PCW1983

Would love Maidstone at home ??

His kids have been going to school up here for a while now…his lad plays for the school team.

Without a doubt, appreciating we have a very vested interest in the restrictions that FFP apply to clubs, none of it makes sense to me. Arbitrary figures, where does £105m even come from and why doesn’t it change? Why can owners input £35m? Where does that number come from? I’d hazard that any team in the EPL could sell a player for around £50m if needed, what’s the big fucking deal.

Honestly sick of hearing about FFP and VAR, that’s all football is about now.

Does the acceptable losses under PSR ever go up?

What channel is it on?

I read somewhere that if Toney moves we get a significant (whatever that means) sell on fee….this can be used towards FFP surely?

There was a lot of people that I didn’t recognise today but I don’t think it was down to that tbh, the atmosphere has been shite for large sections of the season and personally I think there’s a wider change that’s occurring not just at Newcastle. The demographic of a fan is changing and with that I think we will see a quieter game of football. The animosity of football and rivalry seems to be in decline, just look at the Sunderland thread for examples and with that I think we will lose more noise in grounds. Something I found from Europe this year is that there seems to be more chants rather than songs in Europe, they’re easier to learn and maintain whereas in England we all sing a variant of the same song, maybe something to think about. Today was shite though, utter shite indeed.

What is the rumor then?

RTG is a laugh a minute on a normal day, since the announcement on tickets it’s gone into hyperdrive. They’re so focussed on the Saudi ownership, everything seems to revolve around it from Just stop oil protests, chants of “your going home in a suitcase” and now there talking about having Yemen flags……these are the straws they are clutching at. I just hope we go there and destroy them, sap every last ounce of moral they have, never mind 6 in a row and all that crap just an absolute spanking from their nearest and dearest.

Imagine if they found out that at least one of the 4 people in the opening photos is a NUFC Season ticket holder…

Yeah, it’s been a long time since we played them and everyone has a different point of view. I’ll admit that I’ve always been very tribal about derbies, Sunderland and Boro I fucking despise and expect the same in return.

I couldn’t disagree more tbh, the hierarchy of importance in terms of games and competition aside, I want us to fucking obliterate them, to completely blow them away…that means I want our strongest team playing in the game.

Yeah, I agree. By a long way too.

It’s fucking pathetic, they’re very manufactured. If we ever get to that point, just close us down.

Fucking awesome effort. Paris players and fans seem so frustrated with us. On that note, they’re fans appears so plastic. Gahdhe on the microphone gee-ing them along.

I’ve got three kids and two season tickets. I take my two eldest on rotation (9/7) and to be fair, they love it and join in to an extent. I didn’t start taking them till they were 5 though as they’d not have watched or enjoyed it, even now the noise can overwhelm them at times. There are times when I can see there not as engaged in the match that I feel a sense of guilt because I know how many fans would love to sit where my bairns are but that’s life I suppose. I don’t think a 2 YO will enjoy the match, nor will you but don’t let that stop you because I found that it’s canny testing in the early days until they “get it”. Support the match day experience with watching it in the house with them etc. My life has changed dramatically since I started going to the football with my mates, we’ve been all over Europe (currently sitting in Paris) and all over the country but I’ve never enjoyed football as much as I do with the bairn, it’s fantastic scoring a goal and seeing how jubilant they are. Do it, just make sure they are as ready as can be and not that you’re ready for them to be.

Not surprised tbh. Mind, the tube was mental….its one of the few times in my life where I felt unsafe because of how crushed it was, kids crying, people shouting not to push…it was horrid.

As soon as it was confirmed there’d not be any ID checks, it was open season for passing tickets on.

Agree, but I’d say drink and drugs. It’s even reflected in some of the songs I heard…summit about Nick Pope sniffs coke and some other butchered song about 10 bags. The only saving grace for me is that I didn’t hear anything about WW2 or anything stupid like that (which I expected to tbh).

Yeah, it’s traditional. Looking up to the left at the Dortmund fans it looked like safe standing. I just meant if we’re to have standing it need much tighter controls around it….and some sensible people.

It was very uncomfortable, we were in 60 and it was jam packed. If we’d have scored it would have been chaotic, one chance early on and it all surged forward, that was bad enough. Saw people pissing in glasses, one lad pissed down some poor blokes leg….he got moved and just started pissing everywhere. If that’s safe standing, keep it for me.

There’s allocated paddocks for the standing and a steward doing a very poor check on entry to the paddock, so you could really just go where you wanted to. the seated areas where accessed via the concourse that leads to the paddocks so yeah, all mixed.

There’s loads of tickets changed hands today around the square. The home fans were ok, It got loader when they scored their second….that said, even the ok beats SJP most of the time. I really can’t reiterate how utter shite our support has been though, in my opinion from everything I’ve seen it’s because a large contingent are utterly spannered and a good deal of them are just dick heads…..if I never hear the Anthony Gordon song again, it’ll be to soon.

There was some fucking zombies in the away end, certainly in the paddock we were in. I’ve came across loads of people who could barely walk or talk today, it’s pathetic. we have some great fans but we also have some of the most cringeworthy fans as well, the train coming back from the ground was pathetic.