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You're making an elementary mistake here - presuming that PIF are taking decisions based on the best interests of NUFC. PIF don't give a single toss about Newcastle - the club, the town or their easily-bought simpleton fans. PIF are in this for Saudi Arabia - for image, clout, influence -...

He's right though. And not just about Australia - that you encounter many, many more Leeds fans than Newcastle (or obviously, Brighton) wherever you travel, is a fact.

When Qatar and Abu Dhabi start bombing hospitals in impoverished neighbouring states, murdering journalists, and imprisoning UK-based students for using twitter, I'll certainly extend my disdain to those other clubs' supporters, if they fail to any stand.

Thanks. So, in summary: even misogynistic, homophobic, war-mongering murderers* are preferable to smug, tight Southerners, as long as they pass an arbitrary set of regulations that everybody knows are unfit for purpose? *as long as they are filthy RICH, obviously.

No, it doesn't. It comes down to very simple truths. Truth 1: You were worried for your club's prospects under the previous ownership. We all understand that - he seems an absolute prick. But the club's existence was not in any threat, in contrast to the apocalyptic future you paint - there...

You supported a takeover? Yes. How many takeovers were on the table? One Did you withdraw you support? No Ergo, you did support THIS takeover. Literally this IS the only logical conclusion. It just more comfortable for you to pretend otherwise. Newcastle fans were faced with two choices -...

There was, at the time, only one takeover bid on the table. You supported it. Because, as per your own words above, under Ashley you faced the possibility of a season or two in the doldrums. The only logical conclusion is that a struggling Newcastle United was worse to you than a Newcastle...

1. Nobody here is trying to argue that Mike Ashley was anybody's dream club custodian - but the picture you paint of an inevitable spiral into oblivion is not based on anything tangible at all -merely on your dislike of him. He owned the club for 14(?) years, and he's financed things to the...

What would you like to discuss? Lets try a couple of discussion points, then: 1. What threat was there to Newcastle United's continued existence under the ownership of Mike Ashley, that necessitated an immediate change? 2. If you felt driven to support this takeover, simply because there was...

Yes. Your assertion that you only supported A takeover, rather than THIS takeover (when it was the only one on the table), probably qualifies. There is no logic in your 'defence'. You absolutely welcomed these murderers into your club, simply because they were not Mike Ashley. And yet, you...

You've literally just confirmed that you (you as in 'the Newcastle fanbase') supported a takeover by a regime that imprisons and murders dissenting voices, because Mike Ashley is a fat, smug Southerner who employs people on zero-hours contracts (who didn't buy ENOUGH £30-40m Brazilian...

Ironically, Eddie, that is exactly what your players WERE doing - every 30 seconds, from the 89th minute onwards.

I watched him terrorise Spain single-handedly at the Euros. DW is not the worst comparison, actually. But he's stronger and quicker, and just 22 years old. His La Liga goal record is 33 in 105 games. Wellbeck's, post-United / 2012, is 38 in 184.

Indeed. Literally the first one they've signed (since the takeover) that I've been jealous of. None of the others are better than we have at the Albion in their respective positions. Isak is.

You can't KNOW, can you. That's the point. United and Liverpool wanted Evan Ferguson. It could be him. It could be Julio Enciso. It COULD have been Jurgen Locadia...

Good grief. Yes, that's EXACTLY what I was suggesting, FFS. But you're wrong anyway, by the way. Of course we CAN sign a player of this calibre under Bloom - we just have to rely on the club's recruitment team to identify him earlier. In Isak's case - at the point he moved TO Real Sociedad for...

Really good signing. Would love to have had him here. Pace. power and skill. Top player. :down:

Well, quite. The Fish has made some reasonable points, and I do genuinely feel sorry for any decent, principled Newcastle fans - and I'm sure there are a great many. But as you say, his argument that you should only blame the authorities, and not the helpless fans, holds zero water, when in...

That isn't GREAT, obviously - but on the other hand, they did buy a Brazilian international - so it all evens out, really.

Plenty - but granted I was looking for them. I also saw plenty at the Amex last week - including worn by women and girls, which is a pretty sick joke, tbh.