Leazes1986

AH DIVENT CARE ABOOT ENGLAND ANYMORE SINCE SHEERA RETIRED, AL ALWIS LOVE THE TOON THO, WI GANNA WIN THE LIKE LEYK

Its an awful song tbh.

Pictures of legends scattered around the concourses around the ground so ex heroes are on of the first things you see when you get in the ground.

Micah Richards?

Souness was awful and i hate the bastard, but the man who handed out the contracts at SJP was Shepherd and he is responsible for the length of Babayaro's contract and his weekly wage.

Absolutely pointless thread. Most fans support their club over their country. Or was this thread designed so it can be filled with people saying "couldn't give a shit about England, would rather see Newcastle win the masters than England win the world cup"?

Bit of both i think. If the English players were good enough then surely they would be pushing for a first team place anyway, regardless of the foreigners. There has been a ridiculous amount of money wasted on average foreigners coming over here (we are more guilty that most for this). I seen that yesterday the foreigners were getting blamed for us for not having enough quality English strikers. Well if the young English strikers coming through were so good then they would be playing regularly in the Premiership now and scoring goals. Its not really that theres too many foreigners, its we're not producing the youngsters.

Its hard for people with mortgages, bills, children, shopping etc to come up with the full amount too. I didn't say it wasn't. But you have said you would want specific deals and discounts for students when in reality most people have the same financial difficulties etc when it comes to purchasing a season ticket so I fail to see why students should get preferential treatment. Well i'd be more than happy to pay full price but like i said coming up with nearly £500 is hard. I know its like that for everyone. How much are the installments you have to pay monthly for the 08/09 season ticket? If the club made a sensible system where EVERYONE could pay money weekly/monthly out if their bank then it would benefit every one of us, be it a set fee a month or an amount you could chose to pay weekly for the year until you had paid it off. £500 a season is great by me as long as the club helped by putting in a system what makes it easier.

Its hard for people with mortgages, bills, children, shopping etc to come up with the full amount too. I didn't say it wasn't.

Why not? I managed to. Maybe if some spent less time and money on the piss they could still afford to buy their season ticket, thats what I done. £30 a week though? Student loans are options obviously plus part time jobs. You managed but its a struggle for some people. You're always gonna have people who spend their £30 a week plus they'll get massive loans and spend nearly all of it on drink. I think you would find that theres plenty of proper Newcastle fans who are students and don't waste go on the piss every night and would much rather be at the match. I don't think its fair to say the reason students can't afford season tickets is because they spend all of their money on the piss though. Certainly some, but i bet the ones who are like that wouldn't even be interested in getting a season ticket because their priority lies with getting pissed in their spare time. I would like a bit of help and i'm sure a lot of others would. It was just the same when i left school and had to come up with adult money straightaway. As it stands i'm going to have to get a loan next year and buy a season ticket out of that. If there was a bit of middle ground though it would be a big help. I'm not saying kids prices. Students don't earn as much as people in full time jobs, and i think there should be prices to reflect that. so you were MADE to become a student? Will you offer to pay more than a standard adult price if your studies result in a job where you get paid more than the average wage? I doubt it. You want to watch the match, you have to buy a ticket. If you save over a year, its not much more than a tenner a week. Obviously it was my choice. I can see it from both sides of the argument. Its frustrating for me at the minute because i don't know my timetable or anything until Thursday so i couldn't even get a part time job even if i wanted to yet. I might be wrong suggesting this because i am very frustrated after having a season ticket for so long. I don't know, maybe a different option for students to pay where they could pay it off as you said like a tenner weekly out of the bank? Its just hard to come up with the full money at once, but i would have been able to renew mine again this season if there was a system where they took a tenner out of the bank each week.

Why not? I managed to. Maybe if some spent less time and money on the piss they could still afford to buy their season ticket, thats what I done. £30 a week though? Student loans are options obviously plus part time jobs. You managed but its a struggle for some people. You're always gonna have people who spend their £30 a week plus they'll get massive loans and spend nearly all of it on drink. I think you would find that theres plenty of proper Newcastle fans who are students and don't waste go on the piss every night and would much rather be at the match. I don't think its fair to say the reason students can't afford season tickets is because they spend all of their money on the piss though. Certainly some, but i bet the ones who are like that wouldn't even be interested in getting a season ticket because their priority lies with getting pissed in their spare time. I would like a bit of help and i'm sure a lot of others would. It was just the same when i left school and had to come up with adult money straightaway. As it stands i'm going to have to get a loan next year and buy a season ticket out of that. If there was a bit of middle ground though it would be a big help. I'm not saying kids prices. Students don't earn as much as people in full time jobs, and i think there should be prices to reflect that.

He's one of the very last bits of Souness's reign which need removed as quick as possible.

Aye Souness is a class A cunt but he done nowt wrong with N'Zogbia. It was his "you'll win nothing with eleven James Milners" that was bad.

Very happy.

Like i said, it was aimed towards loyal fans, not any old person on the dole. If someone has had a season ticket for years then they lose their job all of a sudden then it would be nice to give them a bit of help. I did say it would need to be worked on so it couldn't be abused though. One thing which would stop the system being abused would be that you couldn't buy your new season ticket for the unemployed price, even if you were unemployed. It could only be used for a loyal season ticket holder who has recently lost their job and is out of work and want to renew. As i said even if it could only be used once per season ticket holder, so you couldn't get the unemployed price the year after. It was simply an idea to benefit a loyal fan who genuinely wants a job. It couldn't really be abused that way. Anyway that was not such an important point, it was the student one what was the main point. Full time students should not have to pay adult prices.

Is there a set time when you plan to put these to Mort or not? I was actually considering writing a letter to Mort about the student/unemployed prices (don't know if it would have actually reached him if i bothered) but this is a good opportunity to get it to him.

I don't think he'll play for us ever again now. Even if he was fit and Enrique was out i think he'd rather stick the Zog at left back and put Milner, Martins or Duff on the left depending on the formation. He's finished.

I would like to see a different pricing scheme. I know it has been changed this season where the prices have been put into different catogarys depending on the opposition. The club need to think about the younger fans more though. I've already experienced this once, and its became a problem for me again this summer. For years now the club has had 3 different catogarys for season tickets (Juvenile, Adult, Senior Citizen). What they have never considered though is how a young 16 year old who has just left school should suddenly be classed as adults. I remember when i was at school my mam used to buy my season ticket for me. I think the price was somewhere around the £220-£250 range. As soon as i left school though the price rocketed up to over £400. How can they justify classing a school leaver as an adult? Its almost impossible to get a job as soon as you leave school and many go on to further education. There needs to be a bit of middle ground here. I was lucky my mam helped me once i left school, but for many they will not be able to renew their season tickets once they are classed as adults. I think the club should consider two catogarys which will benefit both young supporters and loyal older supporters. 1.Student Price - As i said earlier many school leavers go onto further education and can't afford to stump up the sudden £200+ increase in price. It is a big enough struggle trying to get together the kids price when you first leave school. There is also older students to consider as well. Students aren't just people who have just left school 2.Unemployed Price - Now i know many will ask why should the unemployed be rewarded when a lot of people are happy to stay on the dole and shouldn't be rewarded for being lazy. You have to take into consideration though that a lot of fans have been loyal for years and they might have just lost their job therefore will struggle to renew their season ticket. If a supporter has had a season ticket for 5-10 years and looses their job then wouldn't it not be a good thing to help them about a bit and reward their loyalty with a bit of help? Even if the club had small print on this price where it would only be offered to a supporter for one season so the system can't be abused. As i said at the start of this thread i have had a problem this summer where for the first time since 2000 i haven't been able to get my season ticket. I just couldn't afford it and today i started college. I'm 21 and i am going to have to wait until around christmas in the hope that i can get the money together for a half season ticket if they are available. Obviously the club don't know my situation and to them i just haven't bothered renewing my season ticket, but its absolutely killing me not going to the matches. Its painful. I am 21 so i'm obviously not a school leaver but i would have liked my loyalty to have been rewarded a bit more (obviously the club didn't know my situation so i'm not blaming them). Bringing in two catogarys like above would really help a lot of people out and would see more bums on seats at SJP. It would make sense, it would reward loyalty, and it would be more beneficial to the club long term and short term. I want to be at SJP now, i want to be at SJP next season, and i want to be at SJP every other week for as long as my eyes can watch Newcastle play. A bit of help like what i mentioned above will go a long way to seeing me back. I would love you to get this to Chris Mort. I'm sure he would be interested and would take it into consideration.

Big Sam will not be afraid to drop anyone if its needed.

Shepherd was a shite chairman.

Hope he gets back to fitness without any problems and gets himself a good Championship club next season.

Too hard to choose. I think Beye (if he signs), Cacapa, Rozenhal, Enrique, Geremi, Barton and Viduka could all be key players for us over the next few years. Its great to see how much quality we look to have brought in. Absolutely no panic buy stop gaps.

Should never have been sold. Potential to be one of the best in the world.

He's shit.

Seaman was brilliant. People just prefer to remember when he was past his best like Euro 2000 and World Cup 2002.