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Wilky

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  1. Don’t mind them to be fair. Every year everyone clambers for retro which are great when they come. But if we have retro every year we will never have new designs. I always think do the retro thing one year then experiment the next. Some years will be fail some will be new classics that will be clambered for in retro shirts 20 years down the line. As some have alluded to with the old NTL shorts, we now look back on them with fondness
  2. Wilky

    Sunderland

    If the don’t manage automatic promotion, Charlton look like they may be in the playoffs with them. Wouldn’t that be perfect. Just saying......
  3. In 3 weeks time it will be 10 years since I set foot in SJP for a football game where I supported NUFC (3 Rugby games and the Northumberland Senior Cup final doesn't count as I was in the Morpeth Town camp that day). Had cancelled my season ticket at the start of that season after Keegan left and Kinnear was installed. Was travelling up from Leeds for every home game and the box office amazingly swalloed a bull story about being moved further south allowing me to cancel a few games into the season. They must have been a bit suspicious as I initially explained the real reason for wanting to cancel.... Continued to buy the odd ticket when back in Toon and the 1-1 derby against the mackems (Taylor dying swan pen game) and the end of that awful transfer window I decided that was it. For me it was obvious at that point Ashley had no intention of investing the funds we as fans put into the club and I have vowed never to put money into the club whilst he owned it. Never thought he would still be here 10 years later. For something you devoted your life to previously it is heartbreaking but I've not missed it as much as I thought but I will still renew the season ticket when that odious man goes.
  4. Look he's saved 20 stores Altrincham, Greater Manchester Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Birkenhead, Merseyside Camberley, Surrey Carlisle, Cumbria Darlington, County Durham Doncaster, South Yorkshire Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Leeds; Lincoln; Maidstone, Kent Skipton and Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire Plymouth, Devon Solihull and Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands Telford, Shropshire The towns in bold i would have no idea why he would want to save though, seems very strange. Be a number of reasons. HoF might be main anchor tenant or have a lack of other anchor tenants to compete with. Those towns may have higher vacancy rates so landlords cut favourable deals to HoF so not having to deal with holding costs on a large asset in a town with little chance of reletting without substantial outlay in redevelopment minus an end user in the short to mid term. Also they may just be trading well in those locations
  5. Did they used to be Blyth Town? Barry Elliott was involved with them - local shithouse in Blyth (was involved with UKIP) Everything he touches turns to s****. Don't ask him how many times he's been made bankrupt, or he will have his solicitors on to you! I think so aye, they ended up having to ground share at Ashington. Shields were trying to sign coppen from Morpeth and while our useless b****** of s chairman stuttered he jumped in and paid £1500 for him. Hope shields get him and Dan Wilson back. That’s not a fair representation of the situation. Coppen fell out with our gaffer and the thick f***er thought there was a clause in his contract that allowed him to walk away for nowt. He even had a foul mouthed he’d verbal spat with Nick Grey on Twitter. Turns out Nick was right so he couldn’t walk out. Coppen announced he had signed for N Shields on Twitter after agreeing terms on a free but he read his contract wrong. Morpeth then sold to the highest bidder and the Blyth chairmen threw money at us and we accepted. Your chairman rightly didn’t get into a bidding war and the financial situation at Blyth shows he was right. I don’t know your chairman but I know those who volunteer in senior positions and by all means a top bloke.
  6. Or a handy excuse not to play a game they have no obligation to play as it’s a NL cup and they are now EPL. Or a bit of both. We’ve lost players that we would have otherwise kept, including first choice keeper. Promotion definitely a challenge beyond the obvious There will be teams in the NL playing to not get promoted next season. Yup. I’d visited a fair few NL grounds with Morpeth in recent years but realistically I’m not travelling to Goole and Belper where our first two fixtures are. Shame for the fans as well because we always took a decent away group.
  7. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I struggle to think of a worse CB that's played for us over the past 15-20 years. Worse than: Marcelino Frank Dumas David Beharall Titus Bramble Steve Caldwell Gary Caldwell Jean Alain Boumsong Oguchi Onyewu Paul Huntington David Rozenhal Cacapa Tamas Kadar Peter Ramage David Edgar Zurab Khizanishvilli Fitz Hall Sol Campbell Grant Hanley If you think he is the worst centre half than all of the above then yeah we will have to agree to disagree.
  8. I feel there is a bit of revisionist history here. He wasn't a terrible player and we have had loads worse than him. He was average, did well in spells, did poorly in others and was a decent squad player who had some useful runs in the team. Don't see the need to demonise the guy. The floated set piece debacle was a Pardew issue and unfair to blame Williamson for his poor tactics.
  9. Or a handy excuse not to play a game they have no obligation to play as it’s a NL cup and they are now EPL. Or a bit of both. We’ve lost players that we would have otherwise kept, including first choice keeper. Promotion definitely a challenge beyond the obvious
  10. hopefully enough to improve their floodlights
  11. I'm guessing the game plan was to hope to be in the tie in the final 10-15 minutes so we went with mostly attacking options on the bench with club captain Rasher and ex mackem striker Stephen Elliot. Curtis Coppen, signed from N-Shields and a very good central defender was the defensive option. Although Rash was called on early cos of injury it nearly worked. Mind, hell of a come down for Stephen Elliot, last time he was at SJP was scoring against NUFC in the derby (Emre freekick winner game) to now being on the bench for a team in the 9th tier of English football.
  12. A mate of mine will be playing for Morpeth - Chrissy McDonald - he played at SJP in the final for Whitley a few seasons ago! Aye not sure how much of a game he has been getting lately but he wasn't even on the bench for the final, instead going for a winger, Wayne Phillips at left back. Maybe they were worries about NUFCs pace - which was one of the reasons we got beat. Didn't disgrace ourselves though. Disappointing end to the season, Marske deserved winners. Onwards to promotion next season but will miss playing all the local sides for some Yorkshire pudding instead. Shame about the Roofing but was their gaffer/chairman was a gobby pain on the touchline so little sympathy. Always found it strange that Jarrow FC seemed to be climbing up the leagues - I'm guessing the good folk of Jarra weren't happy with the Roofing being based at Boldon.
  13. Northumberland Senior Final tonight at SJP. Always feels strange cheering the opposition to NUFC but Howay the Peth! Tonight is also probably the night Marske go above us in the league and that will be that. Fair play to them, been by far the best team in the NL this year and will see them next year as we are both promoted (forced or otherwise)
  14. Meanwhile in the Northern League Marske I think pretty much guaranteed to win the league now. 12 games in 20 days is insane for them but they are only 13 points behind with 8 games in hand now. I can't see them losing half of those sadly and we have done our best in recent weeks to drop points, including Markse hammering us down there. In truth they have been the best team in the division this season and if we had won it would have been due to fixture congestion. That said in recent seasons that same fixture congestion has worked against us but hey ho.
  15. well I guess we will find out but our chairman is very much against it on financial grounds. I'm assuming it is why that god awful fencing has been erected around the whole of Craik Park as an attempt to hold the ground not being up to scratch. But if it is as rosy as you say there will be no issues but I'm sceptical. Some of the players I understand have expressed concerns and I believe mid-table NL clubs are monitoring - the fact that these players could play at a higher level already but choose not to is suggestive enough that it will be a problem.
  16. One wonders therefore what is the point of remaining in the pyramid? Is the Vase and the FA Cup preliminary rounds sufficient a reason? I do wonder if a threat was made by the Northern League cups to split what the reaction of the FA would be. Probably couldn't care less. For the Northern League clubs, the reality is that financially there are limitations to where we can go so I'm not sure what forcing some of our teams to face more Yorkshire opposition actually does, other than force our better players to make a decision that may see them leaving the club to drop back to a Northern League outfit. At the same time that would probably have an affect on attendances. Essentially it threatens reduced participation and no one wins. If the FA are concerned about the FA Vase - and I can see a point here as the domination we have shows it isn't a level playing field then I wonder if the compromise is let first division clubs have a crack at the FA Trophy. We wouldn't win it but could cause some upsets which would be exciting.
  17. It looks like they are. We are at the end of March and they still haven't confirmed so clubs cannot properly plan for next year. As it stands Marske and Morpeth will be forced to go up against their will (certainly in Morpeth's case who do not wish to be promoted). Ultimately even limiting the next tier up to Yorkshire causes issues for us. The players are part time and its not possible to travel to Yorkshire for a half 7 kick off after work; inevitably we will lose our best players because of promotion and will struggle. Its ridiculous.
  18. Wilky

    sunder↓and

    The not owning our stadium is the biggest mackem myth going and demonstrates a lack of knowledge on property. SJP, like a lot of buildings in the city centre is leased by the council on 99 or 999 year leases. The rent is referred to as a 'peppercorn' as it is a derisory figure as it is also referred to as an 'effective freehold'. Anyone who owns or mortgages a flat (other than Tyneside flats as they have a unique arrangement) according to mackems doesn't own said flat because you cannot have a 'flying freehold' (unless you have a commonhold with others in the flat block but that is rare). In both scenarios you have security of tenure and every 15 to 20 years have the right to renew the lease based on a formula. If you leave it 99 years the money will be a sum equivalent to the market value of the site but the majority of people aren't daft enough so will renew it ever 15-20 years. The Landlord (the council) cannot take the lands back or refuse a renewal of the lease. Its such a non issue but reflects the fact the land our stadium is on is prime city centre land and the land their stadium is on is........
  19. Give how much he upset Mclaren and the club I'm not sure that's fair.
  20. If some of the arseholes who followed Darlo in the past are still around this may be the game when the Shields nouveaux fans find out what going to an away game really can be like. Given the South Shields support I seen last year in the Northern League they will be more than at home. Some canny lads in there apologising for some the noisy new unpleasant majority
  21. Non-league day tomorrow. Worth it going to support your local non-league team. Given the sh*tstorm that is NUFC it might even offer an alternative going forward, if like me you have no intention of lining the fat mans wallet. Fixture list as follows: Northern League Division 1 Ashington v Ryhope CW Jarrow Roofing BCA v Billingham Synthonia Marske United v Bishop Auckland Newton Aycliffe v Team Northumbria North Shields v Dunston UTS Penrith v Guisborough Town Seaham Red Star v Morpeth Town Washington v West Auckland Town Northern League Division 2 Crook Town v Bedlington Terriers Durham City v Ryton & Crawcrook Albion Esh Winning v Alnwick Town Heaton Stannington v Blyth AFC Hebburn Town v Darlington RA Jarrow v Billingham Town Northallerton Town v Brandon United Thornaby v Willington Tow Law Town v Chester-Le-Street West Allotment Celtic v Easington Colliery FA Cup 1st Qualifying Round Bottesford Town v Shildon Ossett Town v Consett Sunderland RCA v Liversedge Whitley Bay v Newcastle Benfield
  22. Not sure I agree. At tier 9 we are by far the best in the country. Most of our first division Northern League teams would compete comfortably in the two leagues above us IMO. We just don't have the critical mass up here to think about getting to the conference (tier 5) and beyond. I know some people disagree but I prefer to watch matches against local sides with mixing of fans than travelling down to Yorkshire and over to the North West.
  23. More jealousy from Mr North Shields Remind me of the rise in North Shields' crowds when a load of NUFC decided to follow them please? It should be a good crowd tonight at Perth for Jarra vs Hebburn! Apparently running a non-league club professionally, attracting great crowds and having a proper commercial set-up is a 'bandwagon'. Shields has always had the potential to have a football league club (they did have, once upon a time) and crowds of 1700 in the Evostik show that potential. It's just a shame we can't have more NE sides climbing the ladder. Still cheating b**tards We have always been reluctant and so have most NL clubs because the cost implications of mid week travelling across the country. Its also a chew on for the players who work shifts. Although someone who is now on the board at North Shields told me that the rules have changed meaning the winners have to take promotion. Not seen that elsewhere mind.
  24. Good crowd as well (240), second highest in northern league tonight behind us - not bad for a second tier game. Morpeth beat Whitley Bay 5-0. Early days but between us and Shildon for the league IMO. North Shields done us a favour getting a drawer there tonight
  25. Wilky

    sunder↓and

    Is 'Rafa at breaking point' the new 'Demba Ba's legs are going to explode' over there? Muppets
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