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Don't like his goal celebration, not that I have seen it too often though.

I think that to ask whether a player wants to stay is a perfectly valid question. This is a great time for Newcastle, a decent manager who has no preconceptions and is prepared to do what it takes to fire this club back into the position we all want it to be in. Owen is so fragile now that if he wants to leave and we get a good offer then he should go. Any player that wants to go now can go, without exception. We will see a brand new Newcastle United next season. I will definately be renewing my ticket now, I am very optimistic.

Do you think he will make the PA people play music when we score? "Who knows the way to Ammarillo" he he he.

Not saying that he was the best ever but, watching http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PUwYwDfgOU&mode=related&search= that made me remember that we used to be a bloody good team. Tino..........

Hate: Steve Bennett Howard Webb Uriah Rennie Like: Mark Clattenburg Rob Styles Martin Atkinson Rest: Meh!!

Has there been any clues as to whether prices are going up, coming down or staying the same for next season? Whatever Fat Fred is I am sure he is not completely stupid and judging by the number of people left in the ground for the lap of honour / centre circle applause after the Blackburn match he must realise that dropping the renewals on our doorsteps next week with anything other than a significant price drop will be met with resounding astonishment!! I guess I am one of the cretins that are regularly mentioned on here that would probably renew without question season after season, well I actually have renewed season after season regardless of the tripe I have been forced to watch because I always think that next year will be better!! This year is different, I am giving serious consideration to not renewing until the very last minute before the season starts or worse (for the club) just going to selected games through next season and not renewing at all. I know people who have been season ticket holders a lot longer than me who feel the same and in some cases a lot worse. I guess a lot will hinge on the bottom line next week, how much we have to fork out.........

I really thought that Nobby should be offered a coaching role once his playing days were behind him. There are few players who know the game as well as he does.

We do need someone else in charge at the club, whether Sven would be the answer is a difficult one to answer, the press would have hounded him if he went to an English club after managing the National side. He did a better job than Mike Baldwin look alike is doing currently by the way! However, yes I would take Sven now, given the option.

I think Roeder bottles the tough decisions which is why the same people get dropped and the same people get substituted every match. While there were injuries and he had no choices he simply played the best available 11 where as now we have very few injuries he struggles to select a decent team out of the lot of them! nufc.com made a very decent point in their summary of the match this week, they said that this was the week that Roeder finally lost the support of the crowd! That is true and it has been coming for weeks. Parker doing little turns instead of driving forward, the crowd grumbles are getting louder. The team selection, we all know that Milner should play ahead of Carr, Solano has been doing ok at R/B. We all know that Zog is a better player than Duff but, Duff gets the call first every time. We all know where we have needed to strengthen the team, and we have known this for 10 years, why the hell can't the men in charge see this? All those things and a whole lot more are as a result of Roeder being in charge at this club. (apart from the defense being rubbish for the last 10 years, although he has had 2 windows to improve it!). We used to receive a load of armchair support from neutrals around the country, no-one has sympathy anymore. Our demise has been manufactured from within. Like most people on here and elsewhere, who have season tickets, I will definately be renewing because I love NUFC, Saturdays aren't the same during the close season. This year it will be a lot harder to stump the money up than it has been on previous seasons and I wonder for how many more seasons I am going to keep on doing it regardless of the quality I get to watch in return!!

There is only so much that you can do with vertical balck and white stripes. Looks Ok to me by the way.

Not again!!! Not being all that regular on here I didn't realise that this has been done to death before, sorry gents. I was only interested as a genuine question as to whether anyone remembers anything good in their supporting lives. I can remember the Div 1 championship, we went up with the highest points and goals scored in the history (up until that season anyway). I also remember (as a child) the Texaco Trophy in 1973. I just think that I am going to go through my whole life not seeing Newcastle win anything that is really significant and it is very sad!! We couldn't even win the Gateshead Shield a couple of years ago and since then we looked odds on for some pre season cup in Asia (was it the Asia Cup?) until Jenas (I think) tried the most stupid penalty I have ever seen and we lost to Chelsea.

Actually remember Newcastle lifting a tophy (of any merit) within their lifetime so far? I am starting to think that I will support this team forever and never actually see a trophy being lifted ever. I've been to Wembley twice (Charity Shield and FA Cup Semi v Chelsea), I've been to Cardiff once (FA Cup Semi) and always felt like those are going to be the best I will ever get to see, even though, except for the Chelsea match, we were totally rubbish on those occasions.

Yeah, I saw the ad in last weeks Chronicle but, I didn't fancy the job me self like!!

I was waiting to see what the performance was like on saturday before deciding whether to go on Thursday or not!! I am away in Manchester on business all that day and to be honest I am not going to rush back to sit and watch that lot. The level of effort from most of the team is pathetic, only Nicky Butt looked interested on Sat.

Is that true, 3% increase?? Bang out of order!!

It is only right really and I for one am very happy about this, it's only about £40-£50 but, normally I would have expected about the same amount as an increase so in reality it is about £100 below the amount it theoretically could have been per seat. Good!!

The only thing about renewing that I hate (apart from shelling out the cash) is the fact that the renewal notice comes out the day the season ends.

Renewing as always!!

scroll down the link to season ticket prices for this season: http://www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Prices/0,,10278,00.html

Arsenal have a waiting list that is like "dead mans seat". They could theoretically charge whatever they wanted and still have a queue. Our position is very different!

The thing most people fail to realise about the scarves is that usually when you renew your ticket you get a voucher for the club shop (£10). There was no voucher this year with the promise of a quality scarf on the first home match. Obviously the scarf didn't materialise until well into the season and the distribution of said scarves was nothing short of shambolic but, that is another story.

Attendances have dropped though. We have had a number of sub 50k in the Premiership and loads of low turnouts for the cup games. We used to have a waiting list of more than 11k people waiting for season tickets, that list has gone and for the first time in may years we have been selling half season tickets. The writing is on the wall for the club, we are a very expensive team to support and we should get something back!!

Some clubs have already announced that they plan to reduce season ticket prices for next season as well as reducing the gate price for individual games because of the new sponsorship deal the Premier League have brokered. All Premier League teams will recieve far higher prize money (based on league position) than ever before. What are the chances of our prices being reduced? Probably zero but, maybe a small token of keeping the prices the same as this year will be offered. Just for those that do not know about the deal: Richard Scudamore of the Premier League has negotiated a deal that means the team finishing top of the Premiership will win £50m over and above any teevee money they receive during the course of a season. On top of this even the relegated teams will receive around £30m (almost double what they would have received last in 2006 for finishing bottom). The amount awarded is incremental and proportionate to the position the team finishes in the league.

This is the first home game of the season that I am going to have to miss because of work commitments. Really sick to be honest. I won't even be able to watch it on teevee as I will be in Glasgow in a business meeting all evening. I will have my phone on silent to get updates of the score etc!!

Having Nobby at the club is worthwhile on a number of levels: He can read the game better than anyone else at the club and is good for the development of other players. I would like to see him finish his playing career here then move into a coaching role. He is also a very decent player who can fill a number of positions and he clearly loves the club as well as the area!! Finally he is the only player I would rely on to score a penalty under pressure out of our whole playing staff, he never seems to be phased. He should be allowed to stay as long as he wants to.