To steal a quotation 'it's a funny old game'. Season in season out, game by game the fans are treated as irrelevant by the club, our voices, support and ambitions unanswered and now suddenly the club want us to back them. Be the '12th man' 'get behind the team' 'create an atmosphere only the Geordie fans can' etc, etc,. Why? - We stay up and it's job done as far as Ashley is concerned having made even more money through player sales, players loans and selling a manager and replacing him with a garden gnome. Stay up and we repeat this season again with slightly more investment to finish at best mid table. I will take great pleasure for the next six days until Sunday in the knowledge that Ashley and co will know how we have felt to be Newcastle fans for the last eight years under his leadership.