Scoot Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 KLD in 2021: “It is a fresh start for the club, it has been many years now where the club had no real long-term vision and also cost cutting at its forefront which basically led to an asset stripping in almost all departments at the club.” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Best bit is they tried to hide behind a fictional NDA which we all knew didn't exist and is only confirmed with the news. He's lied to them from the moment he arrived. They never ever learn. Glorious Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 3 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said: I really hope Ashley goes there. Even if he took them back to the Premier League which he could, it’d show to us in the long run what we were. A middling, shite PL team with no ambition. He'll only have them living with their means so it'll ge a shite championship club with no ambition....which they'd snap your hands off for right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 9 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said: The ‘6 in a row’ was probably the worst thing to happen to them, but they’ll never see it like that. If they’d got relegated 2-3 seasons beforehand like they would have if they’d not have won even just one, I reckon they’d not have spiralled as a club like they have. Yep. I don’t think they realised just how much they were dependent on Ellis’ continuous investment to keep them competing at PL level. Ellis paid a massive price for his shortcomings, yet the mackems couldn’t wait to see the back of him and now their income levels can’t even keep them in the League One title battle. Karma bites. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Optimistic Nut said: I really hope Ashley goes there. Even if he took them back to the Premier League which he could, it’d show to us in the long run what we were. A middling, shite PL team with no ambition. Ashley only goes where Ashley can make money. They're a loss making operation that at best made far less than us. Asset stripping is the only way he could ever make money there. I imagine at best they'd only get to the level we were at when Ashley was forced out. Lad on the radio crediting Blackpool for their boycott. There was a more local club that did that but as angry and upset and desperate as they are they still have the facilities to refuse to give NUFC credit. Edited February 15, 2022 by Wolfcastle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyn davies Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Seems to happen a lot in lower league clubs and the championship, just look at Derby who appear to be in the same situation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Broon Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 (edited) 40 minutes ago, Unbelievable said: Yep. I don’t think they realised just how much they were dependent on Ellis’ continuous investment to keep them competing at PL level. Ellis paid a massive price for his shortcomings, yet the mackems couldn’t wait to see the back of him and now their income levels can’t even keep them in the League One title battle. Karma bites. Yeah, Short lost something like £200m on Sunderland, basically gave the club away the when their support called for him to go. Imagine Ashley doing that! Or sacking manager after manager whenever their supporters call for it. They've basically been run on every whim of their supporters for the past decade. Edited February 15, 2022 by Jackie Broon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiesteve710 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Arguably the worst take I've ever seen on Twitter. A journalist writes an article criticising their owners and sticking up for their fans, and the immediate response is to grief him and bring our takeover into it. Why do no journalists want to cover sunderland?!? Can't imagine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE27 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 30 minutes ago, geordiesteve710 said: Arguably the worst take I've ever seen on Twitter. A journalist writes an article criticising their owners and sticking up for their fans, and the immediate response is to grief him and bring our takeover into it. Why do no journalists want to cover sunderland?!? Can't imagine. Why does nobody cover our club? Why the fuck are you talking about our club in a bad light, the fukkin mags celebrated the Saudis man! Mackematics at play here. Seemingly only want classy fans/football fwends articles wrote about them. Anything else is mag territory. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 This is the most broken I've seen them since last week. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karjala Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 (edited) Every match they play, I want them to lose. I would be delighted if they ended up being relegated out of the Football League. Edited February 15, 2022 by Karjala Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiago Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 1 hour ago, Optimistic Nut said: I really hope Ashley goes there. Even if he took them back to the Premier League which he could, it’d show to us in the long run what we were. A middling, shite PL team with no ambition. I do wonder what he'd do with them. They seem to give him a lot of credit for 'getting us back up' but he inherited a top half club that he took down twice. When we went down the first time we had sellable assets and spent less than £10m on new faces - Oba Martins going to Wolfsburg covered all of the incoming players. The second time he deserved some credit for the players signed like Sissoko and Wijnaldum being able to spin us a profit and cover a squad overhaul. That said, he was fortunate that Rafa approached him and was able to make shrewd signings like Gayle and Ritchie. Our only flops that year were Sels and Lazaar. His record of hiring managers is frankly awful, and he'd need to invest almost instantly to get them up. Given his habit of blurring the lines between personal investment and 'interest free loans' I don't know how he'd recover a lot of that money if the club itself cost between £20-40m because I can't see a world where someone pays £200m for Sunderland. We were fortunate to be a relatively stable PL club with consistent crowds and a decent image due to Keegan's Entertainers and Goal, and even then I can't believe we went for £300m. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Ashley is too good for safc. Hope it doesn't happen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nbthree3 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 They do need to protest properly but that's mag behaviour Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 31 minutes ago, Karjala said: Every match they play, I want them to lose. I would be delighted if they ended up being relegated out of the Football League. Such a shame Hartlepool or Darlo don’t frequent Div 3 anymore, would’ve been superb to see them have to trudge down there on a level playing field. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiago Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 What are we anticipating for their atmosphere on Saturday? Fellow promotion rival in MK Dons heading up to the SOL. I feel like a few may stay away and if it starts going bad it'll turn toxic quite quick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karjala Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 8 minutes ago, Disco said: Such a shame Hartlepool or Darlo don’t frequent Div 3 anymore, would’ve been superb to see them have to trudge down there on a level playing field. Hartlepool, Carlisle and Harrogate in League 2 currently ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 8 minutes ago, Thiago said: What are we anticipating for their atmosphere on Saturday? Fellow promotion rival in MK Dons heading up to the SOL. I feel like a few may stay away and if it starts going bad it'll turn toxic quite quick. Will grigg goal for them ?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 3 hours ago, AJ9 said: RTG twats aside, and even though I love to hate them, I feel a bit sorry for them. Another example of absolute parasites at a club that is at the heart of its (admittedly shite) community. Most Mackems I’ve met in teal life are sounds lads and I feel for them. https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/5bc37e64-e7a7-477a-bb3b-a7023c6f9f06 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ9 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 1 minute ago, Wolfcastle said: https://memes.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/5bc37e64-e7a7-477a-bb3b-a7023c6f9f06 I know, I know ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 The apparent apathy from a large number of their fans is staggering. Many of them just stopped going which has reduced income and affected their attractiveness to investors. Without any formal protest groups it just looks like they don’t care and that 5 years in Div 3 is acceptable. I have no idea what it’ll take for them to get organised and try and force change; it may already be too late. When they were convinced Dell was buying them it seemed they believed this was because they were somehow a class act and “deserved” it (some even suggesting that the Netflix doc had shed a good light on them and raised their profile). The current SAFC support is letting down both previous and future generations. I’d rather be playing against SAFC in the PL than Brentford for example (no disrespect), win or lose derby day is special. There’s no fear of that happening anytime soon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Butcher Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Should open a NUFC store down there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Just now, The Butcher said: Should open a NUFC store down there. Delightful prospect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbee909 Posted February 15, 2022 Share Posted February 15, 2022 Should just buy them out and shut them down. Or maybe turn their place into an NUFC academy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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