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The players have done a lap of the pitch all season whether they have won or lost. Doing it after a loss must be fuckin tough.... The least anyone can do as a supporter of this club is to stay and give them a reasonable cheer and a thank you for their work this season. There will be a few of them that we never see again as Newcastle players so I will be staying.

Hall left back?

I would say that it is a no brainer. Keep him at the club - even as a back up to the back ups. He has been an absolute model professional and one of the finest pieces of football business we have ever seen at NUFC.

Dan Burn vs Minteh Delicious prospect

How is it possible that we are starting a front 3 of Murphy, Willock and Osula? The fuckin bench is stronger!

Up until really recently there were loads of cases like this, some people on the Ashley 10 year scheme that rolled on for much longer. Some quite hefty differences in cost for season tickets in the same areas of the ground. I think all the "10 year deals" are now removed and everyone is paying the same price depending on the tier of the ticket.

That's fair enough.

I think that is a bit harsh. Picture this scenario... you are on a waiting list and you get offered a season ticket, you have been waiting 3 years or something, the only area in the ground is one of the "premium seats" in corporate. It is GBP3500 for the season and it is more than you can really afford but, you have wanted a season ticket for so long that you just go for it. The next season the price increases (a lot) and you really cannot afford it but, you waited 3 years to get into the ground. If you drop out now you are back at the end of the queue. I do not think it is unreasonable to think that you would be offered to move to a standard area or at least be given an early chance to buy a different season ticket if one should become available.

Anyone watch their game yesterday? Villa sitting very comfortably until they brought on Jadon Sancho who absolutely fucked up twice in two minutes to allow Sun'lun back into the game late on. I can imagine the state of the Villa forums after that!!

Really enjoyed the morning and nice to meet a few of you... My old legs are aching this morning. Worse was sitting in The Stack have a prematch pint and my left hamstring went into a full agonising cramp.... haha

I would take Conference League at this stage. We could win that and it is another trophy to add to our small collection...

I can remember our fans monkey chanting to Tony Cunningham in the 80's. I was young, naive and while I can honestly say I didn't join in, I also didn't try at all to stop it. I think I just nervously laughed as it was happening. Looking back I feel ashamed but, it was just so widespread back then... almost normalised. Happy that things are so much better today.

My first ever match was Newcastle vs Leyton Orient in 1978, I was 12... My dad took me and we sat in the Popular Stand. Now known as the East Stand. I think it was a terrible nil nil draw. I started going more regularly in the early 80's with my school friends, going through the turn-styles at the Gallowgate Corner, getting in really early to get a good spot but, inevitably by the time the game had started we were pushed right to near the front and having to look through the wire fence that surrounded the pitch at that time. The atmosphere was always incredible leading up to kick off, everyone singing and chanting. The toilets were so bad!!! An abiding memory was while I was at a match, and wearing the stylish snorkel jacket that was very much of the time, I was struck on the back on my head by a heavy object which had been thrown, it fell into my hood. It took quite a while to be able to get my hands up to get the object out of the hood because of the fact that the corner paddock was absolutely rammed. It turned out to be a bottle full of piss. There was a lot of racism back then, also a lot of violence. I make it sound like a nightmare but, it was the best time to be a football supporter. We were shit but, we seem to always hover around being reasonable, amazing, terrible (no consistency whatsoever! ) £2 or £3 pay on the gate.... frisked by a policeman then up the steps. Happy days!

And will be on a mega salary!!

The main complication this summer will be the World Cup. It will delay early deals and potentially inflate the prices of otherwise lesser players. (Just takes a half decent performance or two on the world stage and boom!)