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I don’t think this is a knee jerk to a poor result at home to a weak side but I feel like Ashley has finally pushed firmly down on the pillow and suffocated this club this season after a decade of holding it just above the club’s nose. The club has been utterly destroyed, we were a great football club, not necessarily on the pitch or in terms of trophies but we were a proper football club and there was a great connection between club and fan base even in the times we struggled which imo is rare in the modern game. Football is the highlight of many people’s weeks, I’m not ashamed to admit it can often be the highlight of mine. He’s ripped that from us, I can no longer say it can ever be that to me we’re tragic, utterly tragic. For 10 years we’ve depended on some rough diamond we picked up for cheap turning into a player, then when they do we’ve essentially depended on them to carry the whole team as opposed to building anything around them. I don’t even enjoy watching us anymore, watching players as devoid of any talent such as Joselu plod around the pitch just isn’t football. There’s no passion surrounding the club, no buzz, no excitement, and there hasn’t been since the first year he bought us, before he decided to drive the club into its first calamities by attempting to disgrace club legends. I used to love watching football, but honestly my whole passion for it has subsided. I don’t even bother watching Champions League games or keeping track of most scores. I quite regularly have no idea of the placing of other PL sides, as what’s the point? We’re going to be struggling to keep our heads above water like the little, irrelevant, tin pot club we have become. My whole feeling was summed up this week, I was listening to a podcast and when they were discussing Man Utds comeback win against us one of the pundits said “yeah but I mean it was only Newcastle” it wasn’t an attempted dig, it was just the truth and I took no offense or exception to it, the bloke was spot on. That’s exactly what we are, a club that every team in the league will see as a winnable game. If you told me all this 10 years ago I’d feel sick to my stomach but now I just don’t care, he’s sucked any soul or passion out of Newcastle United Football Club. As Alex said in another thread, what is this all for? What on Earth is the purpose? If it was money he could quite easily make far more elsewhere, if it was advertising he could have spent all he’s invested on far higher profile advertising. I think overall it’s been negative to his company, clearly his image, and obviously the football club. It’ll be a shame to see Rafa Benitez go, his reign has once and for all proven Ashley will never care about the club, if ever he was going to invest it would be when he had a world class manager at the helm. Instead yet another legend of football has been embarrassed, degraded, and pushed out in an insulting and disgraceful way. That’s Newcastle United. To long didnt read: Fuck this fat cunt.

Got to laugh at the state of the fat cunt. He's relegated this club TWICE but somehow got it into his head in the summer that he could get away with doing what he did in the transfer window. And his solution to it all? A fuckin pizza and showing up at the games, all in the name of PR. The public think you're a fucking rat mate. Fighting a losing battle. See in the past people were happy to swallow the deluded Geordie shite but he's such the ultimate cunt, a cunt's cunt if you will, that his abhorrent practices in other businesses have exposed to fullest extent what an abortion of a man he is. Fucking Keith Bishop man. What is he hoping is going to happen? That the public will forgot and forgive and turn on our fans? Geordie know what he is. Non Geordies knows what he is. The city knows what he is. Sports direct is sinking, nufc is sinking and house of Fraser will die because of him, and hopefully alongside him

I just can’t see what the owner thinks he’s playing at. Surely he can see we’re doomed. What’s the point in this football club?

Murray discharged, he's alreet

Spot on. We’re a tin pot yo-yo club now. Any fan of football that says anything positive or in defense of Ashley is either on the wind up or completely demented. You hit the nail on the head with the PR stuff too. What’s the point? He’s going to keep acting a cunt so why make any attempt to disguise it? He should just fucking crack on ruining everything that he touches like a fat, ugly, shabby, opposite version of Midas. One day when the club is free of him, I expect when we are in the lower leagues and he lowers his £10B price tag (or whatever ridiculous number he would actually accept as we all know no matter the bid the price would just be raised) I’ll still always hope nothing but misfortune befalls him, I will avoid any store he owns even a small portion of like the plague and hope to one day read that he’s resorted to prostitution in public bogs after he ended up penniless.

This. We have been all over them for the majority of the second half and the end of the first but Brighton can just sit back and soak it up because they know that once we get the ball into the box we have no fucking threat at all

I’ve got mates who were in bands, mates who are performance artists, mates who are are gay, mates who are drag queens, mates who are trans. If one of my mates described himself as an MC it would be the end of our friendship.

All toon fans are disgusted with Ashley, but I feel for you Geordies that live in and around Newcastle that want so desperately to go to St. James' and support a club with some class from top to bottom. You guys deserve better than what this owner has delivered the past decade.

For that amount he can do both

Wonder if he gets a refund?

Well it’s anecdotal but I’m apathetic, might be because I’ve not lived in the north east during Ashley’s ownership and hardly attended games since I left but losing/winning used to have an effect on my weekend. Kind of glad it doesn’t anymore

Is there apathy? I see a lot of fans showing restraint out of loyalty to the team and manager, when Benitez leaves there's going to be a spectacular reaction imo.

I’ve said it before and Howay nails it better but the apathy amongst the fans is going to be the legacy of Ashley’s ownership.

Fuck off, Alex

Just hire a hitman and keep the rest

He must be half hoping that he gets sacked, just to end his misery. I watched that interview the other day with Shearer and the True Geordie and Shearer said it was important to enjoy playing. This lot must hate facing teams knowing that no matter how well they play, they've not got a hope in hell's chance of winning because no fucker can score.

Breaking News : Club that spent the least money in the league doing worse than the teams that spent more. I hope Ashley chokes on a cock. I walked past the ground mid way through the first half and you wouldn't know there was a game on. Silence from the outside. A hollow shell of a club. Still £27m profit in the transfer window or whatever.

Think that game said a lot. It was easy to write off the poor start with a load of difficult games, but we had 2 weeks to prepare for a home fixture against one of the weaker sides in the league and honestly despite having ‘control’ I can’t say we were hard done by losing that. Imo it’s irrelevant if we buy in January, it’d just be a late attempt to get again bandage over the wounds. In any case he won’t allow Rafa to spend enough on any single player to bring in a quality talent, £10M players aren’t needed now we need to bring actual talent in and in the current market that’s generally in excess of £20M (I know you can get bargains but we’re over a barrel at this point and can’t afford to gamble).

No offense intended to anyone on here but if you take your family to watch that shit week in/week out then im sorry but theres something wrong with you. You couldnt pay me to sit through that, I wont be bothering next week likely wont the week after that either.

Without ever having seen him play,I had an idea The Hoss, our £5m signing from Stoke where he couldn't get a game,would be utter shite.

It’s just depressing to see Rafa’s tactics control a game like this but our severe lack of quality prevents us getting anything. I’m about at the point where it doesn’t really make a difference though. Rafa isn’t staying either way now so we may as well go down.

Yep, absolute stinker from Perez thus far. Anyone on for him, can't be worse.

CT?

Clearly his fault that the refs botched the call.

I live in the USA mate, every match is either on tv or streamed on NBC. Can’t help get dodgy ones unfortunately.

Gemmil in a wig.

I just wish Trooper would make his feelings clear and stop sitting on the fence

All of those players serving in the war and not one of them saw anything as awful as John Carver's spell as manager

Just start DJing and then, as you get half cut, switch to a Spotify radio station and let that do the work.

Wasn't even a corner ffs