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Newcastle United Supporters Trust (NUST)   

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  1. 1. Have you / do you intend to pledge to the 1892 Pledge scheme orchestrated by the NUST?

    • Yes
      70
    • No
      107


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Just as an FYI - on occasions I have had some NUST emails arrive 24-48 hours after they said it was sent (e.g. NUST say on Twitter it's been sent, but I don't receive it in my inbox until 24-48 hours later).  I think the tool they're using to email their members may have some quirks which occasionally causes some delays in transmission.

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Good luck to the NUST getting any info out of Masters today. Hopefully we’ll get some answers rather than him just straight batting questions.

The meeting is tomorrow, isn't it?

 

I’m likely wrong but I thought I read Tuesday.

 

Edit* Yea, it’s Wednesday.

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Well done on NUST getting a meeting with Masters & Co. Pity so many fans at the time couldn’t see that they were trying to do playain’t the long game and build some sort of relationship with the EPL by not washing their dirty laundry in public.

 

Hope it goes well but if nothing else well done on spending their own personal free time on this unpaid. The way people go on at them you would think they are salaried :lol:

 

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TBF the trust were more about communication with the club before, or at least it seemed that way. That's why I thought it was pointless.

The recent work has been brilliant.

 

Think you are mixing up the NUST with the Fans Liaison Committee. In fact I think quite a few on here have :lol:

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Dunno like there new year release was pretty much exclusively about helping people buy tickets and ensuring they could go to games. Little different to the stuff the knackers who sat on the panel used to do.

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TBF the trust were more about communication with the club before, or at least it seemed that way. That's why I thought it was pointless.

The recent work has been brilliant.

 

Think you are mixing up the NUST with the Fans Liaison Committee. In fact I think quite a few on here have :lol:

 

I don’t think I have, after Rafa resigned this debate was had, and the trust raised all the reasons they should continue to engage with the club. They prioritised it over getting Ashley out.

 

As I said, doesn’t matter now.

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TBF the trust were more about communication with the club before, or at least it seemed that way. That's why I thought it was pointless.

The recent work has been brilliant.

 

Think you are mixing up the NUST with the Fans Liaison Committee. In fact I think quite a few on here have :lol:

 

I don’t think I have, after Rafa resigned this debate was had, and the trust raised all the reasons they should continue to engage with the club. They prioritised it over getting Ashley out.

 

As I said, doesn’t matter now.

 

This isn't really true and shows a significant lack of understanding of what the trust is.

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Genuine question as I don't really follow the trust's activities, what did they do to attempt to get ashley out?

 

Nowt

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Not enough, that's for sure, despite being established in response to Ashley's horrific running of the club. For the majority of its existence has been ineffectual, hence as an entirely new Board we've been re-building it from scratch over the last 18 months. I can only speak for the current board, a fair few who have done far more than most to try and get rid of Ashley under previous guises be that through Ashley Out, previous iterations of The Magpie Group (initially formed through NUST in 2018) etc.

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TBF the trust were more about communication with the club before, or at least it seemed that way. That's why I thought it was pointless.

The recent work has been brilliant.

 

Think you are mixing up the NUST with the Fans Liaison Committee. In fact I think quite a few on here have :lol:

 

I don’t think I have, after Rafa resigned this debate was had, and the trust raised all the reasons they should continue to engage with the club. They prioritised it over getting Ashley out.

 

As I said, doesn’t matter now.

 

This isn't really true and shows a significant lack of understanding of what the trust is.

 

I mean, all I have to go on is what was said and debated at the time. That’s my understanding of what the view was... that is was important to keep engaged with the club for non-Ashley out reasons like ticketing etc. And that it wasn’t the trust’s place to lead a protest movement.

 

Like i said though, no point debating it again now. If that’s the wrong take, fair enough.

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I’ve been a massive critic of the NUST in the past, however on the last year or so some of the board members have done quite a bit of work, Greg[/member] being a big part of that.

 

They get a lot of stick for not being an official rotor at group, however what people don’t realise is that they are an official supporters group which is recognised by the FA and Premier League.

As a result the club is duty bound to corporate with them (though the club being the club it is, it gets out of that as much as possible).

The moment the NUST starts becoming a protest group is the moment they will be dropped by the FA, Premier League, and club.

As soon as that happens the NUST will become nothing more than another supporters group which will be flooded by fans who have different opinions and people getting involved who suddenly see their name in Chronicle articles and let it takeover their ego.

 

For the NUST it’s best that they do what they are doing. It’s best that they keep open their lines of communication between all parties in order to get the supporters views and concerns addressed. To put it simply, if the NUST became a protest group, there is no way they would be in a call with the Premier League today. There is no way they would have been able to get legal representation in regards to protesting at the strawberry land development. There is no way they would be able talk to the club about various issues.

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I see the argument why they have to stay engaged. At the same time, it's lucky this takeover saga happened or they would be stuck talking to the wall engaging with a pointless club that doesn't care.

 

What's happening now is great though, and I respect everyone doing it. It does show what a real fan movement can get done.

 

At the end of the day everyone is in a very difficult position, having to think in ways that football fans just shouldn't have to. What your club is should conform to certain expectations, and therefore the way you engage with them should be fairly clear. But Mike Ashley.

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TBF the trust were more about communication with the club before, or at least it seemed that way. That's why I thought it was pointless.

The recent work has been brilliant.

 

Think you are mixing up the NUST with the Fans Liaison Committee. In fact I think quite a few on here have :lol:

 

I don’t think I have, after Rafa resigned this debate was had, and the trust raised all the reasons they should continue to engage with the club. They prioritised it over getting Ashley out.

 

As I said, doesn’t matter now.

 

This isn't really true and shows a significant lack of understanding of what the trust is.

 

I mean, all I have to go on is what was said and debated at the time. That’s my understanding of what the view was... that is was important to keep engaged with the club for non-Ashley out reasons like ticketing etc. And that it wasn’t the trust’s place to lead a protest movement.

 

Like i said though, no point debating it again now. If that’s the wrong take, fair enough.

 

This was also my understanding, and was the reason I hadn't joined the group. If that's the wrong view, fair enough.

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