[BIGbungle]

Can all you facebook users out there log on and join this group

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=31072394616

Petition for Mike Ashley to sack Joey Barton

Please join the group and invite all your friends to join too and help get this thug out of Newcastle.

Thanx

[ed_mcl]

I don't for one second think that Mike Ashley will give two hoots what some saddos on Facebook think he should do. What a waste of time.

[Jason_S]

Originally Posted by ed_mcl

I don't for one second think that Mike Ashley will give two hoots what some saddos on Facebook think he should do. What a waste of time.

I agree (in a more polite way though )

I dont think it matters even if you were to get 50 million names,

I personally dont think Joey Barton is a bad player so i can understand why Newcastle havin given him a second second chance because hes good talent and they spent alot on him so it would just mean bad business to get rid of him.

Saying that i would not have him at spurs and i think he is more trouble then he is worth

[Steve N]

Originally Posted by Jason_S

I agree (in a more polite way though )

I dont think it matters even if you were to get 50 million names,

I personally dont think Joey Barton is a bad player so i can understand why Newcastle havin given him a second second chance because hes good talent and they spent alot on him so it would just mean bad business to get rid of him.

Thats the way I see it.

Barton was part of Bigs Sams buying philosophy:

If they're flawed or verging on retirement then get 'em cos they'll be cheap.

Fine for the likes of low budget teams like Bolton, but not exactly buying for the future though.

[Loftusrd1980]

Originally Posted by ed_mcl

I don't for one second think that Mike Ashley will give two hoots what some saddos on Facebook think he should do. What a waste of time.

It's about making your voice known. I am sure nothing will be done but if everybody took that attitude nothing would ever change.

[ed_mcl]

Perhaps, but if Mike Ashley and NUFC honestly cared about what the public and press think, even Newcastle fans themselves then I doubt Barton would have returned. It's fair enough people calling for Newcastle to take action; it's not their +£5m investment.

I am sure nothing will be done but if everybody took that attitude nothing would ever change.

If these people were genuinely that bothered I'd think they'd be doing more than creating some petition on Facebook.

[BIGbungle]

Originally Posted by Jason_S

I agree (in a more polite way though )

I dont think it matters even if you were to get 50 million names,

I personally dont think Joey Barton is a bad player so i can understand why Newcastle havin given him a second second chance because hes good talent and they spent alot on him so it would just mean bad business to get rid of him.

Saying that i would not have him at spurs and i think he is more trouble then he is worth

Its not about him being a good player or how much he has cost I would think the same if he was the best player in the world and cost 50million quid. he is just a mindless thug and should not represent the club I love. Take a look at the cctv video of his attack and make your own mind up if he was at your club what would you do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMorhNRmiDM

[johnscarlet]

A few MOTM award and a few goals , the Geordie faithful will be singing his name like nothing happened.
The guy has served his sentence, hopefullt he will have learned and move on . But time will tell

[overkill]

Originally Posted by johnscarlet

A few MOTM award and a few goals , the Geordie faithful will be singing his name like nothing happened.
The guy has served his sentence, hopefullt he will have learned and move on . But time will tell

Fat chance. The guys a mindless thug - and he's not changed a bit. His former neighbours (Merseysides not an easy place to bury your past) have all expressed no surprise at all at his behaviour.

He won't change, he's never learned.

All football has done is allow him to act the thug in front of millions.

I don't agree at all, going on what happened at Blackburn over Big Sam, that fans cannot influence their club. All I would say is, is that directly petitioning the club rather than messing with facebook would be a route more liable to bring about any action.

Agree totally with the guy above. He's a disgrace to the game and it would be a darn sight better off without him in it.

In any capacity.

[dablk]

A disgrace to football... yes
A thug..yes
A troubled young man who has rage issues...yes
While it happen again...Yes unless his thearapy can cure him.

There is probably more chance of him playing again for England than Newcastle tearing up his contract. Kegan had to say somthing to cover up the fact that Newcastle wont just sack him.

If they did release him would another premiership club/championship club snap him up...yes.

But i'm sure they will explain how they will be the ones to guide him straight.

[Miyazaki]

Originally Posted by johnscarlet

A few MOTM award and a few goals , the Geordie faithful will be singing his name like nothing happened.
The guy has served his sentence, hopefullt he will have learned and move on . But time will tell

He is a role model to millions of working class children who might otherwise have no male role model.

He should be sacked and never allowed to be paid to kick a ball again.

[Steven]

I await the length of the FA ban (unless its smoke and mirrors!)

Newcastle would not sack him. Can they spare the loss? Also their squad is thin. I know its grim to be talking about such terms considering this should be about more than football, but such is life

[overkill]

Originally Posted by Games Guru

He is a role model to millions of working class children who might otherwise have no male role model.

He should be sacked and never allowed to be paid to kick a ball again.

...........and here we touch on a much wider issue. Thinking back to when I was a kid, we really did have it better in that sense. Footballers were, contrary to the annoying BS the old lags put out now, paid a lot of money, but nothing like the joke figures they are now. Yet, with a few exceptions they still behaved in a way the clubs deemed 'acceptable' off the park. If they didn't, then were given hefty fines, fines that actually hurt the pocket, or, in extreme cases offloaded and the public told why. On the pitch though they dished it out, and took it. Yet even then it had an odd dignity.

Now it's spoilt cheats on the pitch, who can't behave like men otherwise Sepp splatter and his puppet at UEFA jump up and down, who are paid silly amounts of money and behave like a load of chavs on a bad day in Ibiza off the pitch. Dangerous driving (getting off which seems to be club related...) drunken brawls, assault, harrasment of women, you name it, they do it.

And we wonder why kids behave badly with that lot as 'role models'................

[Steven]

Well in the decade I was born I read of riots and segregation?

In the decade I grew up in, we all copied that Robbie Fowler goal celebration, so don't be quite effusive about role models of the yesteryear

[Germinator]

Joey Barton is total scum of the earth and if he does return to football then I hope he has some serious ligament damage along with a badly broken ankle, just to teach him a lesson.

[overkill]

Originally Posted by LFC_SL

Well in the decade I was born I read of riots and segregation?

In the decade I grew up in, we all copied that Robbie Fowler goal celebration, so don't be quite effusive about role models of the yesteryear

One, they were off the pitch, and again on a deeper note, it's perhaps no coincidence that with football hooliganism under control, youth violence in wider society has become worse (according to many analysts it was a release for the thug that never goes away), and two, I hardly think Fowlers act, in the 90's at that, was in the generation I was taking of.

That fell into 'modern footballers' behaviour about which I was talking.

[GaryB]

FA have just decided their verdict. 6 game ban and £25k fine:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ed/7599647.stm

[IAN P]

Pretty lenient considering what he did.

[GaryB]

That's what I thought. Given the new "Respect" campaign, I expected them to make an example of him and ban him until next year at least.

[avinitski]

Originally Posted by overkill

I don't agree at all, going on what happened at Blackburn over Big Sam, that fans cannot influence their club.

what do you mean here?

i think the fans, myself included, did possible influence the board over NOT appointing Big Sam.

[Abbeygoo]

Re : Joey Barton

As a City fan I was pleased when Barton left because of all the trouble that followed him. But driving home today, listening to talksport, the majority were saying that he should be given a lifetime ban.

It got me thinking. City fined him a huge amount in wages and suspended him from the time of the Dabo incident until the end of that season. He then went to court and has served a custodial sentence. He has now received a 12 game ban (6 suspended) with a £25,000 fine.

How many times should he be punished for the same offence?

And once punished should he not be allowed to continue gainful employment just as the rest of us would need to do if we were convicted of a criminal act and then let out of prison .... just a thought.

How can the punishment to Joey Barton be witholding of his ability to follow his profession when this would never be considered appropriate for any other person - could you imagine a musician being convicted and then never being allowed to write music / sing / release a record again?

I'm not defending Barton, far from it. But he has been punished and the calls for him to never play football again are way over the top.

[Steven]

Originally Posted by Abbeygoo

And once punished should he not be allowed to continue gainful employment just as the rest of us would need to do if we were convicted of a criminal act and then let out of prison .... just a thought.

Perhaps valid, though a conviction for assault is quite the red flag on your CV

I think what is skewing the argument is that as a Premiership footballer he has earned a lot of money than many in a lifetime could only dream of

I am not defending him, would not give the man the time of day, but just adding a thought...

[Miyazaki]

Originally Posted by LFC_SL

Perhaps valid, though a conviction for assault is quite the red flag on your CV

I think what is skewing the argument is that as a Premiership footballer he has earned a lot of money than many in a lifetime could only dream of

I am not defending him, would not give the man the time of day, but just adding a thought...

Certain jobs carry with them a responsibility.

I am a teacher and if I assaulted someone and the head found out, i'd probably be sacked. I probably wouldn't get a job as a teacher anywhere else either, with a criminal record.

The bastard should never kick a ball again.