Excellent points raised stopped going to home matches 7 years ago last away game 2018 league Cup match against Nottingham FOREST. it's easier for me to stay away as I'm in exile in grantham. However if enough of us all did the same we would have had our club back years ago.

The 10k giveaway proved that low attendances bother the fat controller.

For the good of NUFC JUST DON'T GO.

Why is it we always hear we could've been a sunderland, a Leeds, a Portsmouth, a boro, a Bury etc but for mike ashley?
We never hear we could've been a Leicester, a Wolves, a West Ham, a Villa but for mike ashley?

Because that is the narrative that has falsely been spread over time by SDFC employees and Ashley lackey's Bishop and Barnes. This also suits the ludicrous cretins that love to hate former managers who had Ashley weighed up, and had the interest of the real supporters and Newcastle United at heart. These self-harming mutton heeds are getting more scarce on here with every day, $hite result and feeble excuse from Fatty No.2

Id take the chance of administration in a heartbeat, this cancer MUST go

Sadly the sheep will continue to pay the fatman to torture the club for another season or two

My understanding was that Leeds secured their loans against their assets whereas we secured our debt against future gate receipts. When Leeds weren’t making the money the banks wanted stuff sold. We were never at that stage and would never have got to it either, especially with all the TV money around. Didn’t we owe £46m for the ground? That’s peanuts compared to Spurs etc. but it hasn’t been paid off despite “Mike” saving us. But yeah things are really tough for multi billionaire Ashley so you never know what his plans are.

You know the score 👌

Exactly. Wasnt FFP meant to avoid clubs running up debts like that?

I was talking to a lad who mentioned you the other day. He is a rugby player who has 4 caps for Latvia and said he was from Forest Hall

There isnt one. He was doing some plumbing work in our building and we got on aboot the Toon. I told him I did a few articles for the Mag now and again. He said his Dad knew a lad from Forest Hall called Brian who also contributed, and I mentioned your name. Aye, he reckoned him and his Da knew who you were

Never knew any local plumbers but knew all the local pubs in and around Forest Hall...........🍺🍺🍺
Also visited the police station (by way of an invite) a few times 😄

I played pool for the Grey Horse at Burradon. Used to get to the Musketeer, the Waggon and the Fusilier in Forest Hall,
The George Stephenson at West Moor, The Puffing Billy at Killingworth, The Rocket at Longbenton, The Blake Arms at Seghill and The Bridge Inn at Annitsford. Good Times long gone, probably like most of the pubs I've mentioned.

In my sixties now but was a Burradon lad from 1962 until I married and moved away in 1982. The 3 pubs all within a stones throw of each other were The Grey Horse, The Camperdown and The Travellers Rest known locally as the top house, middle house and bottom house. The Half Way house was on the corner at the bottom of Front Street and Burradon club was at the top end of the street. Like I said, good memories a long time ago. Never been back there for over 30 years but it's been nice to look back on years gone by, cheers mate, we'd better get back to the football banter or we'll be getting blocked 👍

I'd take it tomorrow if it meant getting rid of him.

Administration would and would have actually saved us from him!! not the other way around
If 14years ago we go into admin, reasonable worst case scenario was relegation and sell our better players - THAT HAPPENED ANYWAY!!!! And no matter how far we sunk, without being hobbled and limited by the millstone round our neck we'd be better off than we are now and not have wasted 14years of our lives.
Can't come quick enough for me.

Me too - agree completely

I suppose Ashley's lackeys will spin this as "Oooh, look what happened to Derby - that's what happens if you're not a well-run club. Be grateful plebs for having Uncle Mike". Mind, they don't really have to try very hard with 50,000 turning-up. Bruce is irrelevant, he's just the current patsy.

This consortium +Ambani have Hundreds of Billions of pounds between them but they can't push through this takeover something is not Quite right about this whole affair and we as Newcastle fans may never get to find out the truth P.S the truth hurts that's what they say.

He does ,we don’t.
Fcb & cabbage out

If Bruce picked the local lad to be CB and played him every week though previously he was only ever good enough to be sub for the under 12 School team (kept out of the team by a very large f*t lass). If that local lad was you and you were on £57k a week, would you drop yourself just because 100% of fans thought you were useless? Remember football is only a game and your other vocation is working in a factory. Now translate that to Steve Bruce the manager who was by the way a very good CB. He isn't going to resign because of his £57k a week. So obviously the blame lies with Mike Ashley who isn't going anywhere fast either, no sir, not even if you burn the stadium to the ground. Imagine reclining Ashley reading fans comments from the plush £10k leather arm chair in his office. He is loving it and always has. If he wasn't he would have left over a decade ago. Paper airplane s would need to be cheques made out to the supreme oaf and enough to meet his asking price, then he is gone. Meanwhile any cacophony of noise...boooooooooooh! isn't even going to make him sit upright in his fancy chair, but that cheque will!

I could tell who was the author of this article immediately, by the style of writing. Well written, factual and no punches pulled Bazoox.
I think that you nailed it when describing Steve Bruce. Whether the club is relegated or actually folds, Bruce will come up smelling of roses, by stating that, being a dyed in the wool Geordie, he fought tooth and nail for the club, but everyone can see that it was purely the lack of investment which caused the downfall.
Nothing whatsoever about his total ineptitude and the pundits sympathising in unison. The guy is rotten to the core.

Totally agree, he'll come out of it 100% blameless. Cabbage and all his pundit mates will blame the fans, lack of investment, injuries, Covid, Rafa, Santa's little helpers, tellytubbies, three blind mice and Scooby Doo, poor local lad didn't have a chance. Watched Brentford beat Wolves today and it just shows how low Cashley and his regime have dragged us when I'm thinking why can't we have a team that plays like that, a manager who has a plan and an enthusiasm for the game, who shows a passion in his interviews, a set of fans who have hope and expectations, everything we haven't under the current shambolic excuse of a football club the paying punters continue to support. Another 50,000 through the turnstiles, the FCB must be laughing all the way to the casino.
R.I.P. NUFC.

Had to laugh at the "tellytubbies" bit, as I mentally pictured Bruce and Ashley dressed like that.

Sorry there is not a scrap of evidence to back up this repeated nonsense about the club being financially at risk.
There is 1 major creditor who has no wish to call in the loan.
The loan attracts no interest so the club can easily service it.
Income remains lower but sustainable for at least 2 years.

Derby have been badly run for several years, spent big to get our our the league and failed. Gate receipts are critical and they had none for 18 months,

Ashley could easily get £140m for the club to cover his loan if he wanted to.

But other financial geniuses on here (1 in particular) are forever telling us that the club is now in a financial crisis because of no crowds, covid etc and the fact tv / prize money is being used to service the club. This is usually around transfer window time.
Now another financial genius tells us there is no financial risk. Whilst the owner himself tells us theres no money available for players in order to secure the clubs financial future.
Wish you people would get your heads together & make up your minds.

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Is that the best you can do ?
The club is financially secure, operates within a plan and budget, which involves not borrowing or spending above it means.
Even you can understand that.
Derby, Bolton, Wigan, Sunderland and a host of other clubs gambled and lost by spending money they didn’t have.

The club is financially secure whilst it retains its EPL status. With static commercial revenues, the club is over reliant on the EPL TV money.

Relegation and loss of the main income stream, would put us in dire fiscal straights.

Financially secure yet constantly in relegation battles risking its PL, TV and gate money?

So were okay, providing the very real threat of relegation is dodged with great luck forever
Brilliant stratagem, what could go wrong? for a third time

Convenient you forgot to tell us of all the clubs that have cupboards full of silverware but are allegedly up to their necks in debt !
If the club formerly known as NUFC went belly up the queue to buy it would be as long as the tales fatty tells the gullible every transfer window .
As i said I'd take administration in a heartbeat

Clearly you don’t understand the difference between corporate entities and individuals.

You clearly don't understand who owns the corporate entities. You'll find its an individual.

But the individual is separate from the entities.
The fact that a person is the major shareholder is irrelevant.
It doesn’t alter the fact that the club is much more secure than most.

For the benefit of whom ?
Certainly not the average punter ,Ashley has done ZERO for the club the city or the region ,he's a parasite not only up here but for football in general

I know many that contribute to The Mag and many more that offer comment bleed the Black & White of NUFC - and have been since they were bairns. Some of us for many decades. And I know that many of us are bitter. We’re angry that the odious one has ruined our club, stolen our joy, taken our team, and has killed a generation of fans that have never known the thrill of backing a club they can be proud and passionate about. It’s sickening.

But even more shambolic are the sheep that support this regime. It’s not hard…stay away and stop giving the fat oaf your hard earned money. And encourage others to do the same. Any who b..tch about the team/club yet go to matches are the ultimate cause of the clubs demise.

Derby County was a proud club with a storied past. So was Newcastle United.

Hear hear mate.

Good accurate article Bazoox.
While I have recently continued to read the comments on the Mag I have not felt the urge to chip in with my views because I have grown weary of the whole painful situation at SDFC. I have said for years that Ashley does indeed hate Newcastle fans, we’re it not for the fact that we continue to feed his bank balance (even he will be amazed at just how silly we are still doing this) he would have seen us buried years ago. I believe he will sell, but not to the rich Saudis, but rather to someone who has little financial power and then only after he has ensured that we will never be in a position to rise to our true potential whilst he is alive. So you will forgive me if I do not have a go at SB on a daily basis because it is a complete waste of time………. like Bishop and Charnley and many of the other Patsies hired to carry out Mike Ashley’s wickedness SB will walk away with his hands full of money and won’t care a jot. The answer is and has always been a total walk out during a live Sky match and no one ever going back until Mike Ashley has sold his complete stake in Newcastle United and it has been proven that he has not one hook left in the club.

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The only reason I can't see us doing a Derby is the Supreme Leader not wanting to lose his money, that is his original buying price and his interest free loan. He was apparently furious over his losses in the Debenhams fiasco so I couldn't see him wanting to ditch his £250m to £270m.

He'll keep the club just afloat in the hope of a miracle by staying up or going down and back up quickly

Not much sympathy for Derby but if they want to get out of a hole and he's staying Rooney should play for them again for the rest of the season,he's probably still good enough to sort out their scoring problem at Championship level.

All that would happen is he would be replaced by another person that fits the mold. I assume they thought Benitez & Keegan would fall into line. I don't think we will do a Derby, because FCB has not gone into debt: he is about keeping us just above the water line hence the "zombie" state. Not going anywhere, forward nor back, stadium repairs "just" good enough. Everything scraping by.

Hopefully after the 29th Sept 2021 all will be revealed apart from the takeover Question Just another day in the the life of being a Newcastle supporter.

Are you a new lad? Enjoy 😉

They still dont - it isn’t over yet