Chris_R

I dunno, he can take quite a few of them for me. Just not the good ones.

That's a good point. Due to earning disparities between regions, we'll always struggle to price season tickets the same as Arsenal, Spurs etc. Building the same size stadium is only half the battle.

It wasn't for me. It asked me to sign up and I just clicked the X then read the article.

Click the link on the tweet. It's not hard.

Why not both? 3-2 win.

Fucking crazy that people are talking about moving Howe on. Give your heads a shake. Still 100% backing from me. 4th last year, and the escape the year before, were miracles. This year, 4th was always going to be much harder than last year just because of the extra games, and other teams strengthening around us. 7th would've always been an "OK" season this year. Throw in Tonali's ban and an injury crisis the likes of which we've never seen before and the season is a write-off. We just need to limp home and try again next year. If 7th was decent coming into this season, 11th isn't sacking level when you consider the above too. It's barely even disappointing. If anything, it's inevitable given what's happened. I'd be gutted if he left, and absolutely devastated if some dinosaur like Mourinho came in to replace him.

Agree. There's a massive housing shortage in this country and all those already with houses and a 'NIMBY' attitude are preventing the next generation getting on the ladder they've gleefully pulled up behind themselves. But that's probably not for this thread!

Because aside from the Hoppings, it's of neither use nor interest to almost anyone at all. It's one thing to say "isn't it nice we have it?", but how often do you or indeed anyone actually go there? And to do what? For almost all of us, it just exists. It could be infinitely better used. Could put a football stadium on it for starters.

It may be unique but that's no reason to keep it. There's good reasons why no other city has "an expanse of agricultural land with grazing cattle in the heart of the city".

Yeah the Town Moor is shit. It just exists, it's not really used in any way. Its only justification for existing in its current state is the freemen of Newcastle and their "grazing rights", but come on, it's 2024. Nobody cares about this anymore and it has no relevance in modern times, but yet it prevents anything being done with what would otherwise be a wonderful green space.

Good point. Maybe the planning permission will go more smoothly if a part of the plan we fit Leazes Terrace with surface to air missiles to prevent any airspace incursions?

Flatten the current stadium and turn it into a giant multi storey car park with some massive escalators at each corner. Then build a 100,000 seater flying stadium that we keep up in the clouds (everyone's big on cloud storage these days, yes?), except on match days it flies in and sits over the car park escalators. Added bonus that we can adjust the lift slightly at half time so the opposition always has to shoot uphill.

This. Him or ASM would be leagues better than anyone to pull on their shirt in a decade. They'd both walk into their famous "all-time XI"s. Whatever they're worth, Clarke is worth far less. What's he done in top flight football? Literally nothing.

Didn't we get £20m for ASM? And loads on here were saying that was right? Are those saying Clarke will go for the same thinking he's as good a player? If ASM is only worth £20m, they'll be lucky to get £10m for Clarke.

No thanks. I quite like Colin and he always seems to get results.

They're missing a trick because if they just called a new club "FTM" it would break worldwide attendance records.

I don't think there's any mystery - nobody plays left back ahead of Dan Burn. Targett doesn't, Livramento doesn't, Hall doesn't. It's far less to do with Hall than it is with Burn, IMO.

I make that 19 different goalscorers in the league this season. ...So far.

Odds of 6 away games from 7 draws is 5.47%, I think? So the kind of run you'd expect once every 18.3 years, assuming you had this many draws each year. So it's unlucky, but not quite "Oh my god it must be rigged!!" territory quite yet. It's shit though.

So Tino's chance was one game away to Arsenal. Fucking hell.

Tradition - it's an internet forum, not a cave painting. Anyway, if I were writing the team sheet out I'd do them goalie first, but if I'm sorting the formation I'd put the striker at the top, that way the left sided players are on the left etc. Even if it is tradition, which I'd argue strong it's not, not all traditions are good. Also saying "that's why the numbers go 1 2 3" makes absolutely no sense, as if in 1928 Herbert Chapman was thinking of how he could make life easier for people writing on the internet.

Well I wouldn't play Isak in goal for starters, and Karius is probably not a good striker.

That 0% chance of winning from 20 minutes ago feels rather generous right now.

Yeah kinda feels like he's thrown him a hand grenade and kept the pin. Unless we now beat Arsenal away, he can say it didn't work and just bring Burn back in. Grim if that happens TBH, needs to give Livramento time. But let's see.