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10,000 walked away. We were only going one way. Just because your owner was worse, doesn't mean ours wasn't bad.

I've already spoken on the many failures of Ashley as an owner, and I've already spoken on the fact that everybody's battles are their own. Was Ashley as bad as your previous owners? No. Was he bad? Yes. If football fans were only allowed to complain about their players, manager, owner if...

No, he's just a bad owner who will be the death of your football club. the point I'm making is pretty straightforward. We had no say in who Ashley sold to, we have little say in who owns the club now, if we were to oust the owners it could cost us a lot and gain us nothing and the stink kicked...

Convince myself of what, exactly?

We've only lost once as well. We'll be fine. We've got ASM, Wilson, Isak and Bruno to return to full fitness. We're creating chances and defending well. Just need a bit of luck and for the officials not to be useless. We'd have got a point against Liverpool (maybe more) and all 3 points against...

I think we have to be realistic here and accept that, at this time few have any appetite for ousting the Saudis. I get that it's easy to reduce it down to a binary choice, but it's not anything like that straightforward. There are protest groups, there are conversations between friends, but as a...

Orrrrr Truth 1. Most Newcastle fans were desperate to get rid of Ashley Truth 2. Any accepted bidder that got through the O&D test would be welcomed by the fans. My club is just the latest victim of late stage capitalism encroaching into cultural touchstones.

That's another part of this. I've been really aware of 4 ownership eras, Sir John Hall, Shepherd (although Hall family still represented), Ashley and now the Saudis. I was supporting Newcastle before they were in place and will likely be here after they've gone. I can't see the Saudis going...

I guess it comes down to semantics. You want me to say I support the Saudi takeover, because in so doing I'm implicitly supporting the Saudis. This isn't the case. I've said it before the fans, and I include myself, were desperate to see the back of Ashley, desperate. We wanted him out. If any...

That isn't the only logical conclusion, not by a long shot. It's reductive and wilfully ignorant, it's provocative and seeks only to divide into two camps. Life isn't black and white (pun unintended). My words didn't suggest I was talking about a couple of season in the doldrums, I was talking...

We were £100m in debt to Ashley, he had stated he wasn't going to fund us going forward and that we had to 'wipe our own nose'. We didn't have the saleable assets at the beginning of the season so had we gone down (which we would have under Bruce) we would have had neither the coach to get us...

Fair play. I have some friends who have reluctantly walked away from their club because of the Saudi takeover and I've nothing but respect for them. If you genuinely believe you'd walk away, just like that, fair play. I know none of those friends found it so easy to just walk away from their...

1. He had broken the connection between the club and it's fans. Under Ashley ten thousand supporters walked away, the club didn't exist as a sporting institution any more. It was merely a giant billboard for his sportswear brand. He cared only for our existence in the Premier League. Zero...

Sure thing mate. It appears you've zero interest in discussion and are far more interested in point-scoring. Well, you crack on, I guess.

Life isn't as binary as you make it out. I also would suggest that, were you in the same position, you may not be so absolute in your assertion.

Do you know the term "Logical Fallacy"?

I'm not going to bother repeating myself. Just look back through my posts and you'll see my position has been made pretty clear.

Makes total sense for other clubs to raise their prices for us. I don't have a problem with that. It's because of the perception that we're going to splash the cash, and/or because they don't want to strengthen a rival. That's why Leicester were demanding £60m for Maddison. Along a similar vein...

The thing is, some of us were protesting as it appeared that the authorities were obfuscating the reason for the delay in the takeover going through. They still haven't been honest about the reason for the delay. It wasn't about anything but broadcast piracy. It wasn't separation of PIF and KSA...

It's not that I want a top 4 club over everything, it's that, for 14 years I saw my club dissolve into a shadow of it's former self. I mean, away from the performances on the pitch. There was no fan/club relationship by the end. Thousands had walked away. re: the outrage it's fair to say we...