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Not worried about today, or in fact anything that happens in a PL game coming up soon....and I fancy us to beat Milan & Fulham. I'm very concerned about the derby though, and fear for him if we lose that. We are so close to it, and our away form is so poor, that even going on a decent run in the next few games won't have me that confident going into it. Unfortunately this season is showing we are capable of going from a great performance in one game to an absolutely dreadful one in the following game. What happens in the derby is anyone's guess right now.

On RTG their ITKs are now adamant that we have been given 7k tickets and have got the whole North Stand, both upper & lower tier. Given how bad our away form is this season, this game is no longer a shoe-in. Anything but, in fact. It shouldn't be the case but lose this and I could see a section of the fanbase losing faith in Eddie. Not wanting him out per se, but just jumping on any setback going forward with a wild over-reaction. Times might have changed but, like it or not, this is still our biggest game of the season. We can't lose this match, not when we have such an obvious upper hand on the field...and definitely not when they've basically given us their entire home end.

Aye, from people at the match apparently. They've gone back from amber to red again. Very entertaining.

Latest rumour is 6,500 and all in the lower tier of the North Stand. Jolly good.

As expected. That thread will be deleted soon to hide the embarrassment.

A petition now. To stop something that probably has never been on the cards anyway. https://www.change.org/p/prevent-newcastle-united-s-access-to-lower-bowl-for-safety-and-fairness?recruiter=11942066&recruited_by_id=2fd99c80-4252-0130-c2ab-3c764e049b13&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page&utm_medium=copylink

That entire end is more than big enough to accommodate 7200 NUFC fans with segregation. Fair play to the local plod if they have agreed to the full 15%.

Yep. This poster claims to be an ITK. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/the-mags-want-7k.1621347/post-39611684 Could be bollocks of course. And I'd be amazed if they just handed over their traditional home end to us.

They are saying we are getting the entire North Stand now. If that's true then we must have managed to secure the full 15% allocation.

Why on earth don't they just give us the upper tier of the North Stand behind the goal & also the adjacent corner, in the same way we gave Man City that entire part of Level 7 a couple of months ago? We've been in the North Stand upper tier for derbies before and there has never been any trouble with throwing stuff. They seem to be making an easy job much more difficult than it should be. The absolute hysteria on RTG is great though. Dangernonce is almost in tears about it.

It's a perfect illustration of how small time they have become. Kicking off with ludicrous conspiracy theories because they are playing a really big game for the first time in nearly 7 years, and spitting out their dummies as they have to comply with the rules around the truly big encounters.

Not gonna lie, this game is becoming rather worrying. With all of the massive games we have coming up, it’s a real concern as to how fatigued we will be going up against these fuckers. Got banana skin written all over it.

South Stand is the end we used to be in. North Stand is the end with the upper tier added on.

On RTG they are saying we have been given 4800 tickets, which might mean being behind the goal of the North Stand. They aren't happy about that. https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/the-mags-want-7k.1621347/page-18

I’m impressed with how loud Villa Park is these days. In all my time watching football I’ve never rated their atmosphere but it seems a helluva lot louder right now. Fair play.

The council will be even more receptive to it this time. And if the club are going to give back the existing site as new parkland then this would surely keep the environmentalists happy too.

Yeah, that rings a bell. The club withdrew the bid as they couldn't be arsed with the hassle.

I always thought it was hard to believe that the stadium proposed in 1997 would actually be able to hold 70,000 people. The footprint of it looked way too small. Whatever the new owners come up with would be a much better design than this IMO.

Yep, it's truly the perfect solution. If there wasn't the headache of the park being listed I've no doubt that the owners would be driving this forward quickly. I just hope the relevant authorities can come to a compromise. The new stadium could easily still be called SJP. It would literally be "moving" it 100 yards up.

This is the prime location for a Leazes move, and the new stadium would squeeze nicely in. The obstacle of course is swallowing up some of the park. Remedy that by making the current SJP land into new parkland, but maybe try to give it an "aged" look, to give the impression it's been there for decades.

I think option 2 is a bit pointless because they simply wouldn't go to that much trouble if they were still limited by space. They will be thinking 50 years ahead and they don't want to spend a billion on a stadium only to find you only get 10 years of it being good enough. If they do a rebuild on the same footprint you can guarantee that there will be an engineering project on that entire area that blows people's minds, and one which takes away the problem of limited space.

Exactly. I'm not even a City fan and I get annoyed when I hear that nonsense spouted about their fanbase.

I think quite a few existing ST holders might go for option 2, but not the wider fanbase. Thankfully, the club now seem to recognise that ST holders are not particularly the core of our support. In fact, these days a lot of them are probably the worst representation of it.

Their support is as good as ours man. We probably do have more potential than them to regularly fill a 70k stadium though.

Lol. We'll see.