Craig 6307 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 ''Sports Direct is Fucking shit'' repeat... 90 minutes of that on December 3rd if you please.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LeazesMag 0 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Nobody in the media took SD@SJP seriously, they'll be calling it Sports Direct Arena though. Toonpack will now be giving Mike Ashley until the January 2017 transfer window to change the stadium back to its original name and prove his ambitions for the club by backing his managers with this supposed 8-10m quid per season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 I would imagine the long term aim is to make SD an internationally recognised brand. He's already opened stores in France and will hope the PL's world-wide profile will benefit SD. His driving reason for buying NUFC 4 years ago was never for the club's benefit or as a playboy's toy IMO, it was purely as a vehicle to peddle his precious Sports Direct brand into a wider audience. We are treated with contempt tbh - if he could do all this without us being attached to it, he'd gladly do so. precisely............which I said almost from the start............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13847 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 If £35m doesn't make a difference, what difference will £8-10m make? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38766 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 ''Sports Direct is Fucking shit'' repeat... 90 minutes of that on December 3rd if you please.... Won't that be more free advertising? I'd rather hear 90 minutes of "St James Park is where we play" or some such Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 I'm a geordie, I'm a geordies son Black and white through to the bone Sports Direct Arena is the greatest place on orrrrrth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 So HF are you saying that when SD inevitably become our shirt sponsors, this will also be free? I honestly did believe you were brighter than this. By linking the shirt deal with the toxic naming rights and quoting £10m for the privilege he's basically minimising the chance of anyone actually taking up the deal. Which means in a years time we will be wandering round with SD on our tops. You're going to mock me here but I think there's worse to come. Nov 11 - stadium name change to "promote the advertising potential" Feb 12 - Llambias blames fans for lack of transfer purchases & sale of Colo "your protests against name change is putting sponsors off" Aug 12 - no new sponsors therefore SD on shirts to "further promote the advertising potential". Oct 12 - Llambias blames fans for lack of transfer purchases & sale of Tiote & Cabaye "protests against name change is putting sponsors off" Feb 13 - Llambias blames fans for lack of transfer purchases & sale of Ba, HBA & Krul "your protests against name change is putting sponsors off" Aug 13 - Club announce they've been forced to add to sponsorship benefits. "have the strips in your corporate colours with your name on the front "amazing chance to fully sponsor a major Championship club for only £50m per season". Sports Direct step in and graciously offer to let use use Blue & Red as a showcase. Aug 15 - "On Sky Sports 7 today we have the clash of the titans, our new First Division coverage starts with a trip to the Sports Direct Arena as Sports Direct FC take on Brighton" meanwhile Football Club United Newcastle play their inaugural game against Hebburn Labour Club in front of a 30k crowd. I've made the statement & I stand by it. I will never set foot inside the Sports Direct Arena unless it is to take part in some organised protest, this is our club and our stadium it is not a corporate brand. It is Newcastle United FC @ St James' Park So you will be giving them the very excuse you state they need for all those things you predict. It is and always will be SJP, ignore it. Oh, and you'll never get 30K in Hebburn, it's south of the river, Newcastle can't be based south of the water, nee fucker'd go. Fuck off you cunt. I hate cunts like you. You mean hate people who don't cry at the slightest thing ??? Slightest thing1?!?!??!?!?!?! 130 years of history consigned to memory in one sweep. You fucking arsehole! Will the renaming of NUFC be a slight thing too. As I said last night it will never happen at Celtic or Man Utd. Imagine this "the Champions League Quarter Final between AC Milan and Chelse is live arfter the break from the Dominos Pizza Arena", it's as bad as what he's done. The two of them could spit roast your wife, "well I'm all for sanctioning positive feelings at boardroom level". You're a tit mate a fuckin tit. Consigned to memory, get a grip man, who amongst supporters (who are all that matters tbh) anywhere (except Sunlun for the wind up factor) is going to call it SD Arena. No-one who matters will. It is and always shall be SJP. Do I think what he's done is right, no. But it makes no difference unless you let it. You got over SD @ SJP, you'll get over this. Do you think Sky Sports and the BBC and the newspapers will be referring to where a game has taken place as SJP? You must be off your trolley pal, the whole world will think we now play at the SD Arena. I'd rather it was called the STD Arena than this. Kids will grow up, impressionable kids 8-14 and it will just be normal to call it the Sports Direct Arena, they'll grow wondering what the fuss is about SJP. He's done everything else you can do to strip a club of it's dignity, this is the worst, and the only lower he can go now is changing our colours and actually renaming the club. blue and red ? [to further identify with the logo .......... not so daft as it sounds] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 6865 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Why does it have to be a choice? Fuck me some people know nothing of life. TP is right to ask the question and only Stevie is brave enough to answer it, he would rather keep the name than win the champions league It comes down to what is a football club though. Football clubs have more and more over the last 50 years become the key form of regional and local representation. Newcastle United in particular as SBR said here "It's the noise , the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city". Feeling of belonging to somewhere. Somewhere that's constant, somewhere that's you, somewhere you belong to, and it belongs to you. In tribal terms Newcastle United are our window to the world. You go anywhere in the world you mention Newcastle, they are quite likely to know the football team, that's a fact. The colours, the stadium, the history and the heritage are sacred, it's not up for debate. We are playing with our identity here, and the fact intelligent people are pulling their y fronts down, touching their toes and saying goo on big Mike do you worst utterly sickens me to the core. That hasn’t changed, nor will it. We haven’t renamed the City or the area. I may be old, but you’re the dinosaur tbh. Football ceased to be all that you advocate the second it sold its soul to sky. It actually started to cease to be the passionate “working man’s game” the second they turned grounds into arenas by putting the seats everywhere and started the sanitisation process, music when the team comes out, thou shalt sit down (by law) thou shalt not swear etc. etc. They change fixtures at the drop of a hat meaning real fans who’ve booked travel etc lose out. (But hey real people losing real money doesn’t matter) People like me lost out because I had a season ticket but worked away from home and could only see weekend games (even then a Sunday was tricky as I often travelled then). So I was paying my money for just about nowt, yet I did for years and years, to me SJP is and will always be SJP, the fact that someone calls it something else is of no consequence to me. If you’re happy to subscribe to Sky and for the clubs to take the money all bets are off, the soul is already sold. What’s one more piece going to hurt. If you don’t have a problem with games at all and every day/night of the week, changed at the last minute, costing real fans real money and inconvenience, why have a problem with this. Until (and if) the TV money pit runs dry the REAL things that were important to fans and that made fans important, will never be important again. There’s no halfway house, it’s all in or nothing, if you embrace one part of the commercialism you can’t pick and choose the rest, because the money monster is thirsty and each and every revenue avenue will be exploited to the absolute maximum. I’ve accepted that fact and I hate it, almost as much as I hate the fact that cheating is now acceptable. Players, Stadiums (they’re not grounds any more) Training kits, the match day programe everything is an advertising hoarding. If the TV money goes away so will the Ashley’s of this world, and the major income stream for clubs will be the fans, we are nowhere near that and I doubt we’ll ever be there again sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 I would imagine the long term aim is to make SD an internationally recognised brand. He's already opened stores in France and will hope the PL's world-wide profile will benefit SD. His driving reason for buying NUFC 4 years ago was never for the club's benefit or as a playboy's toy IMO, it was purely as a vehicle to peddle his precious Sports Direct brand into a wider audience. We are treated with contempt tbh - if he could do all this without us being attached to it, he'd gladly do so. That's not true imo. There are much easier and less expensive ways of doing that than buying a football club. I'm not saying that it wasn't a consideration but I don't believe it was the driving factor behind the purchase. rubbish. It was obvious as fuck man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 6148 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 ''Sports Direct is Fucking shit'' repeat... 90 minutes of that on December 3rd if you please.... Won't that be more free advertising? I'd rather hear 90 minutes of "St James Park is where we play" or some such St James' Park is where we play, [insert name of other sports store] is where we shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monroe Transfer 0 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Is it worth creating a seperate thread to vent anger over Llambias' "replacements in the summer" comment? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 I just hope these naming rights don't get bought by Tampax or Bodyform. Imagine that the Tampax Arena. Tell you what though it's full of bleedin fannies these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Cheers for clearing that up Craig. Anyone read this with a sense of dread : Llambias added: "The fans want us to buy more players, we need a new striker in January, we'll need replacements in the summer. ouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 in “Toonpack world” the team on the pitch is what the game is about. oh fucking dear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 6865 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 in “Toonpack world” the team on the pitch is what the game is about. oh fucking dear So what else is it about then SirJohnHallStandMag I still call it the Leazes btw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6307 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 ''Sports Direct is Fucking shit'' repeat... 90 minutes of that on December 3rd if you please.... Won't that be more free advertising? I'd rather hear 90 minutes of "St James Park is where we play" or some such I'd just come back to the thread with the very same thought. Chants of St James Park, no mention of Sports Direct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeys Fist 38766 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 time to re-post this.... http://www.punchinthefacebook.com/node/255 btw, in the comments I hope your next s**t is a hedgehog you fat b*****d!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 time to re-post this.... http://www.punchinth...ok.com/node/255 btw, in the comments I hope your next s**t is a hedgehog you fat b*****d!!!!!! Class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1117 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 The boke is a cunt of the highest order who has repeatedly shown no respect to any of us and is doing nothing to help this club at all. All of his actions are nothing more than an attepmt to benefit his real interest which is Sports Direct. I would say he doesn't care at all if those actions harm us in any way but I actually think he enjoys is when he can do something to his benefit which also pisses us off. I still can't really see any advantage to him in doing this. If he wants to sell the naming rights, causing a shit storm before hand surely can't help him find a buyer in any way. And if he's doing it soley to advertise Sports Direct, the negative publicity must certainly outweigh the positive. I can't understand what he hopes to gain from this other than to antagonise us further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Would you rather we be crap and play at SJP or be half decent and play at SDA ? It's these ridiculous hypothetical questions that make you come across as a cock. Well, it's actually much more than that but it doesn't help. What's most important, winning stuff or the "transient" name of the ground (given it'll always be SJP to me). We wont be the last to try and do this. but this move isn't going to make us anymore likely to win anything so i don't know why you keep posing that question. more money won't be made available to be spent on players. that's obvious, even to an ashley apologist like you. is the correct answer. Lets see Chez, Toonpack or another Ashley apologist show us that his history so far suggests that this money will be available to the manager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 (edited) Team Positive in disarray here. Looks like their good start to the season couldn't be sustained after all. Will they try and get Deano and CT back in January? Edited November 10, 2011 by alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 6434 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 Is it worth creating a seperate thread to vent anger over Llambias' "replacements in the summer" comment? Aye, that is a story in itself, slipped out accidently imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 ''Sports Direct is Fucking shit'' repeat... 90 minutes of that on December 3rd if you please.... Won't that be more free advertising? I'd rather hear 90 minutes of "St James Park is where we play" or some such I'd just come back to the thread with the very same thought. Chants of St James Park, no mention of Sports Direct. Nice idea like but I think we both know it won't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6307 Posted November 10, 2011 Share Posted November 10, 2011 ]ST JAMES' PARK FOREVER [/b] You Can’t Sell Our Soul! We never really thought this had gone away but here it is back with a vengeance. The risible attempt to sell out one hundred and thirty one years of history for what Mike Ashley hopes will turn him a few pounds at some unspecified time in the future will not work. Ashley may have the club literature changed to state Sports Direct Arena but no-one else will other than the likes of SKY TV and other soulless corporations will fall behind it. For all genuine football supporters, whatever the club, St James’ Park will always be St James’ Park. The home of Newcastle United. It is the famous old stadium of Veitch, McCracken, Gallacher, Seymour, Milburn, Harvey, White, Davies, Macdonald, Moncur, Keegan, Beardsley and Shearer. The place our forefathers cheered The Magpies down the decades, where we have followed and where our successors will follow us when we are all gone. On The Gallowgate. On The Leazes. In the West Stand/Milburn and on the Popular Side. In The Corner. At St James’ Park. Not some minty plastic bowl named after a shop. Or anything else. For the City Council, St James’ Park will always be St James’ Park. A part of the City of Newcastle Upon Tyne’s heritage. I doubt very much whether civic leaders will agree to change street and road signs from St James’ Park to Sports Direct Arena. And if they do, a pox upon them. The same applies to the St James’ Metro Station. I would doubt seriously whether NEXUS will have a team up at the station with their pots of red and blue paint to appease a sorely mistaken businessman from Berkshire. St James’ Park is known throughout the world of football as the home of Newcastle United. It will ever be thus. St James’ Park Forever! We would urge the local press and media to decline to refer to our home as nothing other than St James’ Park. We will watch with interest which way the local media goes on this one but they should be mindful of a backlash against them if they are seen to sell out the club’s history and supporters. We would urge the local press and other parts of the media to continue to refer to St James’ Park as St. James’ Park. Things had been going well. Too well. The cynic in me suspects this announcement may have been held back until the season ticket offer had been taken up and we had an international break followed by two away games. Sad to say it will take more than a fortnight for this one to blow over. This is the history, the identity and soul of Newcastle United Football Club being traded. What next? Change the name of the club to Sports Direct FC? Red and Blue stripes? Ashley and Llambias know full well this is a move which will enrage supporters, young and old, here in the NE and across the world. That they continue to plough on with this foolish enterprise is pure folly. Just as Alan Pardew and his players are doing so well, with a new spirit emerging between the club and the supporters, Ashley takes aim with a shotgun and shoots Newcastle United in the foot. Again. This will be a tragedy if the inevitable outpouring of anger goes anywhere to detracting from the impressive work of the manager and the players. But if it does, the responsibility will rest entirely with Mike Ashley who once again appears not to have had his appetite for destruction sated. St James' Park Forever! Please, Mr Ashley, learn that the value of the club's identity is greater than the price it can be sold for and think again. Source: http://www.true-faith.co.uk/tf/features.nsf/0/0253D5F422363BB080257943007B0223?OpenDocument Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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