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http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rangers-fc-mike-ashley-could-7957467#vwOiGs17lFA5bCp4.97 IF he is found to be breaking rules, bosses have the right to kick Newcastle out of their set-up in a move which would effectively see United frozen out of professional football. Without prejudice to the range of other sanctions that may be imposed in respect of such breach, any club in breach of any of the aforesaid regulations may with the sanction of a special resolution passed at an Annual or Extraordinary General Meeting of The League, be expelled from The League. There shall be no right of appeal against such expulsion.

Tbh there's nothing like the anger & resentment towards Ashley that there should be. To be relegated twice in 8 years & been 15th, 10th & 16th in the last 3 previous seasons. There should be absolute hell on about this rather than acceptance. A.O.com have & are in the process I believe of organising things against Ashley with the aim of driving him out of the club. I'm not sure why they haven't been fully supported as they seem like very knowledgeable people with the sole interest of trying to get SJP being the home for NUFC not some giant advertising placard for SD. Everybody holds Kevin Keegan in high regard & rightly so we've all seen the interview were he says "Ashley doesn't know how to run a football club" now we're relegated for the 2nd time in 8 years do you believe him ? If so isn't it time to show Ashley that his numbers up. Tbh I've thought for a while this is the part were Ashley sells up & leaves. Let's see what happens.

2 relegations in 8 years, if Ashley stays it'll be more of the same. I fail to see how protesting against the owner & the way the club has been run would affect Rafa's decision wether to stay or not. In fact I think it would show him what this club really means to the fans. Sitting there saying & doing nothing will show Rafa that we're quite happy with the way things are at the club. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8016878/Liverpool-directors-know-nothing-about-football-blasts-Rafa-Benitez.html I remember a certain Mr Keegan telling us the same thing about this lot. Rafa won't be able to work with them

12/05/2016 Yesterday evening Newcastle United were relegated from the Premier League for the second time in the space of eight seasons, and only the sixth time in our history, following a win by our arch rivals Sunderland no less. Nobody can argue this relegation has not been coming or that it is undeserved. Since the fateful day Mike Ashley took over our club nearly nine years ago, the clubs average league finishing position has dropped to 14th (from 9th in the same period before Ashleys arrival) and the club has been involved in relegation scraps in three of the last four seasons. Make no mistake, this relegation has long been on the cards. The increased spending in the past two transfer windows (not of penny of which came directly from Ashley), using a failed transfer model targeting inexperienced players over proven quality, reeks of a desperate last ditch effort attempt to cling on to Premier League riches rather than a genuine sign of ambition. As does the late and desperate appointment of Rafa Benitez, a quality manager and a man of class and dignity who deserves our respect for attempting to, and almost succeeding in, preventing the inevitable from happening. Less than twelve months ago, with the club on the brink of relegation, Mike Ashley had the followingmessage to the clubs fans: [Responsibility lies at] my door. () We may have the cart financially but we now need to bolt the horse on it, and were going to () Today we dont need to be unlucky, not today. But from this day forward we will definitely be making our own luck. In the coming days and weeks we will no doubt hear that a thorough review into the clubs failings in the past season will take place, as we seem to do at the end of every season, but nothing ever changes in the clubs philosophy. Some heads may even roll as Ashley will want to lay the blame at the door of the incompetent lackeys he elected to appoint in key positions in the first place. From Llambias to Charnley, from Wise to Carr and from Kinnear to Pardew to Carver to McClaren the names have changed but the same failings remain. The one constant throughout the last nine years of almost complete and utter failure has been Mike Ashley himself, the man who would have the fans believe he has had nil effect on the conduct of the club at board and pitch level. It is clear thought that the the culture of failure that has pervaded every area of the club in the past nine years, and which has led to embarrassing results from the senior team to the reserve and youth teams, doesnt stem from the stewards, the tea lady, the academy prospects or, in many ways, even the first team it always comes from the very top. At AshleyOut.com we have laid low but we have not gone away. We have tried to remain active on social media but as individuals we cannot devote all of our time to this campaign we have families and jobs like everyone else. We always have and always will require the support of fellow fans. We cannot achieve anything on our own and we need the fanbase to be united in protest to have any hope of achieving our objective of creating a better future of Newcastle United. To that end, we implore fans to join us in the #AshleyEmbargo, i.e. to not spend another penny on Mike Ashleys Newcastle United and to awaken from apathy and disillusionment to join any protests we or others may organise in the future. Contrary to popular opinion, there are potential buyers out there and there always have been. The problem has never been a lack of interest in the club but rather Ashleys reluctance to even speak to interested parties. Ashleys relationship with Newcastle is parasitic, he is using our club as a billboard and profiting at the clubs expense. Its up to us, as fans, to make perfectly clear to him that he is not wanted here and that his other business interests will suffer if he remains. The last word from Ashley himself, not long ago speaking to Sky News: Do I regret getting into football? The answer is yes. () I wanted to help Newcastle, I wanted to make it better. I do not seem to have had that effect. Indeed you havent Mike. Time to sell up and leave. #AshleyOut

Here Terry time to tighten your ball cock your sisters plumbing needs seeing to again .

Aye retaining Rafa is the big one if we can't keep him here just pick 11 fans out of SJP they'll do a better job than this lot.

I concur

IF Rafa stays we will quickly see he won't be a sock puppet for Ashley. Also any venom directed at Ashley & Charnley will have no affect on Rafa's ability to do his job. His priority will be the team & football tbh he's probably not even met Ashley.

Why would that affect Rafa's decision if the fans show their disdain towards Ashley, Charnley & Co. Surely it would show Rafa how much the club means to the fans & their resentment of the clowns running the circus.

SJP will be like a morgue on Sunday even though it's a sell out. But tbh it should be a toxic shit fest aimed at Ashley, Charnley, & Co. Relegated again eh fanks Mike you utter toss pot you can shove your horse & cart up your arse. Do us all a favour sell up & fuck off.

There's talk of him going to Everton or being offered the Spain job would either of those be more tempting than staying here in the Championship.

Taylor, Mbabu & Doumbia (I know) all out of contract.

Good point

This from todays Chronicle Fabricio Coloccini - who hasn’t featured for the club since mid-February - has insisted “of course” he is committed to United for the future, though the Magpies skipper failed to confirm if he will stay if the club are relegated.

The only good thing to come out of this is its probably lost Ashley a lot of money.

Ten Years of Mike Ashley: - Feel free to share this the next time a fan of another club tells you "he hasn't done a bad job". Twice relegated (pending the inevitable) Twice appointed Joe Kinnear Only two top ten finishes in ten years. Five relegation fights. Twice lost major lawsuits launched by his own staff (Keegan/Gutierez) Branded a "liar" by a high court judge in the Keegan trial. Found guilty of firing a player because he had cancer in the Gutierez trial! Had John Carver fire two senior players by telephone (the same call - to save money) then...fired John Carver. Hired John Carver. Fired the popular Chris Hughton after he masterminded the club's return to the Premier League and a 5-1 thrashing of Sunderland. Hired Alan Pardew who became the first ever NUFC manager to lose four consecutive derbies and the worst losing streak for 100 years! Inherited debt of 129 million when he bought the club - this has remained static for TEN YEARS, despite his media friends telling everyone he "cleared the debt" - he hasn't...not a penny. He transferred it to himself so that instead of NUFC owing a bank £129 million we owe HIM £129 million.A figure that never reduces despite the vast profits he has turned over in player sales nearly every season. None of this debt has ever been cleared despite this benevolence allowing him to cream transfer profits and use the stadium as his own personal advertising space for Sports Direct FOR FREE! Here's a few other things he did: Changed the name of St. James Park to "Sports Direct Arena". Total funds received from Sports Direct for this honour: £0 Declared it club policy at a fans forum that winning cups was "not a priority" as it interfered with club's stated goal of "finishing tenth". Declared "The buck stops here" after the club dodged relegation last year. Declared "Don't come crying to me" around a month ago when it became apparent that the club will now be relegated for the second time under his watch. Declared "I have virtually nil effect on Newcastle United" in the same interview. The Newcastle United that I grew up watching challenged for the title 20 years ago, played regularly in Europe and reached two FA cup Finals. They played in the Champions league under Bobby Robson and even when they were terrible under Dalglish and Gullit they reached FA Cup Finals and had a soul. The NUFC I have watched under the Ashley Regime is not the same institution, he has leached and bled the heart out of the club, turning the stadium into a tacky billboard for a zero hours contract charver clothes store, the shirt into a barely recognisable advert for a classless payday lender, the playing staff into a revolving door of legends in their own minds, whose only interest is to step into a shop window and be sold for profit to whoever will have them. He has isolated and alienated club legends and sucked the willpower out of supporters who were once considered some of the noisiest in the country. NUFC under Ashley is a hollow vacant shell so don't peddle your "he's done a good job" myths or your "but he cleared the debt" fantasies at me. Until he is gone you can look forward to the Sports Direct Boot stamping on your face forever. Wake up Newcastle. Do whatever it takes to get rid of this parasite...and no, I don't mean throwing a bunch of f***ing beachballs onto the pitch. ‪#‎ashleyout‬

Do you think we'll hear the horse & cart story from Ashley before the Spurs game if Sky televise it?

I expect this being a horrible nervy game I just hope Rafa sends them out in all out attack mode from the off. We all know how much they would love to drag us down with them someone said it's the biggest game in a decade I think it's bigger than that. If we manage to stay up & retain Rafa's services & he's allowed full reign who knows we could be were Leicester are next season.

I'd have like to have seen Mitrovic start this one instead of "Offside Dave"

I agree about Allardyce's comments having little effect on the game. But it's fairly certain that Pardew would be more than willing to help us on the way to relegation.

Sticking with my scintillating predictions I'll go 0-2 there we should get something now.

but there just aren't enough games left. Getting Rafa in a couple of games earlier could have made all the difference. If they'd have appointed him after the Chelsea game we could have had him in charge for Stoke (a) 1-0 & Bournemouth (h) 1-3 we could have had another 4 or 6 points. Instead they continued on with McClaren & his "things are getting better" spiel when evidently they weren't

Anything less than wins against Palace & Villa & we're done.

I know mate but they always manage to scrape their way out of it. They are the boil on the arse of the Premier League.

Aye we're fooked when you look at it like that.