#boycottswansea and #ashleyembargo

Taken from the Ashleyout.com website.


Swansea (h) protest announcement: Stand Up To Ashley
22/04/2015
AshleyOut.com reflects on a successful start of the Ashley Out campaign. In the two weeks since its launch, our website has attracted over 120,000 visitors and 800,000 pageviews, we have backed a match boycott heeded by many (numbers reported vary from 5,000 to 20,000 with the true number probably somewhere in between) and organised protests attended by thousands of fans outside St. James’ Park. Most importantly though, we have seen a vast increase of awareness for Mike Ashley’s failed ownership of Newcastle United in the local and national media and amongst fans who were previously resigned to apathy. These fans have now hopefully found a vehicle to express their profound dissatisfaction with the situation the club finds itself in, which is essentially one of a proud sporting institution transformed into a giant advertising vehicle.



With just six days in between the home games vs Spurs and Swansea, we have not had much time to prepare a new protest, but we are pleased to announce our plans today. As before, we will back any fan who continues to boycott the game to make a stand (#BoycottSwansea). For those fans wishing to attend the Swansea game, we request them to #StandUpToAshley after 34 minutes of the game, to represent the fact that having no manager and a threadbare squad devoid of quality, yet having £34m in the bank is not an acceptable situation.

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Secondly, from 12:30pm on Saturday we will target Sports Direct stores within a 20 mile radius of St. James’ Park and their flagship Oxford Street store by means of a peaceful protest. Further details regarding this protest will be released shortly but we wish to emphasise that this must be a peaceful protest and is aimed at Mike Ashley and the shareholders of Sports Direct International plc. This protest is not aimed at the innocent staff members often working with minimal employment rights on zero hours contracts and they must be respected and supported at all times. This protest will be coordinated with supporters of Rangers Football Club who will target stores in the vicinity of Ibrox.



The boycott for the Spurs game was only the start. We would like to widen the campaign at this stage to include Mike Ashley’s main interest, which is Sports Direct and affiliated companies and will shortly be launching a new section on our website dedicated to things every fan can do to ensure that Mike Ashley’s involvement becomes an ever-less profitable one for him and his companies. This new campaign will be known as #AshleyEmbargo



Onwards and upwards!



Target stores:
Sports Direct Oxford Street 275.1 miles
Sports Direct Northumberland Street 0.39 miles
Sports Direct Newcastle – Gateshead Trinity 1.13 miles
Sports Direct Newcastle – Gateshead 2.20 miles
Sports Direct Kingston Park 3.08 miles
Sports Direct Newcastle – Team Valley 3.57 miles
Sports Direct Newcastle – Silverlink 5.65 miles
Sports Direct Washington 6.29 miles
Sports Direct South Shields 7.68 miles
Sports Direct Sunderland Gateway 10.41 miles
Sports Direct Sunderland 10.59 miles
Sports Direct Durham 13.66 miles
Sports Direct Ashington 14.55 miles
Lillywhites Dalton Park LW 14.80 miles
Sports Direct Peterlee 18.86 miles



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I like the idea of hitting sports direct, this also encourages potesters of SD who have no affiliation to Newcastle United. It is thinking outside the box, however I can't help but think that a protest against SD would be better timed after the channel 4 Documentary that is due to be aired Monday evening.

Maybe Targeting one specific store at a time also, perhaps taking Rangers idea and going in and spending as much of the day in there as possible asking for staff assistance, different size trainers and generally wasting time is a way to hit individual stores financially. However getting people with that much time on their hands is a problem in itself.

 

I have a feeling that Mr Ashley is about to have the worst week of this life.

 

I don't know about this standing up, 34 minute thing. It would just look embarrassing. Empty seats make a better impression imo.

 

See thats why Sunderland are so much better at this protest thing than us - they stand up AND leave empty seats. Presumably they must have 45million in the bank.

 

Flash mobs at Sports Direct stores.
Seems a bit narrow minded.
What about the other stores, USC, Cruise.

In fact why not go the whole hog, and do House of Fraser, Debenhams - still has big stakes in both and making plenty of profit no doubt. That would make his partners a wee bit pissed I think, but, somehow, can see the local Constabulary getting involved. A little wander round Eldon Square or Metrocentre could cause a bit of a stir.

 

Good job the ****er doesn't own bits of Fenwicks

 

It's too far gone now but he needs to grow a pair and come out and speak to the fans. This is going to end up as a PR disaster for both Ashley and the club as a whole. Still the chance of getting rid of that prat is the lesser of two evils

 

The problem is - He's a coward. He hides behind his lackeys.