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If he leaves us I will die.

I lean that way too, Isak is insanely good also. If I had a choice it would be a very hard choice and not an obvious one.

Love the ice man, but Haaland is an unbelievable centre forward. Not convinced at all with the ‘if he wasn’t at Man City’ crack. He’s the Usain Bolt of centre forwards - he looks far too big to be able to move like he does. I wouldn’t swap an in-form Haaland for any centre forward in world football. But I’m convinced that Isak is in any discussion for the world’s top five centre forwards.

Protect the juice at all costs.

Agreed. It isn’t so much a one-off purple patch so much as a rich vein of form. He’s a solid PL player playing with now in-form top rank players and he’s looking all the better for it. His form and the team’s form are linked insomuch as he’s been a part of that but he’s not the driving force behind it. The lad needs some slack cut. He’s one of us, and I bastard love it when one of us gets to live our childhood fantasies and smash one in when wearing the B&W.

Effectively Cumbria and N Yorks gets added to that catchment area as well as the borders - unless Berwick, Carlisle, the Smoggies or Mackems suddenly become successful. I don’t think our catchment area is limited to Nland and Durham.

I’d build as big as the site allows. You simply close off upper tiers for early cup games against lower league opposition. A successful (as in winning things) NUFC sells out 80k for me - provided pricing is reasonable. With a massive ground, you can milk the corporate but also hold say 15k tickets in the upper tiers for low income supporters. 60-65k keeps it as it is - it locks out huge swathes of low income supporters. It’s meant to be the people’s game.

Re loan or staying - I’m happy to let Howe make the call, it will likely be right. I was one of those scratching my head re Hall last season, and Howe made me look a right twat on that one (I’m happy he did!). In terms of developing players he’s the best I’ve seen at SJP. I’m confident he’ll know what’s best for the lad.

That ship has sailed imo. Don't think there is a big club that hasnt been linked with him. He fancies Barca by all accounts. Shame as I think he would be perfect for us and Howe perfect for him.

Love he is having a temporary run. He deserves it. It won't last, and we still need a RW. Murphy can stay when we get a new one.

I would imagine these will go by the time game comes round, but telling that there not returns by Bromley so we’ve probably shifted aprox 46k with their larger allocation. Pretty impressive considering the opposition, however in a way it confirms my point about supply and demand, if this was Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool they would be not be slow moving tickets they would be gone. We are a huge club but outside Mancs, Arsenal and Liverpool not sure anyone in this country fills a 70k plus stadium regularly, possibly Spurs who have a huge waiting list. Taking this Bromley game as an example we’d now potentially have another 23.5k tickets to shift with a 75k stadium. The 2 NW clubs are in split city’s, but they’re significantly bigger population wise and more importantly surrounded by densely populated big towns packed full of their supporters. I agree Scotland and potentially Scandinavia, Ireland are areas we can benefit from in terms of growing our wider fanbase, but to the level of the 3 clubs mentioned will take years. I think outside the clubs membership data, it would be really useful if they created a season ticket waiting list to gauge what the demand is really like from fans who want to be there every week.

Think my Saka replacement will be Sarr rather than Fernandes, as Palace's games are about to get great. Close call though. Then Isak can finally come in - I'm pretty stubborn about not buying NUFC players but it's becoming essential to own him.

Entire quarter of the country? I believe Northumberland & Durham comprises 6% of England's geographical area. The population of our region is no more than 4% of England. Our remoteness (like Devon & Cornwall) is both a strength and weakness; a strong local platform but far fewer tourists and less money swishing about. Your final sentence is interesting. There is massive potential to expand our fanbase in Scotland. We really should be the best supported English club in Scotland due to proximity and history. Back to sweet spots, I've long thought 72,00 is an ideal capacity.

Plus a local lad, right?

Gameweek 19 Leicester 1-2 Man City Palace 2-1 Southampton Everton 1-2 Forest Fulham 1-1 Bournemouth Spurs 2-1 Wolves West Ham 1-2 Liverpool Villa 2-2 Brighton Ipswich 1-2 Chelsea Man United 1-2 Newcastle Brentford 1-2 Arsenal

Gameweek 18 Man City 2-1 Everton Bournemouth 2-1 Palace Chelsea 2-1 Fulham Newcastle 2-1 Villa Forest 1-2 Spurs Southampton 1-2 West Ham Wolves 1-2 Man United Liverpool 2-1 Leicester Brighton 2-1 Brentford Arsenal 2-1 Ipswich

It’s pretty much common sense to say Isak has more to his game, mind. That’s not to say he’s as good a goal scorer - that remains to be seen - but he’s a far better footballer.

Man City 2-1 Everton Bournemouth 2-0 Palace Chelsea 3-1 Fulham Newcastle 2-1 Villa Forest 2-1 Spurs Southampton 1-1 West Ham Wolves 2-1 Man United Liverpool 4-0 Leicester Brighton 2-1 Brentford Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich

Haaland rarely injured - you really need to take this into account. And this is probably his only bad spell after joining Man City. Way too early to say Isak is better.

Totally welled up at this. Absolutely fantastic to watch that. Seems like a brilliant bloke. Pleased he's like Pavel Nedved incarnate at Fulham this year.

He's bang in form and long may it continue. Mightn't be the most naturally gifted if footballers we've had, but fuck me he grafts his bollocks off and gives a shit. Absolutely delighted for him at the moment tbh.

It's not really an Almiron phase as he's been doing this for ages. It's genuinely part of his game. He's been producing bonkers statistics over periods of time for the past three seasons now. I forget the exact fact, but the past two seasons have both had something like 15 game runs where if he started we won (or at least didn't lose).

Ha - does the keeper get a touch? Looks like the slightest which takes it onto the post