just reminds me of this..............
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I believe this year we will still be moaning about Ashley and Pardew and hoping the £60 million reported will turn up one day and we buy a quality striker.
It's quite embarassing to think some Marketing director is getting paid a good wage to come up with that crap.
Me... I'd have centred the campaign around the fans and no one else and featured crowd shots etc... to stir up emotion (obviously not recent crowd shots with the bed sheets).
I'd also drop the price of the shirts to a level where, as a marketing director I can safely push the message that we are charging the fans less than any other PL team for the shirt.... thereby pushing the 'we care' attitude.
The kit is gash anyway.
cough cough man u cough cough
Bet you can still see each other on the pitch though.cough cough man u cough cough
I'm hoping we bring back our blue 2nd kit, same colour as the one Rowell wore. I've hated our last two away kits. Hate away kits me.
What I find the most staggering of all about this marketing gaffe is that the messaging is missing the MOST iconic thing about the club - black and white fcking stripes. What kind of dumb-a$$ tw@t thinks this sh!t up???
Oh, and that first transfer coming within "the next few days" has mysteriously vanished. Don't forget folks - "most of our recruitment" will be done before the World Cup.
Aye, Man Utd got walloped 6-3 I think by Saints a week after we beat them 5-0. Fergie made them change at half time as the players were invisible. The **** he used to come out with. lolol.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/spor...olm-macdonald-fury-newcastle-uniteds-7130340?
Supermac wades in. Nice read.
That is a good read and quite abrupt and to the point.
Talking of points what is the point in football....... To win trophies.
The reason why Ashley does not want a cup run is it is not cost effective. Their is no winnings. If you had a pot of £20 million I bet the fat man would seriously consider taking it seriously then.
That brings me to my next point, why is it that the so called top teams do not prioritise the cups.... MONEY. Thus why have the fa not made it more lucrative to win it? The clubs would put out their best players, the teams outside the premier league would potentially make more money from cup runs. yadda yadda yadda bottom line is everyones a winner.
I think even then you're missing the wider picture. Sports Direct posts revenues in excess of £2 BILLION. Profitability is through the roof, that company alone could buy and sell Newcastle United 3 or 4 times a year. Newcastle United is self-sufficient, doesn't give him much, doesn't cost him much. But that's because all we are is an advertising vehicle. It currently costs Mike Ashley NOTHING to have his name and his company broadcast/published to BILLIONS of potential customers almost DAILY! The cost of such advertising, in press or TV, would be in itself 100's of millions of pounds a year. The shrewd bastad has basically bought the World's biggest billboard for £240m. It's still "worth" £240m, he'll get that back, more or less. In his time at the club, the revenues of his dodgy thrift shop have grown by around 500%.
I'm sorry to say, but there is no hope here anymore.
Indeed this is all correct. Its a horrible thought but as long as we are in the premiership he will be happy. He can effectively leave the club stagnant for years and years.
Have to admit thought, hes a clever bastard. I am surprised no other businesses have done the same.
Go on, do as you're telt. Start believing!
Seriously, are they taking the piss? Start believing what? That your owners only intent is to keep you in the league on the absolute bare minimum of investment? Or start believing that he won't sack a manager who's clearly out of his depth at a club of this size because all because it would interfere in a private arrangement based on repaying a personal debt?
Clearly it's a really half arsed bodge job of trying to regain fans faith but it's oh so week.
Think your head of marketing needs taking out back and shooting. I think it's cheeky and patronising myself.
Really?! They all bought into the Geordie Nation shoite.
Its interestingly counter productive stating in the media that we as a football club do not want to get in europe, win trophies etc because from an investment point of view it significantly restricts us to players who are only mercenaries.
The club has dropped a clanger here. The only players of any quality to keep us in the premier league are the ones lining their own pockets. Why come if you aint going to win. Well to make money is the answer.
I still think that a couple of years out of the premier league is the only way we will get rid of Ashley. THE ONLY WAY.
Ah, they will now. Villa will be bought by someone looking for global branding, that's all it is anymore. Man City are no different - it just so happened that their sugar daddies were able to try and create a global brand before FFP stopped everyone. Now the only good thing about investing in a football club is the free advertising.
I expect Villa to be bought up by Red Bull.