Conjo Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 I completely understand why we thought he would do good for the club initially. Mega rich, invested money in new players, promise of putting 20m into the club each season. What's not to like about that? I honestly thought we would go places, even win things - provided that we got rid of Allardyce. That's a long time ago though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Just read that article for the first time, and it was good. If he want's to know the point in supporting Newcastle United though, he has to look no further than SBR's quote. "What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ankles Bennett Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 What i cant understand about Ashley's apparent desire to piss off nufc fans because some random nufc twat(and he is a twat) threatened his daughter, is why doesnt he sell nufc, buy the mackems and pump billions into the club. Surely that would give hie ultimate satisfaction for threatening his family? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 What i cant understand about Ashley's apparent desire to p*ss off nufc fans because some random nufc t***(and he is a t***) threatened his daughter, is why doesnt he sell nufc, buy the mackems and pump billions into the club. Surely that would give hie ultimate satisfaction for threatening his family? More satisfaction delighting in making our team mediocre and having the fans lap it up. At a vastly cheaper way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Sports Dibastardrect all on the canvas at the boxing! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thenorthumbrian Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Just read that article for the first time, and it was good. If he want's to know the point in supporting Newcastle United though, he has to look no further than SBR's quote. "What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love." "It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging" For many people this is what Ashley and Pardew, not to mention other United employees in recent years, has driven out of the club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zcf9wZaVUpE/ToXjjqrzKzI/AAAAAAAAA54/zSrSgqlw9aI/s1600/partridge-shrug_o_GIFSoup.com.gif Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Just read that article for the first time, and it was good. If he want's to know the point in supporting Newcastle United though, he has to look no further than SBR's quote. "What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love." "It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging" For many people this is what Ashley and Pardew, not to mention other United employees in recent years, has driven out of the club. They can only drive it out if we let them though... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosenrot Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Just read that article for the first time, and it was good. If he want's to know the point in supporting Newcastle United though, he has to look no further than SBR's quote. "What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love." "It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging" For many people this is what Ashley and Pardew, not to mention other United employees in recent years, has driven out of the club. They can only drive it out if we let them though... We have already let them. It seems that in my lifetime NUFC is a shell of its former self although I may be looking through rose-tinted glasses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Just read that article for the first time, and it was good. If he want's to know the point in supporting Newcastle United though, he has to look no further than SBR's quote. "What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love." "It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging" For many people this is what Ashley and Pardew, not to mention other United employees in recent years, has driven out of the club. They can only drive it out if we let them though... We have already let them. It seems that in my lifetime NUFC is a shell of its former self although I may be looking through rose-tinted glasses. I agree, but that's something only we can change. Even if all the tossers at NUFC f***ed off and we got some billionaire arab pouring money in it would still take us to make the noise and the passion come back. They can never, ever take your sense of belonging. Modern football is w*** but the fans can change that if they stick together, whether it be at each individual club or collectively in terms of ticket pricing and/or safe standing, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosenrot Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Just read that article for the first time, and it was good. If he want's to know the point in supporting Newcastle United though, he has to look no further than SBR's quote. "What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love." "It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging" For many people this is what Ashley and Pardew, not to mention other United employees in recent years, has driven out of the club. They can only drive it out if we let them though... We have already let them. It seems that in my lifetime NUFC is a shell of its former self although I may be looking through rose-tinted glasses. I agree, but that's something only we can change. Even if all the tossers at NUFC f***ed off and we got some billionaire arab pouring money in it would still take us to make the noise and the passion come back. They can never, ever take your sense of belonging. Modern football is w*** but the fans can change that if they stick together, whether it be at each individual club or collectively in terms of ticket pricing and/or safe standing, etc. Our fans are incapable of any sort of agreement on anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Just read that article for the first time, and it was good. If he want's to know the point in supporting Newcastle United though, he has to look no further than SBR's quote. "What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love." "It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging" For many people this is what Ashley and Pardew, not to mention other United employees in recent years, has driven out of the club. They can only drive it out if we let them though... We have already let them. It seems that in my lifetime NUFC is a shell of its former self although I may be looking through rose-tinted glasses. I agree, but that's something only we can change. Even if all the tossers at NUFC f***ed off and we got some billionaire arab pouring money in it would still take us to make the noise and the passion come back. They can never, ever take your sense of belonging. Modern football is w*** but the fans can change that if they stick together, whether it be at each individual club or collectively in terms of ticket pricing and/or safe standing, etc. Our fans are incapable of any sort of agreement on anything. To a degree, aye. I agree. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Just read that article for the first time, and it was good. If he want's to know the point in supporting Newcastle United though, he has to look no further than SBR's quote. "What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It’s not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love." "It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging" For many people this is what Ashley and Pardew, not to mention other United employees in recent years, has driven out of the club. They can only drive it out if we let them though... We have already let them. It seems that in my lifetime NUFC is a shell of its former self although I may be looking through rose-tinted glasses. I agree, but that's something only we can change. Even if all the tossers at NUFC f***ed off and we got some billionaire arab pouring money in it would still take us to make the noise and the passion come back. They can never, ever take your sense of belonging. Modern football is w*** but the fans can change that if they stick together, whether it be at each individual club or collectively in terms of ticket pricing and/or safe standing, etc. Our fans are incapable of any sort of agreement on anything. To a degree, aye. I agree. http://www.theboredninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/aliens_guy.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 ? I Get one of those gay image error things... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 ? I Get one of those gay image error things... http://dynamic.pixton.com/comic/y/u/k/5/yuk51q9pn1fbp1sp.png Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2648989/Premier-League-TV-bonanza-sees-players-wages-rise-2bn-2-5m-season-man-gap-flight-Championship-widens.html Of the £2.5 billion net debt in the Premier League, almost two thirds (£1.6 billion) is in the form of non-interest bearing ‘soft loans’ of which over 90 per cent related to four clubs - Chelsea (£984m), Newcastle United (£266m), Queens Park Rangers (£166m) and Aston Villa (£72m). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 I think that figure is from Deloitte's 2013 football research report amazingly. Looks like they have included the acquisition cost, which I don't think our accounts mark as debt against the club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 I think that figure is from Deloitte's 2013 football research report amazingly. Looks like they have included the acquisition cost, which I don't think our accounts mark as debt against the club. For some reason, they always talk about Ashley investing £250m+ in the club in a way that implies that is how much we owe him but as you say that includes the purchase price. I just don't get that as when you buy something you don't say that you are owed for that item. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 I think that figure is from Deloitte's 2013 football research report amazingly. Looks like they have included the acquisition cost, which I don't think our accounts mark as debt against the club. Yep - it's annoying that half of that debt has came about during his tenure mostly down to getting relegated through his lunacy! Fat wanker! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Judging by the standard of signings we are looking to make and the manager we have in place, Ashley really has lost all interest in the football side of the club, I doubt he will even attend any games outside of London next season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted June 7, 2014 Share Posted June 7, 2014 Judging by the standard of signings we are looking to make and the manager we have in place, Ashley really has lost all interest in the football side of the club, I doubt he will even attend any games outside of London next season He doesn't attend games when they are in London as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cort Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/latest/hearts-sever-ties-with-payday-loan-firm-wonga-1-3443712 HEARTS have severed all ties with sponsor Wonga in a bid to distance itself from the controversial payday loans company. The club’s corporate team is understood to be hunting new sponsors for next year - two months after unveiling a new home kit featuring a blank maroon strip in tribute to members of the 1914 Hearts team who lost their lives in the First World War 100 years ago. Wonga said it had agreed to break the partnership with Hearts following talks with the club - despite having years left to run on its contract. It is understood that the perimeter boards advertising Wonga’s name will be removed from Tynecastle ahead of the first game of the season, while the new away kit, which was unveiled earlier this week, was also revealed to be sponsor-free - sporting a Foundation of Hearts crest in place of a sponsorship logo as a ‘thank you’ to fans for helping keep the club alive. Hearts, which is under new ownership in the form of majority shareholder Ann Budge, officially came out of administration on Wednesday. “It sends the signal out that things are moving forward and that things have changed,” said a source close to the club. “Given that the club has just come out of administration and wants to grow its fan base and get the team back to where it wants to be in terms of football, they would prefer a more acceptable shirt sponsor.” Ian Murray, chairman of Foundation of Hearts and Labour MP for Edinburgh South, said the new kit represented Hearts’s return to a respected family club. He said: “The club needs to lead by example and our shirt sponsors should reflect the aspiration to be the best family club in Scotland. Our supporters, who will ultimately own the club, deserve nothing less.” It is believed that Wonga had already drawn up a draft deal for the away strip - before being asked to break the sponsorship agreement it has held with Hearts for the past four years. Wonga, the market leader in the controversial payday lending sector, said it had agreed to walk away from the contract at the end of the season when the decision to remove all logos from the strip offered a “natural point” for the partnership to end. The firm has come under fire from both politicians and consumer groups over the high interest loans it offers to cash-strapped customers, with its sponsorship of Hearts sparking complaints from parents who told football club officials that they did not like their children wearing the logo of a payday loan company on a football shirt. Unveiling the home strip in April, Hearts insisted that the blank shirts were a “mark of respect to the team which went to war”, echoing the plain tops which would have been worn at the time by the team who joined McCrae’s Battalion following the outbreak of the Great War - and claimed that Wonga was “fully in tune with our views”. A spokesman for Wonga insisted it would not rule out forging a new partnership with Hearts in future years, pointing to its support of the club when it was struggling under financial pressures. “The club was clear that it wanted to have no sponsor on the shirt for the season,” said a spokesman for Wonga. “That provided a natural break for our sponsorship. We have an open mind about future sponsorship opportunities and working together, but this seemed like a natural point for us to stand aside. “We had rights to extend the deal, but the club was very keen to take the sponsor off the home shirts, so we agreed to end it.” He added: “We are aware that some people have strong opinions [about Wonga] but we are proud of our years with the club. We have always been very supportive of the club and advanced them some of our sponsorship money during the administration period.” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/latest/hearts-sever-ties-with-payday-loan-firm-wonga-1-3443712 HEARTS have severed all ties with sponsor Wonga in a bid to distance itself from the controversial payday loans company. The club’s corporate team is understood to be hunting new sponsors for next year - two months after unveiling a new home kit featuring a blank maroon strip in tribute to members of the 1914 Hearts team who lost their lives in the First World War 100 years ago. Wonga said it had agreed to break the partnership with Hearts following talks with the club - despite having years left to run on its contract. It is understood that the perimeter boards advertising Wonga’s name will be removed from Tynecastle ahead of the first game of the season, while the new away kit, which was unveiled earlier this week, was also revealed to be sponsor-free - sporting a Foundation of Hearts crest in place of a sponsorship logo as a ‘thank you’ to fans for helping keep the club alive. Hearts, which is under new ownership in the form of majority shareholder Ann Budge, officially came out of administration on Wednesday. “It sends the signal out that things are moving forward and that things have changed,” said a source close to the club. “Given that the club has just come out of administration and wants to grow its fan base and get the team back to where it wants to be in terms of football, they would prefer a more acceptable shirt sponsor.” Ian Murray, chairman of Foundation of Hearts and Labour MP for Edinburgh South, said the new kit represented Hearts’s return to a respected family club. He said: “The club needs to lead by example and our shirt sponsors should reflect the aspiration to be the best family club in Scotland. Our supporters, who will ultimately own the club, deserve nothing less.” It is believed that Wonga had already drawn up a draft deal for the away strip - before being asked to break the sponsorship agreement it has held with Hearts for the past four years. Wonga, the market leader in the controversial payday lending sector, said it had agreed to walk away from the contract at the end of the season when the decision to remove all logos from the strip offered a “natural point” for the partnership to end. The firm has come under fire from both politicians and consumer groups over the high interest loans it offers to cash-strapped customers, with its sponsorship of Hearts sparking complaints from parents who told football club officials that they did not like their children wearing the logo of a payday loan company on a football shirt. Unveiling the home strip in April, Hearts insisted that the blank shirts were a “mark of respect to the team which went to war”, echoing the plain tops which would have been worn at the time by the team who joined McCrae’s Battalion following the outbreak of the Great War - and claimed that Wonga was “fully in tune with our views”. A spokesman for Wonga insisted it would not rule out forging a new partnership with Hearts in future years, pointing to its support of the club when it was struggling under financial pressures. “The club was clear that it wanted to have no sponsor on the shirt for the season,” said a spokesman for Wonga. “That provided a natural break for our sponsorship. We have an open mind about future sponsorship opportunities and working together, but this seemed like a natural point for us to stand aside. “We had rights to extend the deal, but the club was very keen to take the sponsor off the home shirts, so we agreed to end it.” He added: “We are aware that some people have strong opinions [about Wonga] but we are proud of our years with the club. We have always been very supportive of the club and advanced them some of our sponsorship money during the administration period.” Well done Hearts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
magpie1892 Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 Just get yourselves one of these: http://s25.postimg.org/57l89bcen/DSCF7895.jpg I've got home and away (yellow) with this 'customisation'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JS Posted June 13, 2014 Share Posted June 13, 2014 I'd rather not buy a shirt that puts money in his pocket in the first place. Canny addition if people somehow ended up buying the kit like Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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