IslandExile

Clearly none of us want the club to be liquidated.
I can understand people wanting Ashley rather than us being wound up. I do myself.
But a vocal group seem to prefer Ashley to CK, even without this latest delay.
What I don't understand is why the Appleby consortium isn't the second to CK or even the first choice for folks.

Clearly none of us want the club to be liquidated.
I can understand people wanting Ashley rather than us being wound up. I do myself.
But a vocal group seem to prefer Ashley to CK, even without this latest delay.
What I don't understand is why the Appleby consortium isn't the second to CK or even the first choice for folks.

Of course, you're correct it is extremely difficult to be ethical (and I fail miserably) but that shouldn't stop anyone from striving towards that goal - in all aspects of their life.

Clearly none of us want the club to be liquidated.
I can understand people wanting Ashley rather than us being wound up. I do myself.
But a vocal group seem to prefer Ashley to CK, even without this latest delay.
What I don't understand is why the Appleby consortium isn't the second to CK or even the first choice for folks.

Clearly none of us want the club to be liquidated.
I can understand people wanting Ashley rather than us being wound up. I do myself.
But a vocal group seem to prefer Ashley to CK, even without this latest delay.
What I don't understand is why the Appleby consortium isn't the second to CK or even the first choice for folks.

Sorry meant those mentioned so far!!

Indeed. But where is a line drawn and how to know when to draw it?
What do we know about CK btw? Look down his old Twitter thread, and even his new one and there are fairly disconcerting views on display.

Of course, you're correct it is extremely difficult to be ethical (and I fail miserably) but that shouldn't stop anyone from striving towards that goal - in all aspects of their life.

Some people appear to have confused the administrator's job of keeping the club running on a day to day basis whilst they find someone to take it over with that of a bona-fida club owner / chairman, expecting them to be all things to all people. Constant updates to the players, fans etc. 
It's funny to read people complain about a lack of transparency and poor communication from Quantuma and (currently) Kirchner while blowing the horn for Mike Ashley. 
What's one of the biggest complaints Newcastle fans have about Ashley's regime after all the infrastructure stuff? Terrible communication, keeping them in the dark on the running of the club, failing to give them any reasons for decisions made on the footballing side. Various reported takeover attempts shrouded in mystery. 
It'd all change if he took over here though, obviously. 

Difficult in the current climate when we have been set such a bad example by those at the top ???

Of course, you're correct it is extremely difficult to be ethical (and I fail miserably) but that shouldn't stop anyone from striving towards that goal - in all aspects of their life.

Doesn't make it acceptable just because people throughout history have exploited other people. Personally I don't want Ashley and if he owns the club I will not got to matches. Just my own little stand against a man whose business model I don't like. I left DW sports when he took it over. Sometimes you have to make a stand. I didn't go to matches when Robert Maxwell owned the club either. If other people support him that's fine,  that's their choice.

His Dad is a Red Dog though

Yeah. Get rich by exploiting other people. It's the British way.  The empire was built on it. ?
Rule Britannia....?

It's not really the British way, it's the way in every country. 

I became Graham Jones’ first follower.

Yeah. Get rich by exploiting other people. It's the British way.  The empire was built on it. ?
Rule Britannia....?

Yeah. Get rich by exploiting other people. It's the British way.  The empire was built on it. ?
Rule Britannia....?

Press Read 1 reply and you get Sky report from 5 hrs ago 

Are you seriously expecting no puns tomorrow?

I’m struggling to be positive about a potential Ashley takeover. With his wealth he could have bought us in December prior to selling all our better players and we could possibly have added to the squad to give us a better chance of staying up?! I know he buys failing businesses for the lowest price but surely the outlay (even in December) would have been minimal if we then got promoted to the Premier League and what the value of the club would have been then?