Comments on: Local media mute on boycott of Newcastle home games http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/2009/11/03/local-media-mute-on-boycott-of-newcastle-home-games/ PR blog by Stephen Waddington Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:13:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Adam Parker http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/2009/11/03/local-media-mute-on-boycott-of-newcastle-home-games/#comment-5311 Adam Parker Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:04:28 +0000 http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/?p=1532#comment-5311 As a season ticket holder of 16 years I feel pretty qualified to comment on this topic. There are two key problems with non attendance. Firstly it wouldn't hit as hard as you think financially. A large proportion of the gate is season ticket holders like myself and they already have our money in the bank so the only people losing would be us not getting what we paid for. Secondly is the emotional one. The situation is a bit like your best friend going out with someone who you really don't like and think is very bad for them. Do you say you will stop going to the pub with them until they break up or do you bite your tongue and continue to support them even though you know it isn't good for them and will all end in tears?! :-) The bottom line is the supporters suffer if the football club suffers so this sort of action is a bit of a case of shooting yourself in the foot. We are stuck with him for better or, more likely, worse. As a season ticket holder of 16 years I feel pretty qualified to comment on this topic. There are two key problems with non attendance. Firstly it wouldn’t hit as hard as you think financially. A large proportion of the gate is season ticket holders like myself and they already have our money in the bank so the only people losing would be us not getting what we paid for. Secondly is the emotional one. The situation is a bit like your best friend going out with someone who you really don’t like and think is very bad for them. Do you say you will stop going to the pub with them until they break up or do you bite your tongue and continue to support them even though you know it isn’t good for them and will all end in tears?! :-)

The bottom line is the supporters suffer if the football club suffers so this sort of action is a bit of a case of shooting yourself in the foot. We are stuck with him for better or, more likely, worse.

]]> By: Chris Norton http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/2009/11/03/local-media-mute-on-boycott-of-newcastle-home-games/#comment-5310 Chris Norton Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:18:21 +0000 http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/?p=1532#comment-5310 Wadds, lots of my friends are avid Geordie fans and you really couldn't make it up. I went to see them at St James' park a couple of times last year. Mike Ashley seems determined to ruin the club. He doesn't care about the fans (hence the lying officially in the papers) and he doesn't care about the team. To be honest I have been suprised at how well they have started the season following the amount of first teamers that left. I just hope they get back into the Premier League and someone buys it off Ashley so he can get back in the shadows again otherwise this pantomine will run and run at a club which deserves better. Wadds, lots of my friends are avid Geordie fans and you really couldn’t make it up. I went to see them at St James’ park a couple of times last year. Mike Ashley seems determined to ruin the club. He doesn’t care about the fans (hence the lying officially in the papers) and he doesn’t care about the team. To be honest I have been suprised at how well they have started the season following the amount of first teamers that left. I just hope they get back into the Premier League and someone buys it off Ashley so he can get back in the shadows again otherwise this pantomine will run and run at a club which deserves better.

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