Walkout

[TheBigSausage]

Article in The Mag suggesting that at the next televised home game the fans should walk out just after the game restarts after half time.
This will be televised world wide, hopefully the fat kernt will be there.

Good idea?

[waalsendmick]

The problem with that is, if we are losing, which we usually are, then it just looks like a petulant exodus.

[Stanleymag]

Nah. I think there's more sense in not coming in until half time, rather than leaving in the unlikely event that we are winning at half time. **** knows.

[Zippity]

It would be great if it worked-problem is that last time it was tried (against Spurs, I think?) it wasn't exactly a huge success and back then the atmosphere was a lot more toxic than it is now.

The current feeling as I see it is protest before/after the game but for 90 minutes support the team (yeah, I know the atmosphere is suffering because of how things are and, admittedly, the way we're playing isn't helping either but that's a whole other issue). With the previous walk-out, as well as Ashley, the manager was hated too and we had players phoning in performances on the pitch but still only a few thousand walked out whilst among those who remained, some applauded but some hoyed abuse at those leaving. Wasn't pretty.

Because of how people feel about Rafa, would it be any different from then? Dunno-as a fanbase, we're a lot more united and have a more coherent voice through the Magpie group so maybe it could be more effective this time.

[ghostrider]

Walking out will not hurt Ashley. It will hurt the squad.
It won't make much difference to Rafa either because the man knows he's in his last season of his contract, unless a take-over happens where he gets kept on.

The best thing any fan can do is just go and watch the games if they feel they want to. Don't protest or anything, because Ashley seriously wants out and is only waiting for a serious offer.

Now, here's the massive key.
This is what has to happen for those fans wanting to boycott or protest.
You can empty the entire ground and pour 1 million people onto the streets around the ground...all with loud speakers and placards demanding Ashley leaves.

The thing is, he can't leave until someone buys him out.

Bemoaning his ownership is fine but do something about it in a constructive way or leave him to get on with running the club until somebody does relieve him of it with hard cash.

This magpie group and whoever else is on the movement. Do a deal with Ashley and stop him owning the club. He seems to be begging someone to do it whether it's believed by fans or not.

Can't fans see what they're doing and what they could possibly do if they try to oust him by some kind of continued boycotting?
Let's say the ground does get emptied for the rest of the season.

What is achieved?
Do you think it's a good advert for a new owner?
Do you think the rest of the country will stand up and cheer the boycott on?

All it does is deprives Newcastle United football club of a small revenue from the fans who go without season tickets, because those with them have already paid up. A small drop in money, in essence.
The TV revenue is still equally split because there's no clause to say all fans must be present.

If it's kept up for the following season, it won't really matter, because the club will be playing championship football with players who are on championship wages, with a manager who can go through the motions until fans start to come back....and they will.

So what does Ashley do?
He simply runs the club on a shoestring budget that will literally be exactly that...and the club will follow Sunderland.
But guess what?

Ashley won't sell until he gets what he's asking for.

He'll just run the club as the big cheese of the lower league.
He'll try and build it back up on a real shoestring budget which will still create fan interest that soon starts to fill the ground again.
This will still keep his other business ticking along, except the major fuss will have died a death by then because (probably) the team will be winning games and being up there, just like Sunderland are doing and commanding crowds of around 30,000 or even more, just like Sunderland are doing.

Ashley can afford to do this and may have no choice but to do it if he's backed into a corner.


We can all argue with each other about our stance on what we think, but the potential reality of boycott's does more harm to the clubs premier league, higher league status....not Ashley.

Ashley knows he can ride this out because the club owes nothing to nobody, other than bills. And bills will fall dramatically to the point of jobs being lost inside the club and outside the club.

Does anyone think of this?
It's a classic knock on effect.

If Ashley wants out then let him be until someone comes along to hand over the readies.
Just support your club as you have done.
If anything, fans should be telling Benitez to get his finger out of his aris and have a go.

The hate for Ashley does more harm to the fans' well being and gains nothing.
I'd sooner have Ashley as owner without the bile and hatred afforded to him, because at least we have a football club capable of playing at the highest level and 11 years of his ownership still leaves the club playing exactly that. And I don't give a monkeys about relegations, because that excuse is used as if he didn't try and yet (as has been said before) we got relegated with a squad that was the most expensively assembled premiership squad to be relegated.
And yet he still addressed the issue to get us right back up at the first attempt.


And twice he's done it, whether people want to give him zero credit for it.

Nobody was crucifying Ashley when things were looking ok after the very early issues.
It's been a case of picking petals and shouting, " we hate him, no we don't, we hate him, no we don't. And so on.

It's a feast and a famine of hate towards him and has been since day one.

[ashingtoon62]

Walking out will not hurt Ashley. It will hurt the squad.
It won't make much difference to Rafa either because the man knows he's in his last season of his contract, unless a take-over happens where he gets kept on.

The best thing any fan can do is just go and watch the games if they feel they want to. Don't protest or anything, because Ashley seriously wants out and is only waiting for a serious offer.

Now, here's the massive key.
This is what has to happen for those fans wanting to boycott or protest.
You can empty the entire ground and pour 1 million people onto the streets around the ground...all with loud speakers and placards demanding Ashley leaves.

The thing is, he can't leave until someone buys him out.

Bemoaning his ownership is fine but do something about it in a constructive way or leave him to get on with running the club until somebody does relieve him of it with hard cash.

This magpie group and whoever else is on the movement. Do a deal with Ashley and stop him owning the club. He seems to be begging someone to do it whether it's believed by fans or not.

Can't fans see what they're doing and what they could possibly do if they try to oust him by some kind of continued boycotting?
Let's say the ground does get emptied for the rest of the season.

What is achieved?
Do you think it's a good advert for a new owner?
Do you think the rest of the country will stand up and cheer the boycott on?

All it does is deprives Newcastle United football club of a small revenue from the fans who go without season tickets, because those with them have already paid up. A small drop in money, in essence.
The TV revenue is still equally split because there's no clause to say all fans must be present.

If it's kept up for the following season, it won't really matter, because the club will be playing championship football with players who are on championship wages, with a manager who can go through the motions until fans start to come back....and they will.

So what does Ashley do?
He simply runs the club on a shoestring budget that will literally be exactly that...and the club will follow Sunderland.
But guess what?

Ashley won't sell until he gets what he's asking for.

He'll just run the club as the big cheese of the lower league.
He'll try and build it back up on a real shoestring budget which will still create fan interest that soon starts to fill the ground again.
This will still keep his other business ticking along, except the major fuss will have died a death by then because (probably) the team will be winning games and being up there, just like Sunderland are doing and commanding crowds of around 30,000 or even more, just like Sunderland are doing.

Ashley can afford to do this and may have no choice but to do it if he's backed into a corner.


We can all argue with each other about our stance on what we think, but the potential reality of boycott's does more harm to the clubs premier league, higher league status....not Ashley.

Ashley knows he can ride this out because the club owes nothing to nobody, other than bills. And bills will fall dramatically to the point of jobs being lost inside the club and outside the club.

Does anyone think of this?
It's a classic knock on effect.

If Ashley wants out then let him be until someone comes along to hand over the readies.
Just support your club as you have done.
If anything, fans should be telling Benitez to get his finger out of his aris and have a go.

The hate for Ashley does more harm to the fans' well being and gains nothing.
I'd sooner have Ashley as owner without the bile and hatred afforded to him, because at least we have a football club capable of playing at the highest level and 11 years of his ownership still leaves the club playing exactly that. And I don't give a monkeys about relegations, because that excuse is used as if he didn't try and yet (as has been said before) we got relegated with a squad that was the most expensively assembled premiership squad to be relegated.
And yet he still addressed the issue to get us right back up at the first attempt.


And twice he's done it, whether people want to give him zero credit for it.

Nobody was crucifying Ashley when things were looking ok after the very early issues.
It's been a case of picking petals and shouting, " we hate him, no we don't, we hate him, no we don't. And so on.

It's a feast and a famine of hate towards him and has been since day one.

Read a few lines wouldn't for the life of me be prepared to read the rest..
Now then if your beloved owner really really want's out,then why not put at least a half decent (HONEST) price on the club?

[Geordie1974]

Anyone would think you had some sort of man-crush on the fat kunt ghost.Be careful not to make your other half on here jealous.
Weasel Wise couldn't give him a more glowing reference than you.

[toptoon]

When the loyalest football supportes in the land walk out or do not attend when you´ve had 50,000 odd, every home game and through a recent PL/Chimpo yo-yo period, it would make a massive statement.

The fact many people have said recently that it´ll never happen, would mean that if it did then Sky, fatty and the rest of the football world would sit up and notice.

[ex_pat_magpie]

Ghost you give Ashley credit for getting us back following his two failures of relegation but according to you and your paramour relegation is the manager's fault.

You two can't have it both ways.

[Geordie1974]

Ghost you give Ashley credit for getting us back following his two failures of relegation but according to you and your paramour relegation is the manager's fault.

You two can't have it both ways.

Exactly.Couldnt agree more.No doubt another chapter will follow as a reply shortly.All them words just to blame everybody but Ashley.