Makom

Are you sure that wasn't just an ordinary Saturday in Glasgow? A bunch of cheeky neds in Rangers tops trying to barter for some top gear in SD.....

Might have even got Ed Milliband talking about zero-hours contracts again, using Ashley as a prime example of the sort of scumbag who uses them....but sadly he appears to have dropped that angle since it was revealed most of his MPs were using it to employ staff....

That's one of mine..... Would've worked. Instead of front pages on the Chronicle today showing mixed messages - fans inside the stadium holding AshleyOut posters which talked about empty seats, above a byeline that talks about fans not entering the stadium...in the next week or two we might have seen a few local MPs cravenly begging for the support of NUFC fans. It would have gone on for weeks, and been picked up by the national media, who let's face it need a hell of a lot of stuff to keep the 24 hour election coverage running. Since I've seen crap all about it though, I'm guessing they decided not to run with it, and instead spend their time printing A4 bloody posters by the truck load. Which btw must piss off the Green Party no end? Which is a good thing, sanctimonious fuckers.

You see, this is why AO.com needs some smart thinkers in the bunker. Every proposed plan needs to be vetted through the eyes of Ashley.... Motivated by performance incentives, the store managers would most likely stash it in the back and write it off as shoplifting losses using the CCTV of 50 blokes walking out en masse at the same time as proof of an organised lift. Once the stock that's delivered to replace it is sold, then instead of placing more orders the baskets come out of the back instead. The proposal ends up doubling Ashley's profits and makes his wageslaves work twice as hard to restock the shelves. So expect AO to announce it as the 'next step' any minute now.....and the N-O muppet squad to crucify anyone who pipes up and says, 'hang on a minute lads'....

No this one was a combination. I don't remember it exactly, but it was something like getting a crowd together, going in and buying socks or something, paying with pennies, then immediately rejoining the queue to ask for a refund. Their grand vision was that this would clog up the tills at the stores starving the shop of actual revenue, thereby bringing Ashley to his knees by crippling his empire. I shit you not.

I have to keep it simple, otherwise the N-O members who lurk here wouldn't be able to remember it long enough to be able to take it back to the mothership for absorbtion by the hivemind.

They sleep very well. Intelligent people who make obvious mistakes are usually kept awake at night.

Someone's been reading N-O. No word of a lie, that was floated in, and actually supported by others, in their very own AO.com thread. Worse, absolutely nobody was saying it was a bad idea, or even asking if it had been posted as a joke. That's how batshit insane the gene pool gets when you eject anyone who is smarter than the existing population.

Tru dat.

Yeah, whisper it quietly, but I'm not a mackem. Anyone could see a mackem wouldn't have the intelligence or guile to pretend to be a Toon fan this well for this long. I know fuck all about Sunderland, I struggle to even get some of the jokes posted on here about it aimed at me. My campaign plans were posted in a thread on here somewhere. I initially wanted each idea to be posted in its own thread, so they could be discussed individually. As it turned out, I had grossly misjudged the number of people on here, and their general willingness to engage, so I rapidly gave up on the idea they would get discussed at all. They then got lumped together in one thread, and after the next few pages of calling me a mackem, it's evidently died a death. That approach probably would have worked better on N-O, but those fuckwits were so quick of the mark to ban me as a mackem troll, they lost out on the chance to discuss my ideas at all, and are probably still discussing their own genuis ideas, such as going into SD and paying for stuff with pennies, as well hosting all the death threats against Ashley and Chronicle conspiracy theories. All I managed to post on N-O before the hatesquad succeeded in expelling the 'man who had no right to say anything if he had no ideas of his own', was to post my thoughts on how a boycott should be organised, and why it probably wouldn't work even if done well. And I was proved right. So fuck em. Mackem twats.

Your choice. The irony being, AO.com is run by person or persons unknown, and primarily organised on the internet as far as I can tell. None of the spokespersons in the media have identified themselves as being from AO.com, in contrast to the people prepared to stand by the name of the organisation they're representing - NUST, True Faith, etc. You do realise that the boycott wasn't even AO.com's plan, they just piggybacked onto a hashtag started by a random fan on the internet, who was at pains to say he didn't really have any plan in mind, he just wanted to 'do something'. What was implemented wasn't much different to the random hashtaggers suggestion - don't go to the Spurs game. When you look at it like that, AO.com actually diluted his plan such as it was, by unbelievably, giving posters to the people who went into the ground, as if they're also part of a boycott! Internet random I may be, but I'm not ashamed to criticise AO when they do things like that, and I really do hope people listen when I do, because suggestions like that were obviously nonsense.

Actually, I'm sorry to Monkey and Gloom, we've disagreed in the past, but I respect both of you because one of you has something to say and feels passionately about it, and the other is insulting in a creative enough way as to actually be funny (except the cheesy chips bollocks). I shouldn't be taking it out on you two just because Gemmill's upset that until now I hadn't noticed him. Apparently he thinks he's the forum wit or something. Can't see it myself.

Whatever. I'm off for the night. Have fun in my absence. Dr Gloom, you can cheer everyone up with your misplaced optimism, Monkey can flings his poo at everyone, and Gemmill can do whatever the fuck it is he supposedly does here that's interesting.

Imagining is all you'll ever do. Those on here who take the time to figure out who they're insulting and why, know exactly what the response was. Tedious fucks like you don't bother.

I told you to read my plan so you could tailor your criticism of it from an informed perspective, you said you couldn't be bothered. The distinction between you and me is blindingly obvious.

Oh fucking hell. Right, so, first it was you can't criticise AO.com or anyone else wanting Ashley Out unless you have your own ideas, now it's you can't criticise them unless you actually join AO.com and change it from the inside. Come the fuck off it man. Some people just don't like the fact I'm right, and will apparently say anything, no matter how daft, to attack me. It's nonsense.

Already have. I sent several campaign proposals to the bunker, which were well received. I can't force them to use them. And until being forced off for being a 'mackem troll', I was giving prescient advice on N-O about bocyotts. I can't force them to stop being a bunch of groupthink asshats.

I've done fuck all? What have you done that I haven't? How many proposals have you sent the campaign? How many times have you said something on here about whether action X would or would not work for reason Y, and been proven absolutely right?

No, I just don't want to be manipulated by people who perhaps do have one - to make the boycott look far more succesfull than others think it was. As for whether any particular figure is a success, a partial success or a failure, I've covered that ground already.

It doesn't look much emptier than whatever part of the ground it was that Sky put a closeup on of fans leaving after the last goal but before the whistle. Comparing it to a normal game is going to be pointless - if the crowd was 30,000 due to the boycott, then obviously it's not going to look like it normally does in stoppage time after even more people have gone.

I know. I've said that myself on here. I'm not saying the Gallowgate pic is wrong, all I'm saying is I've not seen a picture of it during the game, whereas I have seen pictures (TV and press) from all other parts, and people have been saying pics are being circulated that do not appear to be taken during the game, just to make it look emptier than it was.

15,000 absent according to "the organisers" according to Talksport just now. Although they did say it was organised by True Faith, and that Ashley is American, so make of that what you will.

They also do that just before the final whistle.

Anyone with an image from Sky, or anyone who has taken, or seen, an image which includes the clocks.

I obviously do think I could have done a better job, as I wouldn't have been saying so constantly. I'm moaning because I know for a fact that if the warnings I (and a hell of a lot of others) have been giving had been heeded, and if the advice about how to make boycotts a succesful part of AO campaigns had been listened to, then things would be looking better today. We wouldn't be scratching around trying to find the image with the least number of people in it to claim success, and wondering what's next or how to capitalise on the attention, that's for sure. I have been giving credit for getting the national attention - that's what I was on about with Carra. But it's small comfort compared to the stated goal of a boycott as a show of strength and unity.