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$770 That is the answer to the financial question - unless he has spent some of that since the video was produced.

At least they're debt free though marra....

I wish the football season was always like this. Loving the fact that there is football on TeeVee almost every night and our games come round really quickly. The FA and Premier League should look at this, two seasons per calendar year with two nice breaks in between 13 weeks on, 13 weeks off.... :frantic:

Anyone remember when Metroland used to have live music? Bands set up on the little stage in the middle of the funfair.... it was ridiculous and awesome all at the same time!

If the Sunderland Football Club does fold / go out of business, there could be an even lower league 're-birth' for a brand new club, to replace them. It would be so much better if that new club were to be based in the City of DURHAM. rather than in Sunderland. I quite like the idea of a "Durham City FC" to replace them. They could even be adopted by us and become one of our 'feeder clubs'. Happy Days !!! Durham City already exists Doesn't Olivier Bernard own Durham City FC? No way he would have anything to do with Sun'lun!!

I reckon it'll take a week for people to stop putting timeliness on it. Yes!!

I rang up a few months ago to try and sort one for the lads for a day out. It was too expensive for us though. The figure I was quoted for a one off game was £350pp +VAT. There are 8, 10 and 12 seat boxes. I think they’ve got 6 or 7 not paid up for the season. So about 80k GBP for a season for 10 people.... Yikes!! 4200GBP per match inc the VAT.

The box office is answering emails - just with a short delay as they are on very low staff levels.

Remember wasn't Mark Hughes in charge at Man City when they were taken over? Was he? Think I am right...

General Sale is currently July I think....

I made a point a few years ago when people on here started to absolutely blast those who still had their season ticket and went to the game, I said that I was keeping mine because at some point in the future we would be taken over and it would be difficult to get a seat again... I made that mistake many years ago when the ground was being redeveloped and I was turning up each home game and paying on the turnstyles... there was tons of pressure to buy season tickets in the newly opened areas but, I carried on paying on the gate - albeit I was moving to different areas of the ground due to my preferred area either being closed or sold out to season tickets.... I can still remember the week when I went with my mates and we couldn't get in anywhere.... I was about 14 years old and I didn't get into St James' for several seasons after that, I missed a load of the great times in the 90's simply because I didn't take anyones advice to buy a season ticket - they were cheap and plentiful but, I knew best! I eventually got a season ticket in 2003 after being on the waiting list for a couple of seasons and had - in the end - three great seats for me and my dad then my young son joined us from about 2010. Then the pressure came from others telling me that I was a puppet to Ashley and paying money to watch Newcastle was the worst thing I could possibly do... I resisted, I had to walk through protests outside the ground, my dad had some bloke screaming in his face that he was a disgrace for entering St James' while Ashley was destroying the club and all this took its toll. Last season I threw it in. To be fair I was really not enjoying the football, going to the match had become a real drag and at the end of last season I decided that I had enough and was throwing it in.... You can imagine how I am feeling now.... We are on the verge of potentially some great times and I am once again on the outside. I bowed to pressure and allowed myself to start to hate football because of others and because of Ashley. Chances of getting a season ticket for next season??? Close to zero I would say. I am gutted.

Quick question. Should I order my new season ticket now to avoid the rush later when this is confirmed? :idiot2:

Watching Shelvey play in our team is like me playing 5 a side with my mates.... I used to be a decent player but, I lost all my pace. I can still pick out a pass, I can still hit a shot but, I need more time on the ball unchallenged to be able to do these things. As a result having me on the team slows everything down, breaks down good passages of play and I am a hindrance to the better players.... Of course I still want to play because I enjoy it but, I am basically rubbish now and I need to admit that to myself and maybe move on to walking football or find some old codgers that need an extra player to make up numbers in their 5 a side game that is more at my current level.

Luckily for them they never did that.... phew!

He totally miskicked the ball for the goal last night, the replays showed clearly that he hit the ball into the ground causing it to bounce over the keepers outstretched leg, a clean contact would have been saved I think. The movement and run with the ball up to the point of the shot was very nice though.

I too have sinned. I bought a ticket for me and my son. We promised ourselves we were done with this club but, I actually fancy going to see this team... they seem to, at least, give a shit!

I have had first hand experience of both Newcastle and Sunderland academies and the first thing I'd say is it's nothing more than a myth that Sunderland is, or recently was, superior in any way. They were different, both good in some ways but both probably behind the bigger clubs in the NW for example. Newcastle's is decent, despite what a lot of uninformed people say, but being in the NE means that due to population there are fewer kids in the available pool than there are in the NW, SE or Midlands for example. There again how many Premier league clubs have had two young homegrown players make up their centre midfield pairing in recent years ? There are kids from Wearside at Newcastle and vica versa so supporting either club is of no consequence at all. Currently Newcastle's is way ahead and has a far better pool of talent. When Sunderland's ownership changed every possible overhead was slashed and their academy really suffered. People sacked, contacts severed and a lot of their better kids going elsewhere. Ethically the academy system is questionable across football in general. Nowadays when they bring in youngsters from around the world at a later age very few will ever make it and parents need to be sensible and not build up their own or their kid's hopes too much. If one player is identified as having the potential to make it they will design a team around him in the almost certain knowledge that none of the others will be kept on. This is not a dig at anyone, especially HTT, because I know it is exciting to have your child singled out as having potential and being asked to join a professional club academy. But, at 5 years old how the hell can they tell that a child will be or is good enough.... they pick kids because they can kick the ball straight and hard compared to others at their age group, that is basically it. My boy has been approached, or should I say I have, numerous times. I always said no. It is a massive commitment of time for both the parent and the child and the chances of making it are practically zero. If he is good enough he will be picked up later, if he is not good enough, as I suspect, then he will not have lost anything. By the way, he is 14 and knows that I said no, he was a bit puzzled but, I explained it and he fully agrees with me. My son plays for a team at a high level in the Russell Foster league and really enjoys his football, he plays Futsal for Newcastle United via his school and will represent them at a U15 tournament at The Beacon of Light on Sunday, assuming he is able to shift the heavy cold he is currently laid up with by then. I get all I need simply by watching him play and watching him enjoying his game. His mate, who is at Newcastle academy, seems to have had all the joy of football sucked out of him already, he is 14 years old!! Just be careful with the academy system and believe this, if he is good enough they will come back and keep coming back....

I believe the children are our future....

Thanks for the replies... The ticket would only cost 80 quid or something and it is true that there are loads of worse things he could be getting up to. He is just 14 and a really good kid in every way, a bit lazy but, aren't they all at that age? I am going to call by the ticket office next weekend and see what they can offer, it can be part of his Xmas presents... Cheers!

As each week passes for me (in my first season without my season ticket for many years - apart from the one season I pulled the plug during the end of Pardew's reign as King) the situation is becoming more and more sad! My son, who is 14 and has had a ticket with me for the last 3 or 4 seasons, is still really into supporting Newcastle United. he was gutted when I told him we weren't renewing this season but, understood that something is wrong and that a stand was required. I hear him watching the match on a stream each weekend - or on Teevee when we are on Sky... he cheers, groans and shouts encouragement to the players to the point where he is totally immersed in the game... Running down to me on Saturday to tell me that we should be 5 or 6 goals ahead by now, we are playing great!!! For some of us, like me, who experienced the mid 90's as a supporter this period is nothing short of a disgrace, a blot on our proud history but, it is all my son has known and he still wants to identify with / support his home town team. How can I continue to do this to him? Some of his friends go to the match with low cost tickets in the Family Section, I am really tempted to get him his own ticket so he can go, sit close to his mates and work it out for himself... my opinions should not necessarily be his.... No matter how much I hate Ashley and what he has done to the club I know and remember I cannot penalize my son, if he wants to go to the match I am going to let him go.

At least we will all understand if we do not have any transfer activity in January.... I have no idea how they will keep this one rumbling along for 3 more months though!

I didn't renew my seat, my sons or my dads this season.... My dad was touch and go as to whether he was just going to go on his own until the rumours of Steve Bruce becoming manager, it took that level of shitdom to make him realize he would be throwing him money away at a dead horse! I watched a bit of the Arsenal match on teevee and realized that I wasn't interested. Since then I have barely even checked the results, I assume we are very low in the league, perhaps even bottom?? Checks now... ooo 17th... maintain that level and Ashely will be delighted! Anyone who is still going please have a think, what is the point of it? I have not missed it a single bit....

The whole situation is perfect for me having thrown in my season ticket this year.... I would normally try like hell to find a stream and pay for Sky in order to watch as many Newcastle games as possible. I watched a bit of the Arsenal game up until the substitution of Shelvey, that shitshow that followed was enough for me to not even bother with Norwich - I didn't even miss it. Treated the result with a small shrug of the shoulders, ah well.... I know last season we had a terrible start but, Rafa had a huge amount of credit in his bank..... Brucey baby must be feeling the pressure already having had all that money spent for him, (well.... all of Ashley's profits). We knew last season that we were a poor team but, being coached to produce the absolute best possible, we are not at all improved this season but, we have an absolute oaf of a man trying to tell these players how to play.... How the hell are they suppose to know what he wants them to do when he doesn't even know himself?? In the words of the mackem loft whisperer - "Pathetic!"

Good news! I held back a day or two on renewing my dads ticket and hey presto... he changed his mind and asked me not to bother. All it took was a Steve Bruce rumour haha.

I have three season tickets, or should I say HAD. I decided during this whole takeover lie that I wasn't going to renew but, my dad has asked, at the weekend, for me to renew one for him as he wants to still go. I am not going to have a go at him for that, he is 80 and really doesn't understand he politics or the situation with Ashley, he just enjoys to watch the football. So I rang the box office today to ask them if I can renew his seat and the girl told me that today they have done something with the computer system to flush down all seats that are not renewed to enable them to be offered for general sale next week. That kind of blows any theory that may have been lingering that a renewal extension may be offered. They are pressing ahead with a general sale starting on Monday. They said that by tomorrow they will be able to accept an order to renew a seat for him. So I will call tomorrow to renew his for him but, I am still not renewing mine or my sons. I hate what Ashley is doing to our club and more importantly the fans.. Recently I had the chance to speak to an ex player of Newcastle that I bumped into and he said that privately Ashley has never hidden his motives for owning Newcastle and the ambition (lack of) that he has for the club. It is simply a vessel to generate cash and to promote his other business interests. This player told me on the year that players did not receive a bonus Ashley himself came into the dressing room to tell them he was using the money he had planned to give to them as a bonus to provide bonuses to his Sports Direct staff instead. Cold and clear as that. There is a spread sheet in the managers office with every players name on it and a value, if that value is offered that player can be sold. The word around football players is that Newcastle is a terrible club and not one to join if you have other options available, kind of explains that we are linked to so many players but, never sign hardly any of them! He said that players and staff at Newcastle would be the last people to know what was happening on any take over front but, he did say that he loved his time with us and that he hoped good times would return again in the future - fat (cunt) chance in my opinion!