Time for change

Right lads and lasses,

After selling our best player without a replacement, leading to ANOTHER debacle of a derby day defeat, I can only suggest the time for change is NOW.

People need to vote with their feet AND their money. If we all say enough is enough, Fat Mike will have to start to listen to us. I suggest that EVERYONE does not attend the next home match vs Spurs.
I know you won't because your loyalty to the team is too great, BUT if you continue to attend, he will continue to take the piss. It's up to you!

I also suggest that Sports Direct is avoided at all cost! I know other sports retailers are more expensive but if you hit Ashley in the pocket, it will hurt him the most - and lets face it, most of his goods are cheap ****e anyway!

Enough is enough!

 

you a season ticket holder?

 

At a guess I'd say he wasn't.

 

My uncle ans grandad cancelled their season tickets after 23 years solid. My grandad was in tears but he just cant take any more. Sad times.

 

I'm not renewing. Made my mind up.

 

Sad, very sad.

It's like getting a kick in the teeth for your loyalty.

 

I don't think the fact whether you're a season ticket holder should affect whether you choose to boycoutt or not.

If it was proven to work, which it isn't (and this is the main problem) then I believe everyone would boycoutt. However nobody knows if it'll work which is why season ticket holders are obviously reluctant. I'd say the best way around it would be for the 30k or so season ticket holders to not buy ANY match day merchandise and for the other 20k to boycoutt all together. Ashley would then have 20 thousand empty seats at say £30 a pop meaning he'd be down roughly £600,000 per home game.

If you then had the remaining 30 thousand season ticket holders chanting anti Ashley songs etc it might then have an effect. It would have to be prolonged though, probably from now until the end of the season and maybe even the whole of the following season until the season ticket renewel comes up again, it would then be down to the 30 thousand season ticket holders to jack it in giving him a near empty stadium which would then cost him on average £1,500,000 per game in ticket sales with any profit/revenue from match day merchandise also non exisitent on top of that. Well it wouldn't cost him that much but his revenue would be down by that much per game.

So it would require 18 months of sustained boycoutting action and when it's put in black and white like that you realise it simply isn't achieveable.

 

What I don't understand is if his intentions were positive (pay off the short-term loan so we can invest in the squad quicker and challenge sooner), why not say so?

It's wrong to assume, but the only reasonable conclusion is that he doesn't have any intention of making the club ambitious. That's the worrying thing. But we're dealing at levels none of us can access - we cannot talk to Barclays and see who might want to buy, we can't tell Ashley to sell, and so on. The whole issue with it being privately owned is that we can't do a fcking thing. It's like the zero-hours with Sports Direct - much maligned, but he doesn't give a flying fck.

 

Just so you know, I packed my season ticket in at the start of last season! That was after 10 consecutive years. I had worked away from the region before that so could not make many games. So, in that respect, I have made the ultimate protest!

I'm not saying I foresaw what was going to happen but my gut instinct was that it wasn't gonna be great!

Each misdemeanor from Ashley and co chips away at the loyalty of the Newcastle Utd fans. Attendances this season appear to be down (I may be wrong on this - I've not checked!) They will continue on a downward spiral until this prick is gone!

 

Of course being a season ticket holder makes a difference a bloke who has forked out hundreds and will lose out financially or a bloke who does not go and loses nowt (regardless of the reason).



Do the maths.

 

I truly feel sorry for ST holders nowadays! It's the hardest decision to walk away - Unfortunately, I feel there is no choice left!

 

I think you've misunderstood my point.

I'm saying that if season tickets holders knew that boycoutting say 6 games would make him sell up then I'm sure they would?

It's the fact that nobody knows if it will work that means they won't do it.

 

I accept your reasoning in this case.

 

packed in mine aswell at the start of the season .youngin still gans like ...


he walked oot after the third goal on Saturday very unlike him , I must admit ..hes got black n white blood ...


hes starting to feel the Ashley effect

 

Have had this argument many times, but I wont let the b****** drive me out of SJP.
Although a ST holder, I've missed too many games this season through circumstances and its driven me mad, so to miss through choice is not something I would do easily.

As for boycotting Sports Direct, I honestly don't think its viable.
Most people who shop there do so for a reason and spiting oneself hoping that it will affect SD profits is unlikely to say the least.
SD are probably the biggest Retail Sector success of the 21st century and are only getting bigger day by day.
You only have to look at there recent takeover of the HMV store on Oxford Street in London to see how the continued growth.
We went into the Lilywhites store on Regent Street last summer and it was like a football match the number of shoppers in there.
It might make you feel better but, spiting and costing yourself more money won't make the slightest difference to him.

 

The only potential suggestion I can think of are the likes of petition.gov or change.org; if enough people sign something - and there needs to be an agreement as to what is actionable - then something has to give.

For example, the statement could be asking the FA to intervene, or it could be asking for accountability to be brought forth, and so on.

I'm not sure staying away will work; he's a prissy fcker. Plus I don't think you could get the numbers to make it work - SJP with 35,000 will just be hollow, but the balance sheet will show it's doing enough.

Other option would be trying to gather a consortium - where do you begin with this?

 

Why on earth would the FA intervene? What are they going to do. Give him a slap on the wrist for being a stingy git? This boycotting thing pisses me off. Support the team throughout the game. If they let us down like at the weekend then make sure the players know about it after and show any distane for the regime at the the same time.

 

26 years I have sat in the east stand with dad friends and other members of the family.We have all discussed this season and how we may all give up our tickets for next season. I personally don't think I can.its been my life for so long.What would I do with myself?
Its like a ****ing drug I can't give up.I am utterly ****ing pissed off and deep down I know the right thing to do would be to walk away.
I hate Ashely the man is a ****ing leech and what he is doing our club and fans is a disgrace.
For me to give up I feel I will have to do something drastic....Often I have sat in my seat only 2 from the front thinking ''this is it I'm on the ****ing pitch no turning back ,do it! let the fukas know''......I have been close but have pulled back this is the only way I could keep away as I would be banned.
So if you see a middle aged bald man striding across the pitch from the east stand it could well be me and its game over.
Keep the ****ing faith eh!

 

**** me a sensible comment. If we'd beaten Sunderland the anti Ashley vitriol would have been nigh on non existent. Now Kinnear has gone I bet at least a third of these whiners will feel placated.

Three derbies in a row we have been outfought and out thought in all areas, the shambles on Saturday and the shambles at the top of our club are two separate issues, which until they are seen as so will continue to intertwine and not improve.

 

You're not alone.