expect people to stop following a team they have followed for all/most of their life is ridiculous. if you are happy to stop following and have no interest in Newcastle then so be it but don't question other people for still following the team. Giving up going to the game is one thing but to give up following the team is another. Some people will stay away and want the whole thing to implode, relegation etc. Some people will stay away and still have an interest in the team. The important point is the staying away bit.

Why? Truth hurt? What I'm saying is correct and it will be the thing that keeps Ashley here and this vicious cirle going round and round. It's incredible Yes we get it you bollock brained bellend.

There's a scene in the Australian film Snowtown that would be worth re-enacting.

Mike Ashley could have had it all at Newcastle, but will go down as a mean loser Brian Reade 4-5 minutes The most insulting part of Mike Ashley’s latest kick to Newcastle fans’ teeth was the words used to justify it. “We have worked hard to extend Rafa Benitez’s contract over a significant period of time,” was his explanation for the Spaniard no longer being their manager. And if you believe that, you’ll believe Ashley was genuinely shocked to hear a Commons Select Committee tell him one of his Sports Direct warehouses was more like a “Victorian workhouse” or “a gulag” than a modern place of work. He was clearly happy to let the club’s most talented and best-loved manager since Bobby Robson walk away, because any boss wanting to keep a world-class employee doesn’t offer them the same wage on a one-year deal and refuse to back him with enough money to compete. And you don’t cut off all communication with him. It makes no business sense. But then, neither does treating your loyal customer base with a sadistic contempt. Benitez gave Newcastle's long-suffering fans hope but has been effectively forced out (Image: Getty) Yet in the 12 years since Ashley picked up Newcastle for £135million, on a whim, he has messed with their heads on such an illogical, unparalleled scale that a psychiatrist would surely conclude he gets off on it. He sacked well-loved managers Kevin Keegan, Alan Shearer and Chris Hughton, and imposed Joe Kinnear, Dennis Wise and John Carver on them. He renamed their hallowed ground after his sports-gear firm and sold their iconic shirts to Wonga. He wrote off all cup competitions, gave Alan Pardew an eight-year contract and has just priced the new replica home shirt at £65, making it the most expensive in English football. Ashley has treated the Newcastle fans so poorly you'd think he gets off on it (Image: PA Wire) And through all those bizarre decisions, he imposed a Stalinist black-out on all information about the goings-on at St James’ Park. It’s seemed deliberately vindictive. As Keegan revealed last year, he was hurt at being “treated like dirt” by Ashley and his henchmen, and was appalled at their “disregard for people”. Fans get that hurt in spades. But nothing appears to have hurt them as much as Benitez being effectively forced out, because he offered them genuine hope of a revival. He was the real deal. A talisman who could lure a rich owner with the prospect of building something special in a proper football city. The supporters have wanted shot of Ashley for years... (Image: PA Wire) ...instead, it's beloved manager Benitez who is leaving Newcastle (Image: Getty) Benitez can be a political animal, but the motives behind his grandstanding are nearly always to take his team to the next level. All he wanted under Ashley was the chance to buy quality players, enabling him to compete with those clubs trying to break into the top six. But buying quality and ceding control runs contrary to Ashley’s autocratic pile ‘em high, flog ‘em cheap business model — one he still believes can work in top-flight football despite 12 years of evidence to the contrary. Take the £50million budget he offered Benitez to re-build a squad, which has had a minus £11.2m net spend for the three years he’s been there. Newly-promoted Aston Villa have already agreed a £22m deal with Bruges for striker Wesley Moraes, who Newcastle had been scouting for months. Newcastle are a huge club who had a world-class manager but Ashley refused to show true ambition (Image: Getty) The real puzzle about Ashley is how a businessmen worth £2.5 billion failed to grasp the possibilities offered by owning a huge club with a world-class manager in an era when football success guarantees colossal financial reward. Potentially he has a Jaguar dealership on his hands but runs it like a spivvish second-hand car-salesman. If he’d possessed more courage and vision, with a bit of luck he could have had it all — a club worth four times what he paid for it, the love and gratitude of a city, and respect as a shrewd business operator rather that a rag trade hustler. Instead he’ll go down as a mean loser who refused to seek the silver lining lurking behind the Tyneside clouds.

Spot on. His involvement with the community was pivotal for me. In a world that seems to almost celebrate scum like Ashley as some hard-nosed businessman, when he is nothing more than a pathetically immature man baby that made his money ripping off everyone including his own mother, Rafa did not concede like so many weak minded nobodies had done previously. He fucked off Ashley's shilling, he stood his ground.

I picked a bad week to give up glue sniffing.

I thought Odin said he deleted part of that discussion? Could account for the dodgy photoshop look when he wasn’t actually trying to fake it? Seems a few people have been communicating with the ‘hat, would be odd to fake it when you don’t have to.

can we just drop this bollocks about BZG being complicit in an Ashley setup, he doesn't need external groups to knowingly play along with his games, he's quite able to control everything himself. BZG could be a genuine buyer but that matters not when it comes to Ashley, he can string them along for as long as he likes or until they fuck off. Same as with anyone showing an interest.

Well then everything has gone perfectly for you, enjoy polishing Ashley's hoop. The arrival of a world class manager? a situation no one thought possible under the current owner?

Is there an opinion that Ashley expected Rafa to stay and has arrogance has finally fucked himself here? Or am I clutching at straws again?

No. We were reminded what this club is capable of when someone with an ounce of decency gets to lead it. We should never forget that. Ashley is an pathological abuser. It would not surprise me if the club did now get sold to deflect attention from this, but to another of his cronies such as Kenyon, so Ashley is able to keep his fingers in the pie without having to show his face.

A soggy biscuit man if ever i saw one.

Love a Fig Roll me like.

I’d rather be dead than live in your world.

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