timnufc

So would I KD but there’s nowt we can do. Even if Ashley has a change of heart and gets the cheque book out nobody worth their salt will come to SJP. The failings of the summer can’t be fixed this season, the horse has well and truly bolted. All supporters can do is pray we stay up. Come the summer however it’ll all be very different. Then supporters will have an opportunity to teach Ashley a lesson he isn’t going to forget. But you've got to keep in prespective that money is tight, and the accounts show it is more understandble why he has been reluctant to splash much money.

The bit in bold is the most important bit imo. And I dont think anyone else should be brought into it apart from the board/owner. Maybe bring Kinnear into it in terms of offering him a 2 year contract showing a lack of ambition & credibility to the role. But it needs to be clear & precise, and bringing everyone into could potentially look like 'we're just shit team and cant be arsed anymore'. The players havent done well, but the regime is accountable aswell for the poor season aswell because we failed to get any cover for both full back positions, and a centre midfielder; what Keegan was asking for. Its not easy obviously, but surley the 5.5m spent on Xisco could have raked in a full-back or two? Obviously if we had a better manager I think we'd make better use of the current players anyway, but again, the board are the ones who want him long term - he's just a sympton, not the cause.

Boycotting should be done if we achieve Premiership safety, heck aye maybe even now, but like someone said, its just throwing idea's around. I take your point about something radical, and I basically agree on the whole, but your knocking people who are trying to get things done.

I was thinking exactly along those lines myself Again you are expecting people to organise themselves and remembering to bring an armband. Turning your back on the game, requires no extra thought than just being there. Do it for the first 15 minutes only if need be but it is simple to organise and effective. Everyone wear a black armband at the game? Not a bad idea like. The only thing about turning you back during the game is a lot of people would see it as anger towards the players (not that they've done brilliant or owt) when anything done needs to be blatently obvious its about the ownership of the club. But still a possibility if organized well.

As some have said, a boycott of sorts if Premiership safety is secured before the end is a must imo. I totally & fully understand the idea of, for once, getting a good youth set-up at the club, bringing more young players to the club and un-earthing future gems of football. I get it, and it could potentially be brilliant planning. But the point is, what kind of enviroment are you bringing these players into? While the manager is bieng led down the garden path, and the first team is fighting relegation with a negative atmosphere around the club, what enviroment are these players in while bieng nurtured along, and developed? Not a very good one, and the chances are that talented young players would be wasted coming to such a mess of an enviroment that nufc is, therefor the 'system' is redundant in a way.