Wandy

And he is one of their moderators too. He lives for banning NUFC posters on there. Brings some much needed joy into his miserable existence.

'The Beast of the Metty C" If I remember right it was Salty who was the prime suspect.

I worked with Jamie, aka Winchester Mag a few years ago. An absolute top fella, and someone who I discovered actually uses swear words in general conversation more than me, which takes some doing. I also worked in the USA in 1995 with Steve H*****t, aka toontoon, on a student exchange programme & we went travelling round the states too with a few other lads afterwards. Great times. GTLO was a Mackem on Skunkers wasn’t he? Always remember him being your stereotypical obsessed SMB. Then of course there was Walter/wtdog, who I still see making the odd snide comment on social media when it comes to NUFC. Walter always came across as someone who secretly regretted choosing SAFC as his team instead of NUFC, considering he was from Gateshead and most of his mates were probably black & white.

Hope Toontastic hasn’t gone for good as it’s the closest thing left to what Skunkers was like. Skunkers was basically the message board equivalent to being on the terraces in the 1980s. You said stupid shit that you didn’t believe or mean in the slightest. Pretty much everything was said for effect and to get a reaction & nothing more than that. There would be the odd divvy who would turn up and actually take the place seriously but they were quickly mocked for not being in on the ‘joke’.

It's awesome. Incredibly creative for a 2 minute feature. And the tune by Win is pure class too.

Exhibition was actually a pretty decent drink. Everything else that came from S&N though was absolute piss. The best thing to come out of the Scottish & Newcastle brewery was this advert for McEwan's Lager. Absolutely epic & simply wouldn't be made today.

Fuckin hell.

I was there and yeah, it was crazy. The main thing that stopped it being a Hillsborough-type event was that there was a spare, empty pen in the corner of the ground where NUFC fans were allowed to jump into when it became clear that there was a crush happening.

70,000 is the sweet spot. We'd fill that every week in an all-new stadium.

Most of them, IMO.

To me, that's simply because those fans haven't seen any viewable plan for an alternative stadium nearby to the SJP site. They are basically afraid of the unknown.

It's just one sample, but I noticed on this twitter feed that 67% of people voted for Option C. I know some on here won't agree, but I do think that this would be an accurate reflection of the opinion of the wider fanbase. https://x.com/NUFCFEED/status/1780329240782672359

Option C for me. Although we could design something better looking than that. I think the integration with Leazes Park looks fantastic too.

That’s the second time they have done a review on the visiting NUFC experience. On both occasions they said everything about it was great apart from the atmosphere, which they said was poor. Which is basically the exact same thing that us NUFC fans complain about.

Andy Cole is the best goal scorer I've ever seen in a black & white shirt. By your rating of Isak then Cole would be the best in the world if playing now.

I love wor Alex, and he's only going to get better, but he's not even better than Andy Cole, never mind Shearer.

Right. So you are unable to debate a point without resorting to jibes and sarcasm. Thanks for clearing that up.

Your post was snarky as fuck man. ..."apparently extending the ground means they have less ambition, har har har" ...well yeah, on the face of it that does sound ridiculous, but if you consider it in a wider context then going from considering building an entirely new stadium to a modest extension, then that can be seen as being less ambitious. Again though, the sarcasm in your post insinuated that I was just being a whingebag who was disenchanted with the ownership, which is actually far from the case. If all they do is extend the Gallowgate then they are still as good as any owners the club has ever had. But it would still be quite far from having elite ambitions IMO. And that is because over the last 30 months the goalposts have been moved, meaning the massive gap between NUFC and the cartel cant merely be bridged by a modest extension to the Gallowgate.

No, that’s just you twisting my words. I speculated that they may be scaling back their ambition from when they first arrived, that’s all. Your jibe insulated that I was accusing them of a lack of ambition entirely. I don’t think it’s outlandish to think that ‘the project” has a lot more obstacles than they originally anticipated and they might have less grandiose plans for us now. For what it’s worth, my problem with merely extending Level 7 has more to do with the fact that I don’t see it improving the matchday experience. More seats yes, but also more seats with crap views and also a diminished overall stadium atmosphere.

Another one that doesn’t know how to read.

Literally nobody said anything remotely close to that.

Which is why only adding a Gallowgate extension is such a concern. Extend Level 7, put standard seats in there (maybe making it a singing section) and then move people out of prime seats in the Gallowgate/Leazes & into the new Level 7 section, so that the vacated Gallowgate/Leazes seats can become corporate. Then watch goals on the TV being celebrated by people politely applauding, rather than mass hysteria....and everyone wondering what happened to NUFC's much-fabled support.

The bottom line is that the club's infrastructure needs something like a £2bn investment to become one of the elite. I imagine that a Gallowgate extension (together with an East Stand modification, which I would imagine they are also planning) would cost about £500m. It sounds already like they are just happy to be the 7th biggest club in the league if this extension rumour is true.

That was my immmediate thought too. And if true, I seriously doubt that the all-new training complex will be happening. If this is the plan for the stadium then it indicates that we are being tarted up for a future sale in the short to medium term future.

That is seriously underwhelming. Extending the worst part of the stadium, which has shocking views, and will also make the accoustics even worse.