Saudi ownership - a poll!

[Mowen]

Alright gang! Long time no see. By christ it was hard work getting logged back in after 3 years. Hope some of the old people I used to knock about with on here are still going strong - the likes of Wullie, Tooj, Interpol, McBeefaz, PM, Dave, Disco* and many more I won't try to recall now.

 

Appreciate this has probably been done to death but I couldn't see anything like this to gauge sentiment after a few months. Feel free to bin this if it exists already. Intrigued as to where everyone has settled on the subject of club ownership. Hopefully the poll is pretty self explanatory but I wasn't exactly sure what I was doing with that either.

 

My personal take is I no longer consider myself a Newcastle fan. An early caveat that I don't expect that to be common, nor do I think I'm any better than anyone for making that call. Well, unless you're singing their names, then I probably do think I'm better than you. I can't get past the mental gymnastics of any success for a club just being a success for an evil regime. I'm no expert on the politics of it, but I'll back Amnesty's take on it. As much as I hated Ashley at least any victory was in spite of him rather than a victory for him.

 

It's an absolute gutter as well. I'm 36 now, grew up with the Entertainers and the club has been a huge part of my life. My cat's named after an  ex-player FFS. As much as Ashley sucked the fun out of it, I still cared. It's probably easier for me to cut ties than most as I've never been a local, my last family link living in the city passed away a couple of years ago, I stopped bothering to go under Bruce and I've had a ST at my local non-league team for about 4 years now. But it's still a hell of a change.

 

Genuinely intrigued as to where people have settled and how they've got there. Or call me a c*nt I guess, whatever floats your boat.

 

*have deliberately left Pilko out of the list as I know it'll annoy him

[SUPERTOON]

The options to vote aren’t well worded, I love it and don’t mind admitting it, I’m proper back in love with the club, but would never sing their name.

[Super Duper Branko Strupar]

Good to see you back, Mowen.

 

This thread probably covers what you're after tbh. Lots of chat in there - https://newcastle-online.org/topic/36969-the-delighted-ashley-has-gone-but-uncomfortable-with-saudi-ownership-thread/page/79/

 

[Yorkie]

What Branko said. Plus the poll in this one pretty much covers it:

 

 

Tbh I think we probably don't need another thread where this particular thing is being debated, but really good to see you back, @Mowen