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The Newcastle Evening Chronicle is a "regional" newspaper for North East England (like the South Eastern English equivalent - the London Evening Standard - is for the South East of England) it is not just a "Newcastle" paper. Most regional functions / businesses / media, are centred and have their head office in Newcastle (often in the City Centre) and the Chronicle / Journal newspapers are amongst them. From a football perspective it concentrates mainly on Newcastle United, because they are the only big nationally/internationally-known football club we have in this area, not really because the head office of the paper is in Newcastle City Centre!! They have the Echo. Correct, they have their own local paper for Sunderland, called the Echo. The Journal and the Evening Chronicle are both regional papers, that include news and sport (etc) from Sunderland as well as from all other parts of North Eastern England

The Newcastle Evening Chronicle is a "regional" newspaper for North East England (like the South Eastern English equivalent - the London Evening Standard - is for the South East of England) it is not just a "Newcastle" paper. Most regional functions / businesses / media, are centred and have their head office in Newcastle (often in the City Centre) and the Chronicle / Journal newspapers are amongst them. From a football perspective it concentrates mainly on Newcastle United, because they are the only big nationally/internationally-known football club we have in this area, not really because the head office of the paper is in Newcastle City Centre!!

4th!!!! muahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Let's all just wait and see, Mr Monkey! We are consistently under rated, while a few other teams are consistently over rated. None of us (in doing a forecast for us) have anything (at all) to go on, as the club/team did not exist in its current form last season at all. In my judgement we will score a lot of goals, and the only thing that stopped us picking up a lot more points last season was the defence. This season we should pick up a huge number of additional points with the defence (as I "hope" it is) sorted!!

spurs wont finish 9th imo They will finish between 7th and 9th (so I chose 9th). In my opinion, that is.

4th. 1 - Manchester United 2 - Liverpool 3 - Chelsea 4 - Newcastle United 5 - Manchester City 6 - Arsenal 7 - Aston Villa 8 - Everton 9 - Tottenham Not very 'fashionable' (indeed, a bit controversial, especially to those obsessed with the current 'top four') but, lets wait and see!!

Yeah, but that was Carlisle. I think that standing areas at SJP would be very different and would be a natural attraction to those who like to make more noise than sometimes those in the seats want to.

My own view is that what we should actually be talking about here is "standing" sections, and they would 'automatically' take care of the singing-section issue. Standing areas at SJP would automatically become like an 'away section' and would attract those who would start the singing off! I have had this discussion before, but I am certain that "safe" standing areas could be created, that would really improve the atmosphere at home games. My preference for the location of these is at one (or both) of the ends (Gallowgate and Leazes) in a sort of 'central-section', stretching from just up from pitch level to (say) halfway up and covering about one third - in the centre - of the width of the end (if you can understand what I am trying to say!!). It would increase attendences too (would please Ashley) and even if the tickets were, naturally, cheaper, the increased numbers would more than compensate the club for the lower prices. The natural consequence of these areas would be that they would be 'singing' areas also, because of those of us who would stand there. Just a thought!!

Football is all about opinions. But there are still some "opinions" that defy belief!!!!!!!! Smith is a banker to be one of the bext buys of any club in this close season.

We need more than Enrique (no matter how good he is). Another two, perhaps three, very good quality defenders, if we are to be serious about making an impact in the coming season.

Agreed, but it is a "big if" at the moment isn't it!

I know, don't know why. Been one of them days actually. Would have been better staying in bed. Enough of my problems!!

Indeed . . . who gives a s*** !!!

The title of the track is 'Going Home: Theme Of The Local Hero'. It's an abbreviation that everyone knows. Yeah, I know! In later albums (subsequent to its use in the film) the extra part of the name was added. The actual original name was, and is, "Going Home". It is widely called (around here particularly) by the name of the film and nothing will change that, I expect!!

Reading all these posts on here, many of them are talking about something that doesn't exist. There was a film made in the 1980s, called "Local Hero". The theme music from that film was called "Going Home" and it was played by the band, Dire Straits. I am not aware of any song or piece of music ever being called Local Hero. The music the players come out to (whether you like that particular music, or not!) is called "Going Home" , it isn't called Local Hero. I suppose, if enough people say something enough times . . . . . . ?

Ashley is a tough cookie - don't rule out his putting pressure on the City Council by threatening to move to Gateshead & build a new stadium if they block any expansion plans... It isn't just the City Council - it is people like "English Heritage" and there are other Government Departments involved. It would be fantastic to see the stadium up to Level 7, all the way round, but it is unlikely. We can still expect the Gallowgate End to be built up that high from the corner with the Milburn, completing the 'level-bowl' all the way around (approx) 70% of the stadium. That was part of the recent Shepherd-led expansion plans, taking our capacity to 60,000/61,000. I expect that will still happen. Even bigger capacity, if we also have some standing areas within each of the ends! What do you think?

Ashley is a tough cookie - don't rule out his putting pressure on the City Council by threatening to move to Gateshead & build a new stadium if they block any expansion plans... It isn't just the City Council - it is people like "English Heritage" and there are other Government Departments involved. It would be fantastic to see the stadium up to Level 7, all the way round, but it is unlikely. We can still expect the Gallowgate End to be built up that high from the corner with the Milburn, completing the 'level-bowl' all the way around (approx) 70% of the stadium. That was part of the recent Shepherd-led expansion plans, taking our capacity to 60,000/61,000. I expect that will still happen.

what!? annoyed. If thats the case - can i choose to just have it on one of my multiroom sky boxes and not the regular one? Cheapest way to do this, is to get Setanta just on one of your Sky boxes (in the room you prefer to see it most) then get one of those "magic eye" things that mean you can watch both boxes in another room. For example, I have Sky+ in one room and with 'Sky Multiroom' I have my 'old' box in another room. Also in the Sky+ room I can watch the 'old' box on another channel, via the Magic Eye (wire link from one box in one room to a tele in another room) that I got put in. That would save on the £10 connection fee and on the extra £5 a month.

I thought he scored it? Arf! Took me 15 bl*ody minutes to search through old programmes to find Todd's name, then I come back here and you've got it!!! Found some other interesting stuff though, which I will now look at! Cheers.

Could well have agreed with that, shortly ater the Ashley takeover and when Sam had 'started' the player purchases early and quickly with four good squad players (some, perhaps, actually better than 'squad' level). However, since then (for the last three weeks or so) we have STOPPED. We have just . . . . STOPPED! I do not understand why, but after this longish period of 'nothing' - we still need four or five 'top-quality' defenders, and probably (now) also a replacement for Dyer. We are falling and falling behind - though I appreciate the transfer window is open for another five weeks. The signs though (players wanting to come here? / players running to get here?) - are not good. If it stays like this (we have such a small paper-thin squad) instead of "4th" - I would say "somewhere between 8th and 12th" with the names of the clubs finishing above us being "many". Poor. (PS - Just feeling a bit 'down' about the whole thing today . . . . hopefully back to optimism tomorrow!!)

What a load of bollocks? Everyone on here was chuffed to bits when he let those players go. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but none of those players would improve our current starting 11. Sam was right to let those players go - they were not good enough for us, we are better off without them, even if we can only replace them by bringing our own young kids in from the reserves or juniors (which will not happen). Sam is also aware that there is no point buying "identikit" replacements of the same low quality, only with different names!! That is why it is taking him a while to get good/top quality players in. He is not going to waste his time and our time and the clubs money, by replacing Bramble with Bramble-Jones, or whoever.

you really believe that there were 4 top clubs then US, historically? Wow. Financially (and that, I think most will agree, is a major aspect of football these days) we have been part of a well-clear-from-all-the-rest "Big Five" for a very long time, probably ten years or more. So yes. over the last four years or so, Wallace is right, we were "fifth" behind the current top four, with no real competition. Prior to that (since a time not long after the Premiership replaced the 1st Division) we were higher than fifth, both financially and performance-wise, as we were always ahead of Chelsea in the league and often ahead of Liverpool and Arsenal. Good post Wallace - perhaps not a 'fashionable' post in these days where it is more fashionable to downsize our club, in the words of many posters on here! Eh? He's saying what the rest of us are saying - i.e. we've fallen away and there are other clubs that have caught up or are ahead of us. . . . er . . . exactly what we are both saying, why are you repeating it? The 'new money' clubs this season, are spending big in the transfer market, some more easily attracting players than we are now. The quality of the players being bought by them, has not really attracted me too much though, to be honest. Wallaces point that I was confirming (that was being seemingly challenged) was where we were historically (recently, historically) within the Premier League in terms of buying/attracting good players. It has become much more difficult recently (over recent months, particularly).

you really believe that there were 4 top clubs then US, historically? Wow. Financially (and that, I think most will agree, is a major aspect of football these days) we have been part of a well-clear-from-all-the-rest "Big Five" for a very long time, probably ten years or more. So yes. over the last four years or so, Wallace is right, we were "fifth" behind the current top four, with no real competition. Prior to that (since a time not long after the Premiership replaced the 1st Division) we were higher than fifth, both financially and performance-wise, as we were usually ahead of Chelsea in the league and quite often ahead of Liverpool and Arsenal. Good post Wallace - perhaps not a 'fashionable' post in these days where it is more fashionable to automatically downsize our club in words, on here!!

Hope you are wrong!! We need five more defenders and they need to be of a certain (far better than Ramage/Bramble) level, if we are to make any significant first steps toward improvement in the coming season. The situation defensively, including goalkeeper (in my opinion, as I wrote on another thread some time ago) is: GOALKEEPER - 2 (Given/Harper - so NONE needed) CENTRE BACK (A) - 1 (Taylor - so ONE needed) CENTRE BACK (B) - 1 (Rozehnal - so ONE needed) RIGHT BACK - 1 (Geremi - so ONE needed) LEFT BACK - 0 (so TWO needed) So - we still need to acquire a total of FIVE new, top quality, defenders (in my view) if we are to make a bit of real progress. "One, hopefully two defenders before Bolton" is pretty much a waste of time. It will not achieve what we want and the club needs.

Exactly. There could never be any advantage whatsoever, in advertising how much you are prepared to spend, up front. These guys (Mort/Ashley) are good 'poker players' methinks!.

Chris Mort is working his bollocks off for the club, that's good enough for me at this time. The club has been run unprofessionally for years, the sooner we start moving forwards the better but I'd prefer the club to move forwards while knowing where we stand and not on guess work. If the review is holding us up for now then so be it, that will not always be the case, I see today’s developments as another sign of progress and also a sign of confidence that those running the club feel they can start to make decisions without the help of anybody. Very true, as I have just said to Parky, the length of time Ashley (via Mort and his review) is taking to prepare and build up for whatever it is he intends to do, is very professional - in my view. Maybe if we're lucky the review will be so professional it will never end. A bit like the closing down sales in Ashley's shops. I don't think that would be too 'lucky' for us, actually. However, I have read quotes (I think from Mort) saying the Review is nearing conclusion - so I would imagine funds will soon be released to acquire the new players we need over the next couple of weeks.