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Loan him to Forrest - he scores winner against Man Utd in Semi and then sits out the final against Newcastle and we win !!

Grew up in Cornwall in a non-football family in 70/80s so no allegiance to any team. Went to college in Durham and then worked in Newcastle in late 80s for two awesome years. I lived on the Westgate Road and worked nights in Sergeant Peppers, so had to walk past the ground to get to the pub, and always heard the game playing on Saturday’s as I walked past. Didn’t get too many Newcastle games but , my best friend was a Sunderland fan so I went to all the away games at Roker Park with him and his mates ( incognito) including the Liam O’Brian Over The Wall game. Moved to London with pretty much only Ceefax available for Newcastle news then to Dallas TX where the internet had become a thing and I found this place. My dad called me excited to tell me that Newcastle had beaten Barcelona and I had to tell him that I already knew as had dialed up compuserve to check the score. I had become a Newcastle fan from living up there, but my love for the team really grew from NO and living vicariously through you all. THANK YOU for sharing the games and your Newcastle love with those of us in far away places.

BOL?? Help me out, I must have missed this one

Going out during the World Cup will give him such a great tribute. Really kinda fitting for him.

Understand your thinking Lion. Don’t disagree with your thoughts on the two incidents. But the Referee isn’t going to lock himself in to decisions that early. You say the players will change behavior but they won’t. So he is either inconsistent or awards a half dozen penalties and is thought to have “lost control” of the game. That’s why referees give the benefit on yellow cards in first 10 minutes. You’d like to have the utopia of “a foul in the 1st minute is the same as a foul in the 70th”. Or a foul in the center circle is a foul in the box, but we know that there is a different level of assessment at different times and different locations on the field. I think The referee should have given the Maguire incident a Penalty esp with video review to back it up. But I understand why he didn’t

Both were penalties. The problem with the Maguire rugby tackle was the timing… it was in the 3rd minute of the game and awarding a PK for that would have locked the referee into awarding more penalties for similar actions throughout the rest of the game. There was also enough player contact where the rugby tackle wasn’t the only thing that could have brought him down. it came back to bite him with the definite shirt pull that he couldn’t ignore. Had Maguires rugby tackle been in the second half of the game it would have been given

2 pts from last five games. Worst return of bottom 5 teams And you have to go up the table to 18-Bristol City/19-Blackpool to find worse form - and those teams are 4 points ahead 18 - Bristol City LLLDL 15pts 19 - Blackpool LLLDL 15pts 20 - Hull CIty LLLLW 14pts 21 - Middlesborough LDLWL 13pts ----------------------------------------- 22 - West Brom LDLLD 11pts 23 - Huddersfield LLWLD 8pts 24 - Coventry DDWDL 7pts What a fraud

Looks like a Top Gear challenge - driven from the 3rd deck

https://twitter.com/jonostrower/status/1565755461101502464?s=21&t=42WlYHzULRkhwcwqvwqRpg Possible new sponsor?? Edit - not sure how to get Twitter to directly link Saudi Arabia to launch new airline ‘RIA’ with $30bn war chest to rival Emirates

And from that day forth, not a single sugar puff was eaten on Drearyside. ?

SEB is Sophie Ellis Baxter and just like our Giggs she was in the news for something and the news got posted multiple times by people resulting in SEB

"Newcastle are the Richest Club in the world" Richest owners - YES, sure But not the richest club (probably Man U or Real Madrid - Richest clubs are teams who self generate their own finances)

At Texas A&M University, where my daughter went, they started a 5K fun run inside the football stadium - Called "Run the Ramps". You run a 5K through the concourse levels as well as up/down the access ramps between levels. It wouldn't be possible for SJP as the stadium wasn't built to have continuouos access between stands, but its a really fun event.

It forces the referee into a decision. Most likely awarding the FK for the foul (that wasn’t going to be given) and occasionally a FK for handling. In my past life as a referee I would think it a Douche move, but give them one FK for the foul, but the second time it was going the other way

Both Everton games are midweek. Wednesday 19th October - Newcastle United vs Everton Tuesday 25th April - Everton vs Newcastle United

It might stop the encroachment up the field and at least get the kick in from the right spot [/jest]

Worth signing … just for this

It's from RTG and an picture of a couple of older "husky" Newcastle fans in B/W shirts that were probably a size too small. The shirts had stains down the front, and RTG took the p*** out of their looks and ran with the "gravy stained mags" thing. Now it's just anything NUFC is "Stench of gravy"

At least this one has a good sense of humor “Spare a thought for all those Chelsea fans waking up in the morning, checking Twitter and asking who the hell William Storey is.” ??

If the ball is out of play, then a foul (with DFK) cannot be given as the ball being in play is a primary requirement for a foul. Original restart will still take place. However, a card can still be given for a misconduct with the ball out of play. So you can’t still give Yellow or even Red Cards if the ball is out of play.

I always misread this treat title and wonder what Wraith has been doing now

Whoever thought of adding the "shirt" flags in/amongst all the black-and-white flags is a genious. Love seeing the old shirt colours on the flags like the Away Burgundy/Blue hoops, but my favourite is the orange Pavel Is a Geordie flags.... City Skyline, Brown Ale and memories. We need more !! Would also laugh if the Custard/Creme shirt appeared too

It's been 30 yrs since I lived in Newcastle, so I don't know how much use Castle Leazes park gets today - probably a few dog walkers, but it is a bit tucked away behind the stadium and separated from the city center. I would think that the land-swap, where the ground moves up higher onto Castle Leazes and the redeveloped ground becomes a park, would make the park area much more accessible and used. Office workers taking lunch breaks in the park, more people walking through etc. It could be a win for the city as well as the club

Would love to see a land swap with the city between the current site and Castle Leazes. The new Stadium would be even higher on the hill making it even more prominent over the city. The ground would still be in walking distance from the city center pubs. And if they redevelop the current site back into a park, it would be a fantastic walk for the fans, through the park, up to the ground. I remember seeing a drawing, on here, of what the redeveloped park could look like with the new Stadium in the background and it looked great. Would be a real asset to the city. And if the Reubens are the property magnets they say they are, they should buy buy up Leazes terrace now, and then sell it as high-value residential property once the park is redeveloped and the views are open over the park.

What RTG is missing is that their club just isn't the same financial engine that Newcastle is (and never will be). And that's not a knock on their fans. They equate attendance to ££ but the willingness/ability to pay the higher ticket prices needed to be profitable just isn't there. And I'm not even convinced that spending £350M would get them back up to the Premier League. They definitely have the fanbase to become a solid Champo team, but the fanbase are going to have to pay higher prices to increase the revenue stream to levels required to support a Champo budget. That was always (and still is) their problem, costs greatly exceeding revenues.