Dave Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 About time the press speak up. It's an excellent piece. Funny how nobody was willing to put their name to it though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/reporters-sans-frontic3a8res-reporters-without-borders-press-freedom-map.jpg Can someone edit this to highlight Newcastle in red. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 The new strip launch is the most successful in three years? We've got some of the thickest fans in football. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 The new strip launch is the most successful in three years? We've got some of the thickest fans in football. Absolute morons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthiGeordie Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Ashley admire Wneger and publicly stated he wants to copy what he does. No surprise Arsenal and Newcastle are spend 0 this summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 The new strip launch is the most successful in three years? We've got some of the thickest fans in football. They bought them with Wonga loans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 It concerns me when the press are starting to be as outspoken as this because it makes me think that things are even worse than we are aware of because they will undoubtedly know more of what is going on behind the scenes than we do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Its a great article, but nothing we don't already know. Unfortunately, the only thing which will bother Ashley is a major and sustained boycott of the club and its merchandise. As many fans have nothing else in their lives, this is sadly not going to happen, but there is NO way I would support this regime. As Wullie says, we must have some of the thickest fans in the game to keep buying shirts after the treatment they receive from the owner and his acolytes - you can almost hear Ashley sniggering all the way down the M1. I bet the Journal will get a testy phone call from Sports Direct, asking who wrote it - it was right on the mark and we can only hope that a buyer for the club arrives sooner rather than later because more windows like this will happen if not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Got to say its a bit harsh to hammer fans for buying kits and going to the game. We might get all superior on here about how the club is being run and all that, but I find it hard to criticise people who want to show their support and wear their colours. At the end of the day, we're all fans and that's what fans do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Was hoping to pick up the virgin top for a tenner, seems £25 is the price, obviously still popular due to wonga, however I'm surprised at this being the Bassett selling in x amount of years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Phil K Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 The new strip launch is the most successful in three years? We've got some of the thickest fans in football. They bought them with Wonga loans. At least you never see full kit Newcastle fans. As for most successful ? Ive seen very few. Normally see loads Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Was hoping to pick up the virgin top for a tenner, seems £25 is the price, obviously still popular due to wonga, however I'm surprised at this being the Bassett selling in x amount of years. Long sleeve virgin top (home) £14.99 if you want to know the info. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 The new strip launch is the most successful in three years? We've got some of the thickest fans in football. They bought them with Wonga loans. At least you never see full kit Newcastle fans. As for most successful ? Ive seen very few. Normally see loads Not seen many full kit wankers tbf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 And the greeny/yellowish from last season £11.99. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maze Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Got to say its a bit harsh to hammer fans for buying kits and going to the game. We might get all superior on here about how the club is being run and all that, but I find it hard to criticise people who want to show their support and wear their colours. At the end of the day, we're all fans and that's what fans do. I hear you. On the other hand, as mentioned in a few threads, the most important thing for Mike Ashley is Sports Direct and seiling kits. Local fans, and 'stereotypical' Toon fans, are actually important and free advertising 'vehicles' for marketing SD. If most people stopped buying the kits, stopped wearing the kits, that might have an indirect negative effect on Ashley's goals. I don't buy into the 'show support and love for the club' because the club is more like an ill-runned investment, and Ashley is showing you all that he does not care the slightest about anything else than money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maze Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 Got to say its a bit harsh to hammer fans for buying kits and going to the game. We might get all superior on here about how the club is being run and all that, but I find it hard to criticise people who want to show their support and wear their colours. At the end of the day, we're all fans and that's what fans do. I hear you. On the other hand, as mentioned in a few threads, the most important thing for Mike Ashley is Sports Direct and seiling kits. Local fans, and 'stereotypical' Toon fans, are actually important and free advertising 'vehicles' for marketing SD. If most people stopped buying the kits, stopped wearing the kits, that might have an indirect negative effect on Ashley's goals. I don't buy into the 'show support and love for the club' because the club is more like an ill-runned investment, and Ashley is showing you all that he does not care the slightest about anything else than money. Agree to an extent, but it's symptomatic of the problem I suppose, FWIW I'm not hammering people for going to the game. But I feel like buying that abomination of a shirt is not conducive to showing Ashley anything in regards to the negative feeling towards him. Each to their own of course Yeah. I guess what I'm trying to say is: the fans need to find an effective way to riot in order to force him out.If that includes boycotting and not buying/wearing kits - I don't know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosenrot Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 We should lobby parliament for a 51% law like Germany. It isn't fair to expect people to boycott the matches. Football clubs are cultural institutions rather than a traditional business and therefore should not be treated like one in my opinion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyn davies Posted August 31, 2013 Share Posted August 31, 2013 got some sort of deal with Rangers shirts as well I believe i Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexthegreat Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 I remember being told that the reason he bought the club was because on the face of it, it looked good value, so he was going to hang on to it for literally no more than a year or two then flog it on at a profit. There were rumours of him looking to sell almost as soon as he took over, which most fans, me included, dismissed as bollocks. Louise Talyor reported this in the Guardian in Feb 2008 (6 months before the wheels came off): The sky above a frosty Tyneside was brilliant blue yesterday but the air felt thick with déjà vu. Sources had confirmed that Mike Ashley, Newcastle United's owner, recently made an indirect approach to Dubai Investment Capital, inquiring if it might be interested in buying the club for £300m and renewed turmoil at St James' Park seemed right back on the agenda. That offer was swiftly declined by DIC, whose sole footballing interest centres on attempts to buy Liverpool, but there have been repeated rumours that Ashley, a sports-retail billionaire, was poised to offload Newcastle almost from the day, early last summer, when he bought out the Hall family. Even if previous talk about assorted purchasers from Iceland, China and Singapore proved ill founded, the proposal to DIC was concrete. As parallel rumours about an unnamed consortium of north-east businessmen with Alan Shearer as its figurehead apparently being keen on taking over at St James' also gathered momentum - "a load of old cobblers planted to try to make DIC interested," said another source - Chris Mort, Newcastle's chairman, remained silent. I was later told that the unnamed consortium was Barry Moat, and although he only got mentioned in the papers in July - August 2009. Ashley all but confirmed this with one of his rare quotes at the time: "Barry Moat has been driving me mad for two years," Ashley said. "If he wants to buy the club, he's got a one-off opportunity to come up with the cash - £80m upfront." 2 years ago in summer 2009 takes us back to summer 2007 - which is practically the day he bought us. I'm pretty certain he was looking for a quick profit but grossly miscalculated. As a consequence he has been stuck with us for 6 years. I suppose we could make up for his disappointment a bit with some quality football, but that was in short supply last season. I saw 2 seperate people at the match yesterday who said they had heard that he had lost interest, was looking to sell, and we weren't signing anyone. I've no idea if that's true or not but he wasnt at either of the first 2 home matches. Basically he must be absolutely sick of NUFC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny Green Balls Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Poor Ashley. I weep for him. If it's a toy that he got sick of, well it happens to be a toy that thousands of people have invested time in. The fucker is the worst type of rich cunt: a pleb who desperately wants to be an aristocrat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skirge Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Was he at the game yesterday? bet the fat cunt isn't even in the country let alone the City/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 Poor Ashley. I weep for him. If it's a toy that he got sick of, well it happens to be a toy that thousands of people have invested time in. The fucker is the worst type of rich cunt: a pleb who desperately wants to be an aristocrat. What's that based on? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny Green Balls Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 undiscovered evidence. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexthegreat Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 I don't care what he said to Hall to persuade him to sell quickly when others were sniffing around, it's pretty obvious he just bought the club to quickly flip for a profit. TV revenues were going up £10m that year and buyers were snapping up clubs left right and centre. He thought that by superficially tarting up the club a bit by claiming to have sorted out its finances, putting in place a great new continental DoF structure and a talismanic manager, enthusing the supporters, he'd be able to sell it off for a decent profit no bother. The person he put in charge of the club was a lawyer who specialises in buying and selling large companies ffs. Llambias even admitted he was trying to sell the club before any trouble, within months of buying it. He also made a shocking claim in a meeting with fans last month that Keegan’s second coming as Newcastle manager in 2008 came about because he was the preferred choice of potential Arab buyers. He revealed: “Mike (Ashley) was selling to the Arabs and they wanted Kevin Keegan. “The Arabs wanted him, the fans wanted him — perfect!” Unfortunately for him and us the financial crash put paid to that plan though, so he has had to settle for plan B since then which is to run the club like his other brand acquisitions, ie for the sole benefit of his baby Sports Direct. Having moved onto plan B though, if he can continue to run the club at a break even level or even at a profit while getting free advertising and revenue for selling club branded merchandise through Sports Direct (how much of that does the club see I wonder?), why should he sell? Just read this. Exactly right on why he bought us imo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyn davies Posted September 1, 2013 Share Posted September 1, 2013 He'll recover his wedge through by the nomal buy low & sell high, so don't expect any fancy dans coming to the club only french type players whom he can sell on at a humongous profit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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