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Ashley Shameful

Post by IanMcL » Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:55 pm

I read the other day that Newcastle owner Ashley sold land adjacent to St James Park (to a developer).....the only place where the ground can be expanded.

£9m.

He purchased the land from the club, some years ago....Well he could, as chief shareholder.

That is a rank action for personal gain, without any thought for the club.

What a w anker.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by bfccrazy » Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:59 pm

I heard he’s spent loads of money on wages and buying players too?

What a di(k!!
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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Spike » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:24 pm

no sympathy for Newcastle -arrogant bunch of fans .

in fact never liked them since FA Cup semi final-that still hurts!
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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:26 pm

I'd be very interested to see where this land is to be honest. They've got two massive stands but behind the smaller stands are a road (behind the goal) and listed buildings (on the side). Not sure how that ground can be expanded.
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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Spike » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:29 pm

Fake news then CT? typical dreaming Geordies

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:46 pm

Spike wrote:Fake news then CT? typical dreaming Geordies
Fake or not, I'm curious. I can't see how they can expand it and I can't imagine where he might have sold land.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by BurningBeard » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:48 pm

Barrack Road on one side, Strawberry Place and St James metro station with car park on another, Leazes Terrace with the buildings Tony mentions on the 3rd side, although not sure of their listed status (it's a fairly grand sandstone terrace) - Tony may well be right. That only leaves Leazes Park behind the away end - I don't think it's privately owned (freemen of Newcastle can graze their cattle on it etc I think) and you wouldn't want that stand expanded any more than it is right now. Imagine having to walk up past level 7, level 8, level 9....

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:52 pm

https://tinyurl.com/y6y4u5yz" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Report from their local media.

He's been trying to do something with the land for a few years by the looks of it, fair play to him.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:54 pm

I think those buildings used to be owned by the council but I'm sure I read they are health authority buildings now. I might be wrong on them being listed but this row is what I was referring to.
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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:56 pm

Just googled it, Leazes Terrace is a Grade 1 Listed Building, built in 1830.
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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by BurningBeard » Thu Feb 21, 2019 1:59 pm

ClaretTony wrote:I think those buildings used to be owned by the council but I'm sure I read they are health authority buildings now. I might be wrong on them being listed but this row is what I was referring to.
Yes and the photo will have been taken in the shadow of the stand which is directly to the left.

OK, so it''s land around Strawberry Place, i.e. the Gallowgate End. There's really not much space to play with there in terms of expanding the ground.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by CleggHall » Thu Feb 21, 2019 2:45 pm

Leazes Terrace was University accommodation, hall of residence a few years ago. Chelsea supporters entered and climbed onto the roof to view the match but still couldn't see!

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by JTClaret » Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:34 pm

Anyone else interested to see what happens if Ashley does sell.

I get the feeling there would be a buzz about the place, until they start complaining that they want more/better/bigger name players, begin slagging the team off, then the manager and back to the owners. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they would find themselves in serious trouble - but it would still be Ashley's fault for leaving when he does haha

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Thu Feb 21, 2019 3:46 pm

JTClaret wrote:Anyone else interested to see what happens if Ashley does sell.

I get the feeling there would be a buzz about the place, until they start complaining that they want more/better/bigger name players, begin slagging the team off, then the manager and back to the owners. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they would find themselves in serious trouble - but it would still be Ashley's fault for leaving when he does haha
They'd be like Villa fans, they'd soon return to their default setting after the initial buzz.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:14 pm

CleggHall wrote:Leazes Terrace was University accommodation, hall of residence a few years ago. Chelsea supporters entered and climbed onto the roof to view the match but still couldn't see!
When I first saw Burnley there you could see Leazes Terrace from inside the ground. There was no stand on that side until around 1974.
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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Jeremy_Bentham » Thu Feb 21, 2019 4:16 pm

. thought the title of this thread was going to be a recommendation of an up-and-coming pornstar the topic starter had discovered.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Chobulous » Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:28 pm

IanMcL wrote:I read the other day that Newcastle owner Ashley sold land adjacent to St James Park (to a developer).....the only place where the ground can be expanded.

£9m.

He purchased the land from the club, some years ago....Well he could, as chief shareholder.

That is a rank action for personal gain, without any thought for the club.

What a w anker.
I bet he voted for Brexit and I have no doubt he would have voted for dependence in 2014 if he had lived 100 miles further north.
B@stard

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Buxtonclaret » Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:40 pm

ClaretTony wrote:When I first saw Burnley there you could see Leazes Terrace from inside the ground. There was no stand on that side until around
1974.

Your right. I stood there with my dad & his mate around 1970/71. We won 1-0.
You could see over. Only half the ground had roofing back then.

I went again in the early 80s, travelled up from London with some friends and they'd built a stand.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Feb 21, 2019 5:54 pm

Buxtonclaret wrote:Your right. I stood there with my dad & his mate around 1970/71. We won 1-0.
You could see over. Only half the ground had roofing back then.

I went again in the early 80s, travelled up from London with some friends and they'd built a stand.
The ground was a right tip to be honest. This is the best pic I can find from back then showing the open side.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Buxtonclaret » Thu Feb 21, 2019 6:09 pm

That's a good photo, CT.
Can see roughly where we'd have been stood.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by ClaretTony » Thu Feb 21, 2019 6:12 pm

First time I went we were on the Gallowgate (far) end. We won 1-0 with a Moncur own goal.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Buxtonclaret » Thu Feb 21, 2019 6:15 pm

ClaretTony wrote:First time I went we were on the Gallowgate (far) end. We won 1-0 with a Moncur own goal.
Easter time?
That's the game I was on then. Couldn't remember who scored. Been to sleep since then. :D

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Socrates » Thu Feb 21, 2019 6:17 pm

bfccrazy wrote:I heard he’s spent loads of money on wages and buying players too?

What a di(k!!
Money the club has generated I presume?

Because he definitely hasn’t spent any of his own.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Winstonswhite » Thu Feb 21, 2019 6:18 pm

St James Park is a fantastic stadium. Sir John Hall or whoever designed it must have eeked out the maximum number of seats possible on the plot that was available.

As Tony said those listed buildings totally impeded a symmetrical layout.

Going back in history the old West Stand was one of my favourites (from old tv pictures and photos). Not sure how to post pics on here but it’s one of those where the enclosure goes right down to the pitch with massive concrete rails to lean on to. Brooding over the whole pitch.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by CleggHall » Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:30 pm

Sat in the then Sir John Hall stand in the 1990s at a Newcastle v Blackburn FA Cup tie, 1-1 draw. Newcastle equaliser at the Gallowgate end was so far away that no-one knew who had scored other than it was not Andy Cole or Ruel Fox! Turned out Rob Lee got it.
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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Touchline » Thu Feb 21, 2019 7:52 pm

Well there’s a thing.
Where actually did you read this Ian ? Source as they say. I believe the Beano is long discontinued.
The stadium can’t be expanded but he sold the land anyway. Developers tend to keep land they can develop and sell land they can’t. Usually to others who see personal gain in developing it for some other use. Also just because he’s the major shareholder in the stadium that doesn’t mean he can force another landowner to sell land to him.
File this under misdirected socialist nonsense.
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Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:02 pm

Socrates wrote:Money the club has generated I presume?

Because he definitely hasn’t spent any of his own.
You really need to have a read of this Swiss Ramble twitter thread before you carry on stating Ashley hasn't spent any of his own money.

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Touchline » Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:15 pm

“Because he definitely hasn’t spent any of his own”
Please explain how you know this?

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by bfcjg » Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:28 pm

I thought it was going to be about Ashley Barnes TBH kicking a small child who tried to talk to him whilst jogging or something
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Post by IanMcL » Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:24 pm

. wrote:. thought the title of this thread was going to be a recommendation of an up-and-coming pornstar the topic starter had discovered.
Sorry I thought that you would have already been acquainted with her, so did not think it newsworthy!

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Post by Chobulous » Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:27 pm

bfcjg wrote:I thought it was going to be about Ashley Barnes TBH kicking a small child who tried to talk to him whilst jogging or something
File Mike Ashley under “Fair game for slagging off” for anything he does. The truth is that the Geordies are Sweaties in microcosm. Spend all your money on us. We want the world as long as someone else pays for it.
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Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:37 pm

Chobulous wrote:File Mike Ashley under “Fair game for slagging off” for anything he does. The truth is that the Geordies are Sweaties in microcosm. Spend all your money on us. We want the world as long as someone else pays for it.
You should try and tell the Geordies that, about wanting the world etc...

They go potty, it's hilarious

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Re: Ashley Shameful

Post by Ashingtonclaret46 » Thu Feb 21, 2019 10:10 pm

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:You should try and tell the Geordies that, about wanting the world etc...

They go potty, it's hilarious
It's wonderful living amongst them, mind you, it's not all of them! They are no different to lots of other clubs' fans throughout the UK.

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