BillClinton Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Sounds like it would work Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 If you can find enough money to buy a controlling stake in a company with revenues of £2.7bn a year in which the sole director has no interest in relinquishing his majority share then you'd easily have enough money to just buy the club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 I am of the opinion that MA would sell us immediately if he was offered the right price. He's a businessman as we all know and he'd drop us straight away if an offer was made that he thought benefitted him. The problem is, nobody has made that offer - and there is no talk of anyone even looking at doing it. Even if we burn down the stadium with Ashley inside it, he cant sell us without a buyer. I boycotted against Tottenham, have held up relevant signs and chants as others have - but ultimately we are just telling Ashley he's a cunt (which is still good). Hopefully, the current intense media coverage of AshleyOut will just increase the possibility of someone making an offer. He's the one that would set the price though. So, in theory, if he really wanted rid of the club he could flog it for £150m which he would get all day long but he won't. We need to make his tenure as uncomfortable as possible giving him no option but to actively market the club for as little as he's prepared to accept for it. We're nowhere near that point yet imho. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Roger Kint Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Call me an idiot or call me stupid but I've just done a little digging and in theory I think I know of away to get to Ashley. SD as we all know is owned by Ashley. Except it's not, a lot of it is owned by private investors, Ashley's share is owned by MASH holdings limited which also owns NUFC. Recently in July a lot of MASH holdings was given to MASH beta, a new company formed by Ashley in order to release money to fund his funding to Rangers which went tits up and also to prevent being hit from the tax man. Anyway a little bit of MASH holdings is owned by private investors. My theoretical plan is for us supporters to start buying shares in the various holding companies Ashley has when they come up for sale. If we do it on a large scale and over time then we should be able to gain some sort of control of what goes on in these companies. So in affect we are making a consortium, maybe this is where we probably need large scale backers, maybe NUST can cough up some of the money they have. If, and yes this is a big if, but if we were able to pull this of then we can ultimately control NUFC, we could demand and control the sale of NUFC to anyone we wanted for any price we wanted as it would be our own assets that we are controlling. We could be vindictive and vote to remove all of Ashley's friends of his board, we could in theory run his business into the fucking ground. Maybe this is middle of the night fantasy last with attempt of hope stuff, in fact it probably is but surely it's an idea exploring to see if it even is a theoretical avenue to pursue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattypnufc Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Cancelled my ST today. Would say I was bothered by it but I'm not. Fuck them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Cancelled my ST today. Would say I was bothered by it but I'm not. Fuck them. Fair play. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leek Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 The board should probably have a sticky just running through the process of how to cancel your season ticket and how to get round the direct debit bit. I'm sure their will be some people that visit here, as a member or guest, that wont cancel their ST on the basis they think their not allowed or are unsure of the process of how to cancel it. Even if it stops 2/3 people renewing it would be worth it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawK Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 The board should probably have a sticky just running through the process of how to cancel your season ticket and how to get round the direct debit bit. I'm sure their will be some people that visit here, as a member or guest, that wont cancel their ST on the basis they think their not allowed or are unsure of the process of how to cancel it. Even if it stops 2/3 people renewing it would be worth it. Good shout. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmymag Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 The board should probably have a sticky just running through the process of how to cancel your season ticket and how to get round the direct debit bit. I'm sure their will be some people that visit here, as a member or guest, that wont cancel their ST on the basis they think their not allowed or are unsure of the process of how to cancel it. Even if it stops 2/3 people renewing it would be worth it. Bad English. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mick-quinn-pens-open-letter-9197277 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinport53 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mick-quinn-pens-open-letter-9197277 Good little read Am sure he's been hammering them on twitter aswell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Aye I like that and Mick Quinn but I don't like this absolution of whoever is manager/head roach. John Carver has been hung out to dry to an extent but its obvious he was nowhere near good enough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosstef Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Excellent article! http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-fans-not-heeding-calls-9200342 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinport53 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Loved the last line “I’m sorry, Mike. This is not my club. You killed my club. This is YOUR club. This is YOUR mess. This is YOUR problem.” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
themanupstairs Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Douglas is a wishy washy twat. He'll be back towing the line again when it suits him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemtizz Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 He didn't write it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Take a boo HF. Great writing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hudson Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32625987 North Shields manager Graham Fenton has thanked Newcastle United defender Steven Taylor for paying for the use of the Magpies' team bus for Saturday's FA Vase final with Glossop North End. Fenton's Robins, FA Amateur Cup winners in 1969 at the old Wembley, are back at the venue after nine games and eight rounds of the competition. Taylor, 29, paid for the bus personally to take the team down to the game. "It's a fantastic gesture by Steven," Fenton told BBC Newcastle. "I initially got in touch with him to see if it was something the club could do but he said he would sort it out. Something the Club and Ashley should be sorting out not the player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 We shouldn't be doing shit for Graham Fenton, despise the bloke and everyone he knows. Say something. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
themanupstairs Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 He didn't write it. Aye apologies. Just twigged on that it was HF. Great work man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Decent article they put up last night. Mike Ashley’s Newcastle or a Newcastle United? 12/05/2015 Newcastle United was formed in 1892 – 123 years ago. Formed by the good men and women of this fine city, Newcastle upon Tyne, so that we as the people could have a football club to represent the city. A club to enjoy, share, be proud of and pass on. For all people, for all generations. Newcastle United. Our Football Club. Fast forward to this day and the ideals, traditions and standing of the club couldn’t be further from their original intentions. We are not a football club today. We are a business. We are the Premier League subsidiary of Sports Direct. The Donnay of football clubs. We the fans, the supposed lifeblood of this fine institution are no more than common customers. Those season tickets or match tickets that were once like gold, could be a voucher to shop at Debenhams, that’s how little sporting or entertainment value they now hold. Our beautiful stadium, St. James’ Park, a monument of the city, iconic and instantly recognisable the world over is no longer a football stadium. It’s a giant Sports Direct advert. An empty shell even when packed with 52,000 people. Everything about Newcastle United today is a million miles away from the Newcastle United of old – old being 8 years ago when Mike Ashley bought the club. The only thing linking the club of today to back then is the lack of trophy success. But hey, that’s an age old Newcastle United thing! At least back then Newcastle United was an ambitious, if not somewhat mismanaged club. A regular in Europe and a club who paid top fees and top wages for ‘star’ players to try and compete with the very top clubs. We bought duds, we built debt, we went out of the cups and still didn’t win a bloody trophy. But we tried to compete, we tried to be the kind of club we were formed to be, we strived to be best we could be. Today we are in more debt than ever and now we only spend money when we have to, such as when relegation looks a distinct possibility. We don’t pay top dollar for players or managers and we can forget about the cups. As for Europe – “thank god we aren’t in it” – the words of Alan Pardew, our former manager. A mandate that comes from the very top. Sporting wise there is no real point to the football club these days. Newcastle United exists to make up the numbers in the Premier League in order to bring in the huge TV revenue and to also promote Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct empire. That is it, nothing more than a billboard for bloody Sports Direct! Players aren’t bought to create a team to entertain the fans and to try and win something or to get into Europe. Players are bought based on how little they will cost the club in wages and transfer fees and based on just how much they could be worth if they actually perform well enough to be sold to a “sovereign state.” Managers or head coaches aren’t appointed to build an exciting attack minded team to win games, but to toe the party line, help sell the “purples” and to lower the expectations of us, the fans. If not Alan Pardew then John Carver or some other non-entity happy to toe the party line for Mike Ashley. There is no dream of winning a cup or playing in Europe either. These things are considered worthless, not just in terms of revenue, but commitment and effort. Defeatism reigns supreme at St. James’ Park in every corridor when it comes to the actual name of the game. For all the mismanagement, failures and wasted money under Freddy Shepherd and the Halls, it was never this bad and would never be allowed to be so. The fans alone would not stand for it. How times have changed, apathy reins supreme today and it’s strangling the club. It’s time to change that, it’s time to stand up and be counted and save Newcastle United. Under Mike Ashley the club is deliberately ran to be this bad and continuously and deliberately run to achieve mediocrity, not just because of mismanagement, which I’m sure we could all forgive to a degree, but due to a flagrant disregard for what is important at any football club. A good manager, good players, good coaching, ambition and most important of all the fans. The lifeblood of any football club and indeed the game. All of those things under Mike Ashley mean nothing, it’s all about the Wonga and everything else can do one. Especially the fans, the people who dared to stand up to him following Kevin Keegan’s fateful resignation back in 2008. Since then Ashley’s whole ownership of the club has been a big massive two fingers to the fans, the city and the club as an institution. From the treatment of club legend Alan Shearer to relegation. From the dismissal of the popular Chris Hughton to the appointment of a sacked League One manager Alan Pardew. Derek Llambias, Joe Kinnear, the sale of Carroll, Cabaye etc. The frankly ridiculous reappointment of Kinnear to the lack of genuine investment in the playing squad to John Carver leading the club to a 5th consecutive derby defeat to Sunderland. The list is endless. But still, almost near full houses every week with Ashley able to take his seat in comfort as the King of St. James’. At no other club would the kind of ownership served up by Mike Ashley be accepted, never mind tolerated. He doesn’t even own Rangers (yet?) and their fans have done more to oppose him and to say a big fat NO to him and what he represents in just a few months than fans of Newcastle United have in 8 years. With the launch of AshleyOut.com now is the time to let Mike Ashley know that will we no longer tolerate his ownership of Newcastle United – our football club. The time for action has arrived, time for change has come. It is your duty as a Newcastle United supporter to do everything you can or are willing to do to help towards the campaign of helping Mike Ashley sell up and get out of our club. We are Newcastle United, not Sports Direct. As Kevin Keegan said, Mike Ashley and his people are not Newcastle United. ‘They are not that football club. They are just custodians who are in for a few years. ‘It might be five, ten or six, but Newcastle United will go on after Mike Ashley.’ It’s time to reclaim our club. We are Newcastle United! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Good read that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuv Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Good read that. Aye pretty good. Nearly as long winded as the shit you write mind... Only joking HTT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Good read that. Aye pretty good. Nearly as long winded as the s*** you write mind... Only joking HTT I might actually send them something in, imagine the scroll to read the fucker, it would be like climbing down Everest..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinport53 Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I might actually send them something in, imagine the scroll to read the f***er, it would be like climbing down Everest..... It would be a shorter trip than the one we are on to the championship. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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