Wandy

Exactly how I was. And yeah, I was one of the miseries who predicted another dismal defeat. I still watched it though but bit my nails the entire time. When the second goal went in was when a sliver of belief started to kick in. But when they got the goal back I was certain an equaliser was coming. If it had went to extra time I doubt I would have watched it. For me the really delightful thing isn’t the winning of a trophy, it’s the now knowing that there is no NUFC curse. I can go into any future cup final and merely worry about the result, rather than having to worry about the football Gods having a grudge against us.

That has got to be parody account. Hasn't it?

Looking around the various Scouse social media and they are pretty unanimously praising our support yesterday. They seem impressed with the fact that everyone wore the colours and that the scarfs looked great too. They seem pretty envious of that nature of our support actually. Fair do's that they have taken the defeat well too. But when you win everything over and over again it's probably easy to be magnanimous on the odd occasion when things don't go your way.

Link to that original post please mate. I missed it and want to see it.

Inject it.

If that's where they want to put it then it would be a real squeeze to get a 65k stadium in that spot. And it would leave no room for expansion as it would be hemmed in, just like SJP currently is. Unless they are somehow going to remodel the entire park by changing the lake shape, size & location.

If there is potential for expansion then I will take it. If we become a regular top 5 club though I could see them soon realising the error of not starting at 70k.

I've always thought that 70k is the sweet spot and I still think so. It would also allow us to beat our highest ever attendance. That in itself would be a statement of where the club now was.

There will be day-trippers no matter what the capacity is. If it's only 65k that means that locals will still find it difficult to get in as a lot of the extra 13k seats will go corporate. It boggles my mind that even up here, in our own back yard, there are so many people that don't realise the potential of this club. There must be 65k applying for games right now and we haven't even won anything yet. Are the club really going to be happy to see 10/15k people locked out of games if we become an elite club?

Also, if this is completely on Leazes Park, where exactly does it go? Not convinced that this isn't bullshit to be honest. Mind it will be funny to see Tyneside Eddie's face if the club confirm it to be true.

65K is really quite pitiful for such a big development. Not impressed to be honest. And if looks anything like that Vegas one I will be mortified. We need a football stadium, not a consumer bowl.

If that's what gets announced this year then I'd wager it will never happen at all.

Pretty much my view too. I still think we will lose, but just leave everything on the pitch and I can live with it. Forget the occasion and just treat it as another big game. If we come away defeated, but having made them run themselves into the ground to beat us, then we can't ask for anything more.

Does this result affect the 5th CL spot in the PL?

We'll see. Regardless though, it places some extra scrutiny on NUFC to make a stadium announcement soon.