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There are anti-Saudi demonstrations at every home game, though not well attended. Those protesting are largely left in peace by the rest of the fans, which is a scintilla of relief. You're absolutely right that resistance to the new owners would be stronger had they taken control from a...

Happy to be corrected, but from what I remember from the time, we were up front with Brighton about our interest? But you're right, we paid a fee to bring his period of Gardening Leave short, we didn't wait until the end of his contract, apologies.

Seems the Man Utd fans are apoplectic that we're asking for compensation and a period of gardening leave. As if we should roll over for them. Such rank entitlement. I don't think we'll get the £20m and 2yrs, but that at least shows we're not just going to cowtow to them. I mean, from what I...

That is a complicated and nuanced conversation. Long story short, across the footballing world fanbases usually only protest the owners because of the way they are treating the club. Is that right? Nope, but it's reality. Before the takeover happened it was clear it would be sportswashing...

We, on the whole, don't.

58yr old man with hip replacements, with his son. So he's not going to have been giving it the big'un, Away from the main throng of Newcastle fans. Stabbed in the stabbed and slashed on his back. Even if he had been loudly singing and making a tit of himself, is that any justification? I was...

Ah, I was saying that there's one moron clearly looking up at the away fans, goading them. The of the crowd there are staring in the other direction, clearly focussed on the game. My point was that there are a few morons in every support, but most fans are the same up and down the country.

Sorry, I don't want to get bogged down in minutiae, and I think I've got lost in this thread, but I honestly don't know which particular group of fans or chant you're referring to?

What are you talking about? I know what's sung on the terraces because I am there on the terraces. I know what was sung at the impromptu celebration, because I was there. I know what the consensus amongst the Newcastle fans is, because I ask. Put it this way, if I were to make claims about what...

To be clear, we protested for progress (or transparency) of the only takeover that was accepted by Ashley. We were clamouring for any takeover. And, it bears repeating, the only reason this takeover went through, is because the Saudis stopped illegally streaming BEin's PL broadcast. Nothing to...

I go where I'm needed.

Staveley and her husband own 10% of the club and yes she's highly regarded as the person who brokered the deal that got Ashley out and the Saudis in. But she isn't Saudi. And you said we laud the Saudis. There are no Saudi chants regularly sung on the terraces. That last picture is actually...

Don't fall into the trap of conflating the joy that followed Ashley's departure with joy at being owned by Saudis. The chants at the impromptu street party were "Out of our club", pro-Newcastle chants and an admittedly ill-judged "We've got our club back". Amanda Staveley is a minority owner...

40,000. 20% of the regular matchgoing fans had had enough. It was sufficiently significant that the club literally gave away 10,000 half-season tickets.

Are they? From a lot of what I've read on here, we had no right to want him out because other teams had it worse. Or we've had it worse before ourselves. We're not ignoring the background etc. We're fully aware of them and each individual has to make their choices for themselves. And had we...

Ah, therein lies the rub; 1 we didn't have a say in the sale of our club 2 the other bids put to Ashley were not accepted, the Saudi bid was the only one he was willing to push forward with. Rumours are that it's because as part of the negotiations he pressed for the right to open Sports Direct...

I don't really understand the logic behind your post. Is it that Newcastle fans have no justification to hold Ashley in contempt, because during his 14 seasons we averaged a bottom half of the top flight finish? We must disregard everything else, and instead compare our average league position...

Haven't defended the Saudis one bit. I have defended the fans from some pretty petty internet point scoring though. I've seen us be called thick, that we're all lock step behind the Saudis, that Ashley wasn't a bad owner (and thus by implication that we were wrong to want him out), and so on...

That your criticism of us is somewhat diluted by the global acceptance of late stage capitalism

Why couldn't we be part of the chasing pack, like you've become, like Brentford are aiming for? What about Newcastle United prevents us from aiming for that?