ToonArmy1892

I feel like if we score something will happen in my gut but then my head will tell me it's all pointless, i won't celebrate, any good result will just seem to justify Mike Ashley's running of our club, especially amongst our idiot element. Imagine if we win or even draw, it will be Rafa who, it apparently already is like.

I reckon Bruce reads the forum.

As the match is getting closer i don't want us to lose as much, i'm a c***. I guess i will watch it like a neutral watching any other game.

Too busy down the brewery.

"Great to see Norwich having a go" 3-0 down before 30 minutes.

Should the ref let play go on there?

Howay Norwich.

I don't think the boycott will be noticeable unfortunately, given the reaction on social media a lot of folk who were going to stay away have now decided to go.. It's so disheartening man. It just feels like not enough people are bothered.

Because he has successfully lowered expectations, once he's done that, there will hardly be any backlash as long as we are in the premier league.

How many season ticket holders do people think will boycott on Sunday?

"Go out and give you're best" that'll be his team talk to the lads.

Fans of other clubs looking forward to the season, then there's us

The state of Bruce man, what is wrong with his face? Looks like he's had a stroke or something.

Where?

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Why has it got to be so shit being an NUFC fan?

He's been signed for one thing and one thing only, to sell more tickets and looking at the seat plan for Sunday it has already worked. Not that Ashley is bothered about boycotts or owt

Look how quickly these cunts can do business when they want to

I must admit, this has made me feel something, not much, and not enough to make me interested, but i can see this tempting a lot of on the fence fans to go, it's obvious what Ashley is doing. Don't give in to it.

Assuming full (enough) stadiums keep Ashley here, it's everybody's loss, not just those selfish and short-sighted enough to 'stay loyal'. Sick to the back teeth of reading s*** like that Yorkie. I'm with you in principle, but people are entitled to do whatever they want to do. Doesn't make them selfish in the slightest. Just that they have a different opinion to you... it doesn't make them wrong. So f***ing holier that thou. I'd say the same thing of a lot of people on the other side of the fence. You're right though, it probably is pretty condescending but I've got virtually no respect for anyone going to the game. And the situation is so deplorable that I feel fairly unconcerned about coming across as a complete dickhead. There's two categories really, I should have said selfish and/or short-sighted: / If you're going to the game purely because you refuse to make a sacrifice cos its MY club and it's MY day out and it's MY right to watch the game and Mike Ashley isn't gonna stop ME watching MY club... I think you're selfish. / If you're going to the game because you genuinely don't believe that a cumulative season attendance of roughly zero would accelerate Ashley's departure... I think you're short-sighted. I personally can't fathom how something as dramatic as 19 Premier League matches in a row, with a sheer vista of grey seats every single time (save for the away fans at the top, which, if nothing else, would be pretty comical) wouldn't force some kind of change. If Ashley himself wouldn't intervene by f***ing off then at least it would alert the Premier League - and the world - to the wider issue of bad ownership. It would raise awareness of the fact that it is unethical to own a football club and then not treat it as a footballing enterprise, at the very least in addition to whatever other goals or reasons you might have for ownership. I realise that, by holding and publishing these views, I'm just perpetuating the supporter in-fighting which Ashley feeds off, but f*** it. Everything about the situation stinks and it all feels a bit hopeless so whatever. Dickhead unleashed. I appreciate all of that but you're living in cuckoo land if you think a boycott will ever truly take off. Sure, maybe 10,000 people won't show up to Arsenal... but 7,000 of them will return the following week. People who feel strongly about it and read every bit of news and dissect everything Ashley does... some of them will stay away. But the sheer truth of the whole thing is that 80-90% of the stadium leave the match on a Saturday and don't give much more thought about it until the next game. My wife is one of them, for example. She loves going to the games (even when we're doing s***) but couldn't care less about following all the ins and outs of it all outside of that. I would say the majority of the stadium are like that. I really do think the people behind AO, The Magpie Group, etc, fail to really understand that. The one and only time in the last 12 years when I've noticed Ashley lashing out in frustration was last August/September when his brands were getting attacked by 1000s of fans on social media, to the point where Sports Direct didn't tweet for weeks, and the PR machine will thrown into full force. That's where the focus should lie. It's hugely misguided and pie-in-the-sky to ever believe that a boycott will happen in significant enough numbers, and regularly enough, to make any significant difference. Idealistic, sure. Realistic, nope. Make owning NUFC an inconvenience for him and his shareholders... that's when he'll sell (IMO). I agree, it'll never happen. I'm not making any attempt to persuade; it's pretty pointless at this stage. I've got behind and been involved at a micro level with the protest efforts in the past (did a bit of shop-shouting), but I've no energy to at this point. We've got too many people who are either selfish, short-sighted or - and thanks for throwing another one into the mix - simply don't care enough, which is arguably just a mix of the first two. This, and the reason i don't think i'm coming up on Sunday for the protest, far too outnumbered by the selfish/don't care enough fans for it to be worthwhile. Ashley really has won, he will leave on his own accord, and i'll be back whenever that is.

Ashley’s puppet? Who’s that referring to? crikey

Ashley's puppet at it again i see. You deserve a Mike Ashley run club.

Dummy at the back, Geordie Jack and Longy in the middle, big Andy up front, Broocy in the dugout. Well played Mike.