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Hmmm first link I found when I typed "Is Mike Ashley a bad owner" into google and this popped up from a Burnley forum. A lot of people on there saying he isnt as bad as mags make out and thats just the first page I looked at so that blows your argument out of the water straight away :lol:

What else was on that google page? Because I typed that exact phrase and that was the only vaguely positive link. see articles from fourfourtwo, dreamteamfc (whatever that is), being critical, and if you look on further pages on Google, you see the same proportion. Even in that forum page I see people calling out the mistakes he's made, but blaming Newcastle fans for being deluded. Like blaming the audience because the movie's shit.
The replies are spot on.
:lol: are they shite, it's just talksport cliche's and ill informed bollocks. But, because they're critical of a caricature of Newcastle fans, you're all over it like white on rice.
 
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What else was on that google page? Because I typed that exact phrase and that was the only vaguely positive link. see articles from fourfourtwo, dreamteamfc (whatever that is), being critical, and if you look on further pages on Google, you see the same proportion. Even in that forum page I see people calling out the mistakes he's made, but blaming Newcastle fans for being deluded. Like blaming the audience because the movie's shit.

:lol: are they shite, it's just talksport cliche's and ill informed bollocks. But, because they're critical of a caricature of Newcastle fans, you're all over it like white on rice.
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Watching one of their vlogs the other night , 4 lads , to be fair they were good crack , knowledgable etc , until they started lauding Rafa as the messiah. Then one of came out with " Lets be clear RAFA DID NOT RELEGATE US --- McClaren did "
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Using mag logic, Allardyce, Poyet, etc... didn’t keep us up. It was all down to the previous managers.
 
Yes, the league table is to mark how you performed in that season against those teams. Your points total is something you can directly affect, nobody elses.

Blaming the fans for Ashley when, at first, he was welcomed with open arms, is ridiculous. It's his actions that reaped our reactions. He himself has admitted he's not been a good owner, that he's made many mistakes. If we say he's been bad, other fanbases say he's been bad, ex-managers and players have said he's bad, pundits and journalists have said he's bad, and Mike Ashley says he's been bad, why is it only Sunderland fans who don't agree? :lol:

We have a midtable team, with a Championship manager. A manager that no other PL side would have employed, and who would be avoided by a fair few in the second tier. We have that manager because Ashley can't pick a good manager unless they fall in his lap.

By your rationale, are Sunderland in League 1 because their fans deserve that?
It depends what you mean by good owner. How is that measured?

He's made some bad appointments, both managerial and directorial, certainly.

However, he has been a (mostly) financially responsible owner of a football club, that has turned profits in quite a few seasons of his tenure, and therefore been a sustainable business. Doesn't that count towards good ownership? Or does good ownership come only in the form of the wanton evacuation of his bank account to supply limitless funds to managers of a completely unsustainable business? There's certainly room in between the 2 of course, but I think he's been in that room at times.

The year you went down under McClaren, he loosened off the purse strings and you spent a small fortune. Unfortunately that was mostly spent badly, and you got relegated. Is that his fault, or McClaren, or both? Once you got to the Championship, you weren't asset-stripped. You sold a couple of high-ticket players (Wijnaldum, Sissoko) that had been bought under his tenure (for a combined 19m?) and sold at a massive profit.

He didn't hoard that money, instead, he gave a substantial amount of it to Benitez who then bought half of the Championship and kept together the rest of his squad, giving a massive advantage for promotion. Once you were up, he wasn't as loose with the purse strings, but you've still had money to spend - some of it was spent well (Schär, ASM, Dubravka probably) and some of it has been wasted on overpriced players like Joelinton (a 10er would have been closer to market value there) and Almiron (who caused a massive wänkfest, probably because a) Rafa bought him for a lot of money, b) had a fancy name, and c) he looked good playing in a shit league - whilst being unable to get a regular spot in a pretty pedestrian Paraguay team).

Bruce was a strange appointment, although up until the last few months his record was absolutely equivalent to Rafa's, and Bruce hasn't had the financial or actual fan support Rafa had. Style of football is also a bit crap, but it seemed to be crap under Rafa as well - I remember a few games under Rafa that were televised where Newcastle finished the game with about 16% possession. Set up two banks of 50, and hoofed the ball into touch for the entire 90.
 
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Still publishing this bullshit. Making out the takeover depends on them staying up now. Tbf some of the comments call them out.
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I've been killing time before out match and we all know about the Liverpool 4-3's but I didn't know about this cracker with the 89th minute winner with Alan Pardew popping up for Charlton :lol:. As the crowd was in the 15,000's then there must have been nearly 40,000 locked until Keegan came in a few weeks later and NUFC 1992 was born! :lol:

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It just shows how shit they really were and the low crowds they got yet they like to whitewash their history prior to 1992 and they've always been a 'top half' challenging team. They so nearly went down that year but Keegan saved them and the millions got pumped in chasing success. Yet in the 15 years prior they'd only finished as high as 8th in Div 1 and just the once. The next highest position was 11th and their average position for those 15 years was 24th so 2nd place in Div 2 given there was 22 teams in the league at that time.

They were last finished top 4 in Division way back in 1950-51 so not really a Champions League team regular if that had been around back then. If you add all their positions up after that 4th in 1950 until 1992, it's an average of 18th so borderline relegation :lol: In the 14 years of being the Premier League with Hall etc, starting with Keegan they averaged 8th position. Since Ashley came in they've averaged 14th. Strangely enough if you simply tot up all the positions they've been in that the average is just over 14th also and it was 15th prior to 1992.

Hoying the numbers from here ( ) into Excel, here's a simple graph for us to laugh at showing the overall average position and the preceding 15 year average. Note they were 24th in 1992 yet they go on as if they're top half division team when in fact they're exactly where they belong in the bottom half :lol:

It's only in the last few years that their overall average position has gone above ours. Some may say this is TLDR or sad etc but this is just to show the dirty mags they aren't what they think they deserve and the simply bought a brief spell of success and if it wasn't for Mike Ashley they may well have been fucked financially. Until we got relegated in 1958 we averaged just over 7th and it was 1994-95 when we went above 10th so still 5 places above the Mag and it's now 12th.

Any they wonder why we call them deluded? This is the part of the reason why :lol::lol::lol::lol:

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What else was on that google page? Because I typed that exact phrase and that was the only vaguely positive link. see articles from fourfourtwo, dreamteamfc (whatever that is), being critical, and if you look on further pages on Google, you see the same proportion. Even in that forum page I see people calling out the mistakes he's made, but blaming Newcastle fans for being deluded. Like blaming the audience because the movie's shit.

:lol: are they shite, it's just talksport cliche's and ill informed bollocks. But, because they're critical of a caricature of Newcastle fans, you're all over it like white on rice.
You mean the fourfourtwo who have to report on every club and probably only report the shite they see your fans come out with. Id rather trust a fans forum over them. Also I reckon any clubs forums will be saying the same, in fact most clubs fans will probably like to see you get relegated as you think you are bigger than you actually are :lol:
 
I've been killing time before out match and we all know about the Liverpool 4-3's but I didn't know about this cracker with the 89th minute winner with Alan Pardew popping up for Charlton :lol:. As the crowd was in the 15,000's then there must have been nearly 40,000 locked until Keegan came in a few weeks later and NUFC 1992 was born! :lol:

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It just shows how shit they really were and the low crowds they got yet they like to whitewash their history prior to 1992 and they've always been a 'top half' challenging team. They so nearly went down that year but Keegan saved them and the millions got pumped in chasing success. Yet in the 15 years prior they'd only finished as high as 8th in Div 1 and just the once. The next highest position was 11th and their average position for those 15 years was 24th so 2nd place in Div 2 given there was 22 teams in the league at that time.

They were last finished top 4 in Division way back in 1950-51 so not really a Champions League team regular if that had been around back then. If you add all their positions up after that 4th in 1950 until 1992, it's an average of 18th so borderline relegation :lol: In the 14 years of being the Premier League with Hall etc, starting with Keegan they averaged 8th position. Since Ashley came in they've averaged 14th. Strangely enough if you simply tot up all the positions they've been in that the average is just over 14th also and it was 15th prior to 1992.

Hoying the numbers from here ( ) into Excel, here's a simple graph for us to laugh at showing the overall average position and the preceding 15 year average. Note they were 24th in 1992 yet they go on as if they're top half division team when in fact they're exactly where they belong in the bottom half :lol:

It's only in the last few years that their overall average position has gone above ours. Some may say this is TLDR or sad etc but this is just to show the dirty mags they aren't what they think they deserve and the simply bought a brief spell of success and if it wasn't for Mike Ashley they may well have been fucked financially. Until we got relegated in 1958 we averaged just over 7th and it was 1994-95 when we went above 10th so still 5 places above the Mag and it's now 12th.

Any they wonder why we call them deluded? This is the part of the reason why :lol::lol::lol::lol:

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Fake news.😉
 
Who wants sympathy? I come on here to see differing opinions. Trouble is, there are people who'll say night is day if a Mag shows them the Sun.

Nah, the minority who think supporting their team is reliant on hating other ones.
No you come on here as a wum and get the hump when your "argument" is proven wrong. As i've said its not "all about you" it's just that your comments are rubbish. I won't reply to you again on this as its like explaining how to drive to a dog!
I've been killing time before out match and we all know about the Liverpool 4-3's but I didn't know about this cracker with the 89th minute winner with Alan Pardew popping up for Charlton :lol:. As the crowd was in the 15,000's then there must have been nearly 40,000 locked until Keegan came in a few weeks later and NUFC 1992 was born! :lol:

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It just shows how shit they really were and the low crowds they got yet they like to whitewash their history prior to 1992 and they've always been a 'top half' challenging team. They so nearly went down that year but Keegan saved them and the millions got pumped in chasing success. Yet in the 15 years prior they'd only finished as high as 8th in Div 1 and just the once. The next highest position was 11th and their average position for those 15 years was 24th so 2nd place in Div 2 given there was 22 teams in the league at that time.

They were last finished top 4 in Division way back in 1950-51 so not really a Champions League team regular if that had been around back then. If you add all their positions up after that 4th in 1950 until 1992, it's an average of 18th so borderline relegation :lol: In the 14 years of being the Premier League with Hall etc, starting with Keegan they averaged 8th position. Since Ashley came in they've averaged 14th. Strangely enough if you simply tot up all the positions they've been in that the average is just over 14th also and it was 15th prior to 1992.

Hoying the numbers from here ( ) into Excel, here's a simple graph for us to laugh at showing the overall average position and the preceding 15 year average. Note they were 24th in 1992 yet they go on as if they're top half division team when in fact they're exactly where they belong in the bottom half :lol:

It's only in the last few years that their overall average position has gone above ours. Some may say this is TLDR or sad etc but this is just to show the dirty mags they aren't what they think they deserve and the simply bought a brief spell of success and if it wasn't for Mike Ashley they may well have been fucked financially. Until we got relegated in 1958 we averaged just over 7th and it was 1994-95 when we went above 10th so still 5 places above the Mag and it's now 12th.

Any they wonder why we call them deluded? This is the part of the reason why :lol::lol::lol::lol:

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They'llall be scrambling to their pc's trying to find "facts" to disprove this or argue that net spend over this time favours them and they had more big name managers ;)
 
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It depends what you mean by good owner. How is that measured?

He's made some bad appointments, both managerial and directorial, certainly.

However, he has been a (mostly) financially responsible owner of a football club, that has turned profits in quite a few seasons of his tenure, and therefore been a sustainable business. Doesn't that count towards good ownership? Or does good ownership come only in the form of the wanton evacuation of his bank account to supply limitless funds to managers of a completely unsustainable business? There's certainly room in between the 2 of course, but I think he's been in that room at times.

The year you went down under McClaren, he loosened off the purse strings and you spent a small fortune. Unfortunately that was mostly spent badly, and you got relegated. Is that his fault, or McClaren, or both? Once you got to the Championship, you weren't asset-stripped. You sold a couple of high-ticket players (Wijnaldum, Sissoko) that had been bought under his tenure (for a combined 19m?) and sold at a massive profit.

He didn't hoard that money, instead, he gave a substantial amount of it to Benitez who then bought half of the Championship and kept together the rest of his squad, giving a massive advantage for promotion. Once you were up, he wasn't as loose with the purse strings, but you've still had money to spend - some of it was spent well (Schär, ASM, Dubravka probably) and some of it has been wasted on overpriced players like Joelinton (a 10er would have been closer to market value there) and Almiron (who caused a massive wänkfest, probably because a) Rafa bought him for a lot of money, b) had a fancy name, and c) he looked good playing in a shit league - whilst being unable to get a regular spot in a pretty pedestrian Paraguay team).

Bruce was a strange appointment, although up until the last few months his record was absolutely equivalent to Rafa's, and Bruce hasn't had the financial or actual fan support Rafa had. Style of football is also a bit crap, but it seemed to be crap under Rafa as well - I remember a few games under Rafa that were televised under Rafa, where Newcastle finished the game with about 16% possession. Literally set up two banks of 50, and hoofed the ball into touch for the entire 90.

Good ownership isn't merely preventing the club from going into a financial abyss. From the off, his appointments in the board and bootroom have been poor. Either because they're incompetent, or at odds with the way he wants to run the club. Yet he is too arrogant to give control of those matters to someone actually competent.

He's put the handbrake on the club whenever there's been opportunity to progress. Sacking Hughton, failing to build on our unlikely 5th placed finish, denying Keegand and Benitez control to the point they walk.

He's failed to improve our commercial side, making the Newcastle brand toxic by association
 
You mean the fourfourtwo who have to report on every club and probably only report the shite they see your fans come out with. Id rather trust a fans forum over them. Also I reckon any clubs forums will be saying the same, in fact most clubs fans will probably like to see you get relegated as you think you are bigger than you actually are :lol:

Why would you take ill-informed fans of other clubs who're repeating clichés over considered positions? If I ask Villa fans, or Chelsea fans or whomever, what they think about Ashley, they think he's been bad for Newcastle United. That his financial control is ok, but overall stewardship has halted and then reversed any progress the club was making. Prior to Ashley we were, at worst, a midtable side with aspirations of greater things, now we're a relegation side with aspirations of survival.
That will he your fans going on like deluded bellends
'Deluded' fans hasn't stopped commercial improvements at Spurs, Wet Ham, Everton, Southampton, Leicester et al. All were on a par or far worse than us before Ashley bought the club.
 
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Why would you take ill-informed fans of other clubs who're repeating clichés over considered positions? If I ask Villa fans, or Chelsea fans or whomever, what they think about Ashley, they think he's been bad for Newcastle United. That his financial control is ok, but overall stewardship has halted and then reversed any progress the club was making. Prior to Ashley we were, at worst, a midtable side with aspirations of greater things, now we're a relegation side with aspirations of survival.

'Deluded' fans hasn't stopped commercial improvements at Spurs, Wet Ham, Everton, Southampton, Leicester et al. All were on a par or far worse than us before Ashley bought the club.
Before Ashley bought the club you were a nothing club, you're still a nothing club.
Deal with it.
 
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