Newcastle fans took quickly to Twitter to react to Mike Ashley’s open letter to fans and staff and as expected the reaction is not positive.
Mike Ashley – negative reaction from fans
Here are some of the typical tweets:
Sorry, but that Mike Ashley statement is total bull****. Hollow words. #nufc.
— Carole Blue (@CabInStelling) May 13, 2016
If you need @NUFC statement today #NUFC it’s a copy and paste job from when Alan Shearer was in charge.#Shameless
— Andrew Davis (@andrew14ad) May 13, 2016
@ChrisDHWaugh
It’s clear the latest Mike Ashley #nufc statement is the same as when Alan Shearer was in charge and looks like #Rafa is gone— Andrew Davis (@andrew14ad) May 13, 2016
The amount of statements Newcastle/Mike Ashley bring out doesn’t make me feel any better about relegation ?? #NUFC
— Josh Preston (@JoshLukePreston) May 13, 2016
This man is a joke. Learning should of began after 2009 #NUFC #relegation #BBCSport https://t.co/KlEEQLK7Cr
— Tom Redcar (@TRedcar) May 13, 2016
No apology from Ashley & reminds us how much he’s spent!!! Can’t argue with that, but it’s who HE employs to spend it that’s the issue #NUFC
— Martin Lindsay (@martinlindsay_) May 13, 2016
Our football club has literally turned into a mass of club statements and petitions. Sheer laughing stock. #nufc
— smudge (@joe_smudge) May 13, 2016
#nufc I will feel just as emotional about us being relegated if #RafaBenitez decides to not to stay having touched our passion for the club!
— Kingsingh (@kingsinghsatti) May 13, 2016
78 comments so far
YouCouldn'tMakeItUp
May 13, 2016 at 5:13 PM
Comment #1He’s full of….. whats the word i am looking for?…. ships?….. Sheep?…. Shandy?…. no, i cant think of it
bettyswallocks
May 13, 2016 at 5:15 PM
Comment #2Ycmiu……. Hot Air.
Hail Wor Ashley
May 13, 2016 at 5:16 PM
Comment #3YCMIU
Shares?
Lee Charnley Bunga Party
May 13, 2016 at 5:16 PM
Comment #4So Mike Ashley has written open letter to supporters ! Same shit about lessons learned and apologies blah blah blah
With the amount of lessons that have been learned the bell end should have a PHD in Fitbaw
bettyswallocks
May 13, 2016 at 5:20 PM
Comment #5Ycmiu…… Pies.
Bobbybee
May 13, 2016 at 5:23 PM
Comment #6Don’t know what the problem is. He’s said he’s sorry and that he intends to make us a ssuccess eventually. Some people are so fickle. 😉
davis_toons
May 13, 2016 at 5:27 PM
Comment #7..devastated, hurt and angry.
That’s what he can only bring to the fans, the people that love the club, the place that we are proud of. He can make it right if he wants to.
He have got the network and the abilities.
He just didn’t have the heart.
BandB
May 13, 2016 at 5:28 PM
Comment #8Bobs
Are these little winks meant to convey some hidden insight that isn’t discernible in your actual words?
NoahJ
May 13, 2016 at 5:28 PM
Comment #9As much as I hate ashley and how he’s destroyed the soul of this club, I can’t help feeling like something of a corner has been turned with him (two relegations and a ridiculous 18 implosion later.
he wouldn’t have shelled out £80m in january, or intervened to get a top coach in Rafa if he was completely uninterested
here’s to hoping..
Mister Tuff
May 13, 2016 at 5:28 PM
Comment #10Dok -afternoon – how’s things.
You should not have posted about Darwin – Jib will be looking up on Google to see who he plays for.
As for the statement about flying pigs – Jib will be going -Ugggghhhhh Duh I fort they could fly and citing something like the following as proof and saying duh I’ve see a documentary about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRB-mxrbUiI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRB-mxrbUiI
davis_toons
May 13, 2016 at 5:30 PM
Comment #11Just one more time. Sign Rafa Benitez up.
Mister Tuff
May 13, 2016 at 5:30 PM
Comment #12What a winker.
Bobbybee
May 13, 2016 at 5:32 PM
Comment #13BandB sorry if that went straight over your head. Sarcasm is generally wasted on children, but clearly some adults struggle with it as well. Or was it you couldn’t resist, despite it making you look a bit thick? Carry on regardless.
BandB
May 13, 2016 at 5:33 PM
Comment #14I think you in particular are going to struggle to make the thick jibe stick sweetheart.
Bobbybee
May 13, 2016 at 5:34 PM
Comment #15Unlike you tuff, who’s just a w@nker. 😉
Jail for Ashley
May 13, 2016 at 5:37 PM
Comment #16The headline @ NUFC.com is actually. OWNER UNAPOLOGETIC
Bobbybee
May 13, 2016 at 5:40 PM
Comment #17BandB, you are so much up your own backside i don’t think so. If you fail to see the sarcasm in that, then you really are dumb. Sorry, that’s how it is. I know you fancy yourself as some sort of genius, but really, that’s not how you generally come across. You jump from track to track continuously, whatever way it’s going. Must’ve really hurt you when you came back expecting glory, only to find most hadn’t missed you or just came out openly and said you should’ve stayed away. Queen bee? Nasty annoying wasp more like.
Jail for Ashley
May 13, 2016 at 5:43 PM
Comment #18Berbs back full of pleasantries again 😀
Lee Charnley Bunga Party
May 13, 2016 at 5:45 PM
Comment #19http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/inside-story-newcastle-uniteds-dismal-11330852?
Good article from the chronicle for a change
BandB
May 13, 2016 at 5:51 PM
Comment #20Bobs
Sorry
Carry on….
Bobbybee
May 13, 2016 at 5:52 PM
Comment #21Little girly, maybe i wouldn’t if you and your pathetic little ‘we own the blog’ cronies didn’t attack me every time i post something. I can do this all day. Not that i want to, but if i have to. Tell ya what, why not save yourselves the embarrassment of walking away with your ass handed on a plate – again – and you just ignore me and i will happily do the same. I don’t care how long you’ve been on here – any of you – you don’t own it. You don’t control it. It may be all you have in your sad pathetic lives, but that’s your problem, not mine. Now run along, i’ve come on to talk football with like minded people, not get involved in your comical power trips.
BandB
May 13, 2016 at 5:58 PM
Comment #22Anyone wanna help me with my ass here?
Bobs is being horrid…
And very noisy.
Bobs
Does making a statement about the running of the club at any time of the day or night constitute an attack on you?
It appears it does.
Shadow_Shearer
May 13, 2016 at 6:01 PM
Comment #23Mike Ashley, u have relegated us twice. Get out of our club!!
Even if we get promoted back in 1 season, it will be the exact same. Kidding on your trying to win a trophy, but really just pocketing all the money to stay mid table.
You only have yourself to blame, u are at a club were u could be treated like a king, but u choose to disgrace the nation!!
Jail for Ashley
May 13, 2016 at 6:08 PM
Comment #24Berb,
You posted a line about Ashley being apologetic how are people supposed to know if you’re being sarcastic when you’re constantly winking marrow 😀
hibbitt
May 13, 2016 at 6:10 PM
Comment #25Lee Charnley Bunga Party
very good article well worth a read
mindshaft
May 13, 2016 at 6:11 PM
Comment #26to be fair if we get 1 more point in Saturday then we’ve more points than last time we were relegated so surely that’s progress
rebuilding a club is a long hard road and if Ashley’s sticks to his plan however much undeserved glam he gets, we should be on the road to consistent lower mid table and regularly be hitting the 42 point mark at around game 37
BandB
May 13, 2016 at 6:13 PM
Comment #27Thanks for the article LCBP.
Jail for Ashley
May 13, 2016 at 6:14 PM
Comment #28Berb,
And as for you handing ass’s out, you accused me of lying and then accused me of denying I’d said the lie, neither of which I’d, when shown the proof you just give a very grown up “whatever” before slinking off to chase your tail again.
lochinvar
May 13, 2016 at 6:14 PM
Comment #29Neville Chamberlain waved a piece of paper with a statement on and look at what effing happened after that.
Was Ashley Nero in a previous life ?
Just install Rafa as Managing Director of ALL football matters with Cathro as the Head Coach.
And get rid of the current Board none of who are fit for purpose.
Jail for Ashley
May 13, 2016 at 6:18 PM
Comment #30NoahJ,
Do you think that hiring a top coach might have had something to do with the threat of relegation or do you think that Ashley just woke up one day and said, you know what, I think I’ll make a fist of this.
welshgeordie9
May 13, 2016 at 6:18 PM
Comment #31If we don’t get Benitez then i reckon we should go for Brendan Rodgers, won the championship play offs final first time with swans (of course) and should have won the league with Liverpool, simple really.
welshgeordie9
May 13, 2016 at 6:19 PM
Comment #32Any cockney managers we know.
JamesToon
May 13, 2016 at 6:24 PM
Comment #33Welsh
Rodgers would be my first choice apart from Rafa followed by Monk
Jail for Ashley
May 13, 2016 at 6:25 PM
Comment #34I’d settle for Rodgers if Rafa walks but if Rafa walks because they won’t agree to his terms and not because he doesn’t fancy the Championship then we’re ferked..
dok - the horrid colonial
May 13, 2016 at 6:27 PM
Comment #35Sir Tuff,
..and me trying out my newfound british humour/sarcasm (note the proper spelling of humour BandB lol)
dok - the horrid colonial
May 13, 2016 at 6:29 PM
Comment #36BandB
Anyone wanna help me with my ass here?
Bobs is being horrid…
And very noisy.
Bobs
Does making a statement about the running of the club at any time of the day or night constitute an attack on you?
It appears it does.’
perhaps put on the movie Shrek, and let him watch his relative? (Quiet donkey!)
“
welshgeordie9
May 13, 2016 at 6:31 PM
Comment #37I hope there will be news after the Spurs match regarding Benitez, the club can’t afford to piss about and drag it on like they do with everything else.
Graeme
May 13, 2016 at 6:41 PM
Comment #38Welshie – have you seen this gem mate!!!!
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/former-newcastle-united-boss-steve-11328834
Bobbybee
May 13, 2016 at 6:41 PM
Comment #39Are you real? Maybe the winky smiley was for those too thick to recognise sarcasm, which clearly includes you. I’m sure 90%+ on here recognised it as sarcasm without the wink, but realising you and your cronies would react like children, i put it there for you. Still wasted. And childish? Please, your own personal foul mouthed attacks when you’ve realised you’ve lost a discussion point to you being extremely immature. If i ever sink to your level, it is purely a kindness so you can follow. Now, for the second time, let it go. The rest of the blog has no desire to hear us do this. I have better things to do myself. One single post, aimed at nobody, and it all starts again. I come on to talk football. If it isn’t me, it’s jib. If it isn’t him, it’s welshie. In fact, anybody else will do. The only one thing that links all arguments on here, is you and your muppets. You don’t own the blog. It is not yours. You whined liked crazy about multiples ganging up on you ffs and flew into such a paddy that you launched a multiples witch hunt. Again, nobody else was interested, only your little gang. Has it never occurred to you that maybe it’s not everyone else at fault, but you? So run along, and leave me alone and i promise not to bully you anymore. Again, for your benefit, sarcasm. Right, i’m going now and leave you to the last word, as i know it’ll break your heart if you can’t have it. Next time i come on and post a harmless little quip, stfu eh? It clearly went over your head, but i’m sure some had a little smile at what i said. So for the god knows how many times, for the sake of the blog not having to listen, i’m out of here. The bigger man is once again walking away. Just out of curiosity, have you ever heard of the expression ‘giving someone enough rope to hang himself’? I’d think about that long and hard if i was you.
Jail for Ashley
May 13, 2016 at 6:42 PM
Comment #40NoahJ,
What’s an 18 implosion?