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Poor mans mince on toast tbh (which is lurshhh btw)

Right, thats it, get your coat now!

WTF? Change it back, it scares me!

This threads just hard to swallow.

Something tells me Snakeys missus has just let him get "tops" for the first time..... how much longer before fingers?

Deepest sympathy to all the Lovenkrands family.

On 26th March 2009 Turkey U17s played Wales.... Hmmmm

If those figures are correct (and I assume our source is reliable) then they still don't show anything to prove the statement that Ashley is "taking" anything out. They would discredit the statement that he's putting money in to keep us afloat but then again Llambias blew that one out of the water when he said that many premiership clubs would be envious of our financial position. I await the media reports to back up the original email.

Just friggin sign up, get your free box and then cancel if you're not happy.

You also get to try new stuff though, this weeks box contained: Naturally dried apricots, strawberries & macadamias cherry raisins, almond & cranberry cashews cajun seed mix. Last weeks was: Dried strawberries, blackberries and walnuts hazelnuts Dried pineapple rings, pecans & black flame jumbo raisins Almonds Its good how they do it, you go on, select different things that you either hate, love or are happy to try. They then steer clear of the hate, regularly put your Likes in there and dot some "Trys" in as well. I know fine well that I wouldnt go to the shop and buy that little lot, if I go to a supermarket then I'll buy kets instead I only signed up to give it a go with the express thought that Id bin it after the first week but now after the second one (which is half price) Im tempted to keep it going.

I disagree, to me anyway thats £7m profit made by Ashley, not £7m of the clubs profits. Even if it did mean clubs profits, the "upto £7m" changes it, that could equate to last February when the sale of players meant we did make a large profit. I agree with Isegrim though that the whole thing is badly worded, misjudged and does nothing to enhance the reputation of the organisation and campaign. As many have said, we are trying to run a campaign based on a moral standpoint of these people are no good for our club, on one hand we rubbish statements made by the club while with the other we come up with stuff like this. The problem here is that the writer knows exactly what is meant by the wording, anyone reading it who knows the allegations (I dont fully) would also understand it, trouble is 99.9999% of fans dont yet and therefore it does read wrong. If we'd waited until after the relevant news article then we wouldnt have had a problem imo, then we could have said "recent reports allege that Mr Ashley blah blah blah", people would have known what we were on about and all would have been fine.

Maybe critical minds need to look at the actual statement again and review it. My reading (and Im not saying its right but it makes more grammatical sense) is that Ashley is making a profit of £7m per month. Not taking the clubs £7m profits. If it was how you put it then I would have expected it to read "Mr Ashley is taking £7m of the clubs profits every month". Also on reading that, it doesnt say £7m every month or even an average of £7m but to me it says hes taking a profit/cut/dividend/whatever you want to call it each month, this amount fluctuates and in some case(s) its been as much as £7m.

I dont believe it is, that in itself wouldnt make news and from what I do know, this is supposed to be somebodys up and coming big headline, investigative report.

That makes no sense at all. How could you be taking more out of the club each month than is being generated? The only way would be to be making loans against the value of the club, putting the club further into debt. Of course that would be an incredibly ridiculous thing to do because if you intend to sell the club it would make it nigh on impossible to do, or if you intend to keep the club the costs of servicing the loans will be greatly in excess of any profits a wonderful businessman like Mike Ashley could make off that sort of capital. If he is somehow managing to take out 7 million each month, despite the fact that the club does not bring in profits like that each quarter (let-alone-month) then it's flat out not a 'profit' in any way shape or form and the statement is blatantly wrong. Im guessing here but I reckon the whole "£7m per month" is a bit of a red herring, like I say its a guess as I've not seen the allegations but Im betting that when it comes out then its averaged over a period of time, so if say it was the last year then the allegation would be that he'd taken £84m over the last 12 months = average of £7m per month.

You know the daft thing is, I wont need that thick skin because the minute the club is purchased (or rather as soon as the President is elected) I would be walking away from it, at that point its job done as far as Im concerned. As Ive said before, personally I dont have the necessary skills to be part of the actual running of the club, and Im sure they wont take offence when I say I dont believe that any of the others do either. Just as we wont get the abuse, we also wont get the praise either but frankly that doesnt bother me, I'd happily go back to trying to organise the Supporters Club side of things, getting things back on track there. Away day trips, local charities all that sort of thing, thats what I was happy to be involved with in the first place. I'll take that as a compliment

Hes finally off the oxygen and feeding naturally, the SCBU are now looking at getting him home soon.

Firstly, I wouldnt personally have issued that statement, there was no need for it as it doesnt add any weight to the aim of the email therefore personally, I dont think it shopuld have been in there. At the same time though, I dont see what the big issue is, we've made it clear in the mail that we're not accusing him and we dont know if its true or not. It is however a claim that is being made by people far more knowledgable than you, me and anyone else on the Trust. So when the relevant media outlets issue the story along with their evidence then what then? Are they just a bunch of tossers shooting themselves in the foot? Nobody has said the club is making £7m per month profit, what is being alleged is that is the amount being taken from the club, the two things are totally different, if we were making £7m per month profit and Ashley took it all then Id think "twat...but its his money, his club he can technically do what he wants with it". If however, this club isnt making that kind of profit (and we all know it isnt) and £7m per month is going to Ashley then thats a totally different matter. I cant however, comment on the wheres and whys because frankly I dont know, Ive not been involved in this particular bit because of my personal circumstances at the mo, Ive been copied into stuff and Ive put my own comments in, rubber stamped stuff etc but only minimal things. I do however back the decision to do it, we have a PR person on board and what he says goes as far as Im concerned, as long as the mail came through him then I know he must have his reasons for putting it in. However, just because I wouldnt have put that out doesnt mean Im right, theres many a thing I would have done differently, in hindsight some of them would have been beneficial others would have made the organisation look even dafter. What seems a good idea one day, isnt necessarily one once its taken place. I will however take it personally when Im accused of being a clown because Im part of this, a lot of hard work has gone into this, a lot of stuff is still going on yet as usual people are willing to rip it apart because of 2 lines in an email. As this thread shows (which some see as some kind of NUST thing just because I did it) the other side of the argument (ie the club) make statements of way worse than this each day yet dont get the kind of ridicule the Trust does.

You talking about me?

Who would you like? Sheard? Moat? after all theres a long list waiting to take his place. These "clowns" are the only people who have come up with a credible purchase plan, if these "clowns" take over then they'll be sat next to you at the game, serving you in the pub, sorting out your car insurance and possibly saving your life should you ever need it. These "clowns" are me, him, the bloke next door and the family across the road. These "clowns" run your local, own your favourite restaurants, drink with you down the pub and sort out your tax returns. These "clowns" are the same as you, only difference is these "clowns" have the bottle to stand up and have a go, (that and the fact that these "clowns" had the sense to see ages ago that the real clowns were running this club into the ground, you didnt).

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Ive told them in no uncertain terms, "No matter how many begging emails you send me, Im not joining."

Ive not had a chance to get out for photos this year

Matt, don't you think that the location of SJP, without even going into the fanbase and potential, makes us possibly the best buy in the country for anybody looking to buy a football club ? Why? I dont understand how the location (unless you were planning on developing the area etc) makes it any more or less a viable sale?

What time is the test mate?

Fuck me, its not exactly nuclear physics... oh hold on, maybe it is