Fans boycott season ticket

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A SEASON-TICKET boycott by Geordie fans has pushed Newcastle closer to financial meltdown.

 

And Mike Ashley has received yet another blow as he bids to sell United – a shock £1 million compensation claim from former deputy chairman Douglas Hall.

 

As the wait for a buyer goes on, the crippling reality of season-ticket sales dropping to their lowest level for 17 years is fast beginning to bite.

 

With less than three weeks until the start of the Championship season, the Sunday Sun has learned that under 15,000 new season tickets have been sold.

 

Several thousand fans remain tied to the club after buying three-year season tickets last summer.

 

But the prospect of barely 20,000 season tickets being taken up in total is all too real.

 

With many of the Magpies’ biggest-earning players still on the payroll, Ashley faces a cash flow crisis which could yet scare off would-be buyers.

 

So the last thing he needs is to be hit with a £1 million claim from Hall, son of former Newcastle chairman Sir John.

 

Sources suggest Douglas Hall’s demand relates to “management services” supplied to United before Ashley bought the Halls’ stake in the club for £55.3m in May 2007.

 

It remains to be seen if Ashley will pay Douglas Hall’s claim, particularly as United are understood to be set to agree a compensation deal with former manager Kevin Keegan worth around £4m.

 

Several parties remain interested in buying Newcastle, with the Singapore-based Profitable Group having bid around £70m.

 

Long-time United chairman Freddy Shepherd is still keen on a deal, while reputed rival interest from Malaysia and America is still to be confirmed.

 

http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/newcastle...79310-24186812/

 

 

The bit in bold defies belief, I hate Ashley with a passion but frankly I hope he tells fat Douggie to go fuck himself where that ones concerned, what an odious little twat he is.

[TheMoog 0]

Can't blame the fans for not signing up to season tickets with so much uncertainty going on, stupid to report on it tbh - it's not a boycott as much as people just not wanting to purchase something without knowing what they're buying.

 

And Doug Hall's having a laugh.

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If true then what an absolute cunt.

[Kitman 2207]

I'm mystified what services Doug Hall might think he's provided. He got an exorbitant salary, presumably paid to some offshore tax haven, he seemed to me to do bugger all to earn it and generally presided over the decline of the club. What was his area of expertise? Sacking & appointing managers? Being related to the majority shareholder? Or was it the negotiation of image rights?

 

I hope Fatty tells him to do one.